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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,108
    My insider says that ‘there’s a meeting on Friday with RD with a group mainly based in Austria ... not sure if there they’re new or one of the existing groups that have shown interest ...’
  • supaclive
    supaclive Posts: 6,515
    PragueAddick said:
    I've had an interesting conversation this week with a well connected fellow Addick who is in a position to bring buyers to the table and unfortunately from what he says there can be no truth in the rumour that he has dropped the price to £40m or anywhere near it. 

    I was reminded by my B&B landlord in Eltham, the Sunderland fan, that Ellis Short wrote off £170m in order to get Sunderland sold. Dwell on that for a moment...£170m. Whereas RD wants all his money back, basically.

    So yes, we need to turn the heat back on him in Belgium. I have my own idea for that, which I am working up with CAST. It's one way, there need to be several different ways. Hit him where it hurts, which IMO is his ego, especially how he believes the Belgian business and "elite" view him. 

    Let's not delay. Let's get on his case. 

    Us getting promotion will only strengthen his resolve that the club is worth £70m..... sigh!
  • Ultimatum
    Ultimatum Posts: 317
    _MrDick said:
    My insider says that ‘there’s a meeting on Friday with RD with a group mainly based in Austria ... not sure if there they’re new or one of the existing groups that have shown interest ...’


    It’s red bull! I saw this elsewhere too ... 
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    PragueAddick said:
    I've had an interesting conversation this week with a well connected fellow Addick who is in a position to bring buyers to the table and unfortunately from what he says there can be no truth in the rumour that he has dropped the price to £40m or anywhere near it. 

    I was reminded by my B&B landlord in Eltham, the Sunderland fan, that Ellis Short wrote off £170m in order to get Sunderland sold. Dwell on that for a moment...£170m. Whereas RD wants all his money back, basically.

    So yes, we need to turn the heat back on him in Belgium. I have my own idea for that, which I am working up with CAST. It's one way, there need to be several different ways. Hit him where it hurts, which IMO is his ego, especially how he believes the Belgian business and "elite" view him. 

    Let's not delay. Let's get on his case. 
    Doesn’t sound very interesting, sounds like the position we all thought we were in. 
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,159
    cafcfan1990 said:
    PragueAddick said:
    I've had an interesting conversation this week with a well connected fellow Addick who is in a position to bring buyers to the table and unfortunately from what he says there can be no truth in the rumour that he has dropped the price to £40m or anywhere near it. 

    I was reminded by my B&B landlord in Eltham, the Sunderland fan, that Ellis Short wrote off £170m in order to get Sunderland sold. Dwell on that for a moment...£170m. Whereas RD wants all his money back, basically.

    So yes, we need to turn the heat back on him in Belgium. I have my own idea for that, which I am working up with CAST. It's one way, there need to be several different ways. Hit him where it hurts, which IMO is his ego, especially how he believes the Belgian business and "elite" view him. 

    Let's not delay. Let's get on his case. 
    Doesn’t sound very interesting, sounds like the position we all thought we were in. 
    I know. The interesting stuff he said is confidential, inevitably. But the key thing is that RD's price stance is ridiculous, and the big obstacle that needs to be removed.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    One factor seems dominant in this present episode of malarkey, and that is the notion of 'if not right now, when?'

    Stuff about when the players get back...when the season starts...when the transfer window closes and so on, that will signal to me that we are where we always are, and we all go round again.

    The parallel story will be how the sporting entity copes with next season with whatever staff it has.

    I am assuming that the only significant deadline, and a pretty absolute one at that, is 30th June...four weeks and a weekend away.

    If the regime hasn't changed by then, or some significant (positive) developments haven't happened then I think we will be stuck with Duchatelet, and he will continue his dismal scrabbling around for savings.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    The only way Charlton will be shot of RD is when he stiffs off
  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,224
    _MrDick said:
    My insider says that ‘there’s a meeting on Friday with RD with a group mainly based in Austria ... not sure if there they’re new or one of the existing groups that have shown interest

    My insider says bullshit
  • addick05
    addick05 Posts: 2,348
    Callumcafc said:
    Takeover next week confirmed. Thanks mate!
    Wouldn’t hold my breath mate.
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,380
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  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    Williams not re-signed because on Prem wages. If no-one comes in for him, we can offer him lower wages. Rumour was that he might go to Swansea though. 
    Fosu only being signed so he can be sold. 

    Meanwhile, the sale that wouldn’t happen, still won’t happen. Austrians, Australians, Belgians, pull your fingers out, we’ve not got long til the Championship season starts. 
  • Melrose
    Melrose Posts: 836
    Prague. I always find your posts intersesting and to the point. Nothing new, but vey depressing in regards to the overall state of affairs. Roland seems prepared to lose money hand over fist if necessary. It's all about his ego. Sadly, i think it's going to take strong measures to force him out of this club.

    For those who think Roland is just going to go away think again. A little anecdote. After the Wembley game, I was having a few drinks in a waterloo pub. Got talking to a few addicks, who, not surprisingly, were over the moon. I explained, that although I was overjoyed, the problem remained the same. Would he fund/support progession for the club as a whole? Almost certainly, NO

    I had boycotted, but couldn't help myself to come back and support the manager, the team and fellow fans. One fan said to me, "you're not part of card are you". I said no I'm not, but I believe that drastic action is the only way to get RD out of the club. This seemed to be met with some confusion.

    Let's be straight. It's unlikely that Duchatalet is going to do anything that has the club's interest at heart. It's all about him and his ego. We must do everything we can to force him out of our club.





  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Williams is out of contract with the Nigels on 30th June and will become a free agent if he's not offered a new contract with them.

    He signed a two year extension in 2017.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,386
    Addickted said:
    Williams is out of contract with the Nigels on 30th June and will become a free agent if he's not offered a new contract with them.

    He signed a two year extension in 2017.
    He's out of contract with us, we signed him permanently.

    https://www.cafc.co.uk/news/view/5c2e500b984b5/done-deal-jonny-williams-becomes-charltons-first-signing-of-january-window
  • sasquatch
    sasquatch Posts: 809
    Addickted said:
    Williams is out of contract with the Nigels on 30th June and will become a free agent if he's not offered a new contract with them.

    He signed a two year extension in 2017.
    He signed on a permanent deal with us in january for 6 months, he's a free agent already, as far as I am aware
  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,824
    Melrose said:
    Prague. I always find your posts intersesting and to the point. Nothing new, but vey depressing in regards to the overall state of affairs. Roland seems prepared to lose money hand over fist if necessary. It's all about his ego. Sadly, i think it's going to take strong measures to force him out of this club.

    For those who think Roland is just going to go away think again. A little anecdote. After the Wembley game, I was having a few drinks in a waterloo pub. Got talking to a few addicks, who, not surprisingly, were over the moon. I explained, that although I was overjoyed, the problem remained the same. Would he fund/support progession for the club as a whole? Almost certainly, NO

    I had boycotted, but couldn't help myself to come back and support the manager, the team and fellow fans. One fan said to me, "you're not part of card are you". I said no I'm not, but I believe that drastic action is the only way to get RD out of the club. This seemed to be met with some confusion.

    Let's be straight. It's unlikely that Duchatalet is going to do anything that has the club's interest at heart. It's all about him and his ego. We must do everything we can to force him out of our club.





    Unfortunately for 90% -95% of fans it's about results.
    Roland will go when he wants and that will be when someone comes close to his asking price.

  • Melrose
    Melrose Posts: 836
    clb74 said:
    Melrose said:
    Prague. I always find your posts intersesting and to the point. Nothing new, but vey depressing in regards to the overall state of affairs. Roland seems prepared to lose money hand over fist if necessary. It's all about his ego. Sadly, i think it's going to take strong measures to force him out of this club.

    For those who think Roland is just going to go away think again. A little anecdote. After the Wembley game, I was having a few drinks in a waterloo pub. Got talking to a few addicks, who, not surprisingly, were over the moon. I explained, that although I was overjoyed, the problem remained the same. Would he fund/support progession for the club as a whole? Almost certainly, NO

    I had boycotted, but couldn't help myself to come back and support the manager, the team and fellow fans. One fan said to me, "you're not part of card are you". I said no I'm not, but I believe that drastic action is the only way to get RD out of the club. This seemed to be met with some confusion.

    Let's be straight. It's unlikely that Duchatalet is going to do anything that has the club's interest at heart. It's all about him and his ego. We must do everything we can to force him out of our club.





    Unfortunately for 90% -95% of fans it's about results.
    Roland will go when he wants and that will be when someone comes close to his asking price.

    You're right of course. Results, absolutely, but we are looking at a longer term scenario. RD got lucky, or unlucky depending on how you look at it. Going to be very interesting to see what happens next season. There's no way we are going to get away with half hearted/little nvestment in the championship.  Lets just hope the old twat sells up
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,017
    edited May 2019
    So only support your team at Wembley?
    It didn't take long, it really didn't.
    So disappointing. 
  • CAFCDAZ
    CAFCDAZ Posts: 1,199
    JamesSeed said:
    Williams not re-signed because on Prem wages. If no-one comes in for him, we can offer him lower wages. Rumour was that he might go to Swansea though. 
    Fosu only being signed so he can be sold. 

    Meanwhile, the sale that wouldn’t happen, still won’t happen. Austrians, Australians, Belgians, pull your fingers out, we’ve not got long til the Championship season starts. 


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  • Melrose
    Melrose Posts: 836
    Covered End said:
    So only support your team at Wembley?
    It didn't take long, it really didn't.
    So disappointing. 

    Covered End said:
    So only support your team at Wembley?
    It didn't take long, it really didn't.
    So disappointing. 
    Low IQ, doesn't understand the debate
  • J BLOCK
    J BLOCK Posts: 8,315
    CAFCDAZ said:
    JamesSeed said:
    Williams not re-signed because on Prem wages. If no-one comes in for him, we can offer him lower wages. Rumour was that he might go to Swansea though. 
    Fosu only being signed so he can be sold. 

    Meanwhile, the sale that wouldn’t happen, still won’t happen. Austrians, Australians, Belgians, pull your fingers out, we’ve not got long til the Championship season starts. 

    Don’t believe that for a second 
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    _MrDick said:
    My insider says that ‘there’s a meeting on Friday with RD with a group mainly based in Austria ... not sure if there they’re new or one of the existing groups that have shown interest ...’


    More #Aussies then?
  • superclive98
    superclive98 Posts: 4,782
    Covered End said:
    So only support your team at Wembley?
    It didn't take long, it really didn't.
    So disappointing. 
    I think that you need to start looking at the bigger picture. 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,017
    superclive98 said:
    Covered End said:
    So only support your team at Wembley?
    It didn't take long, it really didn't.
    So disappointing. 
    I think that you need to start looking at the bigger picture. 
    We all know the bigger picture.
    But some of us support the team home & away, whilst some of us turn up occasionally for a big game.
    We all know & want a better owner.
    Have another listen to what Lee Bowyer said about the importance of the fans.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Despite signing for us in Jan, CPFC are still paying off JWs contract until 30th June and is the only way he could have signed for us.

    We have absolutely no chance to match his CPFC salary. His 2017 contract extension with CPFC put him on more money, for example, than Grant's wages at Huddersfield. He was earning three times more than any other Charlton player who was on that Wembley turf.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    1641, Anthony Van Dyke dies ( he was the one with the terrible cockney accent in Mary Poppins).
  • Melrose
    Melrose Posts: 836
    Addickted said:
    Despite signing for us in Jan, CPFC are still paying off JWs contract until 30th June and is the only way he could have signed for us.

    We have absolutely no chance to match his CPFC salary. His 2017 contract extension with CPFC put him on more money, for example, than Grant's wages at Huddersfield. He was earning three times more than any other Charlton player who was on that Wembley turf.

    Simple for him then. Probably a fairly wealthy man already. Hold out for best money deal, or play for less money (still good) at a local club, which really wants him? Deal buster....The  mighty Rolando and the future of CAFC. Total loose cannon. Who would blame any player for looking elewhere. Such a F---ing shame. Some players realise that they can't command the money they used to, but still want to play/do a good job at a lower level.
  • johnnyhumphrey
    johnnyhumphrey Posts: 449
    Go Roland---spend some well deserved time with Katrien and fill your boots(what an image).
    You don't need all the stress of stopping a resurgent club with a 
    demonstrably big fanbase from prospering.
    Really---go on.Have a good strong Belgian beer and bang her brains out.
    You Wal-looney.
    Bye bye bye bye bye Take care See ya
    Bye   Yeh yeh you too.Bye bye
    See you next Tuesday.


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