I’m pretty peed off with continually and consistently selling players below their proper value, in fact when I think of Roland , a man I’ve never met i get really angry, and break out in Tourette’s in my head!
The latest player is Anfernee who I’m lead to believe is going to leave us for £2 million.,chances are in the next 2-3 years his worth will be 10 million plus, and he’ll be sold on.
Why is Roland so short bloody minded, it’s obvious he’s not selling us, and keeps moving the goal posts, on the price, dare I say it, (not Katrien) we need a ceo negotiating proper transfer fees.
We are basically underselling our players at below the market value, where is the vision and leadership coming from?
certainly not Belgium , Roland would sell his own grannie if he could even if it meant digging her up!
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I do not agree with this, BUT Boro are probably seen as a better promotion and long term successful bet than lil old CAFC
Noone else would have sold those 4 for so little
Roland has a lot of blame regarding Aribo, reducing his offer last summer was disgraceful. Dijksteel similar, should have sat down and offered a proper contract straight after the play offs (at the latest).
Bauer wasn't completely Roland's fault. Looked like he was going last summer. Not 100% sure what the offer was this summer so nobody can really say for certain, but we should have had a fighting chance.
Konsa and Gomez were much worse than any of the above though.
Rob Elliot last year of contract wouldn't resign, sold for £400k
Carl Jenkinson wouldn't resign but him and his dad wouldn't let us be screwed and increased Arsenal's offer. Hats off but still in the £1 million ball park?
Kasey Palmer, the goal keeper and Joe Gomez. I have grouped these 3 together, and I can't remember the keepers name (he went to Arsenal iirc). Two of them didn't sign pro contracts and left for pennies, one did but only on the basis he has a get out clause. Less than 4 million for all 3.
Lookman, £10 millionish for a league 1 player? Is it still a record?
JJ Shelvey. Can't play in the last 5 or 6 games of the season, when we could have still got in the autos? Missed the play offs, still less than a million!!!!
Poyet, how the spivs let him play with out a proper contract God knows. Peanuts then, a fortune looking at how is career has gone, its always 20:20
Jordan Cousins, one of 2 academy boys given a "proper" contract, was it to much? Did we HAVE to then sell him to get him off the wage bill? Intresting one.
Grant, when, why and when would the 2 ever meet. Been done to death, sold for about 1.5 million, to much and to little in less than a year.
Konsa. He needed to leave when we didn't go up. Very badly done, even if the need due to FFP, there are ways around that. A bit of a cock up.
Aribo what a total cocks arse of Roland's making. Noone else to blame, total balls up, have 1 year to get a good deal, then another 6 months to do "a deal".
That's off the top of my head, the last player Charlton sold and I thought "we have had their pants down there" was probably Colin Pates.
Aribo was a MASSIVE screw up by Roland
We were a bit unlucky with Grant, I don't know if we tried to get him to sign a new deal in October, it did seem that things went a bit pear shaped off the field around that time.
Konsa was a complete mystery, when everyone expected him to go a PL club (hoovering up any youngster with potential) instead he goes to Brentford, as if Roland took the first fire sale offer
Gomez was also a mystery, but I suspect his agent insisted on a fairly low transfer fee clause or else he wouldn't have signed that contract...
We got pretty lucky with Lookman though, considering that he wasn't an academy player
Gudmundson - 2.5m?
Dale Stephens - 1 million
Michael Morrison. - Free?
Add up all the transfer money we should have got if we had been properly run in the last 5 years and Roland could probably have got his ridiculous asking price.
Trying to think of another we player we got a good price since then to be fair
If such towering financial incompetence was displayed by the chief executive of a publicly quoted company, such as, er, Melexis, the shareholders would be in revolt and said CEO would have to stand down.
It is pertinent and telling that the video was unearthed today of Richard Murray talking about how Duchatelet would bring the stability that would mean we would not have to sell players like Carl Jenkinson again and get as little as £1.75m That was, what, eight years ago, since then the money into the English game has doubled. Today, under no threat of imminent financial collapse, we have sold Dijksteel for the same price. That is the Duchatelet hypocrisy and hubris in a nutshell.
I suppose that (a) Roland has never seen any of these young lads play (58 months and counting), (b) has no interest in football and in CAFC, in particular, and (c) maybe sees things in pure accountancy terms, given that these players cost only a small proportion of development and infrastructure costs. Allied to a complete absence of football ambition, there is also plainly a total lack of nous.
The list of Charlton youngsters sold contains some top level players and, leaving aside lesser lights like Cousins, Fox, Holmes and Harriott (all of whom generated significant transfer fees), it illustrates how fortunate Duchatelet has been - notwithstanding his diabolical mismanagement of the club and, in terms of transfers, his (and Katrien’s) abject failure to negotiate decent deals and allow players’ values to appreciate:
Pope - 1.0 (no extra sum negotiated for England caps, notwithstanding his transfer to the Premier League)
Gomez - 3.5 (extra sum for competitive England caps).
Lookman - 7.5 plus 15% sell-on (1.35)
Konsa - 2.5 (zero sell-on)
Grant - 1.5
Aribo - 0.3
Dijksteel - 2.0 (allegedly but probably ‘rising to...’).
Total - £17.85 million
At least Duchatelet has been consistent in his ineptitude. As if we need reminding, back in 2014:
Dale Stephens - 0.7 million
Yann Kermogant - 0.4 million
An utterly dismal and dispiriting tale, with much of the Academy’s superb work being cast to the wind.
Neal Maupay also of Brentford going to Brighton for £20 million, that’s £32 million for 2 players, who the heck have Brentford got doing their transfer deals, surely worth head hunting for a bag of skips and a bottle of water?
Apologies it’s a link to the sun, but here’s a bit about how they do it, just found on google.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/9646986/brentford-rasmus-ankersen-fc-midtjylland/
Now I know that the money will not be re-invested, and just go straight into RD's pocket, I have to remind myself that he is screwing himself over, and no-one else.
So let them all go on a free as far as I am concerned...
The way the club is being run is so illogical I can only assume he is primarily motivated by spite and vindictiveness. If he was as bothered by money as people claim he wouldn't run the club like this.
I don't think he is desperate to sell and I'm sure he's enjoying our pain.