New Executive Team at Valley

Davidsmith

A Question,if Duchatelet will not sell up,maybe he needs to be persuaded that Meire, Murray and Riga need to go and be replaced with a management team with the knowledge and capability to take us forward.
If he really isn't involved in the day to day running of the Club then his management team has failed and need replacing, all 3 of them banished to the wilderness.
Come on RD you know it makes sense, or you have blown all your cash and there will be more pain and suffering.

addick1965

We will NEVER go forward with Duchatelet.
Backwards and Down are the only directions we will be heading.

Algarveaddick

But who would take on the task while he was still in charge? The "Statement" showed that he is not capable of taking advice from professionals because "he knows best". No-one worth their salt would want to work for a bloke who is liable to ride rough shod over their well thought out plans when he wakes up with the hump (or imbibes too many Duvals).

Weegie Addick

You'd need to find people prepared to take and implement orders from RD on a daily basis. That's pretty much how it works at the moment as I understand.

bazjonster

He's a senile old twat who gets a real perverted kick out of knowing that his obnoxious behaviour pisses us all off! A stubborn old fool whose blinkers are so thick that he actually struggles to see 5 foot ahead of himself, let alone the short to mid term future!

His CEO is his seedy sidekick who revels in our pain, and I've no doubt that they get off over the grief they cause us when they have their regular conference calls! Quite a sickening thought in all honesty!

They both, no doubt, suffer from an inferiority complex and have allowed the fact that they have money/power to feed their insecure whims!

I am a really amiable character who is often chastised for trying to see the best in everyone! But never have a pair of loathsome, cringeworthy individuals caused me to feel so much angst, disdain and total dislike toward someone/something.

Just piss off you deluded imbeciles! Go on, piss off!!

cfgs

Doesn't matter who is in charge at the club as Roly and his minions in Belgium make all the important decisions anyway.

All_Thaid_Up

Here is the new team.

objectivecafc

All_Thaid_Up said:

Here is the new team.

I think you will find that's the current establishment

redman

He shouldn't be allowed to think there is any chance his dreams can work. Any thoughts these fantasies would work with a different management team should be discarded and he shouldn't be given any discouragement.

If there was a change of management team we should continue our battle

Rock Spectacle

Well the two and a half year recruitment process for Mel (with no disrespect to her) has set the benchmark extremely high hasn't it...

MuttleyCAFC

They did a good job recruiting a person of a high enough calibre to realise what a shower they are! They are buggered really aren't they?

soapy_jones

There's an executive team?

addick05

How long oh Lord, how long can this agony continue? I know we are not one of the 'fat cows' from the Premier League, but surely the 'powers that be' can't be in any doubt now as to how badly run this club is. Somebody in authority should demand to know just what Roland's future plans for Charlton are... but I won't hold my breath. I think the really important thing for the club is what happens in the close season. When there are no more matches on TV and the media switches attention to the Euros will the pressure on Roland be maintained? Naturally I don't expect CARD and others to reveal their plans, I just want to be assured that while we turn our attention to the Euros and sunbeds all the hard work put in by so many people will not whither and fade.

Coyotejohn1947

addick05 said:

How long oh Lord, how long can this agony continue? I know we are not one of the 'fat cows' from the Premier League, but surely the 'powers that be' can't be in any doubt now as to how badly run this club is. Somebody in authority should demand to know just what Roland's future plans for Charlton are... but I won't hold my breath. I think the really important thing for the club is what happens in the close season. When there are no more matches on TV and the media switches attention to the Euros will the pressure on Roland be maintained? Naturally I don't expect CARD and others to reveal their plans, I just want to be assured that while we turn our attention to the Euros and sunbeds all the hard work put in by so many people will not whither and fade.

Addick05
Rest assured the pressure will continue I'm sure not just from CARD but from all those individual fans who wish to bring this horrible experiment at the expense of our club to an end. Will anti-RD and Meire banners appear at the Euros for example?

You may be aware also from other threads that attention is being drawn to Meire's outrageous statement (in Belgium) re her dissmisive attitude to the history of the club. This may seem tangental to the more serious issues of mismanagement but she will feel it deeply if she has to explain herself to her old Uni (who recently awarded her a prize) or, more seriously, if Greenwich University begin to have doubts about her credibility as a business partner. Her academic standing with her Uni (KU Leuven) and her assumed standing with Greenwich Uni is one which is entirely undeserved and should be exposed.

Finally, IMO the removal/resignation of Katrien Meire would be the first step in the dismantling of the failed and flawed RD ownership but to replace her simply with another yes man or woman (Valerie Gys from Ujpest?) is simply going to draw out the length of the process of collapse. In any other business scenario Katrien Meire would be long gone. It is a measure of the depth of her arrogance and mis-placed loyalty to RD that she is prepared to sacrifice many aspects of good business practice to adhere religiously to the crackpot ideas of Duchatelet.

CAFC_Gnome

Just been reading about how Aston Villa are dealing with inevitable relegation. They have an unpopular owner, a foreign manager with no previous experience of the Premiership, had an ineffective CEO, fan walk outs and protests. Sounds familiar.

So what does the owner do? He appoints a new chairman who is tasked with finding out what went wrong and to plan for promotion back to Premiership next season. He has brought in a former a manager, Brian Little, as an advisor, sacked the CEO and a foreign sounding Sporting Director. The manager is expected to leave any day.

The new chairman said “It will be the board that actually makes decisions now (rather than Lerner). We will go through a proper process as to what we do and what we don’t do. That will include buying and selling players."

It is also reported that they want to appoint a new manager who has a promotion to the Premiership on their cv. Nigel Pearson is current favourite.

Now moving on to our plight accepting that the owner won't go away. Most of the above would be a good start to our fight to return to the Championship.

First appoint a new chairman since our current one seems to have lost his way. Someone who is not part of the owner's conglomerate and will be able to assure us that:

“It will be the board that actually makes decisions now (rather than Roland)

We will go through a proper process as to what we do and what we don’t do.

That will include buying and selling players."

We appoint a currently unemployed former manager, who apparently has previously offered help, as an adviser,

Appoint a British manager who has a promotion to the Championship on his cv (anyone come to mind?)

Appoint a CEO who understands the difference between a fan and a customer and who has experience in running an English Professional Football Club.

Come on Roland take your head out of that very dense Belgian sand and see a future for our club.

No chance of course but surprise me!

Coyotejohn1947

No chance of course but surprise me!

That appears to be the gist of it Gnome - no chance.
Whilst all all your suggestions make sense, to implement them by RD would be to take Charlton out of the Network and to do something different rather than stick with is avowed if deeply flawed strategy. I believe he said in the SLP that it was 'too early' to think about selling up. If so, how bad do things have to get before he admits that the current set up ain't going to work?

The bad news is that this a man who formed an alternative political party in Belgium in 1998 which was going to revolutionise Belgian politics with novel approaches to political issues. Instead, I believe it remains a minor fringe party but limps along with its brand of largely unworkable policies - rejected by the majority of the electorate but with RD still at the helm.

Heaven help us if he is still around at Charlton Athletic in 18th months let alone 18 years.

WestCountryAddick

RD only listens to the sycophants that believe in his flawed vision, therefore nobody is going to be able to persuade him to do anything he doesn't want to. The current team is cheap. Murray is free, it's doubtful Meire earns what a normal CEO in English football earns, and it's doubtful that Riga earns on a par with other Championship managers. Roland likes cheap.

CAFC_Gnome

You're right of course I was just trying to contrast the way 2 unpopular owners have reacted to failure. Although 1 doesn't consider relegation as failure because he doesn't do it.