Takeover and announcement of new manager.....

[MadAmster]

Got a WhatsApp from a friend. The current 6th placed favourite for the vacant Manager's job to fill the post, initially, until the end of the season. Will we get a warm welcome for the Wally.......?

The end of the season bit. Why would that be? Sufficient time for Rooney to get his badges, take over and the Wally move upstairs as Director of Football?

Right man, wrong job. Will we also get an experienced Manager in for the season/pemanent or will Mac end up chaperoning the 4 horsemen?

[swaledale]

Right man, wrong job. Will we also get an experienced Manager in for the season/pemanent or will Mac end up chaperoning the 4 horsemen?

Well if Mac's role is as described he won't be helping anybody as far as management and coaching is concerned. The end of season bit is logical, a manager to get us out of the ****e and then somebody to take us forward next season. Sme managers might not want to risk their reputation taking over a team at the bottom with no chance of improving the squad until January, whereas taking voer a team in the championship and having a transfer window to work with is a different ball game.

[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?

[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]

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.

[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?

[Ram59]

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?

Could they be waiting for the result of the appeal?

If we're found guilty, then would our accounts need to be changed, which wouldn't be possible of they'd already been submitted?

[Geoff Parkstone]

Its possible but the outcome of the appeal may be a further points deduction which would not impact the accounts for the year to 30 June 2019, nor even the year to 30 June 2020. Arguably the EFL might seek to "force" the club to amend its player amortisation policy but you would thing they could only do that as regards the FFP accounts as opposed to the GAAP accounts where clearly the auditors have already been happy with club accounting policies in prior years.

[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?

[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.