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Why does Roland stand by KM?

hoof_it_up_to_benty
hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,454
in General Charlton
We go through managers at an incredible pace yet our appalling CEO remains spouting a stream of garbage and becoming increasingly deluded. If RD got rid of her he might buy himself a bit of time.
Why does RD support her or is it just part of his master plan to destroy our club? I'm not sure which of the two I despise more.
She is a complete chancer who loves playing the victim card and seems to care about little apart from her ego and career.
The only thing that could make matters worse is Pardew returning as manager....
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  • Eynsfordaddick
    Eynsfordaddick Posts: 2,045
    Surely Dowie!
  • rememberbillybonds
    rememberbillybonds Posts: 759
    He stands by her as he is arrogant. If she goes it's his mistake. All the other failures are partly someone else.
    There is, of course, the other argument and that is he does not care. Which has as much credence as the club cannot even start to recover until she goes.
  • tricky
    tricky Posts: 1,291
    A) He takes her word for everything and isn't bothered enough to actually find out for himself what is happening at the club he owns.

    or

    B ) She is carrying out his instructions just as he wishes.

    or

    C) He cares more about her position than he does the club's.

    There might be other possible reasons but all of them speak volumes about the jeopardy he is putting our club in.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Simple, he doesn't know what he or she is doing.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    He is also very good friends with her parents.
  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    Because none of all this is their fault. It's yours.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    tricky said:

    A) He takes her word for everything and isn't bothered enough to actually find out for himself what is happening at the club he owns.

    or

    B ) She is carrying out his instructions just as he wishes.

    or

    C) He cares more about her position than he does the club's.

    There might be other possible reasons but all of them speak volumes about the jeopardy he is putting our club in.

    I suspect there is a bit of truth in all three!
  • Missed It
    Missed It Posts: 2,734
    Brendan_O_Connell said:

    He is also very good friends with her parents.

    As Charlton's situation has got worse and worse over the past couple of years I've always wondered what makes Meire absolutely unsackable when she is clearly an utter failure as CEO. Not only are we the victims of incompetence but nepotism too!
  • sadiejane1981
    sadiejane1981 Posts: 9,012
    How many people think that things at Charlton would be substantially better with a new CEO? Surely roly's plans will still be the same, his lack of footballing ambition and lack of engagement and lack of caring will all be the same as it is now, whoever the mouth piece is?
  • andynelson
    andynelson Posts: 1,951
    KM, Driesen, O'Loughlin: when it comes to football Roland doesn't recruit on merit. He recruits people who think he's wonderful.

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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    edited November 2016
    I think a good CEO could have made a big difference. She has said things that didn't need saying at the time which has driven a wedge between club and fans. Maybe it has done us a favour but she just doesn't know what to say from a strategic perspective. She could have fought for managers like Powell or Riga or even Peeters - who I rated. She could have demanded more control and run the club well!
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,089
    A question nobody can get anywhere near to answering, it all defies logic.
  • JohnfromNorfolk
    JohnfromNorfolk Posts: 1,324
    Kap10 said:

    Missed It said:

    Brendan_O_Connell said:

    He is also very good friends with her parents.

    As Charlton's situation has got worse and worse over the past couple of years I've always wondered what makes Meire absolutely unsackable when she is clearly an utter failure as CEO. Not only are we the victims of incompetence but nepotism too!
    You are judging her role as CEO in the same way that you would judge any normal CEO position. The more I think about this the more I realise that she is not doing a CEO role, she merely has the title.

    If you listen to her earlier interviews and a discussion I had with her in April, when she talks about her role it is not about the business, it is about being between RD and the fans. Far from being a CEO she is a middle to junior manager making tactical decisions, whereas RD makes the strategic ones. Every now and then she forgets her position and tries to contribute to the strategy .. Peters and Luzon sacking and appointment and Slade here for the long term, and he reminds her she is a small cog, who is here to take the flak!

    Not for a moment do I believe that RD does not know every fine detail of what goes on at the Valley, but then I used to work for someone like him and he had spies every where, plus he is a detail man and will want information to the finest of details sent to him and not just by her.

    You would have thought with the many slap downs that have undermined her credibility in the worst possible ways (on top of her PR gaffes) she would have had enough and resigned and maybe the clue to her not having done so are two fold:-

    Her unknown salary is golden handcuffs, where could she earn what she earns here, as a copyright lawyer.

    How else would she get her 15 minutes of fame. Whilst much of it is negative how often has the media wanted to put her on TV or in the press and if she were a copyright lawyer how often would her views be sought after!?
    Spot on Kap10
  • kentred2
    kentred2 Posts: 2,338
    Because he bought the club for her
  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,597
    kentred2 said:

    Because he bought the club for her

    Our.once great club is now the equivalent of a tanning studio in Bexleyheath.

  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,946
    Because she likes the taste of his.........












    Sandwiches.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,036
    edited November 2016
    In the style of Oohaah:

    He's recognised her untapped talent: 1%
    She's young, cheap and compliant: 15%
    He hates her and he wants her to suffer 25%
    He hates us and he wants us to suffer 40%
    Secret paternity case: 10%
    Jonestown type apocalypse scenario where Meire and Dreisden have been selected to re-populate the planet after the evil one has killed everyone else off with little cups of orange juice laced with cyanide: 9%
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,127
    He doesn't care, doesn't pay any attention to Charlton, which is why Katrien Meire gets way with feeding him nonsense such as CARD is just a small group of bitter ex-employees that are angry at a woman being CEO. Do you honestly think that came from Roland? It's not just us she lies to.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,810
    Perhaps she just knows too much about Roland.

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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,360
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

    Why does RD support her?

    Her flexibility as shown on her tinder profile.
  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 4,989
    Brendan_O_Connell said:

    He is also very good friends with her parents.

    This is what I've heard from someone with decent contacts. She is "like a niece."
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,231
    RedPanda said:

    Brendan_O_Connell said:

    He is also very good friends with her parents.

    This is what I've heard from someone with decent contacts. She is "like a niece."
    I would go for this Option.

    I don't believe it's the same as when David met Karen ?
    Sullivan gave the CEO's job at Birmingham, to 23 year old Brady after she impressed him with her adverting work she did for his Wank artistic Magazines.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,034
    RedPanda said:

    Brendan_O_Connell said:

    He is also very good friends with her parents.

    This is what I've heard from someone with decent contacts. She is "like a niece."
    Which is pathetic. Would the owner of a major company give the CEO's job to someone completely unqualified just because she was a family friend. No he'd get her a job as a receptionist or PA
  • DiscoCAFC
    DiscoCAFC Posts: 1,762
    I find hard to understand why he does. Even when he shags her she just thinks of Naby Sarr.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Both are fans of ATM
  • Mametz
    Mametz Posts: 1,254
    To answer the question at the head of this thread one would first need to know what Roland considers a success and failure in the running of our club. As supporters our first instinct when considering whether Charlton are being successful or not is to look at the league table and we would assume that the owner would do likewise. However it seems quite clear that Roland either doesn't get how football supporters think and/or doesn't care. He is, by a country mile, the richest owner we have ever had but we are currently looking at our worst finishing position in well over eighty years. St Truiden his home town team are currently heading for relegation. By all accounts he has never been someone who has been interested in football but he has now acquired a string of clubs in various countries. Why? Other clubs such as Cardiff and Hull have had foreign, eccentric and very rich owners who had some strange ideas. Cardiff changed their colours to red and the owner of Hull wanted to change their name. Both of these owners, however, understood the basic fans concept of footballing success and were prepared to fund those clubs reaching the Premier League. It appears that Roland has no desire to do that.

    My own theory is that it ties in someway with his political beliefs. Charlton should accept that they are never going to be as big as Manchester United so what is the point of even aspiring to compete with them. If, at point in the future, Charlton can break even by nurturing and selling players whilst finishing, say, nineteenth in the third level of English football in front of crowds of 3500, that is what Charlton should aim for. In those terms, why should he sack Katrien?

  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,341
    It's a good question. Slade performed his role better than KM does but still she remains. When compared to the managers, only Fraeye competes when it comes to incompetence.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,815
    I would still argue that, incompetent though Fraeye clearly was, he was miles more competent as a manager than KM is as CEO.
  • MountsfieldPark
    MountsfieldPark Posts: 2,074
    edited November 2016
    I think it started like this. She said she was recruited to do law work for him, in the context of Standard Liege's position in TV rights bargaining in competition with other Pro League clubs. I suspect she still does law work for him with respect to the rest of his Staprix empire and maybe even the electronics empire, sometimes.

    I also subscribe to the Uncle Roly theory, so he has probably been trying to groom her (gulp) for senior management. The CEO job is part figurehead/buffer between him and the everyday business of the club, part learning experience, with, as Kap says, limited real power. She probably disagrees with him more often than we know, but she has to pick her battlefields very carefully.

    Whether he feels his plan for her is still working, his loyalty to her is not outweighed by any concerns over her performance and he clearly doesn't care too much about how she affects the club.

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