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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)
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Back to the drawing board...
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/cardiff-city-chairman-mehmet-dalman-16419429
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From that statement that’s anything but dead in the water.
Doesn’t talk about us at all really which can only be a good thing.9 -
He's doing one of two things
(1) Keeping a foot in the door @ Cardiff so if a takeover doesnt happen he's not burnt his bridges
(2) It truly is dead and is staying in South Wales
Although he says he expects to be at Cardiff for the coming season3 -
Gadaffi got to be more reasonable than RD.NapaAddick said:I worry a bit about his (former) friends...0 -
Talks have stalled. Like they have done with every interested party.2
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As I said yesterday, I ain’t getting my hopes up until it’s announced officially. Yet another false dawn, in my opinion0
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Welp that one is dead, goodbye lee bowyer and the gang
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Let's chalk this up as false dawn 3576.2
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Do we even have to bother playing in the Championship this season?
Feels at the moment as though we'll manage to beat the record for fewest points without even trying!!4 -
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That wasn't even fun while it lasted. F*cking f*ck's sake. Another season with that tight-fisted, rotten-toothed old goat.5
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Doesn’t actually seem like a complete denial to me, if it was truly dead he wouldn’t have a problem mentioning it.3
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No ones buying us at fucktards value , no one has enough money to burn on us , we're stuck with the doughnut
all those rubbishing the aussies off , as if we're some sort of dream club to be bought, might wanna wake up and smell the coffee8 -
Airman was right.ForeverAddickted said:
No shortage of buyers but as ever, the stumbling block is Roland.
It's getting to the point where you start to wonder if he actually even wants to sell us.3 -
Chisel.0
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I think you're wrong on that point. Not the date of the contract, but what it means. Hopefully we won't find out.Swisdom said:
He’s contracted until June 30thRedmidland said:If Dalman is off and The Aussies are nowhere near completing (if at all), with Bowyer and co out of contract, I believe tomorrow, or at least the deadline to sign is tomorrow, we could be going into the weekend with RD still the owner and LB and co. gone!! FFS!!
that “deadline” announced earlier include the week was just to stir shit up. It worked0 -
well that sounds like its going nowhere then !!
I wonder who put the story out this week then ? I realise @AirmanBrown has said that various media outlets were in the know about this for a couple of months but have sat on the story - but from the sounds of the last update ut doesn't sound like the story this week has come from Dalman's side.
RD playing games again to get the Aussies to get a hurry up ???
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"Right at this moment in time I'm really focused on preparing for the new season with Cardiff”cafc_harry said:Doesn’t actually seem like a complete denial to me, if it was truly dead he wouldn’t have a problem mentioning it.
Translation: I’m here until I can get a bigger role somewhere else.1 -
I've said all along he bought us at a very good price (£18M) and the top price he could expect would be £35M.AFKABartram said:I don’t buy all this he’s a lunatic, mental etc etc. In my interpretation he is most likely not a nice man, wholly single minded and an extremely tough / difficult negotiatior who has little interest in compromise, and most certainly no interest in what’s best for the club.
Ive no idea if it’s true, but if talk that the club and it’s assets can be acquired free of debt and with clean title as a Championship club for under £40m, then I’m coming round to thinking that that is fair value in this industry.
A Championship club sold 1 player for £15m yesterday.
£40M is certainly pushing it.
He has improved the stadium - pitch, electronic turnstiles, seats, painted the breeze blocks in Upper North.
He has carried out some improvements to Sparrows Lane (obviously not what was promised).
As always I in no way support RD and want him gone as of 4 years ago, just stating facts as I see them.
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"Right at this moment in time I'm really focused on preparing for the new season with Cardiff. I don't want to let Neil down. We have a job to do here at Cardiff and we intend to give it a right old go for promotion."cafc_harry said:Doesn’t actually seem like a complete denial to me, if it was truly dead he wouldn’t have a problem mentioning it.
"Vincent, Ken, Neil and myself are on the same wavelength and pull in the same direction. The four of us work well. I don't want to rock the boat at the moment."
"Provided Vincent, Ken, Neil and myself are united, which we are, then I'm there with Cardiff. I'm not going to get distracted by this talk or anything else. I expect to be here for the season."
Doesn't exactly seem like he'll be leaving does it?2 -
I know I'm probably incredibly naive, but isn't all this secrecy proving counter productive?
If RD just set his stall out (sorry) and itemised the assets for sale, warts and all with a set price - your prospective buyers could start negotiation ... or not. So far all his scheming, moving the goalposts and setting one syndicate against another with different prices and conditions has proven to be a costly waste of time.
Say he wants 38 million, put it up for 43 to allow for a bit of bartering and hope he arrives at a figure north of his bottom line. If I was a buyer and he told me the club comes free with the land at a price I'd tell him to bogof.1 -
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Ah well, I didn’t want a takeover anyway. I like misery.5
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All this talk of a banker...
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We’re stuck with Roland aren’t we, jinxed this club. Despite the promotion, it’s still shit!6
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Just fuck off already you senile old hag.2
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To me it reads more like a I"can't say anything about it so I'm going to say what Cardiff wants to hear for now" statement.
Doesn't mean it's dead, just means he's a diplomatic person who realises everything he says from now on will be under intense scrutiny so until he becomes our owner (if that happens at all) he is 100% committed to the people that currently employ him18 -
It's the hope that kills you !
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