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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)
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1 hour in and they have done nothing. No new signing and no new contracts.1
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brilliant,i told you it wasnt RedBull0
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Great news, onwards and upwards
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...undisclosed fee...7
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I feel strangely very calm, I'm assuming because of the wait since the takeover was first announced and the years of hanging on to hope since RD saying he was selling up.
My self imposed absence from the Valley for a number of years will finally come to an end. At last the dark stain on the club can be cleaned away.
Fantastic!!
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JamesSeed said:Thank god, what a bloody relief.Let’s hope ESI have plans that’ll allow for a gradual, sustainable improvement in the playing squad. That’s all we can ask for really.
Dry January may be put on hold tonight :-)
bollox to that - i want a rapid and spectacular rise to football domination - now the efl are off our backs, we can start tapping into all that abu dhabi dosh - 'sheikh it up baby' - COYR!!!!6 -
Now that it's completed it shows that the owners and management team have a bit of personality about them with the cliff hanger tweets and social media posts of recent weeks.
If fans, board, management and non- playing and playing staff can all pull together now this is gonna be some journey.
COYA!9 - Sponsored links:
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A new dawn...
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Praise be to God, the nightmare is finally over 🙌🏻Today is the first day of the rest of our Addicks supporting lives.
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He used to be shiteThe Prince-e-Paul said:Thanks for selling up Roland. You know it makes sense.
No hard feelings................runs for cover!
But now he’s alright
(also running for cover 😁)
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I suppose this will mean I'll have to cancel my short stay at the Stayen this weekend.5
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He's gone.
Well done to all involved with the takeover. We've got our Charlton back
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To every club in the country I say this “we are considerably more richer than YOW!”1
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Miracles take a little longer for tonight.EveshamAddick said:Thank god for that.
Now we just need 3 points tonight....
2020 is a new era for CAFC, the bar has been set low for 90% of our history.
So pleased they announced today, early in the window and on my Mum's birthday with her Charlton family around her. Just another strange coincidence that it's in DEAL in Kent when the news came through.
(Brother's house)
After hearing Red, red Robin played in a NT house on Monday and being told the second recording was made on December 5th 1947 by Al Jolson and then 2 Robins flying around the courtyard, it just had to be imminent !
It's a beautiful day to have 2020 vision.
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In a moment of unbridled joy, I took all my clothes off and ran naked around the streets of my workplace, Billericay.
After my arrest, I mentioned to both of the officers attending that I was now a casual acquaintance of His Excellency whereupon they released me immediately and drove off crying at 90mph in their squad car.
Make of that what you will.8 -
Need to try make the west Brom league game a proper party, I'm absolutely buzzing... big love to all charlton fans.4
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Thank goodness.
I can give up asking rhetorical questions about the takeover.
What's the point?3 - Sponsored links:
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ESi have bought a great football club,and they know it,we have got rid of RD he is now history and should recieve no more mentions.It is now up to the supporters to back the new owners to the hilt,any crowds under 20000 from now until seasons end will be an insult. I look forward to seeing some lifelong friends back at the valley who have boycotted,the past is done,COYR.2
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I’m not crying, you’re crying.
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It was only a section. About 98 percent I'd say, give but not take 2 percent.MrWalker said:If I wasn't so happy I'd be penning a cross email to someone.
BBC wankers reporting thus:East Street Investments has completed its takeover of Championship club Charlton Athletic, ending Roland Duchatelet's spell as owner.
Much of Duchatelet's tenure was dominated by friction between the Belgian and a section of supporters and he has been trying to sell the club since the end of 2017.
A deal with ESI was first announced at the end of November, subject to English Football League approval.
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...and the postie has just delivered my half-year season ticket! Happy day indeed.
Just wanted to say congratulations and thanks to everyone at CARD etc for all their efforts in getting us organised. Also, big thanks to everyone who spent time and money protesting against the previous owner. There's no doubt in my mind he would have still been in charge if we hadn't made his life a bit more miserable than it presumably already is, what with him having failed at everything he's put his hand to since a bit of luck with a car gizmo. He can enjoy his retirement now, safe in the knowledge that he's no more than a brief footnote in the history of Charlton Athletic. He will be quickly forgotten.
And now, onwards and upwards, or rather consolidation and then upwards. Priory is to get the management team signed up on decent contracts, then the players they want to keep and then start building for a brighter future.
Apart from the play-off win, 2019 was a bit sh*t so definitely looking forward to a much better 2020.
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I wish I could like that a million times.stonemuse said:
And get rid of bloody Keohane ... one of the most useless and vindictive bastards to be involved in our club everRizzo said:Stage 1 complete. Now onto stage 2 (sack and/or execute the medical staff), stage 3 (get Bowyer and Taylor on new contracts), stage 4 (buy a team to play under/with the above) and stage 5 (get promoted).10 -
The very last post on this thread before the deal news came through seems rather fitting.8
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Finally. I am so happy and thankful, I knew it was happening very soon, but still over come with emotion.
It’s a time of relief and excitement, all at once. It’s a time to look back and be proud of our fight and our support, what we have done over the last 6 years, all through the tough times and we are here now.
It’s a time to support the new regime and be positive, for the first proper time in a long time. But it’s also important to remember it’s a time that many people who aren’t with us today wanted just as much as us, and that’s incredibly sad that they can’t be here today to celebrate and enjoy this moment.
In a time where our fanbase was split, amongst it all have been people who can never return whilst others who have been through it from the inside. We have to have huge respect for people like Jackson and Solly who must be so relieved themselves.
But now we come out the other side, ready to rebuild together and as ESI have said, let’s make our great club great again.
Enjoy it everyone, enjoy it for yourselves, for the people we have lost, and for the future generations of our club. We won.47 -
At last. Brilliant.
i always thought it would happen but there was always that nagging in the back of my mind. Not now though. Brilliant.
Now to make sure we stay in this division and build for next year.
Nice one ESI.
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Just arrived in our room at HIE in Neath to learn THE news to beat all news...
...except for the ultimate biggie....
Fanny,s Tingle IS back !
Woohooooo!16
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