I feel strangely very calm, I'm assuming because of the wait since the takeover was first announced and the years of hanging on to hope since RD saying he was selling up.
My self imposed absence from the Valley for a number of years will finally come to an end. At last the dark stain on the club can be cleaned away.
Let’s hope ESI have plans that’ll allow for a gradual, sustainable improvement in the playing squad. That’s all we can ask for really.
Dry January may be put on hold tonight :-)
bollox to that - i want a rapid and spectacular rise to football domination - now the efl are off our backs, we can start tapping into all that abu dhabi dosh - 'sheikh it up baby' - COYR!!!!
Now that it's completed it shows that the owners and management team have a bit of personality about them with the cliff hanger tweets and social media posts of recent weeks.
If fans, board, management and non- playing and playing staff can all pull together now this is gonna be some journey.
2020 is a new era for CAFC, the bar has been set low for 90% of our history.
So pleased they announced today, early in the window and on my Mum's birthday with her Charlton family around her. Just another strange coincidence that it's in DEAL in Kent when the news came through. (Brother's house) After hearing Red, red Robin played in a NT house on Monday and being told the second recording was made on December 5th 1947 by Al Jolson and then 2 Robins flying around the courtyard, it just had to be imminent !
In a moment of unbridled joy, I took all my clothes off and ran naked around the streets of my workplace, Billericay.
After my arrest, I mentioned to both of the officers attending that I was now a casual acquaintance of His Excellency whereupon they released me immediately and drove off crying at 90mph in their squad car.
ESi have bought a great football club,and they know it,we have got rid of RD he is now history and should recieve no more mentions.It is now up to the supporters to back the new owners to the hilt,any crowds under 20000 from now until seasons end will be an insult.I look forward to seeing some lifelong friends back at the valley who have boycotted,the past is done,COYR.
If I wasn't so happy I'd be penning a cross email to someone. BBC wankers reporting thus:
East Street Investments has completed its takeover of Championship club Charlton Athletic, ending Roland Duchatelet's spell as owner.
Much of Duchatelet's tenure was dominated by friction between the Belgian and a section of supporters and he has been trying to sell the club since the end of 2017.
...and the postie has just delivered my half-year season ticket! Happy day indeed.
Just wanted to say congratulations and thanks to everyone at CARD etc for all their efforts in getting us organised. Also, big thanks to everyone who spent time and money protesting against the previous owner. There's no doubt in my mind he would have still been in charge if we hadn't made his life a bit more miserable than it presumably already is, what with him having failed at everything he's put his hand to since a bit of luck with a car gizmo. He can enjoy his retirement now, safe in the knowledge that he's no more than a brief footnote in the history of Charlton Athletic. He will be quickly forgotten.
And now, onwards and upwards, or rather consolidation and then upwards. Priory is to get the management team signed up on decent contracts, then the players they want to keep and then start building for a brighter future.
Apart from the play-off win, 2019 was a bit sh*t so definitely looking forward to a much better 2020.
Stage 1 complete. Now onto stage 2 (sack and/or execute the medical staff), stage 3 (get Bowyer and Taylor on new contracts), stage 4 (buy a team to play under/with the above) and stage 5 (get promoted).
And get rid of bloody Keohane ... one of the most useless and vindictive bastards to be involved in our club ever
Finally. I am so happy and thankful, I knew it was happening very soon, but still over come with emotion.
It’s a time of relief and excitement, all at once. It’s a time to look back and be proud of our fight and our support, what we have done over the last 6 years, all through the tough times and we are here now.
It’s a time to support the new regime and be positive, for the first proper time in a long time. But it’s also important to remember it’s a time that many people who aren’t with us today wanted just as much as us, and that’s incredibly sad that they can’t be here today to celebrate and enjoy this moment.
In a time where our fanbase was split, amongst it all have been people who can never return whilst others who have been through it from the inside. We have to have huge respect for people like Jackson and Solly who must be so relieved themselves.
But now we come out the other side, ready to rebuild together and as ESI have said, let’s make our great club great again.
Enjoy it everyone, enjoy it for yourselves, for the people we have lost, and for the future generations of our club. We won.
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My self imposed absence from the Valley for a number of years will finally come to an end. At last the dark stain on the club can be cleaned away.
Fantastic!!
bollox to that - i want a rapid and spectacular rise to football domination - now the efl are off our backs, we can start tapping into all that abu dhabi dosh - 'sheikh it up baby' - COYR!!!!
If fans, board, management and non- playing and playing staff can all pull together now this is gonna be some journey.
COYA!
But now he’s alright
(also running for cover 😁)
Well done to all involved with the takeover. We've got our Charlton back
2020 is a new era for CAFC, the bar has been set low for 90% of our history.
So pleased they announced today, early in the window and on my Mum's birthday with her Charlton family around her. Just another strange coincidence that it's in DEAL in Kent when the news came through.
(Brother's house)
After hearing Red, red Robin played in a NT house on Monday and being told the second recording was made on December 5th 1947 by Al Jolson and then 2 Robins flying around the courtyard, it just had to be imminent !
It's a beautiful day to have 2020 vision.
After my arrest, I mentioned to both of the officers attending that I was now a casual acquaintance of His Excellency whereupon they released me immediately and drove off crying at 90mph in their squad car.
Make of that what you will.
I can give up asking rhetorical questions about the takeover.
What's the point?
Just wanted to say congratulations and thanks to everyone at CARD etc for all their efforts in getting us organised. Also, big thanks to everyone who spent time and money protesting against the previous owner. There's no doubt in my mind he would have still been in charge if we hadn't made his life a bit more miserable than it presumably already is, what with him having failed at everything he's put his hand to since a bit of luck with a car gizmo. He can enjoy his retirement now, safe in the knowledge that he's no more than a brief footnote in the history of Charlton Athletic. He will be quickly forgotten.
And now, onwards and upwards, or rather consolidation and then upwards. Priory is to get the management team signed up on decent contracts, then the players they want to keep and then start building for a brighter future.
Apart from the play-off win, 2019 was a bit sh*t so definitely looking forward to a much better 2020.
Come on you red boys!
It’s a time of relief and excitement, all at once. It’s a time to look back and be proud of our fight and our support, what we have done over the last 6 years, all through the tough times and we are here now.
It’s a time to support the new regime and be positive, for the first proper time in a long time. But it’s also important to remember it’s a time that many people who aren’t with us today wanted just as much as us, and that’s incredibly sad that they can’t be here today to celebrate and enjoy this moment.
In a time where our fanbase was split, amongst it all have been people who can never return whilst others who have been through it from the inside. We have to have huge respect for people like Jackson and Solly who must be so relieved themselves.
But now we come out the other side, ready to rebuild together and as ESI have said, let’s make our great club great again.
Enjoy it everyone, enjoy it for yourselves, for the people we have lost, and for the future generations of our club. We won.