Interesting that Dmitrovic has been given away, no announcement, and we have to potentially pay for a replacement. That is the only network business this year and to our detriment. No fee for Hendo, Piggot, Berg, Sarr and others who should be worth something. Panic sales for our decent players. The RD template is looking shaky.
Interesting that Dmitrovic has been given away, no announcement, and we have to potentially pay for a replacement. That is the only network business this year and to our detriment. No fee for Hendo, Piggot, Berg, Sarr and others who should be worth something. Panic sales for our decent players. The RD template is looking shaky.
Dmitrovic was announced. Hendo was always going to go because of his "high" wages and presumably no one offered any money, so we let him go to save £0.5M a year.
I doubt we had any offers for Bergditch either, so let him go to get his wages off the books.
It was easier defeating Greenwich Council back in the late eighties and early nineties, than getting rid of this lot. However we won't go away and will continue the fight.
Unfortunately Roland is a very wealthy man and the losses he is making at CAFC is small change , but he is obsessed with budgets and you can expect asset stripping to recoup some of his losses. The future is grim for Charlton , just when we needed to be strong with West Ham moving and other London clubs expanding we are at our weakest and being driven into the ground
I don't think Duchatelet ever thought this was a short term project. Yes relegation has been a set back for him but I still think he believes he can get us back up and make his plan work.
I'm not expecting him to depart any time soon.
Posted this on another thread but perhaps sits better in this one..............
We know that Duchatelet bought Charlton as part of a project to operate the club as a part of a network of clubs which by working together could challenge the footballing order in their own respective countries assuming in the English case that Financial Fair Play (FFP) was rigourously adhered to.
Despite presenting this as revolutionary and novel the basic idea is that of a 'commune' - not of like-minded individuals but of similar status football clubs pooling their resources. This is not really surprising as RD was by his own admission heavily influenced by the late 1960s pan-European youth movement and its utopian dream of freedom, peace and love - from Paris to London to Amsterdam etc.
He also, and this is the really bad news, founded a political party in Belgium in 1998 called Vivant (Voor Individuele Vrijheid en Arbeid in een Nieuwe Toekomst, ("for individual freedom and labour in a new future"). This party espoused visionary (read unworkable) tax policies which few Belgian voters believed in.
Are you starting to see the hideous pattern emerging?
Vivant has limped along ever since 1998 with RD still at the helm and with him no doubt believing that Vivant will one day be recognised as offering a new political future which will be embraced by Belgium and indeed the rest of Europe - Vivant is funded by Duchatelet!
So, for 18 years Duchatelet has pursued a failing political vision in Belgium, has paid out of his own pocket for the privilege of doing so and shows no sign of walking away.
The man is quite clearly totally deluded but his successful business venture in electronic components allows him the luxury of watching on as his various pet enterprises stagger along with no real prospect of advancement.
In RD's mind the dream is still alive it's us who have to live out the Nightmeire.
Duchatelet will sell around Christmas / New Year. He is selling off the family silver similar to how he sold off all the best players before off loading Liege.
Duchatelet's ownership is utterly pointless for everyone, especially Meire and particularly himself. (Other than 3% interest on the losses - losses which are unlikely to be recovered with an eventual sale & a tax write off on the losses for Staprix).
All the time KM is here he won't sell, something weird going on there.
So only way is to make it so uncomfortable for them both that she wants out,won't be easy but as supporters we must make it happen, however dirty it gets.
They have proven that in football they are just a couple of lying chancers with absolutely no idea.
Don't think it will be long before Slade is out the door which will only compound their problems.
I also think you are forgetting that every change in playing staff brings down the cost of wages etc. There might be a point where the losses fall the lower we are in the league.
On that basis he might lose less this year than last and less the year after. Even if this is not true if he believes that KM can deliver it (and she isn't know for always telling the truth) he might believe that within five years we will be breaking even and we might have to wait that long for him to realise the folly of his plans.
So, in answer to the OP, I don't think he will sell if we don't go up. I don't think he will sell if we go down.
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I doubt we had any offers for Bergditch either, so let him go to get his wages off the books.
Pigott - who in League 2 would pay a fee ?
Sarr's on loan.
The future is a duct - taped shoe grinding its heel into the face of Charlton fans for ever and ever.
We know that Duchatelet bought Charlton as part of a project to operate the club as a part of a network of clubs which by working together could challenge the footballing order in their own respective countries assuming in the English case that Financial Fair Play (FFP) was rigourously adhered to.
Despite presenting this as revolutionary and novel the basic idea is that of a 'commune' - not of like-minded individuals but of similar status football clubs pooling their resources. This is not really surprising as RD was by his own admission heavily influenced by the late 1960s pan-European youth movement and its utopian dream of freedom, peace and love - from Paris to London to Amsterdam etc.
He also, and this is the really bad news, founded a political party in Belgium in 1998 called Vivant (Voor Individuele Vrijheid en Arbeid in een Nieuwe Toekomst, ("for individual freedom and labour in a new future"). This party espoused visionary (read unworkable) tax policies which few Belgian voters believed in.
Are you starting to see the hideous pattern emerging?
Vivant has limped along ever since 1998 with RD still at the helm and with him no doubt believing that Vivant will one day be recognised as offering a new political future which will be embraced by Belgium and indeed the rest of Europe -
Vivant is funded by Duchatelet!
So, for 18 years Duchatelet has pursued a failing political vision in Belgium, has paid out of his own pocket for the privilege of doing so and shows no sign of walking away.
The man is quite clearly totally deluded but his successful business venture in electronic components allows him the luxury of watching on as his various pet enterprises stagger along with no real prospect of advancement.
In RD's mind the dream is still alive it's us who have to live out the Nightmeire.
Duchatelet's ownership is utterly pointless for everyone, especially Meire and particularly himself. (Other than 3% interest on the losses - losses which are unlikely to be recovered with an eventual sale & a tax write off on the losses for Staprix).
So only way is to make it so uncomfortable for them both that she wants out,won't be easy but as supporters we must make it happen, however dirty it gets.
They have proven that in football they are just a couple of lying chancers with absolutely no idea.
Don't think it will be long before Slade is out the door which will only compound their problems.
On that basis he might lose less this year than last and less the year after. Even if this is not true if he believes that KM can deliver it (and she isn't know for always telling the truth) he might believe that within five years we will be breaking even and we might have to wait that long for him to realise the folly of his plans.
So, in answer to the OP, I don't think he will sell if we don't go up. I don't think he will sell if we go down.