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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    Unconfirmed reports that Dalman has been out musselled by the Ozzies.  
    Wow, the Aussies must be minted!
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    1825, The world's first modern railway opens . The Stockton and Darlington Railway.
    Who'd wanna travel from Stockton to Darlo, or Darlo to Stockton?
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    If Dalman is a serious contender, why is he still working at Cardiff?

    I assume he has dealings with players contracts, agents, sponsors etc wouldn't it be a massive conflict of interest and be normal practise to at least put him on gardening leave? 
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,740
    1825, The world's first modern railway opens . The Stockton and Darlington Railway.
    Will get a few likes this one..
    Your old man for a start. 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    Searching for positives but I do wonder if in the coming weeks if this latest round of takeover spec fades away whether the budget will then be scaled up.

    i know Roland is an idiot, impossible to second guess and his approach to everything has been wrong, but he has never positioned a manager to set the squad up to fail and pretty much post-Powell backed his manager / recruitment team.

    At the moment it is clearly woefully short and even he isn’t that stupid to know that an absolute disaster of a season will offer zero help in his attempts to offload the club. 

    I don’t agree but I understand where his rationale is coming from: the club is more attractive to purchase the lower it’s outgoings and contractual commitments. But he’ll also know that if it’s not sold in the next month he is stuck with it again for another year and a disaster of a year will not just undoubtedly bring him personal grief and  dire publicity but also less chance of achieving near his valuation.

    thoughts?


    The more I think about it believe what was said by David white that RD never wanted auto go up, when you think of the expense needed to be competitive in the championship let alone to try and go up where atleast 10 other clubs will spend 70-100 mil to get out of the league 

    players cost more , agents cost more ,etc 

    if your selling the club club the last thing you want is more cost 

    for that reason I expect him to not invest or back bows anywhere near what is needed 

    you also have players and agents not willing to conclude deals because their fear will be they won’t get their money clubs also due to the uncertainty of ownership 

    so so many things are now out of the normal operating controls you would want to run club or business 

    what we need is clarity all this mess and uncertainty is not helpful 

    the Aussies have been around for ages and not completed this is a big problem for me and it makes me wonder just why and how they are going to proceed but I do believe they are now firmly in driving seat 

    Dalman is still around and his back ground in English football makes me prefer him but also I am beginning to think ffs just make the deal and move this cancer away from the club , get it right and the low zeros that are being discussed and debated will come back ten fold if you get it right 

    but more than anything 

    Murray and Two shit chalets can just do one I am sick of them both 


    If he didn’t want to go up he could easily have fielded a cheaper, weaker team in 18/19. I agree you can question how much he wanted it.

    The operating loss in 17/18 was £13.3m. Let’s say it was £10m last season. In the Championship he will get about £8m extra revenue without doing anything.

    If he runs the same budget (or lower) the operating loss drops to £2m. That is unachievable in L1. It may also get the club relegated, but from his perspective he has saved £8m or whatever part of it he doesn’t spend and the value of the club has risen giving him a better opportunity to sell.
    There are lots of ways Roly could save money. Most of them are scams though.  I believe that in his genius, he has catalogued them all in alphabetical order. We're up to Scam P at the moment!  I'll get me coat. 
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Cafc43v3r said:
    If Dalman is a serious contender, why is he still working at Cardiff?

    I assume he has dealings with players contracts, agents, sponsors etc wouldn't it be a massive conflict of interest and be normal practise to at least put him on gardening leave? 
    Remember when I wanted to quite my paper round to move up in the world and help out on the market. My dad told me something that'll stay with me forever - don't quite one job till you know you got there other. Ended up phoning in sick on  the paper round every Saturday morning for the following month
    ....
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    1825, The world's first modern railway opens . The Stockton and Darlington Railway.
    Who'd wanna travel from Stockton to Darlo, or Darlo to Stockton?
    Flag-worthy comment on a Charlton forum. Stockton-Darlington was opened to transport coal, not people. 
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,977
    Uboat said:
    1825, The world's first modern railway opens . The Stockton and Darlington Railway.
    Who'd wanna travel from Stockton to Darlo, or Darlo to Stockton?
    Flag-worthy comment on a Charlton forum. Stockton-Darlington was opened to transport coal, not people. 
    The geezers meant to be a Mod....
  • cashncarry
    cashncarry Posts: 980
    Cafc43v3r said:
    If Dalman is a serious contender, why is he still working at Cardiff?

    I assume he has dealings with players contracts, agents, sponsors etc wouldn't it be a massive conflict of interest and be normal practise to at least put him on gardening leave? 
    Remember when I wanted to quite my paper round to move up in the world and help out on the market. My dad told me something that'll stay with me forever - don't quite one job till you know you got there other. Ended up phoning in sick on  the paper round every Saturday morning for the following month
    ....
    Did your dad teach you the art of predictive text
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    edited June 2019
    Uboat said:
    1825, The world's first modern railway opens . The Stockton and Darlington Railway.
    Who'd wanna travel from Stockton to Darlo, or Darlo to Stockton?
    Flag-worthy comment on a Charlton forum. Stockton-Darlington was opened to transport coal, not people. 
    Even if I was a bit of coal, I wouldn't wanna travel to Darlo or Stockton, I'd wanna go south via canal boat
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  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    edited June 2019
    Cafc43v3r said:
    If Dalman is a serious contender, why is he still working at Cardiff?

    I assume he has dealings with players contracts, agents, sponsors etc wouldn't it be a massive conflict of interest and be normal practise to at least put him on gardening leave? 
    Remember when I wanted to quite my paper round to move up in the world and help out on the market. My dad told me something that'll stay with me forever - don't quite one job till you know you got there other. Ended up phoning in sick on  the paper round every Saturday morning for the following month
    ....
    Did your dad teach you the art of predictive text
    No but he taught me to never plead for information off other posters on transfer threads 


    ; )
  • Covered_End_Lad
    Covered_End_Lad Posts: 5,725
    Scoham said:
    Good job he capitalised definitely, I wouldn't have understood what he meant otherwise. 
    Maybe he is auditioning for a job at the Daily Mail?
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082
    Uboat said:
    1825, The world's first modern railway opens . The Stockton and Darlington Railway.
    Who'd wanna travel from Stockton to Darlo, or Darlo to Stockton?
    Flag-worthy comment on a Charlton forum. Stockton-Darlington was opened to transport coal, not people. 
    The geezers meant to be a Mod....

    You mean he owns a Lambretta ?
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    Uboat said:
    1825, The world's first modern railway opens . The Stockton and Darlington Railway.
    Who'd wanna travel from Stockton to Darlo, or Darlo to Stockton?
    Flag-worthy comment on a Charlton forum. Stockton-Darlington was opened to transport coal, not people. 
    The geezers meant to be a Mod....

    You mean he owns a Lambretta ?
    I think Rob is more a Vespa man.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Uboat said:
    1825, The world's first modern railway opens . The Stockton and Darlington Railway.
    Who'd wanna travel from Stockton to Darlo, or Darlo to Stockton?
    Flag-worthy comment on a Charlton forum. Stockton-Darlington was opened to transport coal, not people. 
    The geezers meant to be a Mod....

    You mean he owns a Lambretta ?
    Did do as it goes
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    bobmunro said:
    Uboat said:
    1825, The world's first modern railway opens . The Stockton and Darlington Railway.
    Who'd wanna travel from Stockton to Darlo, or Darlo to Stockton?
    Flag-worthy comment on a Charlton forum. Stockton-Darlington was opened to transport coal, not people. 
    The geezers meant to be a Mod....

    You mean he owns a Lambretta ?
    I think Rob is more a Vespa man.
    Better on a Lambretta Bob, you know that
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,977
    bobmunro said:
    Uboat said:
    1825, The world's first modern railway opens . The Stockton and Darlington Railway.
    Who'd wanna travel from Stockton to Darlo, or Darlo to Stockton?
    Flag-worthy comment on a Charlton forum. Stockton-Darlington was opened to transport coal, not people. 
    The geezers meant to be a Mod....

    You mean he owns a Lambretta ?
    I think Rob is more a Vespa man.
    Parked it outside his shop in Grove Park.
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    bobmunro said:
    Uboat said:
    1825, The world's first modern railway opens . The Stockton and Darlington Railway.
    Who'd wanna travel from Stockton to Darlo, or Darlo to Stockton?
    Flag-worthy comment on a Charlton forum. Stockton-Darlington was opened to transport coal, not people. 
    The geezers meant to be a Mod....

    You mean he owns a Lambretta ?
    I think Rob is more a Vespa man.
    Parked it outside his shop in Grove Park.
    He had a shop in Grove Park? What sort? He has never mentioned it as far as I am aware. 
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    I know, let's all talk about me as if I ain't here

    😉
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    1826, Thomas Telford's Menai Suspension Bridge is opened.
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  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    1826, Thomas Telford's Menai Suspension Bridge is opened.
    Is that between Stockton and Darlo?
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    edited June 2019
    Cafc43v3r said:
    bobmunro said:
    Uboat said:
    1825, The world's first modern railway opens . The Stockton and Darlington Railway.
    Who'd wanna travel from Stockton to Darlo, or Darlo to Stockton?
    Flag-worthy comment on a Charlton forum. Stockton-Darlington was opened to transport coal, not people. 
    The geezers meant to be a Mod....

    You mean he owns a Lambretta ?
    I think Rob is more a Vespa man.
    Parked it outside his shop in Grove Park.
    He had a shop in Grove Park? What sort? He has never mentioned it as far as I am aware. 
    He mentions it less than I mention I’m the grandson of....
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Cafc43v3r said:
    bobmunro said:
    Uboat said:
    1825, The world's first modern railway opens . The Stockton and Darlington Railway.
    Who'd wanna travel from Stockton to Darlo, or Darlo to Stockton?
    Flag-worthy comment on a Charlton forum. Stockton-Darlington was opened to transport coal, not people. 
    The geezers meant to be a Mod....

    You mean he owns a Lambretta ?
    I think Rob is more a Vespa man.
    Parked it outside his shop in Grove Park.
    He had a shop in Grove Park? What sort? He has never mentioned it as far as I am aware. 

    Open all hours
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    What's this, "This Is Your Life"?
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    bobmunro said:
    Uboat said:
    1825, The world's first modern railway opens . The Stockton and Darlington Railway.
    Who'd wanna travel from Stockton to Darlo, or Darlo to Stockton?
    Flag-worthy comment on a Charlton forum. Stockton-Darlington was opened to transport coal, not people. 
    The geezers meant to be a Mod....

    You mean he owns a Lambretta ?
    I think Rob is more a Vespa man.
    Better on a Lambretta Bob, you know that

    Yes I do.

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221

    So the rumours were true.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977

    What's the point?
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,210

    This is huge!  Finally happening then!!!
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    U wot m8
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