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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • Chizz said:
    1853, The first pillar box is erected in Carlisle.
    Stewards' enquiry: Trollope had nine installed in the Channel Islands in 1852. 

    You leave Happyvalley's erection alone
  • 1854, The U.K. declares war on Russia so joining The Crimean War.
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    What an informative, educational and entertaining thread this is.

    Long may it continue



    #teamWIOTOS
  • bobmunro said:
    CafcSCP said:
    JamesSeed said:
    JamesSeed said:
    Dalman couldn’t get the funds together in time for the deadline. 
    Keep ‘em peeled at The Valley and training ground, as there might be some Chinese visitors apparently. 
    Is this true, or was it the introduction of the extra £7m payable that they fell out over?
    Raising funds was the issue I’m hearing. Mind you, they could easily have fallen out over any number of things. Lol 
    I find it hard to believe someone as well connected or wealthy as Dalman couldn't find the funds.

    Not saying you are lying James btw. I trust what you say just my opinion.
    Finding an additional 7m at short notice perhaps? 
    I'd be amazed if he didn't have the 33m quoted.
    Then accept the liability for the director loans, complete the deal, and then pay them off when the other £7m is available.
    This. Does whoever buys the club need clean title from day one  ?? Just buy the f**king club & sort out the directors later. 
  • They can’t demand payment until the club reaches the PL
    That was my initial thinking. Who ever planted the story in the ES doesn't know the full facts. 
  • OMG I'M SO SURPRISED TO SEE A TAKEOVER UPDATE THAT IS NEGATIVE !
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  • Has the possibility occured to anyone that Roland doesn't actually own the club at all and it's this tiny legal detail that's holding up everything .



    Maybe Zabeel bought us after all, but kept it quiet...
  • edited July 2019
    They can’t demand payment until the club reaches the PL
    That was my initial thinking. Who ever planted the story in the ES doesn't know the full facts. 

    .
  • edited July 2019
    VOTV a few of weeks ago.

    http://www.votvonline.com/home/the-2018-19-blogs/9-6-ex-charlton-directors-respond-over-loan-claims/


    I guess this doesn't account for the other 4? former directors stance.

    Airman. Any idea how the other 4 see things?
    Any of them demanding repayment?
  • Has the possibility occured to anyone that Roland doesn't actually own the club at all and it's this tiny legal detail that's holding up everything .



    I did bring that up about 600 pages, or more, ago.  I wouldn't supprise me at all if he didn't own everything he originally thought he did.  He didn't do proper DD and he was dealing with a bunch of con men 
  • razil said:
    my dog was very interested in a dismembered seal on our local beach in Norfolk, alls I needed was a couple of adders at it, and England would be equally as mental..
    But there weren’t, so it isn’t. B)
  • Cafc43v3r said:
    Has the possibility occured to anyone that Roland doesn't actually own the club at all and it's this tiny legal detail that's holding up everything .



    I did bring that up about 600 pages, or more, ago.  I wouldn't supprise me at all if he didn't own everything he originally thought he did.  He didn't do proper DD and he was dealing with a bunch of con men 
    But,but a qualified lawyer was working for him then....
  • If I were buying the club, I’d want it unencumbered even if I didn’t need to raise debt against the stadium, I might have to and why should I have my hands tied.

    if Duchâtelet wants to have a similar charge for a portion of his debt, he can’t unless the current directors are paid out I think
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  • Uboat said:
    1852, Kings Cross Station opened.
    So how did students get to Hogwarts before that?
    From Euston and changed at Leamington Spa.
  • Chizz said:
    I refuse to believe that the directors loans are stopping the sale of the club from going through. 
    The loans only total 7mil.and they don't need to be repayed until we reach the premiership. 
    I am convinced that something else is causing this delay. 
    Almost certainly Shitweasel at fault  
    I think it's slightly (but only slightly) more complicated than that.  

    The £7m is in effect a first charge against the property.  If the £7m loan gets paid back, the charge goes away.  But Roland doesn't want to pay it.  

    The buyers want clean title.  And they probably also want to defer certain tranches of payments, contingent on stuff like promotion, etc.  If Roland pays off the first charge, he would want his own first charge on the property to act as an insurance against not getting the additional payments.  

    So, on the one hand, Roland doesn't want to pony up the £7m.  But, on the other hand, he wants there to be a charge (in his benefit) on the property, so that he can ensure he gets his later instalments.  

    The buyers (whoever they are - maybe Dalman, maybe the Aussies, maybe the Chinese consortium that was named a few pages back) will want to defer payments where they can; they might be happy for Roland to have a charge on the property in order to "guarantee" the deferred payments, but they don't see why they would have to pay to get rid of the first charge.  (And why should they?) 
     Were they named? I don't remember seeing the name of their organisation?
  • If I were buying the club, I’d want it unencumbered even if I didn’t need to raise debt against the stadium, I might have to and why should I have my hands tied.

    if Duchâtelet wants to have a similar charge for a portion of his debt, he can’t unless the current directors are paid out I think
    For me this is the far more obvious reason.
     I understand all of that.
    The Standard has misrepresented the former directors yet again.

    As far as I'm aware , under no circumstance  can the former directors block a takeover for non payment of their existing loans. Everyone knows this. It's well documented.
    Then why did the Standard not state this alongside the usual bollocks from Roland that they somehow can in this latest report?
  • I've spoken to a well connected sports journo in Cardiff. 
    All I can say is he hasn't posted any copy in response to the Standard article.
       
  • Chizz said:
    I refuse to believe that the directors loans are stopping the sale of the club from going through. 
    The loans only total 7mil.and they don't need to be repayed until we reach the premiership. 
    I am convinced that something else is causing this delay. 
    Almost certainly Shitweasel at fault  
    I think it's slightly (but only slightly) more complicated than that.  

    The £7m is in effect a first charge against the property.  If the £7m loan gets paid back, the charge goes away.  But Roland doesn't want to pay it.  

    The buyers want clean title.  And they probably also want to defer certain tranches of payments, contingent on stuff like promotion, etc.  If Roland pays off the first charge, he would want his own first charge on the property to act as an insurance against not getting the additional payments.  

    So, on the one hand, Roland doesn't want to pony up the £7m.  But, on the other hand, he wants there to be a charge (in his benefit) on the property, so that he can ensure he gets his later instalments.  

    The buyers (whoever they are - maybe Dalman, maybe the Aussies, maybe the Chinese consortium that was named a few pages back) will want to defer payments where they can; they might be happy for Roland to have a charge on the property in order to "guarantee" the deferred payments, but they don't see why they would have to pay to get rid of the first charge.  (And why should they?) 
    When you say slightly  🤔
  • Dazzler21 said:
    Chizz said:
    I refuse to believe that the directors loans are stopping the sale of the club from going through. 
    The loans only total 7mil.and they don't need to be repayed until we reach the premiership. 
    I am convinced that something else is causing this delay. 
    Almost certainly Shitweasel at fault  
    I think it's slightly (but only slightly) more complicated than that.  

    The £7m is in effect a first charge against the property.  If the £7m loan gets paid back, the charge goes away.  But Roland doesn't want to pay it.  

    The buyers want clean title.  And they probably also want to defer certain tranches of payments, contingent on stuff like promotion, etc.  If Roland pays off the first charge, he would want his own first charge on the property to act as an insurance against not getting the additional payments.  

    So, on the one hand, Roland doesn't want to pony up the £7m.  But, on the other hand, he wants there to be a charge (in his benefit) on the property, so that he can ensure he gets his later instalments.  

    The buyers (whoever they are - maybe Dalman, maybe the Aussies, maybe the Chinese consortium that was named a few pages back) will want to defer payments where they can; they might be happy for Roland to have a charge on the property in order to "guarantee" the deferred payments, but they don't see why they would have to pay to get rid of the first charge.  (And why should they?) 
     Were they named? I don't remember seeing the name of their organisation?




    Mentioned, not named

  • Valley11 said:
    I've spoken to a well connected sports journo in Cardiff. 
    All I can say is he hasn't posted any copy in response to the Standard article.
       
    And his reasons for that are?
  • edited July 2019
    Chizz said:
    I refuse to believe that the directors loans are stopping the sale of the club from going through. 
    The loans only total 7mil.and they don't need to be repayed until we reach the premiership. 
    I am convinced that something else is causing this delay. 
    Almost certainly Shitweasel at fault  
    I think it's slightly (but only slightly) more complicated than that.  

    The £7m is in effect a first charge against the property.  If the £7m loan gets paid back, the charge goes away.  But Roland doesn't want to pay it.  

    The buyers want clean title.  And they probably also want to defer certain tranches of payments, contingent on stuff like promotion, etc.  If Roland pays off the first charge, he would want his own first charge on the property to act as an insurance against not getting the additional payments.  

    So, on the one hand, Roland doesn't want to pony up the £7m.  But, on the other hand, he wants there to be a charge (in his benefit) on the property, so that he can ensure he gets his later instalments.  

    The buyers (whoever they are - maybe Dalman, maybe the Aussies, maybe the Chinese consortium that was named a few pages back) will want to defer payments where they can; they might be happy for Roland to have a charge on the property in order to "guarantee" the deferred payments, but they don't see why they would have to pay to get rid of the first charge.  (And why should they?) 

    This makes sense so is obviously bollocks 😉
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Roland Out Forever!