With the club set to finish in its lowest position since the 20s, attendances nearly halved, his experiment has clearly failed, and is costing him a lot more money.
His reputation is also being affected, with negative media articles and public protests all a blight on his name in the business world.
Do you think he is now on a downward curve in terms of Charlton ownership? Do you think we will go another full season with him in charge?
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It's just a matter of time.
Secondly the local authority would need to grant a change of usage and planning permission if the land were to be redeveloped for residential housing which Glikstein couldn't obtain way back and was forced to deal with the new club owners at the time.
Thirdly there are legal charges (which is in effect what most house holders' building societies / banks have on their properties) on the land in favour of former directors for £7m (Murray's being the largest at £2m) and they would have to be repaid.
Then there will be massive redevelopment costs associated with preparing the land and the building costs. Many hurdles to be overcome so no need to worry yet awhile. All the time the Douchbag is pouring his money down the drain there will be little in it for him so he may as well cut his losses now and sell the club lock, stock and barrel as a going concern IMO but let's see what the latest set of financials reveal which are due shortly, for a more up to date assessment.
He's academically smart
He has made a lot of money out of designing the location chip now used in cars
He is a total and utter idiot
Should he and Keohane should be invited to s party where shrooms were abailable
I am sure Duchatelet would love to sell / develop the Valley. He could then move to a situation where Staprix owned the ground & derived all the commercial benefits of the development. Charlton football club would be a tenant. The team would be an undernourished canary in a cage as Sint Truiden football club find themselves. The club continue to be run at a big loss, be permanently in debt, at 3% interest. The debt off setting profits elsewhere possibly.
Any move from the Valley under Duchatelet would be under completely unfavourable terms for Charlton football club. It is a good job that it would prove very difficult for him, even if Duchatelet continues to run the club into the ground & further decimates the supporter base to reduce opposition & justify a move / development.
I would not put it past him to sell the Valley out of spite, despite the difficulties that might arise.
He would merely get others to the the dirty work for him, like he has done to date I would suggest. We know money means everything to him, but I think the evil streak in him might just come to the fore?
Or the old fucker could throw a spanner (sorry) in the works & go before the protests...& turn it into a party to compare with the Queens Silver Jubilee...
Pray,pray,pray & moresome...!!!
We are led to believe that the club has been "hawked" around. That would imply to me that there is a sensible market price. If there are and have been several prospective buyers on the scene. Why hav'nt any of them progressed beyond the initial interest ? It's the price. It's not negotiable to any sensible degree so they disappear.
Yes it's for sale but with his ridiculous stance it's effectively not.
I will add one further snippet which I cannot confirm as true. Before Christmas I had a conversation with a gentleman who works for a firm of city lawyers. During the conversation after talking about football in general ( he's a West Ham fan) we talked about Charlton. I said that I was hoping that RD would ship out soon. His response was that he had clients that were catagorically told when enquiring about a possible purchase by the club that the price was X and was not open for negotiation. He understood the price as eye watering and totally out of context with what a club like Charlton are worth. So did his clients. I have no idea who they were.
He seemed very genuine to me.
That is a concern that Duchatelet could do the same.