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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • Davidsmith
    Davidsmith Posts: 207
    Redmidland said:

    J BLOCK said:

    kidbrookeaddick said:

    Angeldust saying the first part andbrxleyboy saying hes wrong... think angeldust is morelikely to know than bexleyboy going on previous

    What’s Bexley saying
    Bexley is just saying Angel is incorrect, others now saying Angel is right and Bexley is wrong.....all seems a load of old bull to me and my best guess is no-one really knows diddlysquat currently.
    Angel is correct, Roland must be one of the only sellers in history when creating a bidding war, succeeded in driving price down
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Davidsmith said:

    Redmidland said:

    J BLOCK said:

    kidbrookeaddick said:

    Angeldust saying the first part andbrxleyboy saying hes wrong... think angeldust is morelikely to know than bexleyboy going on previous

    What’s Bexley saying
    Bexley is just saying Angel is incorrect, others now saying Angel is right and Bexley is wrong.....all seems a load of old bull to me and my best guess is no-one really knows diddlysquat currently.
    Angel is correct, Roland must be one of the only sellers in history when creating a bidding war, succeeded in driving price down
    Keep it going then, I reckon I have 13 quid saved up in the penny jar.
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    edited May 2018
    Goonerhater said:

    If we get a CEO or a CFO appointed by RD in the next few weeks then its all been bollox and the egotistical twat aint going anywhere and we are in deep shit

    That’s always been the key indicator but tbh I think he’d let it drift on figuring he doesn’t need a manager until at least July and he doesn’t need a chief exec at all. He’s got a lackey popping backwards and forwards from Belgium to do the books. Have to remember he really doesn’t give a toss about the club and its future and never has.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Scoham said:

    Sunderland are now into their third week of waiting.

    https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/stewart-donald-hopeful-sunderland-takeover-14654750

    Why try to buy a club if you’re scraping around trying to raise funds? It’s obvious they’ll potentially need tens of millions over the next few seasons just to keep the club going. Maybe I’m missing something here.

    Unfortunately the EFL put no time frame on their owners and directors tests because they are so detailed and stringent. The document outlining the process and the factors which could result in disqualification is 16 A4 pages long, such is the attention to detail in the level of checks they do.
    Detailed and stringent? Attention to detail in the level of checks?

    When did this suddenly happen?
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    If the deal wasn’t done, there is no way Muir would have broken cover, due to NDA’s etc, just waiting on the EFL IMO
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    Perhaps he was trying to force Duchâtelet’s hand. But Duchâtelet will never be blackmailed.
  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,881
    Redmidland said:

    J BLOCK said:

    kidbrookeaddick said:

    Angeldust saying the first part andbrxleyboy saying hes wrong... think angeldust is morelikely to know than bexleyboy going on previous

    What’s Bexley saying
    Bexley is just saying Angel is incorrect, others now saying Angel is right and Bexley is wrong.....all seems a load of old bull to me and my best guess is no-one really knows diddlysquat currently.
    Out of Angeldust & Bexley, Angeldust is a 100 x more likely to be correct.
  • jac52
    jac52 Posts: 636
    For what it's worth I think this is the Gerard Murphy bloke.. appointed as Director for Echidna Acquisitions, which was incorporated on 30th April 2018. No other directors so not much use but maybe an indication of things actually being in motion on the assumption this is the company being used for the purchase.

    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11336951/officers
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,560
    please, please, please can someone, anyone, put us out of our misery? It's really doing my head in.
  • Addickforlife
    Addickforlife Posts: 2,101
    jac52 said:

    For what it's worth I think this is the Gerard Murphy bloke.. appointed as Director for Echidna Acquisitions, which was incorporated on 30th April 2018. No other directors so not much use but maybe an indication of things actually being in motion on the assumption this is the company being used for the purchase.

    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11336951/officers

    'Australian Football Consortium Limited' is the name given as the initial shareholders. Interesting. Or maybe not. I don't really know anymore.
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  • Spanish
    Spanish Posts: 856
    Is it fair to assume RD will be losing more money over the close season than he did during the season, or was the £1m branded, spread over 12 months ? Either way, makes no sense that he is still holding on to this "runaway train" that he has proudly been in charge of ....?
  • jac52
    jac52 Posts: 636
    Addickforlife said:

    jac52 said:

    For what it's worth I think this is the Gerard Murphy bloke.. appointed as Director for Echidna Acquisitions, which was incorporated on 30th April 2018. No other directors so not much use but maybe an indication of things actually being in motion on the assumption this is the company being used for the purchase.

    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11336951/officers

    'Australian Football Consortium Limited' is the name given as the initial shareholders. Interesting. Or maybe not. I don't really know anymore.
    Looking back through the joys of this thread the date ties back to what was said about Section 3 being sent to the EFL.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    edited May 2018
    jac52 said:

    For what it's worth I think this is the Gerard Murphy bloke.. appointed as Director for Echidna Acquisitions, which was incorporated on 30th April 2018. No other directors so not much use but maybe an indication of things actually being in motion on the assumption this is the company being used for the purchase.

    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11336951/officers

    http://www.bizstats.co.uk/ltd/echidna-acquisitions-limited-11336951/

    So they're using CMS - https://cms.law/en/GBR/Office/London
  • jac52
    jac52 Posts: 636
    jac52 said:

    Addickforlife said:

    jac52 said:

    For what it's worth I think this is the Gerard Murphy bloke.. appointed as Director for Echidna Acquisitions, which was incorporated on 30th April 2018. No other directors so not much use but maybe an indication of things actually being in motion on the assumption this is the company being used for the purchase.

    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11336951/officers

    'Australian Football Consortium Limited' is the name given as the initial shareholders. Interesting. Or maybe not. I don't really know anymore.
    Looking back through the joys of this thread the date ties back to what was said about Section 3 being sent to the EFL.
    Also couldn't find any company registered with that AFC name so no idea where the Daily Mail got it from initially.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    jac52 said:

    Addickforlife said:

    jac52 said:

    For what it's worth I think this is the Gerard Murphy bloke.. appointed as Director for Echidna Acquisitions, which was incorporated on 30th April 2018. No other directors so not much use but maybe an indication of things actually being in motion on the assumption this is the company being used for the purchase.

    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11336951/officers

    'Australian Football Consortium Limited' is the name given as the initial shareholders. Interesting. Or maybe not. I don't really know anymore.
    Looking back through the joys of this thread the date ties back to what was said about Section 3 being sent to the EFL.
    Sherlock Holmes award goes to @jac52
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,560
    Addickforlife said:

    jac52 said:

    For what it's worth I think this is the Gerard Murphy bloke.. appointed as Director for Echidna Acquisitions, which was incorporated on 30th April 2018. No other directors so not much use but maybe an indication of things actually being in motion on the assumption this is the company being used for the purchase.

    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11336951/officers

    'Australian Football Consortium Limited' is the name given as the initial shareholders. Interesting. Or maybe not. I don't really know anymore.
    the registered address is that of CMS CAMERON MCKENNA NABARRO OLSWANG LLP, Solicitors.

  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    jac52 said:

    For what it's worth I think this is the Gerard Murphy bloke.. appointed as Director for Echidna Acquisitions, which was incorporated on 30th April 2018. No other directors so not much use but maybe an indication of things actually being in motion on the assumption this is the company being used for the purchase.

    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11336951/officers

    Good spot that.
  • bazjonster
    bazjonster Posts: 2,875
    seth plum said:

    How many milestones have we hung hope round? This or that close season, this or that transfer window, being prepared for times when planning and strategy is needed, waiting to know which division we're in, this or that snippet of leaked information, this or that arrival or departure of playing or non playing staff.
    And still Duchatelet is the owner.
    And still I wait to buy my beloved season tickets.
    When Pandoras box was opened all the bad stuff was released into the world, but shining at the bottom of the box was hope.
    Duchatelet has crushed hope because eventually time trumps hope, and we are left with nothing but the bad stuff.

    It's a good post Seth. But surely all that 'hope' has only been compounded by threads like this? All of the proclamations of 'imminence' and 'done deals' have only served to get people's hopes up and provide many false dawns.

    That's not a criticism of the information flow either by the way. Just a recognition of fact and how nothing is actually certain and that we don't really know what's going on in reality.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,117
    The Red Robin said:

    What if, when you're trying to sell your house there's loads of Belgians in there, a weird kid who sits in the corner playing Football Manager all day, an elderly woman scoffing vol-au-vents and a bald fat bloke handing out sandwiches to everyone?

    Sounds like my house before I moved out, minus the Belgians.
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  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    what is this monstrosity?! Facts and hard evidence in my takeover thread?! GET OUT.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    jac52 said:

    Just realised companies House has the pdf of the incorporation statement... Echidna is owned by Australian Football Consotrium (they're incorporated in Aus, which is obviously why I couldn't find them before!). So at least something, somewhere is happening.. maybe.

    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11336951/filing-history/MzIwMzgwNDg4MGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0

    so we're going to be taken over by a company named after australian ant eaters.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    jac52 said:

    For what it's worth I think this is the Gerard Murphy bloke.. appointed as Director for Echidna Acquisitions, which was incorporated on 30th April 2018. No other directors so not much use but maybe an indication of things actually being in motion on the assumption this is the company being used for the purchase.

    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11336951/officers

    jac52 said:

    Just realised companies House has the pdf of the incorporation statement... Echidna is owned by Australian Football Consotrium (they're incorporated in Aus, which is obviously why I couldn't find them before!). So at least something, somewhere is happening.. maybe.

    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11336951/filing-history/MzIwMzgwNDg4MGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0

    Good work. You can register on Companies House and follow the company and get alerts e-mailed to you...
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    kentaddick said:

    jac52 said:

    Just realised companies House has the pdf of the incorporation statement... Echidna is owned by Australian Football Consotrium (they're incorporated in Aus, which is obviously why I couldn't find them before!). So at least something, somewhere is happening.. maybe.

    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11336951/filing-history/MzIwMzgwNDg4MGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0

    so we're going to be taken over by a company named after australian ant eaters.
    They must have come up with the name while Katy was still around.....

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna_(mythology)
  • Ashers
    Ashers Posts: 418
    kentaddick said:

    jac52 said:

    Just realised companies House has the pdf of the incorporation statement... Echidna is owned by Australian Football Consotrium (they're incorporated in Aus, which is obviously why I couldn't find them before!). So at least something, somewhere is happening.. maybe.

    https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11336951/filing-history/MzIwMzgwNDg4MGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0

    so we're going to be taken over by a company named after australian ant eaters.
    In Greek mythology, Echidna was half woman, half snake. Sounds like a nightmeire to me...
  • CAFCDAZ
    CAFCDAZ Posts: 1,198
    just found this, not sure if it's been posted previously - https://www.australianfc.com.au/
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    CAFCDAZ said:

    just found this, not sure if it's been posted previously - https://www.australianfc.com.au/

    Posted numerous times over the last year or so, but I'm sure not everyone saw it.
  • CAFCDAZ
    CAFCDAZ Posts: 1,198
    CAFCDAZ said:

    just found this, not sure if it's been posted previously - https://www.australianfc.com.au/

    which leads us to these guys, who look to be the company who look for investors; https://henslow.com/

    so many smoke and mirrors!
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    Not sure if this is significant (contained in the Wiki entry):

    "Male echidnas have a four-headed penis."
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,677
    Macronate said:

    Not sure if this is significant (contained in the Wiki entry):

    "Male echidnas have a four-headed penis."

    We're being taken over by a load of pricks?
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