A new year, a new takeover thread.
Like those who have bravely run before it before going off at a tangent, this is the latest inception.
So we'll start it off with the latest summarised position.
- In October, rumours of advanced interest / due dilligence being carried out began. It was believed to be an American group.
- Two weeks on (Oct/Nov) the SLP run a story on a potential takeover, which suggested it was very advanced. Potentially correct, but raised questions on full accuracy (UK group) and how the SLP got the story (it 'appears' leaked from the Charlton board), baring in mind the club banned the SLP last year for running a similar story on the Koc interest. Were they seeking to encourage a second group who had rumoured to shwe interest?
- In November, suggestions then began to circulate that the American group were Snider/Comcast. This was then confused by others suggesting it was Josh Harris / Apollo. Mentions of a second interested group, believed to be Germans, but with little certainty
- 28 November, Daily Mail picks up the Harris name and publishes, stating that talks were at an advanced stage
- 11 December, Daily Mail announces that Harris is set to withdraw his interest in the club.
- 27 December, Daily Mail announces Roland Duchatelet had 'agreed a deal' for a cut-price £14m, though no official confirmation this is a concluded deal emerge.
- 28th December. Club CONFIRM talks with Roland D, with Slater saying "Very constructive discussions are ongoing which we hope to conclude soon.”
- Since then, speculative talk has continued of a potential 2nd and 3rd interested party, though there is no clear knowledge that either of these have advanced particularly
- Alongside that, speculative talk has circulated that the structure of the loans (current board & previous board) / mortgages, and the preferrential order in which these are repaid on new investment, could potentially be an additional complication and source of delay
- Nothing of a serious note though has suggested that the original bid with Roland D ISN'T progressing, and there were suggestions this morning (2nd Jan) he was present at club offices and being shown around.
- 2nd Jan (pm) SLP reporting deal as completed
So there it is. Where it goes from here we'll have to wait and see....
Please try and keep this one on the right subject track, ta
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Sorry to be the bore, but I think it would be helpful to most people to have one thread that concentrates on actual fact / rumour and stays on topic, rather than gets 95% filled with chit-chat, piss taking and off topic stuff. We've dozens of other threads to have a laugh in.
I've deleted out all the unlinked comments, and i've added to the summary history at the top with the previous stuff.
Please try and keep this one
boringon topic as i could do without going to extra effort to maintain it that way, cheersMight be a bit more if interesting if they take another 'any moment now' buyer out of the pile they have in reserve to create some different thoughts to gee things along. Perhaps, having done USA and Belgium to death, I could put forward Hawaii I'm told its a great place to visit. We could all wear those Lei's round our necks as a handy place to keep our sandwiches.
Ivan Extrabolok wasn't it?
Hope grandson of takeover thread escapes your ruthless clutches a while longer :-)
'Same source has confirmed the deal is done and an announcement should follow in the next 24/48 hours - expect some liege loan signings to follow shortly after'
Astrit Ajdarevic to be one those and maybe David Biton. Neither have traveled with Liege to their winter break training camp.
I'm not ITK. Just pretending.