Takeover collapse took wind out of sails - Pearce

Owner David Clowes remains committed to bankrolling Derby County's Premier League promotion ambitions despite having been an hour away from selling the club, says Rams chief executive Stephen Pearce.Clowes, a Derbyshire property developer and lifelong Rams fan who took the club out of administration in the summer of 2022, was poised to hand over ownership of the Championship side to Saudi Arabia government official Turki Al-Sheikh in August.Despite an agreement being reached, and the deal being