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MadAmster

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  1. .... not to mention the fact Chelsea are in the Champions League again and will be top6 in the PL again next season. Derby will be in League 1. Are you really surprised Chelsea got sorted quicker especially considering that the government weren't intending to extend the period of permitting Chelsea to trade.
  2. Apart from the £1.5Bn owed to Roman, which he has written off, Chelsea are solvent. When we went into Administration in September we were £65M in debt, excluding the £140M which Morris is writing off. I estimate that to be around £80M now. Chelsea own their ground and their training facilities, we don't. To meet the 35p in the pound Kirchner has agreed to pay on the debt plus the 100% on football related debts, the first £40M he puts into the deal will go to creditors. It seems a fan has paid Morris £22M for Pride Park and will lease it to the club until such time as Kirchner decides to buy it
  3. CK starts funding the club from next week. EFL apparently satisfied, ground seems to be the only contentious issue but all concerned seem to believe it won't be a problem. It's also the issue everybody online seems to be focussing on. I think it's a shame for the creditors missing out on 65% of what they are owed, however, liquidation would have seen them miss even more so I don't see them being a stumbling block. Positives? Contracts exchanged. CK providing funds from next week. No points deductions for failing to pay wages. No -15 points for failing to meet the minimum paymen
  4. Oh well. Just back from my 11 day tour of England. We're down, you're stable and Wycombe have made it to Wembley in the playoffs. Still all a bit up in the air but it's looking like I'll have a club to support next season. Hopefully, the new owner, whoever it ends up being doesn't spaff cash we don't have. Get it sorted this week or next and we should be able to retain some players we want to keep. Any longer and we will be looking to replace almost all of the squad..... hey ho, that's the way it goes. I'll be happy consolidating next season. Anything better than that would be a huge bonus. Th
  5. Quantuma has been running the club since it entered administration September. Best ask them why they don't appear to have made much leeway in the debt department. IMO Morris should step up and clear up the mess HE made but that's not going to happen, just like Ridsdale didn't fork out to reduce the LUFC mess. Just like the previous owners at Leicester didn't. Creditors will end up being shafted, as happens with all companies who enter admin, whatever their business is, be that sport or manufacturing or..... We're hoping that Kirchner offers enough to a) satisfy creditors and b) avoid a further
  6. Done and dusted. Considering the -21 and the sanctions on squad size, no transfer/loan fees, wages cap, 39 players out the door (says Rooney) since January 2021 and just 6 in. We've done incredibly well to get this far. The irony of it all is that Rooney has done so well despite the sanctions yet, had Mel not vastly overspent, then Wayne would likely have been sacked at the end of last season. He wasn't because we couldn't afford to sack him, having won just one of the final 15 games of the season. The club, from the top to the fans has never been so united, not even in the glory days and I've
  7. The season lives on. Derby still in with an outside chance of survival, against all odds and needing the revived Reading to implode. Boro now have the playoffs back in their own hands. Here's to us both keeping our hopes alive as long as possible.
  8. It's a possibility that has been commented on but not much. Now we have a preferred bidder, Rooney thinks he now knows what he has to work with, financially, gets on with Kirchner and is now making plans for recruitment and offering current players he wants to keep extensions. He's intimated many times over the past few weeks that if his preparations for next season are hampered through not knowing what room he has, he would no longer do the job. Looks like he's staying although nothing is certain in football. We're all putting our hopes on Frank keeping Everton up and getting the summer to bu
  9. Reading's win over Stoke has made things even more improbable. Kirchner named as preferred buyer this morning. No mention of the size of the bid or whether it would meet the EFL minimum to avoid a 15 point deduction. I hope it is large enough to avoid the -15 or next season will be another long, long fight against relegation. This time to L2. It is what it is. IMO the only hope is that the current situation plus the naming of a PB will have the same "bounce" effect on the team as new managers often do. In reality, it will be L1 next season, hopefully starting on 0 points. I'm still flying back
  10. Brunners, QPR is away. Yes, our away form is awful, 2 wins from 20 games this season. Redcar Rioja, I've heard the same. We'll probably never know how close we are to extinction but it must be very close for the admins to go cap in hand Kirchner. Been there before though in 1984. We were 10 minutes away from liquidation in the High Court when Stuart Webb (managing directory and club sceretary) finally managed to put a deal together to save the club. The "saviour" back then was Maxwell. Little did we know he was robbing the Mirror Pension Fund to pay for Derby and his next yacht, G
  11. I've ignored all the reports of a preferred bidder being announced. I received a PM last night saying my mate had been told this by 2 reliable sources. Today we see the local BBC Radio, local paper, Sun and the BBC all saying Kirchner to be announced and that the announcement is "imminent". I hope it's the generally accepted meaning of imminent and not the Quantuma version 😉 If it's not sorted soon and Rooney gets told how much he has to work with AND the EFL tell him what sanctions remain in place with regard to transfer/loan fees, squad size, wage cap etc (as things currently stand he has 3
  12. If that's true, how could we get a sanction for exceeding FFP AFTER 2018?
  13. Surely, the acid test should be was any rule or Law broken? There wasn't, it would appear. As I said previously, Mel vastly overspent and that ended up with the club going into Admin and getting a 12 point deduction. Absolutely no argument from me on that point. With regard to the sliding scale amortisation methodology, it's a valid and legal accounting method, previously not banned by the EFL. Any and all Limited Companies, and DCFC is a limited company as is MFC and all other PL and EFL clubs, may legally use it. That is a fact. Another fact is that the EFL has now chosen to disall
  14. Using a sliding scale for depreciation is legal. Many businesses use it. HMRC is happy with it.
  15. EFL aware of the change from 2015. Not saying you are the EFL Brunners. I'm merely a fan trying to make sense of the situation. If linear wasn't a rule, what rule did we break? If we broke a rule, like we did by going into Admin and getting a 12 point deduction, I wouldn't be disagreeing. However, it now seems, confirmed by the EFL statement this week, that linear depreciation wasn't a rule, which rule did DCFC break that led to the £100K etc?
  16. Since when did unwritten rules have any foundation in Law?
  17. The linear depreciation/amortisation rule can be found here in the EFL statement of this week. https://www.efl.com/news/2022/february/meeting-of-efl-championship-clubs/
  18. At the extraordinary EFL meeting earlier this week, it appears they made linear depreciation of player values a rule. Does that mean it wasn't a rule, previously? If it wasn't, why did DCFC get fined £100K and ordered to resubmit all accounts from the 15/16 season onwards which led to us exceeding FFP and getting a 9 point deduction? The sale of Pride Park rears its ugly head again. I'm not sure why. Even the EFL agree that DCFC kept them aware of proceedings from start to finish. The club got an £85M valuation and were going to sell it for that amount. They put it to the EFL for them to
  19. From my point of view, DCFC has spent so long saying that the 2 claims against us had no basis that to turn round and sue Reading would, IMO, be hypocritical.
  20. It's an English language thing sand man. You have surnames like Featherstonaugh which is pronounced, for some reason, as FANSHAW. Other anomalies with places like Leicester and Worcester. You also have place names that end in BROUGH but get pronounced with an O between the B and the R.... nothing more than quirks. Here's the etymology of the pronunciation... It's the result of the same process (that is, erroneous pronunciation) whereby "learn" becomes "larn" in some (very) nonstandard American dialects. One feature of uneducated speech in England around the 1800's was a tendency to pronounce
  21. Deserved win for you. Jones was excellent. You need some luck in any game. First goal own goal, 2nd goal a vicious deflection, I think Allsop had the initial shot covered, Lovely play from Jones to set up Crooks for the 3rd although some might argue that Crooks should have seen red on 30 minutes for the challenge on Bird, 4th one we gifted although the cheeky back heel to set up the shot was excellent. Cracking volley from Bird for our goal. You're the only side to put more than 2 past us in a League game this season. That speaks volumes for you. I believe you will make top 6 and then it's 3 g
  22. I would hope we would refrain from this act. The veracity of the report? It is in the Currant Bun, not renowned for truthful and unbiased reports.
  23. Afternoon, I've been trying to find out what SG/MM actually agreed to. Failed. We don't, and probably never will, know if the agreement was for Mel to give Boro x amount. However, they may have merely agreed to have Mel underwrite any settlement awarded by the High Court, in which case we will get to know. Wycombe, according to fans on their forum, haven't actually made a claim yet, merely said that they have one and what they think it should amount to, which is, apparently £6M. Amusing that most fans of both sides see the agreement as something positive when we don't know what's been agreed.
  24. The rules are that you may be in Admin for a maximum of 18 months but only start 1 season in Admin. As we didn't go into Admin until September the full 18 months is there and, as Quantuma seem to be getting £1M a month for their "efforts", it wouldn't surprise me one iota to see us get close to the 18 months.
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