Caught the last couple minutes basically said he is worried about Charlton next season if they don't hurry up and tie down players out of contract .And worried about losing players we are after too other clubs.Perhaps someone can put a link up
If the deal really has fallen through hopefully Roland will give Riga a call, apology and a big new contract
But if you were Riga would you want to work for RD again after that? Manager needs to feel he can trust his chairman, at least for more than three months. And no candidate for any managerial job in any business, wants to feel they are second choice
But they know each other quite well. I am baffled, by the decision and by the behaviour.
If the deal really has fallen through hopefully Roland will give Riga a call, apology and a big new contract
But if you were Riga would you want to work for RD again after that? Manager needs to feel he can trust his chairman, at least for more than three months. And no candidate for any managerial job in any business, wants to feel they are second choice
But they know each other quite well. I am baffled, by the decision and by the behaviour.
Exactly, and even more so when your only 'Head coach'.
I think it's great to have you and other Belgian fans here.
It's clear that RD is a complex man, and we don't really understand him. Maybe we make assumptions about him which misjudge his real intentions or beliefs.
But why do you think he has decided not to give Riga the job when he clearly wanted it, and when he had clearly met the objectives RD set him? We know that RD does not actually like football. So, OK he just judges his managers/coaches on results. Fair enough. But Riga got the results. How then would RD actually come to the conclusion that Peeters is going to be better at the job than Riga? I mean, what criteria do you think RD is using?
It's a good rhetorical question, Prague. Among Duchaletet's grand 'network' are Carl Zeiss Jena (crowds of 4,000), St Trinian's, and a minuscule Spanish club that attracts two goats and a donkey. Meanwhile, from Standard Liege we were loaned a keeper who is unable to catch the ball - even our own coaches described him as Conference-standard - and Ajdarevic, a "midfielder" who regularly had to be substituted after 60 minutes because he's got "flu".
I wonder what Hales, Flanagan, Martin Robinson and Paddy Powell are thinking about all this. A few years on from them, we won the Battle of Stamford Bridge by more good men - not by a bunch of pansies in the charge of a young Belgian manager who can't believe his luck at moving from a dyke-defended backwater to the greatest city on earth.
Aaah it'll be nice when Bob can take us to our next seasons tonking at the toolbox and he can salute the crowd passionately chanting his name. Wrong end Bob you mallet.
Tell me why exactly. Without Googling it. Based on your post.
Because I have already googled it, and I prefer the credentials of Monsieur Walem
So he's never managed any club whatsoever and only been managing the under 21's since 2012 not sure which month.
What exactly do you prefer ?
He's never played for Millwall
Powell played for palace
I wasn't being serious. I haven't got a problem with Bob at all, I just feel Walem is more in the Riga frame, and considering he was known as '"The Geometer", as he was very precise in his passes"', (Wikipedia, albeit) he could be more of a better suit to players such as Poyet etc.
Just got in from work so not fully in the loop but personally I think if Andi Peters is given the job he needs the backing of us fans #AndiPeters100%Support
'Riga did want the job but the fact he did not select the bulk of owner Roland Duchatelet's overseas signings counted against him.' Very worrying IF true.
Personally I find this all utterly depressing. I like being able to engage with the players and manager, to feel that they actually have at least some affinity with the club. Under Duchatelet, it feels like we are a nothing more than a temporary holding area or testing ground for players and coaches who are destined to end up somewhere else. Peeters might be rubbish, he might be great - either way, it's hard to imagine him still being here in a year and a half. As for the players, let's just say I wouldn't bother getting anyone's name printed on the back of your kid's overpriced new Charlton shirt.
Very well said, Mr Largo. Duchatelet is doing things on the cheap - again. Why doesn't he appoint a manager experienced at the higher levels of English football - Chris Hughton, just for example? Answer: Because a young manager from a minor club in Belgium is much cheaper on the salaries bill.
As soon as he took over, Duchatelet made it perfectly clear that he wasn't going to spend big money on transfer fees or players' wages. That was the first damning proof of his lack of ambition for this club. Sure, he is paying for a new pitch - because without that we wouldn't have a pitch to play on. And of course he wants to build up the academy - so that the few graduates who come good can soon be sold for a handsome profit.
Duchatelet is a fabulously wealthy man with a personal fortune of 420m Euros at the latest count - yet he won't spend any money. Look at his disgraceful penny-pinching over Yann Kermorgant; no wonder our decent second-tier players like Hamer, Morro and Dervite are looking elsewhere. Reaching the highest level requires ambition, courage, guts and gamble: we ought to be buying first-rate players and appointing an experienced manager, and rewarding them well.
The Valley is being turned into a holding pen, an exercise gym, a proving ground for marginal players from other clubs in the preposterous 'network'. As a London club with a big history, a decent ground and healthy support, we should be routinely challenging in the Championship play-offs at the very least. Duchatelet's rictus-tight financial prudence - dressed up as a sensible strategy to secure our survival - will see us shuffling about in the nether regions with Blackpool, Barnsley, Millwall and the rest for years to come.
Far from being an enterprising visionary, Duchatelet is nothing more than a cheeseparing administrator.
RD is a controversial person in terms of the way he does stuff. He's not your average rich guy. He mostly has "weird" ideas compared to the mainstream ideas in all aspects.
He will spent money in infrastructure, at Standard Liege he spent alot of money in the youth center and the training facilities which are now state of the art, even on a european scale. Probably he will do the same at charlton. In his views, investing in youth development is a basis to be succesful for years to come, investing lost of money in players may be good in temporary succes; Whether it's a good or a bad thing, thta's up for debate.
RD will always have controversy around him - he is no abramavich or sheikh who just sees the football club he owns as a toy to spend his money on. Could be you guys will have one of the very best youth academies for years to come in england and it will bring you success with homegrown players. What is more beautiful in football than seeing your team being succesful with players that were yours since they were age 12-13.
I hope for you guys you RD will do that, but only time will tell.
RD just does stuff the RD-way, but he is not a bad person i believe - just a guy with weird views sometimes, and definately a guy whit principles.
We have those players already but Duchatelet wants his Liege rejects in the team instead.
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But they know each other quite well. I am baffled, by the decision and by the behaviour.
I wonder what Hales, Flanagan, Martin Robinson and Paddy Powell are thinking about all this. A few years on from them, we won the Battle of Stamford Bridge by more good men - not by a bunch of pansies in the charge of a young Belgian manager who can't believe his luck at moving from a dyke-defended backwater to the greatest city on earth.
What exactly do you prefer ?
Good ole CL
Oh PDC would be great.
We could teach him some manners and decorum and he could share his god given talent and work ethic.
bob peeters or di canio? Cor blimey no wonder this forum cant agree @ ofpolaropposite
Im squarely a Di Canio man given that conundrum