Steve wants a massive pay-off to go!

[swaledale]

I think with the passing of gerard and his ilk, the "one club" players (at championship level and above anyway) has gone.

[tricky1972]

This suggests to me that Steve isn't happy with the treatment he has received.

When Steve left Forest he and Mr Doughty came to an agreement and Steve left without a penny but lots of goodwill.

I think the suggestion that Steve's connection to the Newcastle job being the reason your team lost form has riled him, hence his reaction.

This is of course is just speculation but my opinion is based on the fact that this is out of character for one of the decent men in football.

[vanderlaans_header]

This suggests to me that Steve isn't happy with the treatment he has received.

When Steve left Forest he and Mr Doughty came to an agreement and Steve left without a penny but lots of goodwill.

I think the suggestion that Steve's connection to the Newcastle job being the reason your team lost form has riled him, hence his reaction.

This is of course is just speculation but my opinion is based on the fact that this is out of character for one of the decent men in football.

McClaren is no mug and has been in the game a long time. I assume he has advisors. He got this very wrong. Did he expect DCFC to say 'dont worry Steve, after all we are only Derby County a Championship club, go off and fix yourself up with a PL club and if we get promotion, all well and good, but dont let that get in the way of your ambitions...'

[Rattea]

[quote="swaledale" pay off to be relieved of his tenure at DCFC.

Is this what the world and football has come too??!!!

He has court and coverted attention from a number of clubs, particularly Newcastle, for the last 6 months or more, flirted and toyed with reporters with all of the attention he was getting, whilst telling us that he and his team of Eric and Simmo were derby thru and thru, as the management team was "sold" to us when they started.
The vast majority of us bought into the notion that this was different, that we were all in this together, but Steve obviously wasn't.

He is really starting to **** many of us off with the way he has conducted himself lately, but especially now, wanting to take this club to the cleaners. We, who have given him so much. He not only played for us, he started his successful coa

[Ramondo]

This suggests to me that Steve isn't happy with the treatment he has received.

When Steve left Forest he and Mr Doughty came to an agreement and Steve left without a penny but lots of goodwill.

I think the suggestion that Steve's connection to the Newcastle job being the reason your team lost form has riled him, hence his reaction.

This is of course is just speculation but my opinion is based on the fact that this is out of character for one of the decent men in football.

Excellent point Tricky (much better )...

I was thinking the same thing actually over the last couple of days.

Steve McClaren claims to have a real soft spot for Derby - he was a player here, he got his big break in coaching here under Jim Smith which led him into Management via being No. 2 to Sir Alex. When he arrived here as Manager he said that he'd always kept an eye out for Derby's results. He said that coming back here felt a bit like coming home.

[blackandwhite56]

Good post Ramondo.

I don't get why folks seem to think its good if we get this Clement bloke in. He has a lot to prove. I would have stuck with MacClaren though it was worrying that he seemed helpless when the slide started, even though our last few results weren't all bad.

[Ramondo]

What happened was we had injuries, that caused a dent in results, that caused a knock in confidence, the results didn't get better and the belief was shot. When a team doesn't believe in itself anymore then it's screwed. And with those players missing, the team knew we couldn't score and knew we were struggling to defend because we couldn't hold the ball up enough (just one reason).

As for Clement, the guy might be a friggin' genius manager for all we know. But the thing is, we 'dont' know. Nobody does. It just seems daft, if McClaren was going to Newcastle or 'wanted' to go then he wouldn't be fussed about getting a pay out. So he's obviously focussed on staying, so doesn't seem too much sense to get rid and consider taking someone with no track record at all.

Might be a brilliant appointment, like I said. But it could equally be a disaster - Wigan went from play offs to league 1 in a season. If we get this appointment wrong theres no reason why we wouldn't be in danger of doing

[Rapid]

hang on a minute. mac has had the Newcastle job offered to him twice and he rejected. so he could be on a fortune there by now on a fat long contract.

so now that ship could have sailed the question is, why wouldn't he want a massive pay off?!

[Ramondo]

hang on a minute. mac has had the Newcastle job offered to him twice and he rejected. so he could be on a fortune there by now on a fat long contract.

so now that ship could have sailed the question is, why wouldn't he want a massive pay off?!

Has it actually been offered to him though Rapid?

Besides, with or without the Newcastle job, he's not short of cash unless he's got a gambling or drug addiction! He was getting paid hefty sums as No. 2 at Man U I'd imagine, probably a few million over his time with Boro, quite a few million as England Manager and probably a reasonable salary in Europe, and I guess a million or so for his time so far at Derby. He could afford to walk away from Forest without a penny, so why the sudden desire for a full pay out here?

It's all speculation as to what the guy has or has not earned I know, but I'm pretty sure he's a long, long way from worrying about how to pay the gas bill.

[clough08]

This is gonna cost us a packet in compensation and salary. Will there be any money left for investment? Or will we have to sell? FFP restrictions will apply too. So I think we should have kept Mac unless Newcastle offered us compensation.
Fear for season ahead.