Sue Parkes has confirmed that Peter Varney's plans did indeed involve moving away from The Valley.
I've now decided that Sue 'My husband never tells me anything but I'm 100% sure that Peter Varney wanted to move Charlton out of the Valley' Parkes, is the Facebook equivalent of Colin.
The most significant thing to come out of this is that PV has been speaking with Duchatelet. I don't care that NightMeire has been lying again - it was always going to happen - a leopard doesn't change its spots. But that snippet has given me hope around the future.
just fantastic really, katrien has got to say she wasn't telling the truth or she'll say it was the other interested party fronted by paul elliott that wanted to move away from the valley. And i can hardly see elliott being very pleased about her saying that either.
The most significant thing to come out of this is that PV has been speaking with Duchatelet. I don't care that NightMeire has been lying again - it was always going to happen - a leopard doesn't change its spots. But that sniper had given me hope around the future.
Sniper? Blimey, bit strong if someone has taken a contract out on her !
The most significant thing to come out of this is that PV has been speaking with Duchatelet. I don't care that NightMeire has been lying again - it was always going to happen - a leopard doesn't change its spots. But that sniper had given me hope around the future.
That's what jumped out for me as well.
The whole 48 hours to retract the statement is fun though. Would love to see what's in this proposal and the email exchange so I'm hoping there's no retraction.
If they're not listening to offers and the deal seems somewhat dead, giving Varney an opportunity to publish it is a pretty good opportunity to get some momentum again. Very interesting!
Well Russell Slade, you've been here five minutes and Meire has shown her true colours - that she is a compulsive liar. I'd check your contract to see if you have an early release clause. Then again, perhaps you haven't got anything in writing, just a number of verbal promises.
Yes Latrien, Varneys consortium were going to move the club from the Valley but Mr Dutchoven who has only been there twice in his ownership, refused these darstardly approaches for all our sakes...
I am firmly in the 'believe Varney over Meire camp' but playing devil's advovate for a moment I have a distant memory of Peter Varney mooting a new ground in Kent back in the Prem days.
Could Murray have told her this and she has spun it to her own advantage?
If so there is a certain irony in the history she detests so much working to her possible advantage.
If I recall correctly, it was a site around the Millenium Dome (as it known was at the time) possibly Morden Wharf. Varney was CEO of Richard Murray's board at the time, so there is absolutely no connection with the financial backers that he is working with at the moment.
Following a fair bit of criticism from supporters who didn't want to leave The Valley, I think he said that they had a responsibility to look into it but that it wasn't going further than that.
That's correct. Indeed this was where I first got onto the whole Olympic Stadium thing. Way back then Murray and Varney figured that West Ham would be likely to occupy such a stadium and would then have loads of spare capacity to flog on our patch. Because we still thought we would usually be a FAPL club capable of selling out the The Valley, the idea was that we would need a new ground with maybe 40k capacity so that we could compete with West Ham on price. Both shared this thought with various fans whom they felt able to talk to informally.
More recently the issue came up in the only serious rival bidder to Duchatelet (not Josh Harris, there remains no evidence I have seen that he was serious) but one involving Arenacom. The company builds and operates new stadia.
The general concept has ( or had) its merits, although personally I remained unconvinced. That said, the German guy from Arenacom was terrifyingly convincing.
Peter Varney was not involved in that bid, so that cannot be connected. I perfectly understood why Peter would look rationally at the Peninsula at the time he did, and that is why I am sure the accusation is baseless. Right now we cannot half fill the Valley, so the entire rationale which PV had then has long since disappeared. In addition, as far as I understand it, the mooted site is no longer available.
Why she has gone and said this, I have no earthly, and I hope PV can force her into a retraction.
While she's at it maybe she would like to explain what the meeting between RM and the Sheffield Utd chairman Kevin McCabe was about on the morning of SCP'S last match in charge , surely that wasn't about the potential of a move to the Peninsula was it Richard
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Check mate, katrien.
The whole 48 hours to retract the statement is fun though. Would love to see what's in this proposal and the email exchange so I'm hoping there's no retraction.
If they're not listening to offers and the deal seems somewhat dead, giving Varney an opportunity to publish it is a pretty good opportunity to get some momentum again. Very interesting!
Silly Belgian twat
More recently the issue came up in the only serious rival bidder to Duchatelet (not Josh Harris, there remains no evidence I have seen that he was serious) but one involving Arenacom. The company builds and operates new stadia.
The general concept has ( or had) its merits, although personally I remained unconvinced. That said, the German guy from Arenacom was terrifyingly convincing.
Peter Varney was not involved in that bid, so that cannot be connected. I perfectly understood why Peter would look rationally at the Peninsula at the time he did, and that is why I am sure the accusation is baseless. Right now we cannot half fill the Valley, so the entire rationale which PV had then has long since disappeared. In addition, as far as I understand it, the mooted site is no longer available.
Why she has gone and said this, I have no earthly, and I hope PV can force her into a retraction.