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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,265
    Heard the new owners will bring in yodelling sessions for new songs

    Customers wanting to partake will need to form an orderly orderly orderly orderly queue behind the West Stand
  • Everyone is just Interlaken about on this thread now
  • Well our squad is like a Swiss cheese at the moment, full of holes...

  • I like Switzerland very much, but sadly I've not visited for some years. I really miss it - as they say, absence makes the heart grow fondue.
  • No doubt, if there was a Swiss bid, the DD would go like clockwork.
  • bellz2002
    bellz2002 Posts: 1,361
    We need to keep a Swatch out for any developments.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    Uboat said:

    'Joking' aside, I would prefer the Aussie bid to this new one. I think they would be more likely to 'get' Charlton.

    All a bit of a guessing game really, unless others have more information than me that's a case of saying, do you want an unknown quantity from Australia or an unknown quantity from somewhere near Dubai? How would I know what the advantages or disadvantages of either would be.

    What I really want is:
    - Someone who is ambitious for the club, not just for themselves personally.
    - Someone with a positive and workable vision for how they can make a success of the club.
    - Someone who will respect the history, traditions and fans of the club.
    - Someone who has sufficient surplus wealth that can be invested to make Charlton great.
    - Someone who will put a decent management team in charge of playing matters and give them the necessary support to do their jobs without interfering in decisions that should be left to the experts.
    - Someone who doesn't come with unnecessary baggage that could be harmful, divisive or embarrassing.
    - Someone with the will and the skills to encourage the board, the management, the players, the fans and the employees to all pull together in one direction: making Charlton Athletic great again.

    I don't know how either of the two possible buyers match up against any of my criteria, but for the moment at least I'm happy to lower my sights a little and go with anyone who isn't Duchatelet.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,480
    edited December 2017
    One would think that most of those boxes would be ticked by the Aussies but the most telling box that needs ticking would be who has the finances to achieve the success you mention......in which case I would imagine it wouldn’t be our Aussie friends who get that tick......unfortunately.
    Catch 22 I fancy.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561

    One would think that most of those boxes would be ticked by the Aussies but the most telling box that needs ticking would be who has the finances to achieve the success you mention......in which case I would imagine it wouldn’t be our Aussie friends who get that tick......unfortunately.
    Catch 22 I fancy.

    out of interest why? Muir and his Aussie mate are minted.

  • How do people come up with this stuff?!

    I'm racking my brain trying to shoe horn Lederhosen into this thread but I've got nothing.

    Geneva hand?
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  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,487
    If only there was a RedHenry post notification.
  • Bolderhumphreyreid
    Bolderhumphreyreid Posts: 2,553
    edited December 2017
    Someone help me as I'm completely lost...

    * Is the second bid from a buyer that has already done DD or is this a totally new buyer and hence yet to do DD
    * If it's from a new buyer what happened to the previous buyer that supposedly did DD?

    @Redhenry @Airman Brown

    I appreciate we may find out more in VOTV tomorrow and if so just say (we know you're not making it up just to sell more copies!).
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,480

    One would think that most of those boxes would be ticked by the Aussies but the most telling box that needs ticking would be who has the finances to achieve the success you mention......in which case I would imagine it wouldn’t be our Aussie friends who get that tick......unfortunately.
    Catch 22 I fancy.

    out of interest why? Muir and his Aussie mate are minted.

    Because it’s not been made certain that he’s involved......though come to think of it, we don’t know who has!!!
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734

    Someone help me as I'm completely lost...

    * Is the second bid from a buyer that has already done DD or is this a totally new buyer and hence yet to do DD
    * If it's from a new buyer what happened to the previous buyer that supposedly did DD?

    @Redhenry @Airman Brown

    I appreciate we may find out more in VOTV tomorrow and if so just say (we know you're not making it up just to sell more copies!).

    I think likely to be a new bidder who hasn’t done DD and that the first one hasn’t completely gone away, but there will be a lot of smoke and mirrors here to confuse the position.
  • c4fcdenmark
    c4fcdenmark Posts: 2,041
    I Camembert it any longer.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955

    Could the Swiss Alp us out of League One?

    It's a mountain to climb
    As long as the interest hasn't peaked.

  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    edited December 2017
    What’s zermatter with everyone, this is no time for endless puns about Swiss things! It’s all a load of clock!
  • This forum's gone cuckoo...
  • I Camembert it any longer.

    Taken from Frasier?

  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    edited December 2017

    I Camembert it any longer.

    Taken from Frasier?

    Could be, apparently people stiltons of one liners from that show..... hard to brielieve but true...
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  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,866
    Live by the Swiss Army knife

  • I Camembert it any longer.

    Has there been a French offer now?
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    If it Alps, I reckon the next rumour will be along in 10 minutes!
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448

    Well our squad is like a Swiss cheese at the moment, full of holes...

    Only time will William Tell.
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,035
    Where have we got the Swiss rumours from? Was briefly mentioned in an article a couple of weeks back but I've seen nothing else since?
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996

    I Camembert it any longer.

    Has there been a French offer now?
    Let's hope not there's loads of jokes about the bloody French.
  • I Camembert it any longer.

    Has there been a French offer now?
    Yeah was only a brief offer that was placed for a few minutes before they decided to go in full retreat without Roland having time to consider it
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456

    I Camembert it any longer.

    Has there been a French offer now?
    Let's hope not there's loads of jokes about the bloody French.
    Too right.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    MarcusH26 said:

    Where have we got the Swiss rumours from? Was briefly mentioned in an article a couple of weeks back but I've seen nothing else since?

    I asked around but they were all quite neutral about it
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,126

    I Camembert it any longer.

    Has there been a French offer now?
    Andy Delorts dad has tweeted there is...
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