I obviously speak with biase, but the general concennus (sp?) is that Billy is going to bring in a LOT of new players, we aren't in ANY financial trouble any more, we haven't been for over a year now (£1m for a 31 year old striker in january last year) and I have a feeling if we can stay up this season, with the money coming in the year AFTER, we might just start to do something special.
Obviously, if we can keep hold of Davies the manager, and Barnes, and to less of a degree, David Jones, who I think was the best complete midfielder in the championship last year.
We're getting linked with everybody from Robbie Fowler to Dia Kamara and Robbie Earnshaw.
Oh, and the Daily Mirror is trying to get us relegated already, they're constantly linking us with Francis Jeffers.
David Nugent was spotted in Derby last week too, but that was probably just visiting half of Preston's old coaching staff who work at Derby now.
It's certainly an exciting time for Derby, we're entering the season with NOTHING to lose, and everything to gain.
How about we make some predictions for the end of the season?
I might just write up a 1 to 20 league standings at the end of the season in a bit.