Takeover and announcement of new manager.....

[Ram59]

Allardyce would be a good choice IMO. He should certainly be able to get us out of the mess we are in. Now is not the time for playing the "derby Way" its about getting the team to play cohesively and scrap to get to safety. If he was appointed until the end of the season I'd be happy.

Perfectly put, Swale, we just need someone to stabilise the club this season. Although, I think the club might try to stick with the existing group with Mac3, or should it be Mac 4, supervising.

[swaledale]

Perfectly put, Swale, we just need someone to stabilise the club this season. Although, I think the club might try to stick with the existing group with Mac3, or should it be Mac 4, supervising.

According to someone I know who has links with the club, Mac isn't being considered as manager and the aim is to appoint a manager who has a proven track record of managing successfully in the championship.

Now that can be taken with a pinch of salt or as a realistic approach, whether its fact or fiction I cannot say.

[ramAnag]

The DT, in it’s infinite wisdom, is now suggesting the takeover is 48 hours away and seems to be reinstalling John Terry as favourite.
Then again, yesterday it was Steve Cooper - seems complete nonsense to me - or David Wagner - who worked wonders at Huddersfield for a couple of years but was, before he was sacked by Shalke, on a worse run than us.

Even if the takeover, which seems to be operating at Brexit speed, goes through imminently this season is still going to be one of Championship survival. Given that is the case wouldn’t Allardyce - on a season long deal with a bonus for keeping us up - be a better bet than any of the other names mentioned? No idea where McClaren fits in though and hasn’t that appointment still to be ratified by the new board?

[Geoff Parkstone]

The DT, in it’s infinite wisdom, is now suggesting the takeover is 48 hours away and seems to be reinstalling John Terry as favourite.
Then again, yesterday it was Steve Cooper - seems complete nonsense to me - or David Wagner - who worked wonders at Huddersfield for a couple of years but was, before he was sacked by Shalke, on a worse run than us.

Even if the takeover, which seems to be operating at Brexit speed, goes through imminently this season is still going to be one of Championship survival. Given that is the case wouldn’t Allardyce - on a season long deal with a bonus for keeping us up - be a better bet than any of the other names mentioned? No idea where McClaren fits in though and hasn’t that appointment still to be ratified by the new board?

The whole managerial appointment thing depends entirely on the resources that the party acquiring us has at his disposal and is prepared to throw at it. Nobody knows, so honestly, all this guesswork as to who might be coming in is just so much wasted hot air. Any of the candidates from Benitez to the current Chesterfield manager might be under consideration depending on budgets; same with spending in January transfer window. No-one knows, or if they do, they aren't saying, so be patient and stop second guessing yourself.

As to where McClaren fits in, same applies. Someone will have a grand plan, just that we don't know it. As for ratification of McClaren by new board - (a) there isn't one yet, legally, so it cant have ratified anything but (b) that future "board", as directors designate, whoever it may be, will surely have been involved in the process of hiring and role definition and thus unofficially have sanctioned it, unless the takeover is an unholy screw up: which we have to hope it isn't.

So, don't worry your pretty little head about it. Time will give you answers.

[MadAmster]

The whole managerial appointment thing depends entirely on the resources that the party acquiring us has at his disposal and is prepared to throw at it. Nobody knows, so honestly, all this guesswork as to who might be coming in is just so much wasted hot air. Any of the candidates from Benitez to the current Chesterfield manager might be under consideration depending on budgets; same with spending in January transfer window. No-one knows, or if they do, they aren't saying, so be patient and stop second guessing yourself.

As to where McClaren fits in, same applies. Someone will have a grand plan, just that we don't know it. As for ratification of McClaren by new board - (a) there isn't one yet, legally, so it cant have ratified anything but (b) that future "board", as directors designate, whoever it may be, will surely have been involved in the process of hiring and role definition and thus unofficially have sanctioned it, unless the takeover is an unholy screw up: which we have to hope it isn't.

So, don't worry your pretty little head about it. Time will give you answers.

I might be a tad naive here but, surely, Mel wouldn't appoint Schteve as TD and advisor to the new board without tacit approval from the incoming owners..... would he?

[Geoff Parkstone]

I might be a tad naive here but, surely, Mel wouldn't appoint Schteve as TD and advisor to the new board without tacit approval from the incoming owners..... would he?

I very much doubt that he would, but as its an appointment at director level, it would probably need ratification by the newly formed board post deal finalisation, albeit just a box ticking exercise

[ramAnag]

The whole managerial appointment thing depends entirely on the resources that the party acquiring us has at his disposal and is prepared to throw at it. Nobody knows, so honestly, all this guesswork as to who might be coming in is just so much wasted hot air. Any of the candidates from Benitez to the current Chesterfield manager might be under consideration depending on budgets; same with spending in January transfer window. No-one knows, or if they do, they aren't saying, so be patient and stop second guessing yourself.

As to where McClaren fits in, same applies. Someone will have a grand plan, just that we don't know it. As for ratification of McClaren by new board - (a) there isn't one yet, legally, so it cant have ratified anything but (b) that future "board", as directors designate, whoever it may be, will surely have been involved in the process of hiring and role definition and thus unofficially have sanctioned it, unless the takeover is an unholy screw up: which we have to hope it isn't.

So, don't worry your pretty little head about it. Time will give you answers.

Calm down ‘Mystic Meg’...getting it a bit carried away with yourself it seems. I’m neither worried - in the grand scheme of things - nor ‘fretting’...although I do reserve the right to ask a question and offer an opinion on a forum without generating quite such a patronising response.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Calm down ‘Mystic Meg’...getting it a bit carried away with yourself it seems. I’m neither worried - in the grand scheme of things - nor ‘fretting’...although I do reserve the right to ask a question and offer an opinion on a forum without generating quite such a patronising response.

Its hard to know where to pitch answers to someone who, by his own words, claims to know nothing about takeovers whatsoever. Forgive me if my response was too simplistic and assumed a level of knowledge that you found patronising.

But some things have moved on - the change of person with significant control was switched on Friday 27th between one of Mel's companies (Sevco 5112) and another - (Gellaw 203). Not immediately obvious why and maybe its just tidying up a loose end from the deal which flipped the stadium out of the Gellaw 203 sub group and into the Gellaw 202 sub group.

And also at the beginning of the moth the loan from Rams Investment Limited was repaid, presumably out of teh Dell money, and the charge against the assets and ground discharged

[StensonRam]

Yesterday the DT reported it was 48hrs away, today it's 48hrs away and at a guess tomorrow it'll be 48hrs away, the DT and it's reporters know about as much as we do

[Geoff Parkstone]

If you really want to create issues to fret about, ask yourself why the accounts are now 8 months late in filing. The first 3 were due to a convenient COVID extension, but 5 more months and nothing? Im guessing there must be an issue with auditor going concern sign off or something like that, which is dependent on the Abu Derby acquisition finalising?