Kola Karim interested in buying Charlton? (maybe?)
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I was just thinking I'm surprised that hasn't come up yet.cafctom said:Here we go. Give it a week and this thread will be 20 pages long and someone will be crying about us moving to the Peninsula.
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non-story.
Charlton isn't in London.0 -
A new ground in the middle of Thamesmead.....now there's a thought.9
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time to email him againLeuth said:I'm going to believe that my football chats with Karim Jr sowed a Charlton seed in the family. The son was actually pretty screwed-on as regards football, knew his stuff. Think he was only 12 or 13 (EDIT: 10 or 11, now I've checked my emails) too. Really nice family, I'll stick up for 'em
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Nigeria sounds a bit like Greece, only it has oil revenue.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nigeria-treasury-virtually-empty-says-212026940.html#VM0JSsX0 -
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Not for me assuming there is any truth in this whatsoever. RD and his team are building the club slowly and a seemingly sustainable way and the progress from where we were is fantastic. Better the devil you know.0
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I'm more confident nowThe Red Robin said:14 -
What did happen to his boat? Is it still on its way?falconwood_1 said:This is the fella who was on that BBC2 new London money documentary last year?
Wouldn't be the first Nigerian director at Charlton....1 -
my mate works for an architects, and they have already been instructed to work on designs for the Kola Kube sports stadium in the peninsular area.cafctom said:Here we go. Give it a week and this thread will be 20 pages long and someone will be crying about us moving to the Peninsula.
FACT !!!
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F**k that! I'm not moving to the Peninsula!cafctom said:Here we go. Give it a week and this thread will be 20 pages long and someone will be crying about us moving to the Peninsula.
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I can't wait for the season to start...0
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I'm glad that wasn't "Tutor me, I've f..."Leuth said:Fuck me, I've tutored his son!
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No problem with that at all, seeing as it's not racist, sexist, or any other -ist that matters - I don't think anyone here will have a problem with you being potential-investorist.DaveMehmet said:
What about the one where he gets us all excited at the prospect, then pulls out at the last minute. That's stereotypical of all our potential investors.Rothko said:The blokes minted, and has access to serious funds.
Can we keep the stereotypes to a minimum?0 -
Maths, English and Reasoning, that one was, IIRC...0
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So you don't have a problem with stereotypical abuse of people who aren't minted?Rothko said:The blokes minted, and has access to serious funds.
Can we keep the stereotypes to a minimum?1 -
It could certainly be Millwall .The Red Robin said:
Have you ever been to Fulham?Rothko said:Just watched the interview. says he's looking at a London non premier League club in an area with a high African population, so us with the big west African community is an obvious, but doesn't mean it couldn't be Brentford or Fulham.
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You're three pages too late!mrbligh said:0 -
I like Roland. He is building a sustainable football club which can be successful in the long run. Do we really want somebody to pump money in and then ditch his toy when he's bored. I am only guessing that this is what happens under wealthy owners though. But I really do like the way our pitch and stadium was taken care of, Sparrows lane is being done, the youth set up is producing great players and at the same time as all of this RD is putting substantial sums into young players such as Vetokele. We may have to wait 5 years for promotion but I would rather do that and have a sustainable, financially stable club. I hate to say it, but Palace is an example of a club being sensible - and I think they're going to be in the prem for a while. So at the end of the day I am grateful to RD and am hoping he sticks around for a while.7
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Like Roland and Standard you mean?dizzee said:I like Roland. He is building a sustainable football club which can be successful in the long run. Do we really want somebody to pump money in and then ditch his toy when he's bored..
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i think a chant that suits the kinks song would go down well ...2
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Roland will get bored of us, he already is he's been about twice in 18 months of ownership, he's in it for some boring experiment he couldn't give a monkeys about charlton.dizzee said:I like Roland. He is building a sustainable football club which can be successful in the long run. Do we really want somebody to pump money in and then ditch his toy when he's bored. I am only guessing that this is what happens under wealthy owners though. But I really do like the way our pitch and stadium was taken care of, Sparrows lane is being done, the youth set up is producing great players and at the same time as all of this RD is putting substantial sums into young players such as Vetokele. We may have to wait 5 years for promotion but I would rather do that and have a sustainable, financially stable club. I hate to say it, but Palace is an example of a club being sensible - and I think they're going to be in the prem for a while. So at the end of the day I am grateful to RD and am hoping he sticks around for a while.
Palace are not an example of being sensible, they are an example of some two bob chancers who drove themselves into administration twice through poor management and got away with it, fundamental difference between us and them now is that they are owned and run by a Palace supporter who has an understanding of the club and how to bring it success and who appoints managers and lets them do their job.
We have been producing great players for years, and the ones coming through now like Cousins and Gomez have absolutely nothing to do with Roland's input, we will continue doing that even if he leaves.
Buying young players good and the financial stability is great, yes, but only if the ultimate game is to mould some of them into a team. Roland clearly isn't bothered about that, JBG will be flogged this summer and Vetokele would've been too if he hadn't flopped and there was a profit available for him.
I'm not disputing he's done some good things and no doubt our financial position is better than it was before he came in, but for me the negatives far outweigh the pros, he runs the club like a circus his objectives are wrong most of his signings have been poor and he's eroding our supporter base. I'd rather roll the dice with a) some minted Nigerian bloke (who sounds like an astute businessman, most people's endorsement for Roland, and might actually be willing to plug some of his money into us), or b) administration and any sort of rescue consortium lead by Peter Varney who I'd trust to operate the club on the basis of its independent interests.10 -
'Roland will get bored of us'
Ain't got the Euro Millions numbers for next Friday as well have you?0 -
I met him in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca Cola
See-oh-el-aye cola
He walked up to me and said I've bought CAFC
I asked him his name and in a dark brown voice he said Kola
Kay-oh-el-aye Kola la-la-la-la Kola3 -
Haven't you got an argument to win?Henry Irving said:I met him in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca Cola
See-oh-el-aye cola
He walked up to me and said I've bought CAFC
I asked him his name and in a dark brown voice he said Kola
Kay-oh-el-aye Kola la-la-la-la Kola8 -
Harsh. Doesn't sound like was 'bored'. Sounds like he thought he was doing what was best for the club but the fans have given him loads of shit. Don't blame him to saying bollocks to it.Henry Irving said:
Like Roland and Standard you mean?dizzee said:I like Roland. He is building a sustainable football club which can be successful in the long run. Do we really want somebody to pump money in and then ditch his toy when he's bored..
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No but I can tell you last week's numbers, because I'm not predicting the future I'm looking at the present. The guy has no interest in the club other than it's profit/loss accounts.
How many other club's owners have attended so few matches in the same period? How many times have Roland or Katrien talked about promotion aspirations or the premier league? Very few by my recollection, which is bizarre given that the season before they took over we finished about 3 points and 3 places below the play-offs. And that's because it's not really on their agenda.0 -
Probably because his main focus was in Belgium, think we all knew that. As of today, that could have completely changed. Theres been talk of Premier League, just that they aren't gonna break the bank to get there...which if you want a stable football club, isn't the worst thing in the world to say.paulsturgess said:No but I can tell you last week's numbers, because I'm not predicting the future I'm looking at the present. The guy has no interest in the club other than it's profit/loss accounts.
How many other club's owners have attended so few matches in the same period? How many times have Roland or Katrien talked about promotion aspirations or the premier league? Very few by my recollection, which is bizarre given that the season before they took over we finished about 3 points and 3 places below the play-offs. And that's because it's not really on their agenda.0 -
I thought I had and anyway I can multi-taskThe Red Robin said:
Haven't you got an argument to win?Henry Irving said:I met him in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca Cola
See-oh-el-aye cola
He walked up to me and said I've bought CAFC
I asked him his name and in a dark brown voice he said Kola
Kay-oh-el-aye Kola la-la-la-la Kola2
