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Derby Sack Nigel Clough

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  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,670
    Appleton?
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    The sad thing is that he's been working on a small budget and had to bring some cracking young players through.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/derby-county/10205855/Derby-County-manager-Nigel-Clough-happy-to-follow-dads-lead-in-bid-to-launch-promotion-push.html
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,488
    Bizarre decision.
  • Norfolk_Addick
    Norfolk_Addick Posts: 2,289
    image

    Is still funny when he's unemployed?
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,747
    Wow thats just a crazy decision... Could see Derby doing a Blackburn / Middlesbrough now.

    i.e. Start off well, sack their manager and see a dramatic drop down the league
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,888
    Absurdistan said:

    The sad thing is that he's been working on a small budget and had to bring some cracking young players through.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/derby-county/10205855/Derby-County-manager-Nigel-Clough-happy-to-follow-dads-lead-in-bid-to-launch-promotion-push.html

    Sounds a familiar scenario which CP can relate to but given the chance would he want to jump out of the frying pan into the fire?
  • _nam11
    _nam11 Posts: 1,231
    Pulis will go there.

    If they come in for CP, TJ will ask for £40mill compensation anyway.

    Therefore, CP won't be going anywhere.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,391
    Pulis? Urgh
  • Tutt-Tutt
    Tutt-Tutt Posts: 3,281
    Steve McLaren ?
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,978
    edited September 2013
    Tutt-Tutt said:

    Steve McLaren ?

    Didn't he walk out on them about 2 years ago as the funds Forest promised did not materialise?

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  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,449
    Haven't Derby bought a lot of players over recent seasons to find themselves in no better position than they were when they first appointed Clough?
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,910
    edited September 2013
    Derby have already played 4 of the top 6. The three teams they've faced in the bottom half are Millwall, Yeovil and Bolton, all away, from which they picked up 7 points.

    QPR, by comparison, have played 5 of the bottom 7.

    One win and Derby could be 8th.

    They have a thin squad hit by injuries too.

    So, given all of the above, such a decision can only have been made with a replacement already tapped up.

    Those that wanted Clough out might be careful what they wish for especially if Tony Pulis is that man.

  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,906
    bolloxbolder said:

    Tutt-Tutt said:

    Steve McLaren ?

    Didn't he walk out on them about 2 years ago as the funds Forest promised did not materialise?
    Yeah but clough was Derby manager...
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Please God we don't lose Powell to Derby.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,658
    I really don't think CP is on Derbys radar or will be sacked or will resign.
  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    blimey a really poor sacking by derbys board!
  • Noss
    Noss Posts: 184
    colin1961 said:

    Makes you wonder how the hell Powell keeps his job ....after what we are witnessing

    Yeah, so you keep on saying, endlessly and tediously.

    And who, exactly would come to us that would be better given our situation?
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    According to a few derby fans his criticisms of clough are exactly the same ones we have of Powell. No plan b, bad with substitutions, conservative football and the tendency to sit on a 1-0 lead.
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,762
    nth london addick said:

    I think your wrong mate tbh , he is a young mgr with a half decent credible track record , if he stays here now then he jepordises that , he can walk away easy and I think the time is upon us that this will happen ,

    he has tried and gave his all he has a long managerial career ahead of him get sacked by these pricks and that's shortened

    I hate to say it, nla but this is what were saying in the car on the long drive home tonight.

    They love him at Pride Park - and who wouldn't ?

  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,762
    golfaddick said:

    just read that they have lost 4 games this season - inc Leicecter, Reading & Forest.

    we lose 3 on the trot, also losing to our rivals (but at home, not away) playing very poorly into the bargain , and some people think its ok.

    And you think we should be blaming the Manager or the owners who have made NO funds available to strengthen a thin squad of players and have not seen fit to discuss the contracts of young men who gave their all for our Club over the past 2 seasons ?

    I'm gobsmacked, golfie.

    But not surprised.






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  • kings hill addick
    kings hill addick Posts: 5,781
    Fanny Fanackapan said:

    golfaddick said:

    just read that they have lost 4 games this season - inc Leicecter, Reading & Forest.

    we lose 3 on the trot, also losing to our rivals (but at home, not away) playing very poorly into the bargain , and some people think its ok.

    And you think we should be blaming the Manager or the owners who have made NO funds available to strengthen a thin squad of players and have not seen fit to discuss the contracts of young men who gave their all for our Club over the past 2 seasons ?

    I'm gobsmacked, golfie.

    But not surprised.





    How much more debt do you think the club should run up (on the basis that the owners just don't have any spare money to give away) on buying players?

    When you answer (and it is a genuine question) please remember that there are going to be very real punishments from next season for the clubs that lose too much money. I'm including paying the players more to extend their contracts.
  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,053
    KHA, one might also ask who they might borrow the money from?
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,896
    But KHA if you have no means to realistically run a football club just 2-3 years after acquiring it, then why the hell did you buy it in the first place ?

    It isn't to watch the football, because those that own it either rarely, or if ever have watched.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    It was to sell the valley and rent a souless theatre and the do one with any money it makes
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,760
    nth london addick said:

    It was to sell the valley and rent a souless theatre and the do one with any money it makes

    This.

    What gets me is that it seems that Murray and the old board were using this option as a selling tool.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,658
    nla is I'm sorry to say spot on I fear. I can't help feeling that "end game" is fast approaching one way or another although I'm far from certain which way the mop will flop.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,499
    AFKABartram said:

    But KHA if you have no means to realistically run a football club just 2-3 years after acquiring it, then why the hell did you buy it in the first place ?

    It isn't to watch the football, because those that own it either rarely, or if ever have watched.

    Just Gamblers,chancers mate.

    Take a look at this article about Paul Kemsley.A friend i believe of Jimenez and part of the cockney mafia. The last paragraph sums these kinds of people up.

    http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2013/03/27/british-business-star-loses-bid-to-shield-u-s-assets/?mod=WSJBlog

    And I guess for someone like slater it would be even harder to make anything stick.

  • seriously_red
    seriously_red Posts: 5,741
    kings hill addick said:

    Fanny Fanackapan said:

    golfaddick said:

    just read that they have lost 4 games this season - inc Leicecter, Reading & Forest.

    we lose 3 on the trot, also losing to our rivals (but at home, not away) playing very poorly into the bargain , and some people think its ok.

    And you think we should be blaming the Manager or the owners who have made NO funds available to strengthen a thin squad of players and have not seen fit to discuss the contracts of young men who gave their all for our Club over the past 2 seasons ?

    I'm gobsmacked, golfie.

    But not surprised.





    How much more debt do you think the club should run up (on the basis that the owners just don't have any spare money to give away) on buying players?

    When you answer (and it is a genuine question) please remember that there are going to be very real punishments from next season for the clubs that lose too much money. I'm including paying the players more to extend their contracts.
    How much should they have put in over the summer to push on for the top six ? Don't know and it depends how many more top quality players people think were needed...
    How much to invest now and how much more in January to ensure we avoid the car crash called relegation?!
    More very soon from the Trust on FFP and CAFC - we await comment from the club on our latest piece...
    But just a little teaser to whet your appetite: CAFC are nowhere near the upper limits of FFP ...even if we had retained the services of Fuller

  • MSE7
    MSE7 Posts: 1,345
    I like Clough, He always had a strong team at Derby and they played good football. Should never of been sacked.
  • cafcdan18
    cafcdan18 Posts: 3,664
    The guy on SSN who was in the cycling helmet said "Pulis plays good football" made me laugh.

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