Jack Edwards

Derby County Football Club are an English football club based in Derby. They currently play in the Premier League, the highest division of English football.

Derby's Chairman, John Sleightholme, resigned in April 2006, saying his position had become untenable. The rest of the board followed him later that month. A popular consortium of local businessmen led by former vice-chairman Peter Gadsby bought the club, reducing its debt and returning Pride Park Stadium to the club's ownership in the process. In June 2006, former Preston North End boss Billy Davies was appointed Derby County's new permanent manager, with Julian Darby as his first-team coach. In his first season, Davies took Derby to the Championship play-offs, where they beat Southampton on penalties in the semi-finals before defeating West Bromwich Albion 1–0 with a second-half Stephen Pearson goal (his first for the club) at the new Wembley Stadium to secure a return to the Premier League and the £60m windfall that achievement is reputed to bring.

Despite Derby's promotion however, there were persistent rumours of a row between Davies and the Managing Director Mike Horton over the appointment of an assistant for Davies. On 5 June 2007 Horton resigned from his position on the board, and he was followed shortly afterwards by Jill Marples and her husband Peter Marples. Horton claimed at the time that his departure was for family and business reasons however, whilst the Marples' departure was put down to the death of a family friend in a helicopter accident [1]. With the departure of Horton and the two Marples', the remaining directors appointed 4 new members to the Board. Experienced football executive Trevor Birch came in as Chief Executive,[2], Martin Ridgeway as Financial Director & Company Secretary, John Vicars as Operations Director and Steve Coakley as Commercial Director.

On June 11 2007, the club also announced plans to expand the capacity of Pride Park Stadium from 33,957 to 44,000 for the start of the 2008–09 season[3]. This goes with the plans already in place for "Pride Plaza", a plan to develop the stadium and add a hotel and restaurants

Team

Lewis Price
2 DF Marc Edworthy
4 DF James McEveley
5 DF Dean Leacock
6 DF Michael Johnson
7 MF David Jones
10 FW Robert Earnshaw
11 FW Craig Fagan
12 FW Jon Macken
14 FW Kenny Miller
15 MF Eddie Lewis
16 MF Gary Teale
17 DF Andy Todd
19 DF Claude Davis
21 DF Robert Malcolm
22 MF Benny Feilhaber
23 DF Darren Moore (vice captain)
24 DF Tyrone Mears
25 MF Stephen Pearson
26 MF Laurent Robert
28 FW Giles Barnes
29 GK Ben Hinchliffe
30 DF Lewin Nyatanga
32 DF Miles Addison
33 DF Mitchell Hanson
34 MF Matthew Richards
35 DF Jason Beardsley
43 GK Stephen Bywater


Suggestions to make

Sell pretty much ALL of your players to raise some cash, I did that, and i bought in several youngsters and they are doing quite well

My Transfers:



Goodluck

Post your experiences here.

And i know there is a derby topic, But its as dead as the crazy frog
(Thanks to wiki for info)

WI5ARD

Posted this on other post over an hour ago and still no responce!

Same as the rest of you - needed a challenge and Derby is certainly that! Not easy but Billy Davies made it look really difficult.

Squad is Crap but the board believe you can qualify for euro and give you 8 / 9 million, madness!

It is a complete clearout but surprisingly you can get great youth in like Stancu, Torji, Zola, Patti (argentinan AMC - great playmaker), Marin and Poulsen.

Stancu, Marin, Patti and Poulsen and good enought from the start - espically Poulsen on the left wing if you play attacking wingers he's the job and will cost you about 1.2 million.

Sign Evans on loan from Man U and Ignashevich so you have a left foot right foot partnership that is solid and near enough free, sign Hoyt on loan from Arsenal for right back and the cech left back from St Petersberg Radisk Livi or something like that D/M/AML (i play attacking 442 so he and Hoyt bomb up the wing!)

Sign Kallon on a free and then Molina the Spanish Keeper is a great free transfer - end of december and he is 7.6 rating.

then begin the clear out as there is not much quaility in the team -

Keep Miller, Barnes, Jones (at a push if you cannont bring in better in midfield) and Bywater as back up keeper - the rest get what ever you can for them!

Oh and Earnshaw is a Donkey! runs around lots, breaks into the box on through balls and then suceeds in knocking out the linesman or any fan brave enough to stand near the corner flag!

also if you go on a good run for the 1st 8 - 10 weeks and stay in the top 6, keep checking and refreshing your shortlist to see who all of a sudden wants to join Derby and sign them for january - got Eddie Johnson to agree mid sept and hopefully will get Flamini as at the start he was not interested on a loan to derby (arsenal wanted rid of him) kept out bidding over teams so not to lose out and kept bigging him up in the press!
Ignored post by WI5ARD posted 26 January 2008 Once your transfer window closes start reshaping your staff as they are crap - scouts are useless and physios might as well be in the nhs, poor poor poor - can't even give reasonable eta's for there return.

BUT derby is so much fun - as long as you are creating chances and not loosing - a draw with man utd gave me full confidence bar with the fans.

Also get feeder clubs as i think there was none at the start!

such a challenge but a real enjoyable one

Jack Edwards

Yeah, i totally agree with you, Not enough people are doing challenges.

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