Wayne Rooney has demanded that the Derby hierarchy give him new signings but insisted he will not quit despite his threadbare squad.
Derby only have nine senior players, two of whom are goalkeepers, with their Championship campaign set to kick off against Huddersfield on August 7.
And with the new season less than two weeks away, Rams manager Rooney reiterated on Sky Sports the urgent need for more players, saying it will be 'impossible' to field a team in the current circumstances.
He said: 'It's other people, which I can't control, who need to make bigger decisions.