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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977

    By the 7th January.

    I was in Brasil when they took us over, so would be spooky if they sold whilst I'm back out there.

    Your quest to find a Brazilian ladyboy must have you a few bob
  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    I think what is upsetting people is the idea that he will profit from a relegated club. Well, whether we are relegated simply is not a factor if he can find a buyer.

    Newcastle is probably going to sell for a £90M profit despite being relegated twice and on pace for perhaps a third time. Much like CAFC, Ashley has gone into debt to himself. It currently stands at something like £129M. You bet he won't be eating that debt. And I doubt Rolly will either.

    At least Ashley did not charge interest in debt he created himself.
  • Tomorrow will be the nine month anniversary since this thread was started. Let's hope this isn't a phantom birth!


  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657

    If I buy a house for £18k, spend another £37k doing it up (so £55k in total) and then sell it for £20k have I made A. a £2k profit or B. a £35k loss.

    If you say A then I have some magic beans I'd like to sell you.

    Except that is not what is happening.

    He bought the house for 18. Spent 37 on improvements but put it on credit card. He owns the credit card company and pays interest to himself. When he sells for 20, he turns the debt and credit card company over to the new owners and pockets the 2 difference between 18 and 20.

    Why would anyone agree to take 37k of debt off of his hands? Aren't they then effectively paying 57k for the club?
    As an enterprise value, yes. Which is exactly why I believe it has not been sold. Buyers want him to take a haircut on debt and I suspect he is refusing.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221

    If I buy a house for £18k, spend another £37k doing it up (so £55k in total) and then sell it for £20k have I made A. a £2k profit or B. a £35k loss.

    If you say A then I have some magic beans I'd like to sell you.

    Except that is not what is happening.

    He bought the house for 18. Spent 37 on improvements but put it on credit card. He owns the credit card company and pays interest to himself. When he sells for 20, he turns the debt and credit card company over to the new owners and pockets the 2 difference between 18 and 20.

    Why would anyone agree to take 37k of debt off of his hands? Aren't they then effectively paying 57k for the club?
    As an enterprise value, yes. Which is exactly why I believe it has not been sold. Buyers want him to take a haircut on debt and I suspect he is refusing.
    Or they want to pay a realistic price and he wants an unrealistic one.

    Newcastle are in the Premier League so totally irrelevant comparison.
  • cafc_harry
    cafc_harry Posts: 3,360
    @AFKABartram can we have another ‘guys...’ please.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995

    If I buy a house for £18k, spend another £37k doing it up (so £55k in total) and then sell it for £20k have I made A. a £2k profit or B. a £35k loss.

    If you say A then I have some magic beans I'd like to sell you.

    Except that is not what is happening.

    He bought the house for 18. Spent 37 on improvements but put it on credit card. He owns the credit card company and pays interest to himself. When he sells for 20, he turns the debt and credit card company over to the new owners and pockets the 2 difference between 18 and 20.

    Why would anyone agree to take 37k of debt off of his hands? Aren't they then effectively paying 57k for the club?
    Of course they are. They've paid £20K +£37K = £57K. This really is maths for 5 year olds.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,912
    edited December 2017
    DOUCHER said:

    I'm just saying that if the £18m debt remains and is passed on to the new owners, he would only need an offer of circa £35m to break even so anything higher would be a profit. Not that he will get that of course.

    And you had the front to try and belittle me for studying economics.

    Perhaps GCSE maths is what you need.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    edited December 2017
    This thread today... Quick maths

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X09oxyIeGuY
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    £20K +£37K x 0 + £1 =
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  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,126
    Stig said:

    £20K +£37K x 0 + £1 =

    PI?
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,588
    DOUCHER said:

    I'm just saying that if the £18m debt remains and is passed on to the new owners, he would only need an offer of circa £35m to break even so anything higher would be a profit. Not that he will get that of course.

    So the offer would still have to be £53M in total.

  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,588
    Stig said:

    £20K +£37K x 0 + £1 =

    £20,001
  • Beardface
    Beardface Posts: 1,128
    DRAddick said:

    Stig said:

    £20K +£37K x 0 + £1 =

    £20,001
    This is correct under the BODMAS principle of solving equations...

    And most people are forgetting that the interest accrued on the debt is notional and whilst it will count as a loss on the accounts it's not a functional loss in terms of investment he has made and not recouped.

    In fact he can potentially take the loss forward and apply it against future taxes to recoup his other losses. @Covered End unfortunately it's not that simple!
  • Tomorrow will be the nine month anniversary since this thread was started. Let's hope this isn't a phantom birth!


    Except my original calculation is a month out and premature. Typical me!
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    Stig said:

    £20K +£37K x 0 + £1 =

    Jonathan Ross's wife?
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,351
    edited December 2017
    At the end of the day chaps, who knows what that mad Belgian cnut will do?
  • So depressing this
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,223
    Stig said:

    £20K +£37K x 0 + £1 =


    Quick maffs
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    edited December 2017

    So depressing this

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo

    And it's nearly Christmas :wink:
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  • RedChaser said:

    So depressing this

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo

    And it's nearly Christmas :wink:
    This thread IS the bright side!
  • Hartleypete
    Hartleypete Posts: 4,699
    Keep the faith, won't be long.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    edited December 2017
    So the Bolton fella who ran up £130m of debt to himself then wrote it off made £130m or did he lose it or break even or are the new owners £130m up or are some of you sooooo fucking weird it’s scary .

    All this pretend debt can’t just be knocked and forgotten about at some point it has to be paid off unless you go the admin route , only if there is some miracle link to promotion to prem league then we pay you extra blah blah blah which is madness

    You read some of the waffle on here and it makes me think fucking hell i might be above average in brain content , although common sense is probably more appropriate I only got 3 o-levels
  • Swisdom said:

    By the 7th January.

    I was in Brasil when they took us over, so would be spooky if they sold whilst I'm back out there.

    Your quest to find a Brazilian ladyboy must have you a few bob
    Really?
  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    Apologies for interrupting the on-going 'discussion'/disagreement' re what RD paid or wants. Any news on a takeover? After seeing nearly 100 new posts I thought something had happened one way or another.
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    Aaaaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!











    That’s better. Thanks for bearing with me.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998

    So the Bolton fella who ran up £130m of debt to himself then wrote it off made £130m or did he lose it or break even or are the new owners £130m up or are some of you sooooo fucking weird it’s scary .

    All this pretend debt can’t just be knocked and forgotten about at some point it has to be paid off unless you go the admin route , only if there is some miracle link to promotion to prem league then we pay you extra blah blah blah which is madness

    You read some of the waffle on here and it makes me think fucking hell i might be above average in brain content , although common sense is probably more appropriate I only got 3 o-levels

    I thought I was reasonably intelligent ... the last few dozen posts have made me realise I haven’t got a fucking clue what is going on.
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,126
    milo said:

    I go to the pub and see my mate Slater. Slater is in a bad way, he is skint and needs to sell his car, unfortunately he borrowed £1,800 from the bank to buy his car. I say it is okay Slater, I’ll go to the bank with you tomorrow and pay off the debt if you give me the car for nothing. Slater agrees, receives no money and hands the car over to me.

    I borrow £1,800 from my savings account go to Slater’s bank and give them the £1,800. I then, for some unknown reason, put a different engine in it that makes it go even worse than it did before, I take out the red seats and replace them with slightly darker red ones, I put in new heater ducts but don’t connect them to the heating matrix, etc – this costs me £3,700. To pay for this I have to borrow from my savings account again. I have now borrowed £5,300 from my savings account.

    Since I put the new engine in it is drinking far more petrol and going slower than ever, it is costing me £100 extra for every month that I keep it. I decide it is time to sell.

    I find a mug who will pay me £2,000 for it, I take the £2,000 and pay it in to my savings account.

    My wife then says to me - we need to get the bathroom done why is there £3,300 missing from the savings account? I then look her in the eye with a completely straight face and say don’t worry my darling I took that money and I invested it in a car and made £200. And she says to me “you are a financial genius.”



    Please buy my house
  • CatAddick
    CatAddick Posts: 2,385
    milo said:

    I go to the pub and see my mate Slater. Slater is in a bad way, he is skint and needs to sell his car, unfortunately he borrowed £1,800 from the bank to buy his car. I say it is okay Slater, I’ll go to the bank with you tomorrow and pay off the debt if you give me the car for nothing. Slater agrees, receives no money and hands the car over to me.

    I borrow £1,800 from my savings account go to Slater’s bank and give them the £1,800. I then, for some unknown reason, put a different engine in it that makes it go even worse than it did before, I take out the red seats and replace them with slightly darker red ones, I put in new heater ducts but don’t connect them to the heating matrix, etc – this costs me £3,700. To pay for this I have to borrow from my savings account again. I have now borrowed £5,300 from my savings account.

    Since I put the new engine in it is drinking far more petrol and going slower than ever, it is costing me £100 extra for every month that I keep it. I decide it is time to sell.

    I find a mug who will pay me £2,000 for it, I take the £2,000 and pay it in to my savings account.

    My wife then says to me - we need to get the bathroom done why is there £3,300 missing from the savings account? I then look her in the eye with a completely straight face and say don’t worry my darling I took that money and I invested it in a car and made £200. And she says to me “you are a financial genius.”



    And my wife says "you can put that £200 with the £300 I saved buying those Gucci shoes in the sale, and next year Rodney...."
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