The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)
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Don't need to wait until Tuesday - after yesterday's rubbish there is no doubt which division we will be playing in next season!golfaddick said:
More like it will give us the impetus & the will to protest again at the game against Blackburn. We will have a week to organise it & the EFL can go fuck themselves if it means an abandoment of the game as I for one will be up for a pitch invasion & a sit down protest.cafc_harry said:Losses on Tuesday and at Pompey could virtually confirm we’ll be in league 1 next season, could push it through.
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If Roland is here in the summer I fear we will go down or worse5
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Bumped - was about to drop off page one, not having that.1
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If Roland is insistent on holding out for someone to pay fair value + about £20 M, hitting the page number of the beast won't actually be all that.
I'm increasingly certain we'll reach the Battle of Hastings.
£10 duly despatched to ROT.8 -
Wow, I nearly forgot to visit this thread today. Meanwhile here we are on 668 - the neighbour of the beast.3
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No idea if this is accurate or true but I’m posting what I’ve heard. In fact I hope it’s not.
Saudi’s have left negotiations and Australians have failed to agree a price or terms on how that might be paid.
Duchatelet wants £40 million plus add ons for on the pitch success’s and in future player sales and sell ons for five years after sale. This could conceivably take the figure over £50 - 55 million.
That I’m told is the impasse which to me at least sounds plausible and completely ridiculous. If there is truth in this and I hope some of the truly in the know blow this out of the water then we are fucked.0 -
I think we are, who is going to do business with this man, no light at the end of the tunnel not even a glimmer.1
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This would certainly be in line with the terms he imposed when leaving STVV for the first time (although evidence suggests he never really left), and Standard, so it sounds very plausible.ShootersHillGuru said:No idea if this is accurate or true but I’m posting what I’ve heard. In fact I hope it’s not.
Saudi’s have left negotiations and Australians have failed to agree a price or terms on how that might be paid.
Duchatelet wants £40 million plus add ons for on the pitch success’s and in future player sales and sell ons for five years after sale. This could conceivably take the figure over £50 - 55 million.
That I’m told is the impasse which to me at least sounds plausible and completely ridiculous. If there is truth in this and I hope some of the truly in the know blow this out of the water then we are fucked.
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I know this is Roland we're talking about and normal rules don't apply, but even he must realise that new owners will want to be in place in time to make a difference next season. It will also hopefully be dawning on him that the club is worth a lot less than he thinks, though I'm less optimistic on that one.1
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ShootersHillGuru said:
No idea if this is accurate or true but I’m posting what I’ve heard. In fact I hope it’s not.
Saudi’s have left negotiations and Australians have failed to agree a price or terms on how that might be paid.
Duchatelet wants £40 million plus add ons for on the pitch success’s and in future player sales and sell ons for five years after sale. This could conceivably take the figure over £50 - 55 million.
That I’m told is the impasse which to me at least sounds plausible and completely ridiculous. If there is truth in this and I hope some of the truly in the know blow this out of the water then we are fucked.
Not surprising. While Roland may say he is selling the club, what he actually wants to do is get his money back. He is legally owed the money he lent himself and he thinks that entitles him to getting it all paid back - the commercial realities of the world seem to completely pass him by. The club is basically unsellable on those terms, and all the prospective bidders have been right to walk away.
All the while he faffs about, the debt gets bigger and the club becomes even more unattractive as a proposition.5 - Sponsored links:
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Absolute loon!
How can he expect to receive payments for up to 5 years for 'on pitch success'??? As soon as he signs the club over to new owners he relinquishes all rights on that front!
I fear we are going to be tied to the bank of Staprix for some time!!! RIP Charlton!1 -
When are the elections in St Truiden again?1
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Octobercreepyaddick said:When are the elections in St Truiden again?
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I never expected anything over the last year to happen until this summer at the earliest, but I’m increasingly resigning myself to the fact that day by day my sense that he will still be holding the reigns next season and we keep plodding / drifting will continue.3
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Perhaps the players have heard this too?ShootersHillGuru said:No idea if this is accurate or true but I’m posting what I’ve heard. In fact I hope it’s not.
Saudi’s have left negotiations and Australians have failed to agree a price or terms on how that might be paid.
Duchatelet wants £40 million plus add ons for on the pitch success’s and in future player sales and sell ons for five years after sale. This could conceivably take the figure over £50 - 55 million.
That I’m told is the impasse which to me at least sounds plausible and completely ridiculous. If there is truth in this and I hope some of the truly in the know blow this out of the water then we are fucked.
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I had been tempered in my anti Duchatelet attitude due to the much heralded prospect of a takeover. I am now thinking ROT has it spot on. I need to dredge up the energy and finance for more protests. Depending on where we stand I wouldn't mind a lot of expensive and effective disruption for the Blackburn game.14
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I think protests need to happen again soon as possible.
Whether that's at the valley or in Belgium.
This has turned into a complete farce and it's now really boring the life out of everyone.
Roland is taking way too long. He needs extra encouragement to get the f*ck out of the club.9 -
Sunday October 14 I believe, which is also an "international weekend" so our league match against Accrington that weekend might be televised.creepyaddick said:When are the elections in St Truiden again?
I wonder if a few coaches of people from South London might help with the counting of the votes over there.1 -
Why should he benefit from success when he's had zero interest in it over the last few years?!8
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We are fucked as a club, in a dire dire situation7
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Christ looks like we are stuck with the man.0
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My optimism has all but evaporated. Totally depressing news from SHG, if accurate0
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Protests have to be in Belgium on his home turf16
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I can't see that this is any different to what we already know (think we know).ShootersHillGuru said:No idea if this is accurate or true but I’m posting what I’ve heard. In fact I hope it’s not.
Saudi’s have left negotiations and Australians have failed to agree a price or terms on how that might be paid.
Duchatelet wants £40 million plus add ons for on the pitch success’s and in future player sales and sell ons for five years after sale. This could conceivably take the figure over £50 - 55 million.
That I’m told is the impasse which to me at least sounds plausible and completely ridiculous. If there is truth in this and I hope some of the truly in the know blow this out of the water then we are fucked.
Redhenry said last week that his "lot" had pulled out.
As you were.1 -
So, if I've read the latest posts/rumours correctly, BOTH potential buyers have pulled out due to Roland's intransigence. If that is the case - and no-one else is waiting in the wings - then I would say we are really in trouble, 'cos Roland obviously doesn't give a flying about the day-to-day running of the club nor how well (or badly) the team is performing. Surely the EFL should take some kind of action here - under the laughable 'Fit and Proper' rules. We currently have no senior officials running the day-to-day management of Charlton and there seems no sign of people being appointed to these vital roles. Does this not amount to gross mismanagement of the club?5
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I feel saturdays result effectively ends our promotion push so had s feeling this week will be the week
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The last four years have amounted to gross mismanagement of the club, but that seems to have passed both Richard Murray and Chris Parkes by, for two, so I doubt if the Football League feel they are better placed to judge.addick05 said:So, if I've read the latest posts/rumours correctly, BOTH potential buyers have pulled out due to Roland's intransigence. If that is the case - and no-one else is waiting in the wings - then I would say we are really in trouble, 'cos Roland obviously doesn't give a flying about the day-to-day running of the club nor how well (or badly) the team is performing. Surely the EFL should take some kind of action here - under the laughable 'Fit and Proper' rules. We currently have no senior officials running the day-to-day management of Charlton and there seems no sign of people being appointed to these vital roles. Does this not amount to gross mismanagement of the club?
The club does have to employ an appropriate financial officer under the FFP rules, I believe. That might be a starting point.12 -
Actually gutted that Airman hasn’t told us that my post is completely wrong.4
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we should close this thread now tbh , no fee agreed banner to run a long the top like Piccadilly Circus only changing when it’s on the OS4
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The optimists among us might see this as the end game.
The pessimists as the end of days.
Both may be right.
The Aussies have been around, according to rumours, from before October 2017. Earlier if you believe they are the same group or an off-shoot of, as the AFC group that kicked off this thread over a year ago.
So the Aussies have been around for a long time and they haven't walked away. According to SHG they just won't pay Duchatelet's silly terms.
If the Saudis have walked (and the British group don't actually exist - "fake news" alert) the the President can hang around for another summer or longer in the vain hope of finding a mug punter or he can do the deal the Aussies thought they had done back in February.
Aussies on or around 8 May, which we all know is Victory in Europe Day, is my guess.
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