Katrien Meire says the club “do not want to build up expectations” as Charlton prepare for League 1
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Some flats in the 'south stand'.ken_shabby said:Build what exactly?
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A successful season for Duchatelet is a balanced budget. Competitive football is not what they are about. It is all about Duchatelet's scheme of a break even football business. Everything is a slave to the budget. Witness Katrien Meire's desperate attempts to offload players mid-season because she can't manage the playing budget properly (despite Duchatelet's sexist assurances that women are better at budgeting!)
Katrien Meire is being disingenuous (yet again!). A top 6 budget in League One is still worse than a bottom 3 budget in the Championship. The multi-millionaire Roland Duchatelet's spending will be even more miserly than before. Its just being measured against the shitty League One benchmark.
The ass-clowns in charge of Charlton are totally unequipped to rebuild what they have destroyed. They are sitting amongst the rubble of our great club, blaming the fans for the everything.
I am expecting a Blackpool style pre-season, resulting in Blackpool-like performances and a Blackpool league position.13 -
I think they mean we'll have a top 6 budget within the network....not the league.Fumbluff said:Also how does that cocksausage know the budgets of the other 23 teams that will be in league 1 next season, what a load of old crunchies
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Exactly and what makes it even more galling, is that he's still losing as much money if not more than Jimenez & Slater. What an arrogant fool.Missed It said:A successful season for Duchatelet is a balanced budget. Competitive football is not what they are about. It is all about Duchatelet's scheme of a break even football business. Everything is a slave to the budget. Witness Katrien Meire's desperate attempts to offload players mid-season because she can't manage the playing budget properly (despite Duchatelet's sexist assurances that women are better at budgeting!)
Katrien Meire is being disingenuous (yet again!). A top 6 budget in League One is still worse than a bottom 3 budget in the Championship. The multi-millionaire Roland Duchatelet's spending will be even more miserly than before. Its just being measured against the shitty League One benchmark.
The ass-clowns in charge of Charlton are totally unequipped to rebuild what they have destroyed. They are sitting amongst the rubble of our great club, blaming the fans for the everything.
I am expecting a Blackpool style pre-season, resulting in Blackpool-like performances and a Blackpool league position.5 -
'There are some complications around whether money can be injected as loans or equity'.
Yes in league 1 the loan restrictions are much tighter and equity is required much earlier.
Sell now mate if you don't want to lose a lot more money.2 -
They could have us by the bollocks tbh, like it or not. 'IF' we do become promotion contenders next term - RD and KM will feel the "customers" will keep coming. Lets face it, and not only for the more fickle supporter - old habits of enjoying a Saturday afternoon football die hard.0
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The PR machine has gone into overdrive on this one ....0
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Here's a tip Katrien, don't knock it down. Then you don't have to rebuild it !9
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Well, my reasonable expectations are that they equip us with a squad and manager that should run away with League 1 next season. If that's the situation by August I'll consider buying our season tickets again.
This is what they owe us after all the f*** ups we've had to endure, and anything less would be a betrayal -- again.
Come on, Roland and Katrien, show us that you've taken responsibility for what you've done, ask our forgiveness, and make full amends.0 -
The woman simply cannot help herself. After 2yrs of failing to engage with supporters how on earth can you come up with the line
“The only way to get out of this is to work together with the fans on the current issues?
One of the primary reasons we are facing the current issues is this executive have failed to engage with supporters. They have made it clear they a) have had no interest in engaging with supporters b) show no aptitude in engaging with supporters c) are simply unable to construct a viable dialogue to even communicate to supporters.
As the recent Fans Forum confirms they simply offer no answers continuing to talk at us not to us.
The remainder of her "call to arms" mirrors precisely the same meaningless, generic "fluff" witnessed from day one.
It says absolutely nothing about any specific targets, any changes in policy, any new focus. It is weak meandering waffle. The cataclysmic void of leadership which has stared us in the face for 2yrs continues apace. No coherent plan. no decisive measures addressing any the failings of the past 2yrs just the usual "non business as usual" ethos which has dragged the name of the club into the gutter.
They are floundering - simply having absolutely nothing of any relevance to offer. This executive in terms of the industry expertise and professional standards required remain clueless. Not only do they not have any solutions for the future they still do not understand, nor believe they have played any part in it all having gone so badly wrong.
On such a basis how can you possibly learn from your mistakes.
The reasons are simple. The operating dynamics of the club will not change, with Duchatelet at the helm they cannot change - the feeble Fans Forum comments concerning SMT departures - reinforce again this regime simply will not learn. Even now they still do not know what they need to do next.
We face a tortuous close season as we bumble through the ever revolving doors of departures and arrivals, based on heaven knows whose player assessments, to be coached by heavens knows who.
Only a fool would even attempt to try to rebuild a club on such a basis. Which straw could this regime possibly clutch at to think they still have a positive contribution to make to this club. The time for this farce to end is long, long overdue.
Please, please just walk away.
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If she and Roland had any sense at all, instead of selling our best players like Lookman, Kashi, Gudmundson, Bauer, they'd instead be enticing them to stay by improving their contracts and tagging on a big promotion bonus. This would work out cheaper than throwing more money down the drain on hopeless imports like Polish Pete. Our best 11 would be too good for League One.9
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Its good to dream @queensland_addick. Hoping and dreaming of better days when things look bleak is an essential part of being a Charlton supporter.queensland_addick said:If she and Roland had any sense at all, instead of selling our best players like Lookman, Kashi, Gudmundson, Bauer, they'd instead be enticing them to stay by improving their contracts and tagging on a big promotion bonus. This would work out cheaper than throwing more money down the drain on hopeless imports like Polish Pete. Our best 11 would be too good for League One.
Unfortunately, the Lookman relegation clause is there for a reason. I can't see Gudmundsson being happy to play in League One or Duchatelet passing up on an opportunity to maximise the sale following a European Championship appearance. It wouldn't be a surprise to see relegation clauses in a number of contracts. Duchatelet will also be sticking to his mantra of balancing budgets come what may.0 -
I didn't know about that. Personally I think Lookman would be silly to move on so early in his development. He should take note of what has happened to Poyet.vff said:
Its good to dream. The Lookman relegation clause is there for a reason. Unfortunately.queensland_addick said:If she and Roland had any sense at all, instead of selling our best players like Lookman, Kashi, Gudmundson, Bauer, they'd instead be enticing them to stay by improving their contracts and tagging on a big promotion bonus. This would work out cheaper than throwing more money down the drain on hopeless imports like Polish Pete. Our best 11 would be too good for League One.
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Unfortunately I think any player who can leave Charlton now should do so. There is too large a chance that Duchatelet may still be the owner next season.
No good for anyone.
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Indeed. Was listening to coverage of the Blackpool fan protests today and it made my blood run cold.Missed It said:A successful season for Duchatelet is a balanced budget. Competitive football is not what they are about. It is all about Duchatelet's scheme of a break even football business. Everything is a slave to the budget. Witness Katrien Meire's desperate attempts to offload players mid-season because she can't manage the playing budget properly (despite Duchatelet's sexist assurances that women are better at budgeting!)
Katrien Meire is being disingenuous (yet again!). A top 6 budget in League One is still worse than a bottom 3 budget in the Championship. The multi-millionaire Roland Duchatelet's spending will be even more miserly than before. Its just being measured against the shitty League One benchmark.
The ass-clowns in charge of Charlton are totally unequipped to rebuild what they have destroyed. They are sitting amongst the rubble of our great club, blaming the fans for the everything.
I am expecting a Blackpool style pre-season, resulting in Blackpool-like performances and a Blackpool league position.
They have been relegated to League 2 and have wanted their owner out for seasons now. But he just ignores them and continues to run the club into the ground as they plummet down the leagues.
Got a nasty feeling that will be us this time next year.6 -
Feel incredibly sorry for Blackpool fans. Oysten is such a bastard. A complete mennance to football.bigstemarra said:
Indeed. Was listening to coverage of the Blackpool fan protests today and it made my blood run cold.Missed It said:A successful season for Duchatelet is a balanced budget. Competitive football is not what they are about. It is all about Duchatelet's scheme of a break even football business. Everything is a slave to the budget. Witness Katrien Meire's desperate attempts to offload players mid-season because she can't manage the playing budget properly (despite Duchatelet's sexist assurances that women are better at budgeting!)
Katrien Meire is being disingenuous (yet again!). A top 6 budget in League One is still worse than a bottom 3 budget in the Championship. The multi-millionaire Roland Duchatelet's spending will be even more miserly than before. Its just being measured against the shitty League One benchmark.
The ass-clowns in charge of Charlton are totally unequipped to rebuild what they have destroyed. They are sitting amongst the rubble of our great club, blaming the fans for the everything.
I am expecting a Blackpool style pre-season, resulting in Blackpool-like performances and a Blackpool league position.
They have been relegated to League 2 and have wanted their owner out for seasons now. But he just ignores them and continues to run the club into the ground as they plummet down the leagues.
Got a nasty feeling that will be us this time next year.
It sounds strange saying this...but even Roland Duchatelet runs a football club better then that clown.
I suppose Jose Riga could answer that more clearer having experienced both clubs.1 -
So many comments that RDs mantra is to " balance the books". He is not very good at it if he is putting £1M a month into the club.3
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He'll turn us in to a Sunday League team and start charging the players subs to break even eventually
What a bell , you're in the wrong game2 -
This woman appears to surround herself with sycophants and eliminates anyone who disagrees with her. A very weak character trait. The level of incompetency can only increase, if that's possible.
Does Ratty understand what we can see or is she doing just what Ratty tells her to do? Does he micro manage? I can't quite work it out.
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Exactly, and what have the FA or FL done about events at Blackpool? Sweet FA. We MUST follow this and learn from it.Dave2l said:
Feel incredibly sorry for Blackpool fans. Oysten is such a bastard. A complete mennance to football.bigstemarra said:
Indeed. Was listening to coverage of the Blackpool fan protests today and it made my blood run cold.Missed It said:A successful season for Duchatelet is a balanced budget. Competitive football is not what they are about. It is all about Duchatelet's scheme of a break even football business. Everything is a slave to the budget. Witness Katrien Meire's desperate attempts to offload players mid-season because she can't manage the playing budget properly (despite Duchatelet's sexist assurances that women are better at budgeting!)
Katrien Meire is being disingenuous (yet again!). A top 6 budget in League One is still worse than a bottom 3 budget in the Championship. The multi-millionaire Roland Duchatelet's spending will be even more miserly than before. Its just being measured against the shitty League One benchmark.
The ass-clowns in charge of Charlton are totally unequipped to rebuild what they have destroyed. They are sitting amongst the rubble of our great club, blaming the fans for the everything.
I am expecting a Blackpool style pre-season, resulting in Blackpool-like performances and a Blackpool league position.
They have been relegated to League 2 and have wanted their owner out for seasons now. But he just ignores them and continues to run the club into the ground as they plummet down the leagues.
Got a nasty feeling that will be us this time next year.
It sounds strange saying this...but even Roland Duchatelet runs a football club better then that clown.
I suppose Jose Riga could answer that more clearer having experienced both clubs.
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I tell you what Katrien you dense lump of Belgian shit. You wanna start building ours and your expectations. If you thought the Championship would be a walkover then i think you'll be surprised by our divisiion three.
LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES you thick Belgian twat!!!!7 -
'I don't want to build up expectations ' translates as 'Roland has decided to cut off funding even further, don't expect to get promoted while we are in charge.'
We weren't expecting to Katrien, that's why you have to go.9 -
The irony is that she doesn't want to build up expectations but our expectations couldn't possibly be any lower.7
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I gather that you are not keen on her Soapysoapy_jones said:I tell you what Katrien you dense lump of Belgian shit. You wanna start building ours and your expectations. If you thought the Championship would be a walkover then i think you'll be surprised by our divisiion three.
LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES you thick Belgian twat!!!!3 -
Pointless even reading anything she issues. It's probably written for her by Roland, and anyway it's not worth the paper it is written on. She has a complete inability to separate fact from fiction. Dreadful person who for me sums up everything that is so rotten about life under Roland.11
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Let's say for instance in jan 2014 Roland douch never purchased the club and Charlton got relegated with Chris Powell still as manager.....in the present day of that scenario, we would still be in a much better position then what we are now that's for sure.
Even if we was still in league one and still had the same previous owners....
Building around Katriens quote there...I think Charlton are just seriously fucked and it's only going one way.
Prepare for the worst is my advice and keep in mind, the long term. This is potentially 5-10 years worth of damage.
Still....
What goes up must come down and what goes down must come up.
Will end up like a slightly lesser version of what happened to Wimbledon.
The thing to be picked up on is that RD simply doesn't care. He is rebelling against us too out of frustration that he is not liked.
He does hate the fact that the money he spends on the club is not constantly praised or appreciated.
He thinks he should be considered to be a hero. It makes him angry to the point where he feels he wants to show who's boss and who's in control by doing things or continuing to do things we hate.
If i was a millionaire businessman...I'd only put that kind of money into something I had an emotional attachment to. His motivation for buying us even though he knows it probably won't serve him no credit ...is baffling. Many people buy clubs they are not fans of, but that is because they have a competitive spirit in mind.
Even, as a millionaire businessman, i would get all the advice needed on every level on whether or not the purchase of Charlton athletic, even as a fan, is going to be a good thing for me and a good thing for the club.
RD didn't do his homework because he is a careless arrogant c¥nt that can't even be bothered to get a relatively normal pair of shoes.
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Re-fucking build? We're rebuilding every season! The fact that we have used circa 60* different players in the last 3 seasons infuriates me. We can't constantly rebuild season after season. How are you supposed to support the team you have zero affinity with?
It would be nice if the message was "we have some good players in this squad and we will do everything we can to keep hold of them to increase our chance of returning to the championship at the first time of asking"
Instead it's "don't get your hopes up, we're going to have a crack at rebuilding"
*I don't know this number for fact, but I bet it's not far off!4 -
That's a tasty fact if true... however I'm not certain it is?Covered End said:
Exactly and what makes it even more galling, is that he's still losing as much money if not more than Jimenez & Slater. What an arrogant fool.Missed It said:A successful season for Duchatelet is a balanced budget. Competitive football is not what they are about. It is all about Duchatelet's scheme of a break even football business. Everything is a slave to the budget. Witness Katrien Meire's desperate attempts to offload players mid-season because she can't manage the playing budget properly (despite Duchatelet's sexist assurances that women are better at budgeting!)
Katrien Meire is being disingenuous (yet again!). A top 6 budget in League One is still worse than a bottom 3 budget in the Championship. The multi-millionaire Roland Duchatelet's spending will be even more miserly than before. Its just being measured against the shitty League One benchmark.
The ass-clowns in charge of Charlton are totally unequipped to rebuild what they have destroyed. They are sitting amongst the rubble of our great club, blaming the fans for the everything.
I am expecting a Blackpool style pre-season, resulting in Blackpool-like performances and a Blackpool league position.0 -
Here you go:jamiebcool said:The fact that we have used circa 60* different players in the last 3 seasons infuriates me.
*I don't know this number for fact, but I bet it's not far off!
1 Hamer
2 Hughes
3 Evina
4 Jackson
5 Morrison
6 Dervite
7 Green
8 Stephens
9 Reza
10 Church
11 Sordell
12 Harriott
13 Alnwick
14 Pritchard
15 Wood
16 Wiggins
17 Cook
18 Kermorgant
19 Tudgay
20 Petrucci
21 Hollands
22 Solly
23 Thuram
24 Wilson
25 Cousins
26 Nego
27 Parzyshek
28 Gower
29 Cort
30 Lennon
31 Stewart
32 Piggott
33 Fox
34 Poyet
35 Ajderavic
36 Henderson
37 Gomez
38 Veljkovic
39 Bikey
40 Ben Haim
41 Bulot
42 Eagles
43 Gudmundsson
44 Moussa
45 Coquelin
46 Diarra
47 Vetokele
48 Onyewu
49 Buyens
50 Johnson
51 Tucudean
52 Pope
53 Watt
54 Dmitrovic
55 Le Point
56 Ahearne-Grant
57 Etheridge
58 Vaz Te
59 Suk-Young
60 Kashi
61 Bauer
62 Sarr
63 Makienok
64 Ceballos
65 Fanni
66 Holmes-Dennis
67 Bergdich
68 Ba
69 Charles-Cook
70 Williams
71 McAleny
72 Kennedy
73 Muldoon
74 Umerah
75 Lookman
76 Motta
77 Texeira
78 Poyet (Loan re-signed)
79 Johnson (re-signed)
So we could make it 80 this weekend LOL
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To be fair - Naby Sarr and Ba may be ok in League One. They may not be too! I will be following the recruitment and sales with interest! They need to get a manager in quick, or decide to keep Riga. It is the manager who needs to be planning, not KM!!!
Powell knew what was needed in our promotion season and got the business done early. They need to learn from that- but I'm not confident they will.3
