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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)
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CatAddick said:
“For never was a story more of woe than this of Charlton and her Rolleo”happyvalley said:1595, Probable first performance of Romeo and Juliet in London.
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But soft, what brick through yonder window breaks?
Dunno mate but that's Roland's 'ouse
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The trouble with Roland is he doesn't realise that catastrophe comes at a cost, not a profit.4
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It's what unpopular politicians say, blaming their lack of votes on not explaining their policies well enough..Henry Irving said:
Not really.cafcfan1990 said:
Credit where it's due, at least he's finally accepting some blame.Henry Irving said:More nonsense from Roland but a copy of interesting things too.
He finally admits it was his communication that was "catastrophic."
But more shocking he says that he decided to give up on football just a few months after buying Charlton.
http://sportwitness.co.uk/charlton-owner-reveals-made-huge-mistake-getting-involved-football/Charlton Athletic owner reveals he made a ‘huge mistake’ getting involved in football
Up for sale since 2017, Charlton Athletic are yet to find a buyer as owner Roland Duchatelet tries to rid himself of the League One club, even going as far as demanding the EFL take charge of the club for a nominal fee of £1.
Rejecting his offer due to what they believe was a ‘significant conflict of interest’, the league did however offer their support in ‘assisting’ the owner in ‘his aim of finding a suitable new owner for the club’.
While that Charlton matter is still ongoing, Duchatelet sat down with Sport/Foot in Belgium for a rather candid interview where he, for lack of a better word, ‘blamed’ himself for the situation he currently finds himself in.
He said: “Fans can’t understand that a club owner doesn’t dedicate at least 100% of their time to it. I’ve never dedicated that much time to football, mostly through lack of having any. Most owners have other financial activities and leave the club management to other people.
“That can cause problems, as shown by the finances of the clubs in the Belgian Jupiler Pro League. Often, there’s a deep misunderstanding between what fans think and what owners do.”
The Charlton owner was then asked if he felt his communication with the fans hasn’t always been the best.
He replied: “Absolutely. My communication in football has sometimes been catastrophic. At Standard Liège like at Charlton. Communication is a huge challenge. Basically, football is a business that doesn’t suit me. I made a mistake getting involved in it.”
Duchatelet also revealed that his decision to give up on football altogether came at the end of the 2013-14 season (he believes match-fixing cost Standard Liège the title that year) just a few months after sealing his takeover at The Valley, which took place in January 2014.
As well as Charlton, the Belgian businessman is trying to sell his shares in the other two clubs where he is a majority shareholder: Alcorcon in Spain’s second-tier and Carl Zeiss Jena in 3. Liga in Germany.
And a lot of what he says is true. But leaving the management to other people is also a huge reason why he failed, he left the club in even more disastrous hands than himself!
He keeps blaming communication when the problems was never just about explaining his plans but the plans themselves.0 -
"Roleo, Roleo wherefore art thou Roleo" exclaimed Richard Murray as he looked at the empty seat in the Directors box as Charlton prepared to play Barnsley.CatAddick said:
“For never was a story more of woe than this of Charlton and her Rolleo”happyvalley said:1595, Probable first performance of Romeo and Juliet in London.4 -
Bollocks to credit where its due, Duchatelet is so far in debt with me he can leave my life now and the sooner the better.
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For any hard of thinking mouth breathers still considering the bungler separating the club ownership from the real estate could be a way forward here is another example of why that's arrant nonsense: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/478201171
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Fetch your coat AB, that's so far from funnyAirman Brown said:Stalemate - I think we need to take back control and stage an indicative vote.
The parallels are stunning - a clueless steward insisting on doing it his/her way flatly rejecting any outside hints, help or opinions, all the while the entity trundles inexorably toward an abyss of incalculable depth.2 -
He is acting mostly out of vengeance.....just how much further he is prepared to go is anyone’s guess, maybe he is quite prepared to drive us out of business and that is my real fear.....somehow he has to be stopped before he does.
In saying the club is for sale is actually untrue, because IF the sum he is asking is anything over £35,000,000 then in reality IT IS NOT FOR SALE, because it’s highly doubtful anyone out there would consider paying more.....so in reality everyone is just pissing in the wind.
It seems that many people aren’t prepared to believe he is being vengeful....in my opinion those of you who think otherwise need a reality check.
We need to speak to him directly.
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Corner him and unleash an impassioned rendition of SISS until he relents.1
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Thats 100% what I believe too @SoundAsa£, which is interesting, as we basically agree on nothing
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Have allways had the feeling that he is out to make things difficult I think he will
drag this out for some time.2 -
Spot on, Soundas.
The club isn't 'for sale' by any stretch of objective reality. At the moment there is no chance whatsoever of us being free of the deluded Shitweasel.
I just can't see how our current situation is ever likely to come to an end.1 -
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A messy divorce is on the horizon; the patriarch in Europe handles the sale of their London pad while the wife stays in 3rd class accomodation. He asks three times what the property is worth, leading to no prospect of a sale and the wife suffers. How does she move things forward? Protests outside said pad while he is in a sleepy foreign town? Send the kids over on Eurostar to hassle him? We need lateral thinking Addicks. Legal action of some kind? Send the new boyfriend over? Target his workplace/business set-up?3
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Further to my earlier post.....I wish to make it quite clear that I am not advocating anything illegal here.
Just somehow getting a group of determined knowledgeable fans together (via CARD), who can seek him out for an impassioned debate, it may just help to resolve this horrendous situation we now find ourselves in, after all, what do we have to lose.
What one may ask, is the alternative?
Would he agree to a meeting with a fans group (in Belgium if necessary), you never know, as far as I know no one has ever asked and there’s no harm in making an approach to arrange one?
One for CARD to work on maybe?
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The Supporters' Trust have made many approaches and attempts to meet directly with RD, @SoundAsa£, always ignored or rebuffed.1
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RD is a self-centred egotistical arrogant buffoon who listens to nobody and feels the world is out of step with him.
The mistake people make it is thinking there is any logic to his behaviour - there isn't! He owns a club he doesn't want, has no interest in football and is expecting a buyer at a completely ridiculous price.
The longer he owns the club, the less it's worth, the fewer fans it has, the bigger the losses and the less likelihood there is of him selling it for an inflated price. Any normal person would sell but this deluded fool doesn't do failure.
He can absorb the losses to indulge his ridiculous ego and I can't see what will shift him short of a wealthy buyer.10 - Sponsored links:
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Don’t you think he’s simply being vengeful.....you seem to think it’s all ego.....maybe it is to an extent but I for me he’s hell bent on vengeance.hoof_it_up_to_benty said:RD is a self-centred egotistical arrogant buffoon who listens to nobody and feels the world is out of step with him.
The mistake people make it is thinking there is any logic to his behaviour - there isn't! He owns a club he doesn't want, has no interest in football and is expecting a buyer at a completely ridiculous price.
The longer he owns the club, the less it's worth, the fewer fans it has, the bigger the losses and the less likelihood there is of him selling it for an inflated price. Any normal person would sell but this deluded fool doesn't do failure.
He can absorb the losses to indulge his ridiculous ego and I can't see what will shift him short of a wealthy buyer.4 -
I think the two are intrinsically entwined. His ego won’t let him ‘lose’ and won’t allow the fans to ‘win’.SoundAsa£ said:
Don’t you think he’s simply being vengeful.....you seem to think it’s all ego.....maybe it is to an extent but I for me he’s hell bent on vengeance.hoof_it_up_to_benty said:RD is a self-centred egotistical arrogant buffoon who listens to nobody and feels the world is out of step with him.
The mistake people make it is thinking there is any logic to his behaviour - there isn't! He owns a club he doesn't want, has no interest in football and is expecting a buyer at a completely ridiculous price.
The longer he owns the club, the less it's worth, the fewer fans it has, the bigger the losses and the less likelihood there is of him selling it for an inflated price. Any normal person would sell but this deluded fool doesn't do failure.
He can absorb the losses to indulge his ridiculous ego and I can't see what will shift him short of a wealthy buyer.
He is unable to separate the two. I also believe he still thinks he can make a deal on his terms.
The man is deluded with a massively high opinion of himself ... a dangerous combination.9 -
I had half expected you to say that Weegie.....surely we have some ‘friends’ at SL who can help to pin him down somehow to a location where we can at the very least confront him face to face without him finding it easy to just walk away.Weegie Addick said:The Supporters' Trust have made many approaches and attempts to meet directly with RD, @SoundAsa£, always ignored or rebuffed.
Secondly......what about a peaceful visit to the Embassy, that never seems to have been seriously considered?2 -
Have you tried spray painting the invite onto his wall?Weegie Addick said:The Supporters' Trust have made many approaches and attempts to meet directly with RD, @SoundAsa£, always ignored or rebuffed.10 -
Sounds like a job for @blackpool72 ......Oh hang on a minute scrap thatStu_of_Kunming said:
Have you tried spray painting the invite onto his wall?Weegie Addick said:The Supporters' Trust have made many approaches and attempts to meet directly with RD, @SoundAsa£, always ignored or rebuffed.. JSTCAFO 2 -
Opened this thread first time in a month and see poetry, brexit puns and smileys, f*ck my life.1
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Bit bored this morning...
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1596 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
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What this thread urgently needs is some 16th century house buying analogies2
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1596, Rene Descartes born ( I think ).0
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