The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

johnny73

Splitting the physical assets and the club is a recipe for disaster. If that is the proposition then I'd prefer we continue as we are for the present.

andynelson

Leeds_Addick said:

So they don't even have the money to buy us yet, let alone invest in the team?

As you were.

AdTheAddicK

Stop this take over crap I want to get off

flyingkiwiDK

I must have missed @Airman Brown comment about the Americans walking away (were they ever there in the first place I wonder?).

Where did this little nugget of information come from anyway and how reliable is the source?

J BLOCK

flyingkiwiDK said:

I must have missed @Airman Brown comment about the Americans walking away (were they ever there in the first place I wonder?).

Where did this little nugget of information come from anyway and how reliable is the source?

@Airman Brown

flyingkiwiDK

J BLOCK said:

flyingkiwiDK said:

I must have missed @Airman Brown comment about the Americans walking away (were they ever there in the first place I wonder?).

Where did this little nugget of information come from anyway and how reliable is the source?

@Airman Brown

I know that but where did @Airman Brown hear it from? Was it from the club or our penniless Aussie friends?

sammy391

I’m so confused


Can someone do the usual Takeover Thread Round up?

Todds_right_hook

The way I read it was that the Americans would not be involved in the day to day running, that would be the Aussies! Similar to cash and slater/Jimenez. Am I wrong?

superclive

@airmanbrown said the Americans backing off means the offer doesn't now stack up to the asking price of RD. so I think this means they are no longer involved and it's all gone Pete tong.

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

eaststandmike

sammy391 said:

I’m so confused


Can someone do the usual Takeover Thread Round up?

There is no takeover.

Boycott

#notapennymore

orpingtonRED

Croydon said:

MuttleyCAFC said:

Maybe because a respected journalist told us it was. He is still telling us not to worry. Might help a bit if he explained why we shouldn't worry.

Respected?

A quick bit of research shows that Jim White has not done a lot of sport journalism. He has been a presenter since the 1970s.
Me personally i dont respect what he has said this week, last week or the other numerous times hes mentioned my club.

Greenie Junior

This is actually hilarious

carly burn

Feels like the prolonged Aussie interest has given Duchatelet a reason to believe that his asking price is in the right ball park. It's clearly not.

Here's hoping the Aussies finally bugger off and Duchatelet gets realistic with what he is looking for. Maybe then we'll see some serious movement as opposed to the clusterf*ck that has played out these past 2 years

flyingkiwiDK

superclive said:

@airmanbrown said the Americans backing off means the offer doesn't now stack up to the asking price of RD. so I think this means they are no longer involved and it's all gone Pete tong.

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

If that is the case it surely must mean an end to the Aussies interest in cafc.

Let’s just hope there is another buyer waiting in the wings with some serious money to splash.

This is painful.

blackpool72

Greenie Junior said:

This is actually hilarious

If it wasn't our club and it was palarse it would be hilarious.
As it's Charlton I find it fuckin sad.

ValleyGary

#DoneDeal

Rossman92

blackpool72 said:

Greenie Junior said:

This is actually hilarious

If it wasn't our club and it was palarse it would be hilarious.
As it's Charlton I find it fuckin sad.

Don't know if I'd wish this on my worst enemy

ElfsborgAddick

eaststandmike said:

sammy391 said:

I’m so confused


Can someone do the usual Takeover Thread Round up?

There is no takeover.

Boycott

#notapennymore

Ditto.

ElfsborgAddick

blackpool72 said:

Greenie Junior said:

This is actually hilarious

If it wasn't our club and it was palarse it would be hilarious.
As it's Charlton I find it fuckin sad.

More than sad mate.

SWEnglandAddick

Still can’t believe Red Bull are moving us to the peninsula.

ShootersHillGuru

Henry Irving said:

Callumcafc said:

There is no conspiracy going on. Sorry to break it to you all but Roland doesn’t even know any of you exist, why would he care about playing games with something that commands less than 2% of his interest?



Reading between the lines, here is the situation in simple terms:

-Roland STILL wants too much money

-The Aussies (GM led) are STILL interested in buying but either don’t have enough money or don’t want to pay the asking price in full

-The Aussies (and the broker) thought they had a deal whereby the Aussies buy the club while new American investors buy the ground etc.

-The Americans have pulled out leaving us back where we were a few weeks ago.

All plausible, especially IMHO Duchatelet. Not sure about the Americans and their role but I'm not ITK.

What I do think is that White said the meeting was today. It may be taking place now or not even have started so we can't be sure what the outcome of that meeting was or will be.

Schrodingers meeting

seth plum

I suppose the thing to do is draw a line under the latest lot of shenanigans and look to the next actual thing we (kind of) know about, which is the Fans Forum on Wednesday.
My hope for that is that it is actually quite cool and formal, but some of our fans have prepared demanding questions, and follow ups. I also hope that the details of that meeting are shared amongst all interested within 24 hours.
In the event of no take over, one must assume that Duchatelet carries on. One question in the fans forum ought to be who is doing the January deals then, and what exactly will be driving those deals.

Apart from the matches the next focus is on the end of the transfer window and where we stand at that point. My personal expectation is that Duchatelet will still be here, and he will cash in where he can, I expect that scenario because it is what he has done before. If I am wrong all well and good, that is until the raft of contracts of many of our decent players expire in the summer.

It is likely to be either short term pain, or long term pain or both. It is very unlikely that Roland will inject anything positive into his football club.

However if the sale does not go through, Roland has the opportunity with some intelligent work, to capitalise or at least solidify current success. He can't say the chance wasn't there, but why should he care anyway, he doesn't come?

I know it is a bleak picture, but after this latest collapse can anybody ever get their hopes up again? If nothing else, as well as manufacturing electronic widgits, Roland has been brilliant at manufacturing cynics.

nth_london_addick

northstandsteve said:

what is fecking laughable is the fact, that they get to this stage and pull out because of the price, fuck me you surely know the price whilst entering into discussions and especially the Aussie's know what he will and won't accept, what a shambles.

That’s why I stick to my point pages back , 90% of this shite coming out again now is guess work and pure speculation and is no doubt done with good intentions but should be spoken about as speculation not it’s happening not it’s 24/48 hrs away

Ffs How many times will people fall for this stuff

Even those in the club who I know would know all to a man said proceed with caution we have been here before

That’s who you listen too not fucking Jim white and then get wound up because the poor sod has been taken in by the hype himself

It wasn’t imminent it wasn’t 90% done

It is either done or it ain’t there’s no in between

Don’t believe anyone who says dates and hours until completion

Prepare to be underwhelmed and prepare to be disappointed and you will not have Your evenings ruined any longer

Solidgone

I was in a pub in the west end and chatted to a couple of Americans. I asked them about the takeover situation at Charlton. To my surprise, they hadn’t heard of it or a clue what i was on about. Apparently they are about to do a 6 day bus tour of France and Italia before catching a cruise on to the Caribbean.

Sorry guys, Airman is right, it’s just not happening. Drat and double drat.

eaststandmike

nth london addick said:

northstandsteve said:

what is fecking laughable is the fact, that they get to this stage and pull out because of the price, fuck me you surely know the price whilst entering into discussions and especially the Aussie's know what he will and won't accept, what a shambles.

That’s why I stick to my point pages back , 90% of this shite coming out again now is guess work and pure speculation and is no doubt done with good intentions but should be spoken about as speculation not it’s happening not it’s 24/48 hrs away

Ffs How many times will people fall for this stuff

Even those in the club who I know would know all to a man said proceed with caution we have been here before

That’s who you listen too not fucking Jim white and then get wound up because the poor sod has been taken in by the hype himself

It wasn’t imminent it wasn’t 90% done

It is either done or it ain’t there’s no in between

Don’t believe anyone who says dates and hours until completion

Prepare to be underwhelmed and prepare to be disappointed and you will not have Your evenings ruined any longer

Great post, take a bow sir.

blackpool72

nth london addick said:

northstandsteve said:

what is fecking laughable is the fact, that they get to this stage and pull out because of the price, fuck me you surely know the price whilst entering into discussions and especially the Aussie's know what he will and won't accept, what a shambles.

That’s why I stick to my point pages back , 90% of this shite coming out again now is guess work and pure speculation and is no doubt done with good intentions but should be spoken about as speculation not it’s happening not it’s 24/48 hrs away

Ffs How many times will people fall for this stuff

Even those in the club who I know would know all to a man said proceed with caution we have been here before

That’s who you listen too not fucking Jim white and then get wound up because the poor sod has been taken in by the hype himself

It wasn’t imminent it wasn’t 90% done

It is either done or it ain’t there’s no in between

Don’t believe anyone who says dates and hours until completion

Prepare to be underwhelmed and prepare to be disappointed and you will not have Your evenings ruined any longer

In fairness mate you have been correct all through this thread

AFKABartram

cafc_harry said:

Pretty simple question, are the Americans in or out? If they are out is it over?

I suspect we will know tomorrow. Or Wednesday.

cafc_harry

AFKABartram said:

cafc_harry said:

Pretty simple question, are the Americans in or out? If they are out is it over?

I suspect we will know tomorrow. Or Wednesday.

Or next week, or in a fortnight, or by February etc etc.

Chizz

cafc_harry said:

AFKABartram said:

cafc_harry said:

Pretty simple question, are the Americans in or out? If they are out is it over?

I suspect we will know tomorrow. Or Wednesday.

Or next week, or in a fortnight, or by February etc etc.

Some time in the next 48-72 hours. Starting some time in the next 12 hours.

superclive

I think Jim White should now buy the club himself.