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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • edited May 2018
    Muir with Scarfy,
    ASAP
  • Beer in Australia is actually so much more than XXXX Fosters, when Inwas there in 03 they had a thriving local Craft style beer industry a bit like the Yanks. Aussies I knew wouldn’t touch that aforementioned bile.
  • So just to be clear, because I am easily confused, is it now fact that Roland has agreed a sale of CAFC to someone, and that it is now just a question of EFL approval of new owners, and just other loose ends to be sorted?
    I know I could be accused of not paying enough attention in class here, but someone else made me do it.
  • No more fish puns please, the joke has passed. Ta

    Thanks, saves me trawling for any actual takeover news...
  • 3blokes said:

    So just to be clear, because I am easily confused, is it now fact that Roland has agreed a sale of CAFC to someone, and that it is now just a question of EFL approval of new owners, and just other loose ends to be sorted?
    I know I could be accused of not paying enough attention in class here, but someone else made me do it.

    Pay attention fella....
  • Still refuse to believe this is actually happening until I see the Sue Parkes gif !!!
  • PWR the last 10 pages or so -

    I've personally been dubious about the Aussies since it was reported that they were allegedly sniffing round for more investors, but in the last NS report it said "Muir is close to finalising a deal and News Shopper understands the Aussie will have full ownership of the Valley." does this mean that he (Muir) will be the out-right sole owner of the Club / Ground / Training ground and there is no consortium? Or is the report just reiterating that the Ground will be included in the sale, and when they say Muir, they actually mean the consortium, headed by Muir?

    Very good. Popping that right in the middle where you thought no one would notice.
  • On the one hand the takeover is close on the other hand Roland appointing staff to run the gaff is close.
    Very easy to think we are being played. Our desperation is our weakness and we cling to rafts made of straw.
    It puts me in mind of us being a dog that goes scurrying after the ball but it is a pretend throw.
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  • I've really set myself up for the takeover happening today. If it doesn't- and now I don't think it will - I think I will burst and self combust.
  • seth plum said:

    On the one hand the takeover is close on the other hand Roland appointing staff to run the gaff is close.
    Very easy to think we are being played. Our desperation is our weakness and we cling to rafts made of straw.
    It puts me in mind of us being a dog that goes scurrying after the ball but it is a pretend throw.

    Who is "playing" us? Who is "desperate" or weak?

    It hasn't happened yet, that is all.

    We've done all we can to influence the process and have done that successfully. Now we don't need desperation, just patience.

    WIOTOS
  • FORD said:

    Done...1pm announcement scheduled.

    Excellent. Our friendly against Greenwich Borough is finally being confirmed!
  • No more fish puns please, the joke has passed. Ta

    I think he wants us to stop carping on about it.
  • I've really set myself up for the takeover happening today. If it doesn't- and now I don't think it will - I think I will burst and self combust.

    Not sure it is possible that you can do both, might have to be one or the other.
    I think it is entirely reasonable to be able to do both - sequentially though!
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  • Let's hope our Australians manage to do better than this lot. Homebase: bought for £340mn two years ago, messed up, sold for a £1. bbc.com/news/business-44248409
  • so this announcement is coming in the next two hour?
  • Shame it wasn't yesterday, daughter's birthday, would have been a nice present.

    Be nice if it is today, as it's the birthday of my mate who I sit next to in the Lower North.

    But any day would do, as long as it soon...
  • so this announcement is coming in the next two hour?

    Don't hold your breath
  • cafcfan said:

    Let's hope our Australians manage to do better than this lot. Homebase: bought for £340mn two years ago, messed up, sold for a £1. bbc.com/news/business-44248409

    "This must go down as one of the most disastrous retail acquisitions ever - a textbook example of how not to do it.

    The Australian firm thought they could show the Brits how to do DIY. So confident, they immediately sacked Homebase's senior management team. That was a huge mistake."

    This has a familiar ring to it :neutral:
  • edited May 2018

    cafcfan said:

    Let's hope our Australians manage to do better than this lot. Homebase: bought for £340mn two years ago, messed up, sold for a £1. bbc.com/news/business-44248409

    "This must go down as one of the most disastrous retail acquisitions ever - a textbook example of how not to do it.

    The Australian firm thought they could show the Brits how to do DIY. So confident, they immediately sacked Homebase's senior management team. That was a huge mistake."

    This has a familiar ring to it :neutral:
    To be fair, the spivs dismantled the senior management team not the Belgians. Of the seven people employed on the non-football side when they arrived, only Mick Everett was left by 2014.

    But I’m sure Roland would have wrecked that too if he’d had the chance.
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Roland Out Forever!