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.
byl not below apparently at 4.12. Not a fan of Charlton.
Don't tell me to go and support Chelsea or man utd , gobshite. You on the site not as Charlton fan, bad fecking manners and form to start telling Charlton fans how to react or go support Chelsea or Man utd. Go feck off.
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BYL below
i am a fan of Lierse SK, a team from the town bob peeters was born and were he started and finished his career as a player.
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Just because I support Charlton, it does not mean that I don't expect to see decent football, and have ambition for my club to play and compete at the highest level. Charlton acheived it before and can again. It does not mean that I will have to accept my club be a team without proper ambition or a lower league entity. I have supported the club all my life, and to have some gobshite around for 5 minutes who has accepted that their club is going to be forever shite, that they can come and preach that b*ll*cks on here. They can go feck themselves.
The Belgian league is different to the Championship. I'm really not sure RD gets the difference. Riga did. The Championship is the 4th biggest league in Europe, the standard of opposition throughout the league is better - the Belgian league is closer to the Scottish league with little clubs playing big clubs. I think if Liege played in the Championship, they'd have a shock. If RD had learned anything he would have appointed Riga - IMO, he has merely stepped into his original plan now that relegation has been avoided. I have absolutely no faith in his set up - simply because there has been zero evidence. I don't think he wants to fail, he wants to succeed, but failing with us isn't as big a deal as it should be and this is all part of some businessman's experiment. He's backing his view/idea but I think I know what it is and think it is very naive. This will not end well.
Lot of worrying stuff going down here - no point being negative about a guy who has not arrived at the club as yet - but all the signs suggest RD can't take any form of dissent - good bosses in any business welcome it - that's why i liked Riga despite being a hundred per cent behind Chris Powell - he came in, looked at the situation and picked his own team - not RD's face saving X1. There are already huge jokes going around Millwall about Bob the Builder and the fact he can't fix this mess. I hope they are horribly wrong but the guy's not going to set the division on fire next season. Just hope we stay up and play attractive football in doing so. Think we would have done that under Riga so why get rid of him unless he walked voluntarily and maybe that's a different story. And Riga might have kept Poyet! If his father thinks Sunderland is a basket case, god knows what he's thinking right now. Anyway wishing Bob all the best, and hope i have 23 games to see him next season. Anything else will be four managers in a year and that's a total mess.
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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
Don't tell me to go and support Chelsea or man utd , gobshite. You on the site not as Charlton fan, bad fecking manners and form to start telling Charlton fans how to react or go support Chelsea or Man utd. Go feck off.
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i am a fan of Lierse SK, a team from the town bob peeters was born and were he started and finished his career as a player.
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Just because I support Charlton, it does not mean that I don't expect to see decent football, and have ambition for my club to play and compete at the highest level. Charlton acheived it before and can again. It does not mean that I will have to accept my club be a team without proper ambition or a lower league entity. I have supported the club all my life, and to have some gobshite around for 5 minutes who has accepted that their club is going to be forever shite, that they can come and preach that b*ll*cks on here. They can go feck themselves.
Anyway wishing Bob all the best, and hope i have 23 games to see him next season. Anything else will be four managers in a year and that's a total mess.