Duchatalet Blocks Striker Transfer

By releasing this Bowyer is now given a free ticket to leave and possibly take over a prem or championship club when they come calling which they will

RD saying a sale is only objective appears rubbish. He is only intent on ruining the club. He must be an evil vindictive person. He appears to not be worried about the financial loss.
i am not sure a 100% boycott would work. There appears no answer.

SDAddick said:

ct_addick said:

By releasing this Bowyer is now given a free ticket to leave and possibly take over a prem or championship club when they come calling which they will

I'm not convinced that they will. Actually, no chance on Prem, Championship, possibly, but I would say it's no guarantee. 

If he wants to take that risk, I can't say I blame him. And I'm sure he has an agent with their ear to the ground on this stuff. But I do still think a League One team in fourth is most likely the best he'll get right now. 

This is obviously massively frustrating news. But I still believe it's in Bowyer's best interest at the moment to see the season out with us. If we get promoted his stock will go up, if we don't I think he can point to the selling of Karlan as the reason why. 

He wouldn't be wrong

ct_addick said:

By releasing this Bowyer is now given a free ticket to leave and possibly take over a prem or championship club when they come calling which they will

Which probably mean Johnnie taking charge.

Mametz said:

Surely nobody who posts on this forum can be surprised enough to be disappointed by this. Roland was never going to sanction the acquisition of another striker. Roland knows what he is doing and he is not deluded. The people who post on here saying that the ownership is an irrelevance are the deluded ones.

Rudders22 said:

I have thought over the last few days "is it worth it going up??"
Even if we did then we woiul come straight back down. There would be 0 investment on players and we will have 16/17yr olds playing in 1st time  this feels worse then when we nearly went out of busoness. 

Only way we will get sold IMHO

Duchatelet’s ‘plan’ is probably to further trim the club to skeletal proportions and sit on his arse, hoping for some idiot or consortium of idiots to double or more than double what he paid for the club 5 years ago. Given that the club has been fully exposed to the market for nearly 18 months, that looks extremely unlikely.

In addition to his apparent fixation on the non-realisable real estate value of The Valley and Sparrow’s Lane, he is probably also hoping that some sell-on fees materialise for players like Lookman, Konsa and Pope (Gomez isn’t going anywhere) in order to mitigate his annual losses. By the summer, the only valuable asset left to sell will be Lyle Taylor. In addition to dwindling support and very small TV money/solidarity payments, factors like the level of business rates on The Valley guarantee that multi-million pound losses are guaranteed for Charlton in the lower divisions.

Even if we managed promotion via the play-offs, it’s inconceivable that he would be prepared to provide the funds to make us competitive in the Championship. He doesn’t, in any event, want to play in that arena, so what on earth is he playing at ?

I doubt that he knows himself but, as others have suggested, I suspect he is motivated by a combination of ego and stubbornness (with a pinch of spite), which are often common drivers for sociopaths.

Too depressing to read all (current) 5 pages, but as one earlier poster said, thus needs to be brought up at the fans forum.

It's quite simple. LDT is RD's man to sell the club & he won't get anywhere near the price he wants if the best players are sold without being replaced & won't get sold at all it we are in this league for too much longer. LDT just needs to tell the gormless twunk that. Sell now & walk away. 

Not looking forward to the next few months if Taylir gets injured & is out for the rest of the season. Igor will break down again & Recco won't cut the mustard.

thickandthin63 said:

As I have said before,he does not care about the money,he resents the intrusions into his private life,and will do everything he can to antagonise supporters.regrettably he is doing just that,and we are powerless to do anything about it.

I’m sure he does resent the intrusions, but he started it.

i got a feeling that once Pearce is back we might stick Naby up front. according to Pearce, Naby is our best striker of the ball at the club. 

thickandthin63 said:

As I have said before,he does not care about the money,he resents the intrusions into his private life,and will do everything he can to antagonise supporters.regrettably he is doing just that,and we are powerless to do anything about it.

Absolutely spot on! Said it time and time again. It's payback, it really is as simple as that.

SDAddick said:

ct_addick said:

By releasing this Bowyer is now given a free ticket to leave and possibly take over a prem or championship club when they come calling which they will

I'm not convinced that they will. Actually, no chance on Prem, Championship, possibly, but I would say it's no guarantee. 

If he wants to take that risk, I can't say I blame him. And I'm sure he has an agent with their ear to the ground on this stuff. But I do still think a League One team in fourth is most likely the best he'll get right now. 

This is obviously massively frustrating news. But I still believe it's in Bowyer's best interest at the moment to see the season out with us. If we get promoted his stock will go up, if we don't I think he can point to the selling of Karlan as the reason why. 

Karlan leaving and not being anywhere near replaced has hugely hit us now, and could well be the difference between promotion and not.

However, believe me @SDAddick Bowyer is being kept a close eye on by many different clubs, they’ll have recognised the job he has done in such difficult circumstances, the role he has played in improving our current players, he would get a Championship club if we don’t go up this season. 

This suggests to me that the takeover is not going to happen soon as the opportunity is being taken to amend Bowyers budget. In other words a chance to limit the losses further. Sadly until someone else comes in nothing to stop this behaviour as he has no incentive to gamble on a promotion push it seems. 

Duchatelet is a tight fisted minge? Tell me something I don’t know.