Been busy today & only just caught up on the thread. Saw lots of posts & the tittle of the thread changed only to find that RD has says that he's looking to sell & no other concrete news..........I thought we all knew this. Just wake me up when something tangible actually happens.
A bit harsh, I appreciate we all want it done yesterday but you must see the significance of the owner confirming to the press that the club is for sale.
Yes we all knew it was but this is a public declaration, goes against what KM and others have implied and very likely further brinkmanship by the gaffer taped one as I believe we are a lot further down the line than putting the for sale sign up.
I believe today we are closer to getting our club back.
Oops .. my mistake ! I typed that while on the telephone ... "viable" was the French word he used ... I thought trustworthy was a good translation.
When this nightmare is all over @skywalker please stay on this forum as a poster, your input over the last 4 turbulent years has been most appreciated and I'm making you an honorary Addick and head of our Belgian supporters club.
Yours RC Darth
Well, first home game with the new owners, I'll come and buy all 27,111 (including away supporters) of you a pint in a pub near The Valley ...
Been busy today & only just caught up on the thread. Saw lots of posts & the tittle of the thread changed only to find that RD has says that he's looking to sell & no other concrete news..........I thought we all knew this. Just wake me up when something tangible actually happens.
OK. Just post your mobile number and one of us will give you a call.
Oops .. my mistake ! I typed that while on the telephone ... "viable" was the French word he used ... I thought trustworthy was a good translation.
When this nightmare is all over @skywalker please stay on this forum as a poster, your input over the last 4 turbulent years has been most appreciated and I'm making you an honorary Addick and head of our Belgian supporters club.
Yours RC Darth
The nightmare begins when they go Elfsborg will be back
Roland Duchâtelet, the controversial owner of Charlton Athletic, has put the club up for sale and admitted that he should not have invested in football.
The Belgian bought Charlton nearly four years ago when they were in the Championship but has faced strong protests from supporters in recent seasons over the way that he has run the club, who are now in League One.
CARD (Coalition Against Roland Duchâtelet), a supporters’ group, have put pressure on him to either invest or sell his stake in the club. Stunts have included a mock funeral being held before kick-off, beach balls being thrown on the pitch and a pitch invasion.
Until now, Duchâtelet,71, had been adamant that he would not sell Charlton.
“I have not decided anything, I am open to possible offers, I will take the time to think, but contrary to popular belief I have not made any money from football, this rarely happens for investors, those who say otherwise are wrong,” Duchâtelet said.
Duchâtelet has controlled clubs in Germany, Spain and Hungary. He was forced to sell Standard Liège, the Belgian club, in 2015 when repeated fan protests turned aggressive. There were clashes with police near the stadium, a group of fans broke into Duchâtelet’s office and others stormed an event for sponsors, who had to ask the media to help them to safety.
Liège fans had similar grievances to Charlton’s, including the lack of reinvestment from the sale of their best players, such as Axel Witsel, and the sacking of favoured managers.
Duchâtelet sold Saint-Trond, the Belgian club, last month.
“It’s not that I’m fed up, I have other activities and my age,” he said. “Actually, I wanted to leave football after the sale of the Standard Liège. Football is an exciting world, but very complex: there is a lot of underground influences, we decide a lot about emotions, we make and break your image on the basis of rumours, social networks create real background slides that are difficult to answer.
“It was an interesting experience and I learned a lot about how social media have an impact on the psychology of masses and how they can influence decisions which affect many people.”
I log in when I can...saw over 100 new posts, and at last, hopefully RD has decided to go. I would like to think he has made this announcement because a sale is indeed close. It could be that in order to save any further denials by his SMT, he knows a sale is close and has decided to go public by saying if an acceptable offer comes in he will sell, well perhaps one already has? If as others elsewhere are saying DD is done and earlier problems have been sorted, he will go before next Saturday, or is it one final attempt to get to target 20k, by hoping this interview will bring fans back? Call me cynical, but I wouldn't put any scenario past him!! Looking forward to watch this unravel, when I can. Next stop for me after Xmas now is China again. Lets hope he has gone before I jet off again.
“Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer” Roland the useless owner Said promotion was the aim, But he didn’t buy us players Good enough to win that game.
Katrien his long-nosed P.A. Just repeats old Roly’s tale. No matter what the truth is, Says “de cloob” is not for sale.
“We three kings” We three groups of Charlton fans are WAR in a Taxi, B20 in cars, CARD in a coach on a ferry to Belgium; Roland! We know where you are!
O-oh, Board of Charlton, Board of blight What a shame you're rarely right! Useless leading; anger breeding. Fans will never stop their fight!
“O Come All Ye Faithful” O come all ye faithful Fans – glad and triumphant! O come ye, O come ye Back to The Valley! Fought Greenwich Council, Won in nineteen ninety two. And we will win again, And we will win again, Yes we will win again, Ro-oland OUT!
Roland Duchâtelet, the controversial owner of Charlton Athletic, has put the club up for sale and admitted that he should not have invested in football.
The Belgian bought Charlton nearly four years ago when they were in the Championship but has faced strong protests from supporters in recent seasons over the way that he has run the club, who are now in League One.
CARD (Coalition Against Roland Duchâtelet), a supporters’ group, have put pressure on him to either invest or sell his stake in the club. Stunts have included a mock funeral being held before kick-off, beach balls being thrown on the pitch and a pitch invasion.
Until now, Duchâtelet,71, had been adamant that he would not sell Charlton.
“I have not decided anything, I am open to possible offers, I will take the time to think, but contrary to popular belief I have not made any money from football, this rarely happens for investors, those who say otherwise are wrong,” Duchâtelet said.
Duchâtelet has controlled clubs in Germany, Spain and Hungary. He was forced to sell Standard Liège, the Belgian club, in 2015 when repeated fan protests turned aggressive. There were clashes with police near the stadium, a group of fans broke into Duchâtelet’s office and others stormed an event for sponsors, who had to ask the media to help them to safety.
Liège fans had similar grievances to Charlton’s, including the lack of reinvestment from the sale of their best players, such as Axel Witsel, and the sacking of favoured managers.
Duchâtelet sold Saint-Trond, the Belgian club, last month.
“It’s not that I’m fed up, I have other activities and my age,” he said. “Actually, I wanted to leave football after the sale of the Standard Liège. Football is an exciting world, but very complex: there is a lot of underground influences, we decide a lot about emotions, we make and break your image on the basis of rumours, social networks create real background slides that are difficult to answer.
“It was an interesting experience and I learned a lot about how social media have an impact on the psychology of masses and how they can influence decisions which affect many people.”
It reads as he's still blaming others for his cock-ups.
So he’s basically claiming the reason he’s failed is because of fans on social media. We know that’s bollocks but it’s great because it means we really got under his wrinkly old skin.
He has to argue it’s a malign conspiracy because otherwise he has to admit his own failings. And as Meire says, any suggestion of that is “disrespectful”.
He has been brought down by an airman, a fanny and a young lad in monochrome.
He has been brought down by the bottom line.
Not in his mind the fact that he has been a complete failure and insulted his customers isn't the reason he has failed, it is the lies and agenda of a few activists. I really think he believes that as well the mad old goat.
He actually thinks Varney is responsible for the protests. He’s that far gone.
Nothing to do with regularly sacking and appointing poor managers or the bad signings chosen by his scouts then.
Including one manager, appointed at a club then in the second tier of the English Football League, with no meaningful experience whatsoever of either playing or coaching professional football...
“Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer” Roland the useless owner Said promotion was the aim, But he didn’t buy us players Good enough to win that game.
Katrien his long-nosed P.A. Just repeats old Roly’s tale. No matter what the truth is, Says “de cloob” is not for sale.
“We three kings” We three groups of Charlton fans are WAR in a Taxi, B20 in cars, CARD in a coach on a ferry to Belgium; Roland! We know where you are!
O-oh, Board of Charlton, Board of blight What a shame you're rarely right! Useless leading; anger breeding. Fans will never stop their fight!
“O Come All Ye Faithful” O come all ye faithful Fans – glad and triumphant! O come ye, O come ye Back to The Valley! Fought Greenwich Council, Won in nineteen ninety two. And we will win again, And we will win again, Yes we will win again, Ro-oland OUT!
I gave you a like but I do think you need to get out more.
“Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer” Roland the useless owner Said promotion was the aim, But he didn’t buy us players Good enough to win that game.
Katrien his long-nosed P.A. Just repeats old Roly’s tale. No matter what the truth is, Says “de cloob” is not for sale.
“We three kings” We three groups of Charlton fans are WAR in a Taxi, B20 in cars, CARD in a coach on a ferry to Belgium; Roland! We know where you are!
O-oh, Board of Charlton, Board of blight What a shame you're rarely right! Useless leading; anger breeding. Fans will never stop their fight!
“O Come All Ye Faithful” O come all ye faithful Fans – glad and triumphant! O come ye, O come ye Back to The Valley! Fought Greenwich Council, Won in nineteen ninety two. And we will win again, And we will win again, Yes we will win again, Ro-oland OUT!
I gave you a like but I do think you need to get out more.
I’m planning to celebrate our impending takeover and welcome our new owners at the valley in fancy dress, bit concerned I’m getting constant pop ups on here of Wonder Woman.
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Yes we all knew it was but this is a public declaration, goes against what KM and others have implied and very likely further brinkmanship by the gaffer taped one as I believe we are a lot further down the line than putting the for sale sign up.
I believe today we are closer to getting our club back.
Police state!!
...( Can't I at least keep the lols?)
If as others elsewhere are saying DD is done and earlier problems have been sorted, he will go before next Saturday, or is it one final attempt to get to target 20k, by hoping this interview will bring fans back? Call me cynical, but I wouldn't put any scenario past him!!
Looking forward to watch this unravel, when I can. Next stop for me after Xmas now is China again. Lets hope he has gone before I jet off again.
“Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer”
Roland the useless owner
Said promotion was the aim,
But he didn’t buy us players
Good enough to win that game.
Katrien his long-nosed P.A.
Just repeats old Roly’s tale.
No matter what the truth is,
Says “de cloob” is not for sale.
“We three kings”
We three groups of Charlton fans are
WAR in a Taxi, B20 in cars,
CARD in a coach on a ferry to Belgium;
Roland! We know where you are!
O-oh, Board of Charlton, Board of blight
What a shame you're rarely right!
Useless leading; anger breeding.
Fans will never stop their fight!
“O Come All Ye Faithful”
O come all ye faithful
Fans – glad and triumphant!
O come ye, O come ye
Back to The Valley!
Fought Greenwich Council,
Won in nineteen ninety two.
And we will win again,
And we will win again,
Yes we will win again,
Ro-oland OUT!
What I take from this is that he wants to retreat from his football interests, not entirely on grounds of expense but also due to his age.
But we knew that anyway of course.
Can a deal be done for the club that would be acceptable to him?
There is, or rather there was but he's now had gender reassignment and calls himself Easter Bunny.
God knows what the next owners are like.
Jingle bells
Jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to see
Roland go away
When we realise the last few years have been a dream.