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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • Mrkinski
    Mrkinski Posts: 957
    DOUCHER said:

    Nope I'm afraid I will not be passing comment - last thing you want on here is for me to tell it how it is so not a lot of point

    You won't be able to help yourself.
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,900
    I could pop along to 'A Night at the Museum' and try and summarise the situation for those who haven't been paying attention?
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,738
    DOUCHER said:

    I could pop along to 'A Night at the Museum' and try and summarise the situation for those who haven't been paying attention?

    Good luck with that, pal.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    seth plum said:

    It was said previously that if it didn't happen by the end of November then all bets are off. Impending transfer window and all that.
    We are past that date, not by much but past it.
    If I were in a position to buy (which I may be after this evenings Euromillions) and was being messed about over fringe issues or single digit percentages I would be tempted to tell Mr Duchatelet to carry on. To continue to stack up losses, and to endure the further reaction of the fans which will surely manifest if there is no certainty of promotion.
    I believe we are now at the witching hour, at DEFCOM 5, if anything is delayed so as to mess up the transfer window and the sale of half season tickets (I am poised to get mine) then there will be cosmic vituperation.

    DEFCON 5 is very low level alert.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    You e not been at the cat food again by mistake have you?
  • CroydonAddick1
    CroydonAddick1 Posts: 448
    football.london/championship/charlton-athletic-australian-football-consortium-13997736 Hadn't seen this linked anywhere. Some very brief quotes and talk of a Swiss investor?
  • sammy391
    sammy391 Posts: 3,782
    CroydonAddick1 said:

    football.london/championship/charlton-athletic-australian-football-consortium-13997736 Hadn't seen this linked anywhere. Some very brief quotes and talk of a Swiss investor?

    Interesting that they’ve got some quotes from Muirs end... do they know something we don’t?

  • cafc_harry
    cafc_harry Posts: 3,360
    CroydonAddick1 said:

    football.london/championship/charlton-athletic-australian-football-consortium-13997736 Hadn't seen this linked anywhere. Some very brief quotes and talk of a Swiss investor?

    I’d guess the Swiss investor might be something to do with Red Bull? The fact that Muir chose not to comment rather than deny anything tells you he’s involved in itself.
  • OhEddieYouds
    OhEddieYouds Posts: 744
    By 'putting the best people in place' I assume the Aussies mean a CEO who knows something about football and can build a good support team for Karl.....rather than a new manager (making the big assumption that they are talking about us).

    Karl has a team that fits his style now. We don't need a change of manager.....just for him to be supported with a bit more squad depth / quality...particularly up front where the obvious problem we have is not having the players to score enough goals to get promotion.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    Getting done and dusted by January is starting to look a daunting prospect.
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  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,738
    ShootersHillGuru said:

    Getting done and dusted by January is starting to look a daunting prospect.

    Oh ye of little faith !
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,738
    DOUCHER said:

    Nope I'm afraid I will not be passing comment - last thing you want on here is for me to tell it how it is so not a lot of point

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  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    edited December 2017
    ShootersHillGuru said:

    Getting done and dusted by January is starting to look a daunting prospect.

    Don't worry, like the Facunda Save mask we wore at QPR for the Fulham game all Addicks should turn up wearing two items to support our new owners on Saturday.

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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,765
    CroydonAddick1 said:

    football.london/championship/charlton-athletic-australian-football-consortium-13997736 Hadn't seen this linked anywhere. Some very brief quotes and talk of a Swiss investor?

    Nice article but I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion.

    At this moment in time, anything has to be better than Roland.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,866
    Callumcafc said:

    clb74 said:

    I'm sorry but until the fans own the club I will always be weary.
    God knows what the next owners are like.

    Live in the moment.

    Roland is finally on his way out (hopefully) !!!

    If the new owners are also bad eggs then we go again. I can understand being cautious but compared to Roland, almost anything has to be better.
    Stig said:

    carly burn said:


    “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.”

    As said by many the moment he walked in the door. This was just some f****d up experiment.

    Fella should be tried imo.

    Roland, you failed miserably. It had nothing to do with social media, and everything to do with the decisions you made and the way you conducted your business. Sure social media was useful in helping the fans to mobilise against you but the reasons for your failure are all your own:

    1.Your ill-matched ragbag of network clubs did not bring synergies on the playing front.
    2.You seriously underestimated the greed of the other clubs and the chances of the rejecting FFP.
    3.You inexplicably appointed and retained a CEO who was hopelessly incapable.
    4.You made other bizarre appointments including a chip shop manager and gamer-freak to roles that should have been taken on by experienced professionals.
    5.From the very start you lied, and let others lie, about your intentions. Premier League, pah!
    6.You shunned the fans, you could have had us on your side. Instead you started a war.
    7.You alienated and then sacked the best manager this club had had since it's Premiership days.
    8.You appointed a carousel of managers who, contrary to your CEO's otherworldly opinion, got progressively worse.
    9.You foisted players on the club who were inexperienced, ill suited and frequently insufficiently talented.
    10.You demonstrated your contempt for the club, by refusing to attend games.
    11.You blamed others for your failures.
    12.You disrespected the fans, history and culture of our football club.
    13.You allowed important areas of the business (most notably ticketing and comms, probably others as well) to struggle due under resourcing and ridiculous decisions.
    14.By surrounding yourself with sycophants and refusing to listen to critique you placed yourself in a bubble where you had no chance of understanding any of the above.
    15.Ultimately though, you bought the wrong club. If you'd have done your due diligence properly, you would have known that Charlton fans have more imagination, spirit and fight in them that you could ever muster.
    Very good points.
    Number 7 makes me angry.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    The deeper into December we go the more and more likely it won’t happen til some time in January. Legal firms etc are winding up ahead of the holidays which slows everything down anyway.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    Or even down
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,673
    I think Muir is too busy gloating over the Ashes to get the deal done...
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    kentaddick said:

    The deeper into December we go the more and more likely it won’t happen til some time in January. Legal firms etc are winding up ahead of the holidays which slows everything down anyway.

    They just increase their fees!!
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    CroydonAddick1 said:

    football.london/championship/charlton-athletic-australian-football-consortium-13997736 Hadn't seen this linked anywhere. Some very brief quotes and talk of a Swiss investor?

    At least muir is a “English soccer” fan and, you would guess would know the correct way to run a football club and not to say idiotic things like “I don’t care about the history of the club”
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  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,127
    Too many holes in that Swiss story....I'll get me coat.

    Didn't we have a Swiss approach before TJ and MS?
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,823
    The Red Robin said:

    Too many holes in that Swiss story....I'll get me coat.

    Didn't we have a Swiss approach before TJ and MS?

    Yes, via Sebastian Sainsbury...
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,127
    edited December 2017
    Pedro45 said:

    The Red Robin said:

    Too many holes in that Swiss story....I'll get me coat.

    Didn't we have a Swiss approach before TJ and MS?

    Yes, via Sebastian Sainsbury...
    That's the one.

    http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/37765/new-article-all-that-glitters-may-not-be-gold

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/charlton_athletic/9151712.stm
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    The deal I’ve been working on since July was announced today and it required the main negotiators to work on it last two days 20 hours a day to finalise the documents.....

    Come on Duchatelet, Christmas is coming. I’ll send you a nice card if it goes through this week or next.
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    kentaddick said:

    The deeper into December we go the more and more likely it won’t happen til some time in January. Legal firms etc are winding up ahead of the holidays which slows everything down anyway.

    Although ironically the 2010 and 2013-14 takeovers were both done over Christmas and New Year. I took a phone call from an interested party on the latter one while attending a kids’ pantomime in Wimbledon, I remember.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Airman Brown said:

    kentaddick said:

    The deeper into December we go the more and more likely it won’t happen til some time in January. Legal firms etc are winding up ahead of the holidays which slows everything down anyway.

    Although ironically the 2010 and 2013-14 takeovers were both done over Christmas and New Year. I took a phone call from an interested party on the latter one while attending a kids’ pantomime in Wimbledon, I remember.
    Good point.
  • Eirik Bakke
    Eirik Bakke Posts: 217
    Airman Brown said:

    kentaddick said:

    The deeper into December we go the more and more likely it won’t happen til some time in January. Legal firms etc are winding up ahead of the holidays which slows everything down anyway.

    Although ironically the 2010 and 2013-14 takeovers were both done over Christmas and New Year. I took a phone call from an interested party on the latter one while attending a kids’ pantomime in Wimbledon, I remember.
    Both while an ashes series were being played out?

    I remember in 13/14 being in Melbourne after a day at the mcg. We were in a bar at a Barmy army night and asking a couple of blokes in Charlton shirts who this Belgium bloke was that had bought us! Little did any of us know then what would transpire!
  • HardyAddick
    HardyAddick Posts: 1,637
    Lawyers and bankers just work through Christmas if there is a deal to be done. I should know!
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