The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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Airman Brown said:

DOUCHER said:

Airman Brown said:

DOUCHER said:

alangee said:

DOUCHER said:

Lets not get worked up about him not selling - all is going in line with what I was told after relegation - and what I said on here - 2 seasons to get us back up but a sale regardless after those 2 years - seen nothing to think that isn't going to be the case

Can you point to the post where you said this two years ago?

It'll be there somewhere - around the summer everyone was rounding on me coz i said there had been a change in strategy, ditching of the network idea to try and get promoted, and I was told I was a beard or something by cardigan boy who was adamant there was no change.

So you spotted they had appointed a British manager and signed British players, which was obvious to everyone? The problem was that they were useless at that too, which some people couldn’t grasp.

You've definitely become more prickly after the last year of printing dud info but don't start on me - it was cardigan claiming no change in strategy yet here we are on the verge of the play offs with no network players, another British manager and a British scouting set up - of course, he could have thrown more money at it last year and this ideally but only the most pig headed would argue no change in strategy since relegation

Nobody did argue that, but the management set-up remained incompetent as the accounts and the league table set out in vivid detail. This season has been marginally better but the main reason is the further unwinding of any Belgian influence on the football side. One central plank (I use the word advisedly) remained unchanged - too much reliance on too many inexperienced young players.

I hope we do go up but that is by no means guaranteed and finishing fifth or sixth after the vast amounts of money spent by L1 standards remains a poor overall performance.

If someone smiles on us and we get promoted it will be more by good fortune and pure chance circumstance that Bowyer got the crack at it when he did.

There is absolute no calculation or successful strategy that can be credited anyway to the owner. He is paying costs per month credit to that but beyond that there is absolutely nothing to credit him with,

Despite the oddball's Turing delusions of grandeur he is no genius, certainly not when it comes to football. There was no strategy behind the fact Karl Robinson left when he did affording Bowyer the chance to grab the squad by the scruff of the neck and turn our season around and maybe give us a bit of fortune that has been substantially missing for the last few years.

What successful professional club in world football these days anywhere thinks that operating without a permanent manager, an FD a CEO is a game changer and recipe for success? None of them.

If we get promoted it is IN SPITE of the Belgian and the complete disease his ownership has been to our club and testament to what a remarkable job Bowyer will have done (and has done hitherto regardless of the remaining game(s)).

Anyone who thinks this is part of some masterplan, divine intervention or strategy by a pillock in Belgium needs to stop sniffing glue for ten minutes and look at the reality of what the situation is.