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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764

    I have sinned.

    Stone him!! :-)
  • I assume the following changes will occur after they take over...

    1. Tesla refueling parking spaces and camel water troughs
    2. Men and women must sit in different stands
    3. Prayers every 15 minutes of play (not to Allah, but for goals)
    4. Beheading of failed managers
    5. Can purchase tickets with petrodollars
    6. New scoreboard showing Saudi invasion of Yemen at halftime

    I am no supporter of oppressive corrupt dictatorships but No4. sounds quite appealing.
  • I assume the following changes will occur after they take over...

    1. Tesla refueling parking spaces and camel water troughs
    2. Men and women must sit in different stands
    3. Prayers every 15 minutes of play (not to Allah, but for goals)
    4. Beheading of failed managers
    5. Can purchase tickets with petrodollars
    6. New scoreboard showing Saudi invasion of Yemen at halftime

    You forgot..

    7. Stoning the player who gets the lowest marks on the Statbank
  • CafcWest
    CafcWest Posts: 6,167
    If there is a chance of a, forward thinking, middle eastern led takeover consortium looking at us then I hope they don’t look at this thread! Some of the stereotypical comments are bordering on racism and are going a bit too far in the hope of a LOL...
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,126
    Did you just say forward thinking and, oh nevermind
  • cafc-west said:

    If there is a chance of a, forward thinking, middle eastern led takeover consortium looking at us then I hope they don’t look at this thread! Some of the stereotypical comments are bordering on racism and are going a bit too far in the hope of a LOL...

    Stone,him!
  • superclive
    superclive Posts: 1,809
    Someone fill me in. I can't trace anything about this middle eastern stuff. Who said it? Is there any fact in it
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,459

    Someone fill me in. I can't trace anything about this middle eastern stuff. Who said it? Is there any fact in it

    There is none.
    Someone put a link up refering to the 2008 Zabeel approach and it's all blown up from there.
    It's that easy.
    That sir, is a Chinese whisper*.

    *Awaits thread to go wild with claims of big money Chinese investment
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,480
    edited December 2017

    I have sinned.

    Not been keeping up with this thread and decided to dive in at the current page, only to find the focus has shifted some 12,000 km from Sydney to Dubai. Started working my way backwards, got impatient jumped back 20 pages or so, waded through a moneyball debate, started reading forwards, skipped pages once or twice (and then went back again). Eventually found Red Henry's 'Heard a second bid was put forward last week. I have been waiting to hear the outcome' and then Airman's 'Dubai has been mentioned to me, but it was a completely random source and I have absolutely nothing to back that up'.

    These few uncertain, cryptic words, enough to cause a meltdown and launch a thousand Arab based jokes.

    I suppose the moral of the story is keep up or keep out. I'm not sure what to do and to make matters worse I can't even think of an Arab based joke, maybe I'm not worthy of this fine thread.



    You obviously missed the ‘aliens’ buy out proposal which was turned down due to them wanting to bring in their own managerial team and coaching set up.
    Height was also an issue......which is a ridiculous decision by the Belgians, given that at earlier meetings they had demonstrated their ability to jump around ten feet vertically from a standing position!
  • Dubai Horse,
    Dubai Horse,
    Saying Dubai to his horse

    that's made me chuckle out loud that has
    Whilst feeling just slightly uncomfortable with some of the puns, this one has made be laugh out loud in Pret A Manger.
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  • Who was it who said it was going to be a bumpy Riyadh?

    God I waded through 700 posts to make sure nobody else had used that.

    Sharia-lly wasted you time there.
    Groan!
  • JamesSeed said:

    Who was it who said it was going to be a bumpy Riyadh?

    God I waded through 700 posts to make sure nobody else had used that.

    Why would they??!



    Only kidding, it was quite good.
    Quite!

    Multiply effort by originality and it has to be more than 'quite'.
  • But having said that, the humour reminds me how much I love being a Charlton fan.
    Thankyou Daddy.
    That's what I always called him, I never gravitated to Dad.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    'Joking' aside, I would prefer the Aussie bid to this new one. I think they would be more likely to 'get' Charlton.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,222
    Uboat said:

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

    But seriously, we have no idea who this other bid is from.

    @Redheny said that he'd heard there was a substantial bid from a wealthy bidder/s , @Airman Brown mentioned that he'd heard a vague rumour of Dubai and @Redhenry said close or near (need to check exact wording).

    That led to a lot of middle east/Arab puns, which were mostly funny, but that is really all.

    And we don't even know for sure about the Aussie bid either.

    I might as well say I prefer the Swiss bid.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,208
    edited December 2017
    Are the Swiss rolling in money?
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,222
    Solidgone said:

    Are the Swiss rolling in money?

    At least the gnomes in the shop will be high quality.

  • king addick
    king addick Posts: 3,701
    Toblegnome?
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    I think you're all cukoo
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    Hope they don't Berne their bridges.
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  • Certainly the Swiss bid is on a roll.
  • Not the bloody Swiss! No way will they have the required capital.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    Hopefully this doesn't turn out to be a swizz.
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,728
    I can't think of many advantages of having Swiss owners. But at least the flag is a big plus.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,169

    I assume the following changes will occur after they take over...

    1. Tesla refueling parking spaces and camel water troughs
    2. Men and women must sit in different stands
    3. Prayers every 15 minutes of play (not to Allah, but for goals)
    4. Beheading of failed managers
    5. Can purchase tickets with petrodollars
    6. New scoreboard showing Saudi invasion of Yemen at halftime

    You forgot..

    7. Stoning the player who gets the lowest marks on the Statbank
    Even safely located in Sheffield, Morgan Fox just shuddered in fear
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    Could the Swiss Alp us out of League One?
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195

    Uboat said:

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

    But seriously, we have no idea who this other bid is from.

    @Redheny said that he'd heard there was a substantial bid from a wealthy bidder/s , @Airman Brown mentioned that he'd heard a vague rumour of Dubai and @Redhenry said close or near (need to check exact wording).

    That led to a lot of middle east/Arab puns, which were mostly funny, but that is really all.

    And we don't even know for sure about the Aussie bid either.

    I might as well say I prefer the Swiss bid.
    You're right.

    Apologies for being the first person to talk shit on this thread.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,222

    Could the Swiss Alp us out of League One?

    It's a mountain to climb
  • 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.
  • 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.

    Careful, you don't want to breech protocol.
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