Gary Rowett

[joeinbrighton]

Rowett lives in Derby, so quite likely he would have been sounded a few weeks ago when Derby's season started to drift.

You would imagine that the squad will be rebooted in the summer. There's a few players there living off performances from 2-3 seasons ago now. They need to freshen things up. Rowett did a similar job at Birmingham. I'd say Derby have traded up by getting him.

 

[Medwayseagull]

"Gary is being tasked with, and has the full responsibility for, leading our redevelopment programme," said Derby County Chairman Mel Morris.

Anyone else wondering what on earth that means?

He is going to be in charge of tearing down the current stadium and re-building it with a giant figure of the chairman at its centre.

 

[Hugo Rune]

I'd love to see Rowett sack off Bent & Vydra and leave Nugent up front on his own in a defensive 4-2-3-1 formation with two holding midfielders. Hopefully he'll look to stop the opposition scoring and grind out some results by not conceding (to Huddersfield in particular!).

 

[ac gull]

If Bent never starts another game for Derby it would be no great surprise

Derby need to give a manager at least three transfer windows - rather than three managers every season

 

[mikeyjh]

The curse of the Championship manager is ex-Prem players on big money who think they're too good for the Championship. This problem is compounded when, like Norwich, Derby and Forest, you stockpile players in one position so that 3-4 decent players are redundant and turn into bad apples.

Correct, started when Clement was allowed to bring in Johnson and Butterfield to replace the injured Hughes and Bryson - While both the injured players were out for quite a long time, it was always going to be difficult when they returned.

He is more an 'ex-Derby player' than an ex-Birmingham one, though. Played more seasons / matches there, and central to the team that got Derby promoted to the Premier League.

Has lived in Derby for nearly 25 years, it was always going to happen at some point, had the starts aligned last year (ie. sacked by by brum when we wanted rid of Pearson), it would have been then.

I think that's a great job to take.

In Christie, Thorne, Ince, Hughes, Vydra, Bent, Johnson, Anya, Shackell, Olsson, Blackman they have talented players who SHOULD be playoff contenders in this division.

Add a bit of steel to the defensive areas (exactly what Rowett does) then they could be a force next year.

Quite, which is why the last 18 months or so have been so frustrating.

Looking at the team that played Friday, even without a few of the above, I was shocked at how awful they were. If you look at their record, they've struggled to score goals all season, which is ridiculous with the attacking players they've got. They have so many options that they could afford to loan out Chris Martin at the start of the season and Andreas Weimann in January and players like Anya, who did a decent job in the Premier League for Watford last season, aren't in the first team.

Rowett has a big job to do but I agree it is a great squad he's taken over. If he can get everyone working together, we've seen what they can do when they won eight in a row earlier in the season under McClaren. They came fifth last season and arguably have a stronger squad now having only lost Hendricks and Martin and signed a number of players.

Precisely, awful and no sign of how they were going to get better which is why one has to laugh listening to the pundits having a pop at Derby for getting rid of him after only 5 months, if you're not seeing it each week, you don't really get it.

They got him in pretty quickly. Looks like they are a bit more savvy than Norwich in this respect. So maybe the spunktrumpet wil eventually become Norwich's manager after all. Ha ha.

As above, was always going to happen - Are CEO implicitly admitted that the continuing availability (or not) or Rowett and the timing of Schteve's sacking were not a coincidence.

 

[severnside gull]

Derby Chief Exec sacked for gross misconduct and breach of fiduciary duty.
After their spending in recent years and continuing failure there should be some juicy stories come out of the club now as he says he will fight it. Club in freefall?