Following overnight talks, Bowyer has now signed a 1 year extension on his contract. Still no reports anywhere about an official approach from Chelsea. Mel isn't going to come out and say "Frank is staying" as, if CFC want him and have let him know that much, Frank could resign, go to CFC and we get no compo and our relationship with Frank/CFC might be sufficiently soured to stop us getting loanees from them in future. Frank isn't going to come out and say "I want to go to CFC and I want to go now" until they actually tell Derby they want him. That is also very obvious. I have pinned my flag so far on FL being intelligent enough to see that CFC is not the place for him at this time. He is still very much a rookie. CFC has a 2 window incoming transfer ban. They have just lost their best player. Performance expectations are ridiculously high. No Cups won and a 6th place finish would see FL getting sacked before the end of the season. He will see that and, hopefully, decide to stay. I'd love him to come out and say "I want to manage CFC some day but, at the moment, I don't believe I have sufficient experience to take on a job that size"..... I will not, however, be holding my breath.