With West Ham moving in down the road
Does he look to invest heavily to get us promoted, try to increase the fan base and compete with West Hams season ticket pricing. This would have to mean investing in the Valley to increase capacity.
Prod on as we are and try to make money through the accademy, low player wages, Championship football at best or even lower league football.
Sell the club to who.
At this moment in time it is utterly important for us to be successful on and off the pitch, never have we been in a position where a club from East London could affect our crowds and future support in such a way.
A true fan blinded by loyalty and blindness would do the first.
A buisness person maybe the second
The third option is impossible if you can't find a buyer which I think would now be harder than ever.
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Yet there's been no strategy to sell the club within London itself. Remember the days under Peter Varney when we had ads on the side of buses? No sign of that now - all the marketing seems to be aimed at existing fans, rather than pointing out that there is a London club where you won't get ripped off for wanting to watch live football (unlike Fulham, QPR, etc). There was a "Club SE7" thing where those of us who live in Charlton itself had an offer for cheap tickets, but that's been about it.
That said, he now works as a consultant to property companies - entirely appropriate given his close relationship with the likes of Berkeley Homes as council leader. He's still a regular in the lounges at The Valley (Steve Sutherland was/is a trustee of a charity he set up while council leader, Greenwich Starting Blocks, which still runs out of the council) and is rumoured to still be in regular touch with his replacement, Denise Hyland.
I suspect that with the current government's attitude to socially-rented housing (and indeed, Greenwich's record in backing certain planning schemes), any developer wouldn't have to worry about making up a quota of social housing should any development take place there. Really can't see that happening unless the club were to go out of business, though.
2. Don't invest in the current squad and continue to endure short term pain, hatred and a far higher potential for missing out on future gains.
3. Take creatine and get tons of gains.
KM is in the west stand directors seating area with a list of Belgian men randomly taken from their equivalent of the electoral register. KM says they must fight to the death to be the next unknown Belgian no mark to be given the Charlton manager's job. As the battles take place Thuram and Anil Koc are taking penalties in front of the covered end in a Staprix penalty shoot out champion of the world competition. Whilst all this is going on Christophe Le Point is bouncing around on the pitch on a space hopper shouting 'Melexis, Melexis'.
I realise this sounds like absolute nonsense, but is it really anymore mental than our club over the last 2 years
Nigel Clough
Nigel Pearson
Sean O'Driscoll
Paul Lambert
Brendan Rodgers (long shot)