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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    For me this part is interesting.  Maybe I'm too optimistic but this tells me it could just be sensationalist crap from The Standard

    SoundAsa£ said:

    Whether Dalman can be convinced to revive his interest remains to be seen, 

  • cafc_4life
    cafc_4life Posts: 456
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    Jim White was telling us recently that we should be rejoicing because Duchatelet is desperate to sell. He doesn't act like a desperate seller though - putting the price up after promising not to suggests he is not as desperate as he wishes to make out!
    Jim White talks complete bollocks. Don't believe a word he says
  • king addick
    king addick Posts: 3,701
    thickandthin63 said:
    To King Addick,i totally agree with most of your comments,but I have supported Charlton for 65 years and the supply from youth to first team has never dried up Kids will always come to Charlton because they know that they will if good enough get a chance.
    Rd has given Bowyer a budget,albeit a very low one,but as I said ,a good manager and team will find the players.How many Aribos  and Lookmans are out there playing Sunday Morning and lower league saturday afternoon football.These players are there to be found.Kinsella was playing for Colchester,look how he turned out.
    Who had heard of Beilick and Burrington prior to them coming to us,I personally think that despite the lack of funds we will do very well next year.

    Just to clarify, the well drying up was eventually RD putting a halt to any transfer fee. Whilst Charlton have a fantastic academy as we know. It serves the team for a short while then we as a club are asset stripped. 

    Granted there are good players out there and we have a great team in place to try and find them. However, when other clubs come in and offer that 1k more because our wage budgets only stretch so far....we will miss out. 
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    edited July 2019
    Swisdom said:
    For me this part is interesting.  Maybe I'm too optimistic but this tells me it could just be sensationalist crap from The Standard

    SoundAsa£ said:

    Whether Dalman can be convinced to revive his interest remains to be seen, 

    No, it’s a hedge against them being used by Dalman to threaten RD and the story reversing the situation - as happened over the Bowyer contract. I can guarantee that the info comes from the Dalman camp.

    Remember that it was the Standard he used to announce a £30m offer in March.
  • bigman backstick
    bigman backstick Posts: 76
    Lets just hope that this goes the same way as Bowyers contract negotiations, fail to agree and then all done and dusted double sharpish. I just cannot get my head round how long this is taking for someone who is so desperate to sell this man is like the turd that will not flush.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    So it’s not really off then? Cawley has suggested similar
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Wonder if RD has asked for the website passward yet for his latest update, huh
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,334
    Airman Brown said:
    Swisdom said:
    For me this part is interesting.  Maybe I'm too optimistic but this tells me it could just be sensationalist crap from The Standard

    SoundAsa£ said:

    Whether Dalman can be convinced to revive his interest remains to be seen, 

    No, it’s a hedge against them being used by Dalman to threaten RD and the story reversing the situation - as happened over the Bowyer contract. I can guarantee that the info comes from the Dalman camp.

    Remember that it was the Standard he used to announce a £30m offer in March.
    That line makes it look like the whole story has been "placed" by Dalman - or those close to him - for exactly that reason, ie as leverage to get RD to see sense. 
  • flyingkiwiDK
    flyingkiwiDK Posts: 5,722
    WIOTCCWS (When its on the Cardiff City Website)

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  • bexleyaddick
    bexleyaddick Posts: 478
    So, if this is true, we have an owner who has spent the few weeks since Wembley bemoaning the fact that costs and losses are so much greater in the Championship, yet BECAUSE we are now a Championship club, he increases the asking price by £17m? Am I missing something? (rhetorical question btw..... I do know that the answer is lunacy). 
  • redbuttle
    redbuttle Posts: 1,979
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    I don't think I have ever hated anyone as much as I do RD, and that includes every mother in law I have ever had. 
    I hate Murray the most
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,673
    I actually think that Roland may have changed his mind regarding selling the club. 
    Because it's fast becoming obvious he ain't going anywhere. 
  • O_Andy_Hunt
    O_Andy_Hunt Posts: 44
    so is Andy Delort signing or not?
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    So the director's loans are a problem - even according to Dalman, where it appears the Standard story has come from.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    edited July 2019
    cafc_4life said:
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    Jim White was telling us recently that we should be rejoicing because Duchatelet is desperate to sell. He doesn't act like a desperate seller though - putting the price up after promising not to suggests he is not as desperate as he wishes to make out!
    Jim White talks complete bollocks. Don't believe a word he says
    I hate to say it but he is either very badly advised or he’s deliberately making mischief.....I’d like to think it’s the former.
    Would be nice if he came on and said he was sorry for misleading us on several glaring occasions and explaining why he made such adamant, but latterly false statements.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    happyvalley said:
    1848, Waterloo station is opened.
    Big fan of yours, but that's a shit fact for an epic year. 
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825

    "investors struggled to get sufficient funds into the country before the team won the League One Play-off Final"

    Airman, were you the source of this information on the Aussies or are you aware whether that is credible information or not?

  • No.1 in South London
    No.1 in South London Posts: 3,960
    Even Hibernian manage to find new owners and investment - Ronald Gordon
  • Mal
    Mal Posts: 616
    Why oh why doesnt Roland just put us in administration, I would be happy with that just to be rid of him.
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  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    FFS. Utterly deflated, even though I knew deep down it was too good to be true. 

    Close the thread - we've got Roland forever.
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,273
    £50m plus debenture debt. Ok Roland, whatever.  You will be chucking more money into the Charlton black hole then.

    Someone needs to teach him how to cut his losses as he will fund a relegation to League One, see a rise in protests again and have returned the club to a value of bob all. 
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    Top eight or ten and a potential buyer can sniff the Premier League. 
    If I start going out with a supermodel maybe more supermodels will want to hang out with me. 
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    It's just so utterly depressing.
  • jacob_CAFC
    jacob_CAFC Posts: 2,063
    The Red Robin said:
    So the director's loans are a problem - even according to Dalman, where it appears the Standard story has come from.
    I don't really understand why they need to be an issue here - they will get them paid on arrival to the premier league. It's up to the current owners if they want to pay them now or not surely?
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    edited July 2019
    AFKABartram said:

    "investors struggled to get sufficient funds into the country before the team won the League One Play-off Final"

    Airman, were you the source of this information on the Aussies or are you aware whether that is credible information or not?

    I’m not the source on any of the story - I’m just able to fill in the blanks, for example to point them at Prague’s comments, supply the detail of the directors’ loans and to remind them of LDT’s minuted statement in April that the price would not change.

    My understanding is that the Aussies still don’t have the money (to meet the higher price), but I didn’t give the Standard anything on their situation pre-Wembley.
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,974
    I’d no idea how much emotion I had invested in it happening today. Please let it be Dalman bluffing to get what he wants.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    Clutching at straws. Increase in asking price is one last gamble by Duchatelet and he might do as he do what he did with Bowyer once the other party has walked. 

    Wont happen of course.
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    Well at least it was a proper "deadline" .

    Can't blame Dalman for walking ,doing any type of business with RD  and his ego must be totally fecking bewildering .

    Straw clutching time but just maybe walking away might spur the Rat to actually sell, however that needs sanity and he is devoid of that
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    I think that is lazy journalism by the Standard.  I cannot see how or why RD can insist the £7m loans need to be paid, as doing so hinders a sale.  He can say that he isn't paying them, and they become the new owners liability but that is different entirely.

    If find it unlikely that RD would publicly state the price wouldn't go up upon promotion and then hike it, even for his lunacy, seems extreme.
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