The joke is if, and its a big if, he is loosing £1m a month, he has lost best part of £20m since this thread began!
If it wasn't so sad it would be bloody hilarious.
He hasn't lost it though. His company loans the money to Charlton and gets interest paid to him on the loan. He hopes to recover the loaned sums from the exorbitant sum he seems to want from the club. Suspect as some point he will have to write it off.
Surely if you are paying out £1m/month and then paying yourself 3%/month from a company that only loses money you will need to find an even richer fool to take that company over. I’m glad it’s his money and not mine, shame it’s my club he’s doing it with.
1) chances of the septuagenarian shitforbrains having heard of the FLP approx nil 2) chances of the septuagenarian shitforbrains reading it, if he knows it exists approx nil 3) chances of the septuagenarian shitforbrains having the first clue who Rob Lee is or was approx nil 4) after all that the septuagenarian shitforbrains's response guaranteed to be "disgruntled ex-employee, huh, it's putting off all my potential buyers"
Wonder if anyone on here knows where he eats or lives...:),be good to send a couple or more copies...;)
The joke is if, and its a big if, he is loosing £1m a month, he has lost best part of £20m since this thread began!
If it wasn't so sad it would be bloody hilarious.
He hasn't lost it though. His company loans the money to Charlton and gets interest paid to him on the loan. He hopes to recover the loaned sums from the exorbitant sum he seems to want for the club. Suspect as some point he will have to write it off.
The joke is if, and its a big if, he is loosing £1m a month, he has lost best part of £20m since this thread began!
If it wasn't so sad it would be bloody hilarious.
He hasn't lost it though. His company loans the money to Charlton and gets interest paid to him on the loan. He hopes to recover the loaned sums from the exorbitant sum he seems to want for the club. Suspect as some point he will have to write it off.
The interest just increases the debt, I hope to be the king of England one day, it's about as likely as RD getting his money back.
The joke is if, and its a big if, he is loosing £1m a month, he has lost best part of £20m since this thread began!
If it wasn't so sad it would be bloody hilarious.
He hasn't lost it though. His company loans the money to Charlton and gets interest paid to him on the loan. He hopes to recover the loaned sums from the exorbitant sum he seems to want for the club. Suspect as some point he will have to write it off.
He has lost it though, as there is pretty much zero chance of him getting it all back.
I've read his autobiography, I didnt realise he'd played for us, you would have thought he would have mentioned it, but perhaps two pages were stuck together and I may have missed that bit.
This thread, although riveting at times, is no way that exciting enough that results with pages being stuck together. Had you by some kind of mistake tapped onto a porn or train spotting site?
Is this excellent news though ? EFL is powerless to get the club sold . It is down to RD alone , and his stubborness to reduce the price of the club .
I have no doubt RD trotted out to the EFL his usual mantra that the protesters are a group of disgruntled ex-employees followed sheep-like by a small (2%) minority of the fans. It is excellent that CARD have an opportunity to show this to be the falsehood it is.
Yes, the EFL cannot force the sale of the club, but if they recognise the fan protests for the mass-movement they have been, then it will go a long way towards shooting that particular fox of Roland's - and I dare say there are those who will make sure the message gets back to his cronies, employees, and fellow townsfolk of St. Truiden.
While things are quiet off the pitch and things are progressing nicely on the pitch, there is no real incentive for him to sell. Make things less comfortable for him and his ego, and the balance of his stubbornness may, just may, shift.
Is this excellent news though ? EFL is powerless to get the club sold . It is down to RD alone , and his stubborness to reduce the price of the club .
I have no doubt RD trotted out to the EFL his usual mantra that the protesters are a group of disgruntled ex-employees followed sheep-like by a small (2%) minority of the fans. It is excellent that CARD have an opportunity to show this to be the falsehood it is.
Yes, the EFL cannot force the sale of the club, but if they recognise the fan protests for the mass-movement they have been, then it will go a long way towards shooting that particular fox of Roland's - and I dare say there are those who will make sure the message gets back to his cronies, employees, and fellow townsfolk of St. Truiden.
While things are quiet off the pitch and things are progressing nicely on the pitch, there is no real incentive for him to sell. Make things less comfortable for him and his ego, and the balance of his stubbornness may, just may, shift.
Excellent post.
I was one of the CAST delegation that went to the EFL. Harvey was very keen to establish "what our relationship with CARD is". Doubtless, having established that CAST is represented by neo-pensioners with middle-class accents who understand what a P&L account is, he stepped up the search for the kind of far-left anarchists that RD has portrayed CARD as. I am confident that after this meeting he will come to the conclusion that they are a figment of RD's imagination. Obviously Harvey and John Nagle (a perceptive and empathetic guy who clearly understands supporter "tribes") now expect to meet the people who organise the protests. That's fine. They will discover that protests are led by reasonable, articulate people who have been driven to distraction, and really just want to enjoy their football. The EFL have at least realised that it's in their interests too that CARD should have no reason to exist.
Having established that they are not dealing with either the Socialist Workers Party or cohorts of an over-exposed hooligan from Luton, you'd hope the discussion can turn to what the EFL can do to help us. Unfortunately that seems to me to be a much bigger challenge to get something from the meeting. The most important takeout we got from our meet, IMO is that the EFL current ODT does not assess capability of an owner, still less is there mechanism for the EFL to track and influence how that capability is being maintained by existing owners. It will be interesting if the CARD people hear anything which suggests the EFL are moving to change that. I doubt it myself. In which case the question back to the EFL (whether it is articulated or not) is, "if you can't help us, where do we turn?".
I'm guessing this is not what Duchatelet wanted when he asked the EFL to investigate the protests and the bonus row.
Because he truly believes the shit he has been fed by the SMT. He cannot believe that there are actually reasonable people behind the protests etc. Thankfully, the EFL will find out the truth.
Oh no that’s not true. He has met a number of reasonable people involved in the protests. Not all would be described as neo-pensioners (a ridiculous term @PragueAddick) some he has met are young, (age 6-15) some are older.
He has been surprisingly obliging in those discussions.
The fundamental point is that he is a compulsive liar and a total fantasist who has employed idiots and yes people who have looked to twist his truth and he doesn’t want to come out badly from it.
He will of course but he feels standing by his position and his choices even when displayed to be wrong as the right thing to do.
Ultimately he is a close minded rich man with little empathy in the wrong game.
Message to you Roland, swallow your pride, sell us for £10m, admit you made a mistake and move on,
Not for the first time I don't understand what @PragueAddick has just said, although its more down to my education and the fact I was very pi55ed. Anyone looking for a hotel room in St Truiden this coming weekend, I may have to cancel.
Not for the first time I don't understand what @PragueAddick has just said, although its more down to my education and the fact I was very pi55ed. Anyone looking for a hotel room in St Truiden this coming weekend, I may have to cancel.
Well if it's any help, "neo-pensioner" is self-parody.
Not for the first time I don't understand what @PragueAddick has just said, although its more down to my education and the fact I was very pi55ed. Anyone looking for a hotel room in St Truiden this coming weekend, I may have to cancel.
Well if it's any help, "neo-pensioner" is self-parody.
Dictionary definition of a neo-pensioner includes the term Gilets-rinçage-bleu...
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I’m glad it’s his money and not mine, shame it’s my club he’s doing it with.
Who is the expert at Charlton to take command during the next transfer window?
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Yes, the EFL cannot force the sale of the club, but if they recognise the fan protests for the mass-movement they have been, then it will go a long way towards shooting that particular fox of Roland's - and I dare say there are those who will make sure the message gets back to his cronies, employees, and fellow townsfolk of St. Truiden.
While things are quiet off the pitch and things are progressing nicely on the pitch, there is no real incentive for him to sell. Make things less comfortable for him and his ego, and the balance of his stubbornness may, just may, shift.
I was one of the CAST delegation that went to the EFL. Harvey was very keen to establish "what our relationship with CARD is". Doubtless, having established that CAST is represented by neo-pensioners with middle-class accents who understand what a P&L account is, he stepped up the search for the kind of far-left anarchists that RD has portrayed CARD as. I am confident that after this meeting he will come to the conclusion that they are a figment of RD's imagination. Obviously Harvey and John Nagle (a perceptive and empathetic guy who clearly understands supporter "tribes") now expect to meet the people who organise the protests. That's fine. They will discover that protests are led by reasonable, articulate people who have been driven to distraction, and really just want to enjoy their football. The EFL have at least realised that it's in their interests too that CARD should have no reason to exist.
Having established that they are not dealing with either the Socialist Workers Party or cohorts of an over-exposed hooligan from Luton, you'd hope the discussion can turn to what the EFL can do to help us. Unfortunately that seems to me to be a much bigger challenge to get something from the meeting. The most important takeout we got from our meet, IMO is that the EFL current ODT does not assess capability of an owner, still less is there mechanism for the EFL to track and influence how that capability is being maintained by existing owners. It will be interesting if the CARD people hear anything which suggests the EFL are moving to change that. I doubt it myself. In which case the question back to the EFL (whether it is articulated or not) is, "if you can't help us, where do we turn?".
Good luck, team.
He has been surprisingly obliging in those discussions.
The fundamental point is that he is a compulsive liar and a total fantasist who has employed idiots and yes people who have looked to twist his truth and he doesn’t want to come out badly from it.
He will of course but he feels standing by his position and his choices even when displayed to be wrong as the right thing to do.
Ultimately he is a close minded rich man with little empathy in the wrong game.
Message to you Roland, swallow your pride, sell us for £10m, admit you made a mistake and move on,
Happy Christmas
Anyone looking for a hotel room in St Truiden this coming weekend, I may have to cancel.
Oh look an acronym...
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