Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha …. Hope it happens . They deserve each other !

What management team?
And he does not have a 5% stake in our club, its in Gamechanger, which could allow it to happen?

Spot on Eddie. Evans wasn't a good owner but nor was he a truly bad one either. Bad ones are those that put the club at risk - I'm thinking Brighton way back, Coventry, Bury etc.
Evans was guilty of a succession of terrible decisions but at least he did the decent thing in the end and stepped aside.
If we're talking about being fair and balanced, let's be honest we don't know how our new ownership is going to turn out yet.
I think it is a little early to proclaim them as the Messiah even if we all agree they are a massive step up on Evans.
But at some point they will want a return for their buck. Hopefully we will be in the Prem by then but if the club is not in the position that they would like us to be, we will see what course of action they take.
Evans reached that crossroads when Mick was in charge and he pulled the plug on the investment. But to his credit he never put the club at risk of extinction.
I think Eddie's comment is fair even if we all despaired at Evans' ownership.

Evans or Ashley now that's a very tricky decision 🤔

What great news for Derby! I bet they can't wait for years of underinvestment, negligent club management, a preternatural ability to pick the wrong manager, an inability to act effectively in the transfer marker. And all from someone with zero connection to the town, the club and just a theoretical interest in football.

That's before you get on to the invisible man - DON'T PHOTOGRAPH ME - aspect of it.

I don't give two hoots about Derby County Football Club, but if I did, I would be mortified . . .

McCarthy off to Derby 🤣

Evans = Destruction Derby!

I don't know what Evans gets out of owning a football club but I would be very surprised if his interest is entirely philanthropic...

@putneyblue: cause they've got loads of money, who gives a shi&

>>> "Eddie1985 added 14:56 - Oct 10
Some really over the top comments on here. Didn't he write off a debt owed to facilitate our takeover. Initially he offered good funding to managers who let him down. He wasn't a great owner but there are far worse and Derby just need to consolidate and keep afloat at the moment. He took us to the playoffs and we wanted a different style of play and he made a bad appointment in Hurst which sealed our relagation. He kept us afloat and lost fortunes during lock down and wasn't so long ago he paid around 500k for Vincent Young while in LG 1.some people need to have some balance and put it in perspective"

PERSPECTIVE???

Have you been off planet for the last 15 years?

Evans is a misfit who will sink any stable footballing ship, let alone a patched-up, leaky, creaky one like Derby.

He'll probably buy them at 20p in the pound, run up a massive debt, year on year, owed to himself and continuously asset strip them of any playing talent in a gamble to make a huge, quick profit by gaining promotion to the Prem, which HE will never do... he's completely clueless, as was proven by his ownership of this club.

So don't EVER talk to us about perspective when it comes to Evans... we've got enough perspective to last a lifetime.

Will derby have a 5 point ( sorry 0 point) plan??

We will pass them on the way up, and be playing Narch

What a predicament for Derby fans to have to worry about!

Evans or Ashley... a clueless no hoper who could gamble away their entire club on a quest for a quick buck or a fat, slappable, sweatshop owner with a God complex... sheesh! What a pair of sharks!!!

At their next home game, they should just have the theme from Jaws playing on loop.

he is clearly a better candidate to own a club than a man who chops journalists into little pieces.

If he does - he'll be hell bent on proving a few of his Town critics wrong.
Just watch this space - and don't be too smug … !!!
He who laughs last - laughs longest you fools.

Eddie1985 - you are so right, some are too naive to realise what you have correctly pointed out about Evans. People overlook facts conveniently, when it suits.
Only thing I partially disagree with you on, is perhaps Hurst is now showing his ability with what he has done at Grimsby thus far - he's having a great season there for sure, and turned them around …. !!!

Will there ever come a year when the cult of Evans is over and some town fans will have recovered from their stockholm syndrome/brown nose afflictions?! The jury's out on that one!! 😂

RegencyBlue I'm glad that ME has a 5% stake in the club still because that means that he believes in the new owners.

BossMan ME wanting to get back into ownership of a football club definitely makes it sounds like there is some kind of accounting trick that makes it worthwhile.

Anything that gives us an advantage, I'm for it. Let him invest I say. More clubs the merrier, as long as he's not making decisions in ours.

There can be tax advantages of having an ailing subsidiary in a big group but losing money is losing money. Investment in football clubs is a straight gamble, you win if you get to the premier league, you lose if you don't. ME put his trust and investment with Simon Clegg and Roy Keane (seems comical with hindsight) and it failed. After that he was in an impossible spiral where he was trying to reduce the debts by selling any decent asset until the right offer came along. There was much interest in ITFC but only the current owners came up with a price that was acceptable to ME. After the initial gamble failed he was always going to lose, he just needed to reduce those losses.
Once the initial gamble had failed he didn't care about ITFC, he was just a vain businessman that had bought a football club (much as you would a super yacht or private plane or multi million pound house, which he has) to see if he could turn a buck on it. We were ripe for plucking, we weren't actually in administration, we were in deep financial trouble and were near the top on the Championship when he swooped.
I would fear for Derby but the gamble might pay off as ME will have learned a lot from his ITFC debacle.

Thats the end of Derby then

Good luck with that!

Cant believe the story
He has just Lost 80Mill£, got loads of abuse for sinking £6Mill a year into footballers pockets and he wants to repeat that experience?
If true, He needs counselling.

Evans deserves no credit whatsoever, the debt was never his own personal debt.
He has kept a 5% share and owns part of the training ground, as someone said earlier the only downside of the takeover was his continual financial involvement

Evans transformed ITFC into a laughing stock, which will take time and patience to repair