Free Agents/Midfielders

[Rams4Justice]

R4J, I disagree on this.
Ask any manager in the entire football league that if he could pick any players from those you mentioned in post 9 above, would he prefer them in their early twenties or at the ages of 30+ I know what they'd all say! oh and Commons was not cult hero at Derby more like Judas. To try and put his name along side cult heroes like Bloomer, Mackay Hector Saunders McFarland Todd George Stimac etc is just talking daft!

Did I say that Commons belonged with Bloomer, Mackay, Hector, Saunders, McFarland, Todd, George and Stimatc etc. No! they put their own path of legacy on Derby and so did Commons and any other player at the club. They were good in their own rights, if Mackay, Bloomer, Hector, Saunders, McFarland, Todd, George and Stimac etc was still playing and they were in their 30's and they were still showing their prime you would put them in your squad in a heart beat.

[ramAnag]

Handing over the baton of common sense v stubbornness at this point MoP.
Good luck.

[Rams4Justice]

Anyway in the meantime we see how good these new recruitments of ours do and if they made our squad stronger or it remains the same and we still need more strengthening by the time we play against Hull.

[macstheman]

Oops the baton's been dropped...............sensibly!!

[Manofpride]

[ramAnag]

Indeed!

[Whiteram]

I wisely refrained from getting involved with this, as from what I can see is that all these discussions with our dominat poster is raise the post count for Footymad!

LIKE MOP!

[Rams4Justice]

Kris Commons speaks out about his release from Derby County that left him shocked and his heavily preganant wife at the time panicking has they were settled at the club and had family and friends in the area but the club decided to flog him off with no reason and just accepted an offer from Celtic.

He wanted to sign a new contract at Derby at the time but the club had other ideas and decided to sell him on a cheap to Scottish giants Celtic for £300,000.

Kris Commons is currently training at Lennoxtown as he attempts to resume full fitness after being released by Celtic and hoping to rejoin and prove to Niel Lennon at Hibs after joining them on loan with the Edinburgh side last season.

All in all it was a bizarre move made by Derby and still is till this day.

https://videocelts.com/2017/09/blogs...eltic-in-2011/

[Andy_Faber]

Kris Commons speaks out about his release from Derby County that left him shocked and his heavily preganant wife at the time panicking has they were settled at the club and had family and friends in the area but the club decided to flog him off with no reason and just accepted an offer from Celtic.

He wanted to sign a new contract at Derby at the time but the club had other ideas and decided to sell him on a cheap to Scottish giants Celtic for £300,000.

Kris Commons is currently training at Lennoxtown as he attempts to resume full fitness after being released by Celtic and hoping to rejoin and prove to Niel Lennon at Hibs after joining them on loan with the Edinburgh side last season.

All in all it was a bizarre move made by Derby and still is till this day.

https://videocelts.com/2017/09/blogs...eltic-in-2011/

At the time Kris Commons was on around £10,000 per week. I work with folk on a fraction of that who have to work pretty much where they are told, short and long term, and I'm talking moving to Dallas, Norkopping, Xian, Mumbai, not just down the road. So IMO your Kommons-love is misguided, diddums to him for having to relocate a few hundred miles. How can it be 'bizarre' when it was a football player transfer? What was last week all about? Kommons was an OK player who had one moment of magick with Derby in a midweek League Cup game against Man U and wasn't especially missed. Move on.

[MadAmster]

Commons? After a series of meetings, DCFC had agreed to all of his demands AND given him an extra year on top of what he had asked for. He still didn't sign. Then Celtic came in with a £300K bid. Do you say no, keep the player and let him go for nowt in the summer or do you take the cash and let him go as he obviously doesn't want to stay or he would have signed the contract that was on the table. Cracking player but too much of a sicknote everywhere he has been. derby bent over backwards for the lad and he simply wouldn't sign the deal.