Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

Another Bonkers Statement from Roland - the "The EFL must buy the club" one

1111214161723

Comments

  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,737
    I'd be surprised if they didn't.
  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 2,979
     I think the protesters on hear should now fear that Roland is giving the EFL an ultimatum, take the club of my hands or I will close it. His statement can only be read as such.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,016
    msomerton said:
     I think the protesters on hear should now fear that Roland is giving the EFL an ultimatum, take the club of my hands or I will close it. His statement can only be read as such.
    That’s how he wants it to be perceived ... however I do not believe it will play out the way he wants. 

    Ultimately he will lose money ... it’s a question of how much damage he can do to the club in the meantime. He seems to be a very vindictive little man. 
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,003
    cafctom said:
    Bit tired of the constant digs at Jim White saying he is ‘best mates’ with Roland etc.

    Jim White is not my favourite character in the world, but he has done what was necessary to get Roland talking publicly and ultimately to get Roland to expose and embarrass himself on more than one occasion.

    Yes I know he got fooled by the whole “it’s happening” thing, but I think JW has helped our cause a lot more than people are giving him credit for. 
    Only inadvertently though. Roland spouting insane bullshit is not because of anything JW has done, it's because that's what RD DOES.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,737
    edited March 2019
    msomerton said:
     I think the protesters on hear should now fear that Roland is giving the EFL an ultimatum, take the club of my hands or I will close it. His statement can only be read as such.
    I don't think it can only be read as such. As Airman has said, that option would be much worse for him than offers he has been reputed to have already received which he has declined. His statement or more accurately ramblings only shows what an idiot he is and how out of touch he is with reality.

    If a bit of graffiti has upset him, think what the consequences to him might be if he destroyed our great club.
  • joeaddick
    joeaddick Posts: 430
    cafctom said:
    Bit tired of the constant digs at Jim White saying he is ‘best mates’ with Roland etc.

    Jim White is not my favourite character in the world, but he has done what was necessary to get Roland talking publicly and ultimately to get Roland to expose and embarrass himself on more than one occasion.

    Yes I know he got fooled by the whole “it’s happening” thing, but I think JW has helped our cause a lot more than people are giving him credit for. 
    100% this...He's provided the rope.
  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 2,979
    msomerton said:
     I think the protesters on hear should now fear that Roland is giving the EFL an ultimatum, take the club of my hands or I will close it. His statement can only be read as such.
    I don't think it can only be read as such. As Airman has said, that option would be much worse for him than offers he has been reputed to have already received which he has declined. His statement or more accurately ramblings only shows what an idiot he is and how out of touch he is with reality.

    If a bit of graffiti has upset him, think what the consequences to him might be if he destroyed our great club.
    But as people are calling him an idiot or mad then you cannot expect a rational business decision, I beleive he is an old man that has been insulted as he sees it and is going to get his own back, even if he has to cut his nose off to spite his face. 
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,108
    Is there any mileage in setting up a ‘Roland is Bonkers’ website? Posting examples of his rants and actions thus having everything in one place. There could be a CARD page, ROT page,  Getting to know the Nerwork page. Perhaps along the same lines as Airman Brown diaries ... just a thought 

  • Sponsored links:



  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,737
    He is the sort of person who goes into one when he gets prodded. We have seen it over and over again.  It only encourages people to prod him of course!
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,814
    The only way that we are going to truly hurt RD is if it hits him in the pocket because that is what he covets most - and doing that to the Club is counter productive because he will just continue to sell our biggest assets i.e. our best young players.

    Are there any of his other businesses that can successfully be undermined and targeted - in a legal way of course. 
  • johnnybev1987
    johnnybev1987 Posts: 11,412
    He is off his rocker, twat 
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,852
    The only way that we are going to truly hurt RD is if it hits him in the pocket because that is what he covets most - and doing that to the Club is counter productive because he will just continue to sell our biggest assets i.e. our best young players.

    Are there any of his other businesses that can successfully be undermined and targeted - in a legal way of course. 
    You may be right but I'm yet to be convinced that it's money that hurts him most - I believe it is more to do with damage to his self-perceived reputation.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,016
    bobmunro said:
    The only way that we are going to truly hurt RD is if it hits him in the pocket because that is what he covets most - and doing that to the Club is counter productive because he will just continue to sell our biggest assets i.e. our best young players.

    Are there any of his other businesses that can successfully be undermined and targeted - in a legal way of course. 
    You may be right but I'm yet to be convinced that it's money that hurts him most - I believe it is more to do with damage to his self-perceived reputation.
    Agreed 
  • bobmunro said:
    The only way that we are going to truly hurt RD is if it hits him in the pocket because that is what he covets most - and doing that to the Club is counter productive because he will just continue to sell our biggest assets i.e. our best young players.

    Are there any of his other businesses that can successfully be undermined and targeted - in a legal way of course. 
    You may be right but I'm yet to be convinced that it's money that hurts him most - I believe it is more to do with damage to his self-perceived reputation.




    100% right he cares not one jot about the money 
  • cafctom said:
    Bit tired of the constant digs at Jim White saying he is ‘best mates’ with Roland etc.

    Jim White is not my favourite character in the world, but he has done what was necessary to get Roland talking publicly and ultimately to get Roland to expose and embarrass himself on more than one occasion.

    Yes I know he got fooled by the whole “it’s happening” thing, but I think JW has helped our cause a lot more than people are giving him credit for. 
    I think he equally annoyed people this week by caring more about the vandaliam done to Roland's property when not confirmed to being Charlton fans than following up like Simon Jordan on the important aspects of that interview
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,814
    bobmunro said:
    The only way that we are going to truly hurt RD is if it hits him in the pocket because that is what he covets most - and doing that to the Club is counter productive because he will just continue to sell our biggest assets i.e. our best young players.

    Are there any of his other businesses that can successfully be undermined and targeted - in a legal way of course. 
    You may be right but I'm yet to be convinced that it's money that hurts him most - I believe it is more to do with damage to his self-perceived reputation.




    100% right he cares not one jot about the money 
    If that were truly to be the case he would be investing in the Club. He does the compete opposite.

    In undermining his other businesses both his bank balance and reputation as being a successful businessman is tarnished.

    He is doing enough himself by issuing statements such as this one to damage everyone else's perception of him - and that's not just us.

  • Sponsored links:



  • I imagine RD would have no qualms in destroying the club to get back at the fans - whether he's deranged or not he still owns us and given his wealth can largely behave how he wants.

    He has to leave the club eventually but nobody can guess his exit strategy. 
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,651
    stonemuse said:
    bobmunro said:
    The only way that we are going to truly hurt RD is if it hits him in the pocket because that is what he covets most - and doing that to the Club is counter productive because he will just continue to sell our biggest assets i.e. our best young players.

    Are there any of his other businesses that can successfully be undermined and targeted - in a legal way of course. 
    You may be right but I'm yet to be convinced that it's money that hurts him most - I believe it is more to do with damage to his self-perceived reputation.
    Agreed 
    Agreed again. He does not like any form of protest. No matter how trivial it seems to some.
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,001
    Anyone tweeted our new BFF Si Jordan? 
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,157
    bobmunro said:
    The only way that we are going to truly hurt RD is if it hits him in the pocket because that is what he covets most - and doing that to the Club is counter productive because he will just continue to sell our biggest assets i.e. our best young players.

    Are there any of his other businesses that can successfully be undermined and targeted - in a legal way of course. 
    You may be right but I'm yet to be convinced that it's money that hurts him most - I believe it is more to do with damage to his self-perceived reputation.




    100% right he cares not one jot about the money 
    If that were truly to be the case he would be investing in the Club. He does the compete opposite.

    In undermining his other businesses both his bank balance and reputation as being a successful businessman is tarnished.

    He is doing enough himself by issuing statements such as this one to damage everyone else's perception of him - and that's not just us.
    Well, I'd put it like this. He cars about the money in so far as it is the quantitative measure of what a genius he is.(He needs such measures because he is low on empathy and normal human feelings which help people use qualitative measures to evaluate their happiness or satisfaction with something)

    So he is pissed about the money to the extent that if he doesn't sell for above a certain amount, he diminishes the amount of personal profit he can show when he exits football (we know he was well up when he left Standard, and left them bereft). His goal is to leave with a decent profit and then proclaim "Look at all these business people who went into football and lost shedloads. See how I, Roland Duchatelet, have made money out of football, in the face of adversity both professional and personal. I am indeed a genius..."

    Over colourful of course, but I am pretty sure now that this is how he thinks, how he is...
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    It’s always been about the real estate. In his befuddled mind he has a delusional price tag in his head not realising how difficult,  if not impossible,  it would be  to redevelop the Valley, The man is irrational to the extreme and all the signs were there at the beginning in not doing his due diligence. After the Spivs and their antics with the peninsula, I reckon old Roly thought he could go one better and pull it off. He showed just where his mindset was when he mentioned house prices in Kensington. He is a nutbag make no mistake but a dangerous one. He wants his pound of flesh and he has the resources to wait it out or ruin the club in doing so.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    Those that have met and spoken to Rolly say he clearly has mental issues, and if he was my family or a friend I would be trying to help him. Why they are not trying to help him is a mystery to me, and if they are, they are not doing a very good job.

    His call to Talksport and the rant on the Club website is an embarrassment and I would have thought that some duty of care should have been afforded him by the Club. Perhaps the Fans Forum could ask what they are doing to help him? The Club do have some responsibility.

    I don’t though. It is his weakness and we should do everything we can to exploit it.

    We almost need a press officer to put the stories out into the Belgium press alluding to and questioning his mental health.

    Any interaction with his associates seems to put his brain into tilt, any ideas as to how we can exploit this?

    Roland Uit!

    (Roland Out)
  • The only way that we are going to truly hurt RD is if it hits him in the pocket because that is what he covets most - and doing that to the Club is counter productive because he will just continue to sell our biggest assets i.e. our best young players.

    Are there any of his other businesses that can successfully be undermined and targeted - in a legal way of course. 



    He is completely "hands-off" with his electronics businesses. Although a major shareholder he lets others manage without interference. They generate his obscene wealth.

    He lives at Stayen where he has his restaurants and hotels, these are the businesses close to his heart.

    Just sayin
  • AppyAddick
    AppyAddick Posts: 1,475
    cafctom said:
    Bit tired of the constant digs at Jim White saying he is ‘best mates’ with Roland etc.

    Jim White is not my favourite character in the world, but he has done what was necessary to get Roland talking publicly and ultimately to get Roland to expose and embarrass himself on more than one occasion.

    Yes I know he got fooled by the whole “it’s happening” thing, but I think JW has helped our cause a lot more than people are giving him credit for. 
    This
  • AppyAddick
    AppyAddick Posts: 1,475
    _MrDick said:
    Is there any mileage in setting up a ‘Roland is Bonkers’ website? Posting examples of his rants and actions thus having everything in one place. There could be a CARD page, ROT page,  Getting to know the Nerwork page. Perhaps along the same lines as Airman Brown diaries ... just a thought 
    _MrDick said:
    Is there any mileage in setting up a ‘Roland is Bonkers’ website? Posting examples of his rants and actions thus having everything in one place. There could be a CARD page, ROT page,  Getting to know the Nerwork page. Perhaps along the same lines as Airman Brown diaries ... just a thought 
    Clicked it twice i like the idea so much (just a numpty really and good over clicky) but i do like this idea, one place to show all of the lies and his madness over the years.....
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,737
    Redrobo said:
    Those that have met and spoken to Rolly say he clearly has mental issues, and if he was my family or a friend I would be trying to help him. Why they are not trying to help him is a mystery to me, and if they are, they are not doing a very good job.

    His call to Talksport and the rant on the Club website is an embarrassment and I would have thought that some duty of care should have been afforded him by the Club. Perhaps the Fans Forum could ask what they are doing to help him? The Club do have some responsibility.

    I don’t though. It is his weakness and we should do everything we can to exploit it.

    We almost need a press officer to put the stories out into the Belgium press alluding to and questioning his mental health.

    Any interaction with his associates seems to put his brain into tilt, any ideas as to how we can exploit this?

    Roland Uit!

    (Roland Out)
    I think there may be a clue in the people he appoints. Yes men and women who are unlikely to spell out home truths and threaten their employment.