According to Duchatelet, three ex-Directors are holding up completion of a takeover by not accepting offers to settle outstanding loans (four ex-Directors possibly if we include David White).
These are the men who loaned the club money in the past under better ownership because the club were desperate for it. They did so on zero percent interest and on the basis that the loans would only ever be repayable if the club hit the Premier League jackpot. Hardly the action of greedy or grasping individuals compared to Duchatelet himself who charges the club 3% on his loans and who is demanding a ridiculously unrealistic price to sell.
I am as desperate for a takeover as anyone but I am more than prepared to wait another 6 months or longer if it means the ex-Directors get what they want in settling these loans and Duchatelet has to suck-up ongoing losses . Duchatelet didn't bother with Due Diligence when he bought the club because he was arrogant enough to assume his wealth would enable him to deal with any problems and because he didn't want to pay for it or wait until it was concluded. So it's entirely his own fault that he is now having to settle this. The issue was exposed years ago when the protests started but still he didn't bother about it, until now.
I am sure most of our supporters will back the ex-Directors here in them getting what they want to settle their loans. Another loss Duchatelet should be forced to pay for.
75
Comments
If so, why would they be hesitant when anyone offered to repay them ?
They cannot object if they're being offered the full amount of the loan, but Roland is offering to pay back only part of the amounts - ie a heavily-discounted repayment.
If you loaned someone £1,000, would you accept £500 as repayment?
However, no discussion has taken place.
So, with no guarantee that in 6 months or longer this Directors' loans fiasco would be concluded successfully, we could
be left without our manager and most, if not all of our current squad.
Trying to get ... or embarrass ... the ex-directors to accept a big discount - then he decides he doesn’t want to sell and takes the opportunity to obtain finance (or seek other opportunities) using the land as collateral?
I wouldn’t be surprised if he sees the land as his big chance to make money, and is using the proposed buyers as pawns in his game.
Far-fetched? Maybe. But nothing would surprise me with this individual.
Not to mention LDT said ex-director loans would not be a problem!
Yet more evidence that he really, really don't get it.
In the unlikely event of us ever reaching the Premier league under the Belgian lunatic the physical amount actually paid out would still be £7 million everything else remaining equal.