Free Agents/Midfielders

[Rams4Justice]

1. My account of Commons being offered EVERYTHING he had asked for PLUS an extra year on top of his original demand comes straight from Nigel Clough in 2011 rather than Commons 6 years later. My account has been verified by at least one other poster in this thread. Commons simply didn't sign a contract offering everything he had asked for plus an extra year. In the end, it comes down to which of the 2 you believe. I side with Nigel. You side with Commons. Commons had, from October 2010, repeatedly said he wanted to sign the new contract. He was offered all he had asked for and more but still didn't sign it. Something he had done 3 years before when the Red Dogs agreed to all of his demands and put a contract on the table. He didn't sign that one either and came to us.

2. £3M to £4M for a sicknote with less than 6 months left on his contract? We will have to agree to differ on that too.

The club offered Commons a deal that they could afford at the time but Commons wanted what Derby couldn't afford so they had to sell him on despite him wanting to stay and Clough was never good at negotiating deals so he just took deals which first came to the table and flogged him to Celtic for £300,000.

Clough wage packet was poor we could hardly sign top players for crying out loud we had to draw players from the SPL that's how bad it was and get mostly people out on loan, we played unattractive football that from my experience of that era was like watching Psycho and getting stabbed in the bath it was that bad to watch. The Clough era is an experience I never want to experience again it was the worst days as a Derby fan.

[MadAmster]

Like I said, we will have to agree to differ.

[Rams4Justice]

Like I said, we will have to agree to differ.

On the contrary....