Good. I find some of the comments on here hilarious, with people desperate to believe whatever nonsense the club puts out, but never mind.
Shock / Horror - The first sign of something slightly out of the ordinary and Airman pipes up with his giant wooden spoon.
Predictable
Don’t worry. There’s bound to be someone new for you to boost on here soon.
I hardly boost him. I gave him a really hard time when he first got here but he proved he had a plan and has largely executed it. Surely even you can see that we are in a better position than we have been for a while.
And similarly ,I'm sure his replacement will be treated with contempt by you because you fucking hate it when this club does anything right.
The club has done so little right in the last decade or so it would be hard for you to know, even if you had the insight.
I could see who Jimenez/Slater, Duchatelet, Southall, Sandgaard and Methven were. It doesn’t require any inside information, just dropping the blinkers. Plenty of cheerleaders for all of them until there weren’t.
My hope with this ownership was that they would get rid of this management team as soon as possible, so I am very happy with Scott and Methven going and I give them full credit for that.
From what’s been said the operating loss is pretty much unchanged and at the current time we’re still in League One. The football has been much better since December certainly. We really need to get back to the Championship and tbh that’s all that matters.
That list of previous owners tells enough of a tale but CAFC is never going to get back on the straight and narrow overnight.
Jiminez/Slater was just a weird chapter and before I was involved with the club in any capacity other than as a fan so I can't really say much Duchatelet had a half decent concept with multi club ownership- just poor execution and the wrong people in place Southall wasn't here long enough for me to like/dislike him - but it was great fun knowing we had changed the locks on his rented property overlooking the Thames Sandgaard again had good intentions but no idea how to execute them and was too stubborn to take any advice.
The current group (owners and SMT) at least have us going in the right direction. If we hadn't had that shitty run earlier in the season we'd be very much in the hunt for 2nd - as it is we are still sniffing around it but the play-offs are more realistic. That's an improvement on last season and I guarantee no team wants to play us right now - and that's also something we haven't been able to say for a while. We have got some proper "Charlton" style players now that the fans get behind and we are MUCH better off the field too. We are undoubtedly still a work in progress but at least that progress is going in the right direction. Charlie has played his part.
Hopefully the replacement keeps the momentum up - and hopefully he joins in the summer with us in the Championship
There are some people on here who will defend Charlie and his SMT no matter what happens. Appleton, worst season for 90 years, doesn't matter, they will find some excuse why it's not the fault of the people in charge. Since Carter stepped up his involvement and was reporting to the owners we've had a miraculous turnaround in form, Scott and Methvan are out the door with rumours Rodwell is next. It's been a calamitous reign by this SMT, only improving when the rumours of their demise started to surface. Don't believe their BS, they were terrible and now they've gone. The last 3 months of good form (that's all it is) was nothing to do with them.
Nathan Jones was appointed in February 2024 and Will Abbott in November 2023 - are they not bigger the reasons for where we are now vs a year or so ago, rather than Carter changing his role?
Appointments and improvements during and since last season have got us to this position in the league, not recent board/SMT level changes.
reams on other forum saying new very rich Americans investors had bid turned down couple months ago and are still interested to buy cafc
aaaahhh - just as things were starting to settle and we had resorted to discussing the price of a pint in the fans bar - the 'we've got interest from some very rich people' scenario is thrown into the mix - let the nonsense begin....
If the owners had half a brain they will have known what they were getting themselves into, regardless of what Charlie told them was possible.
For that reason, alongside all the other sensible investments made, I never really took to the narrative that they bought on the strength of Charlie’s stories.
Let’s see who comes in by the summer. I hope it’s someone with good, sensible football pedigree.
As many have said, we are in a better position now than we have been for a very long time. First time it has properly felt stable.
He is a character for sure but has helped with the above it seems. Good luck to the bloke!
Interesting that you mention "stable" because that actually isn't the case given that we've had three managers and various changes in chairman plus we've lost the Director of Football and now the CEO.
You've got to hand it to Charlie Methven. This time last year we were hurtling towards division 4. After having to get involved in doing some work this season (shoulder to the wheel) and slumming it in Eltham (albeit on probably the premium road for properties in Eltham), he's turned Charlton around and has a job with the money men in the Caribbean. A lovely bit of narrative as they seem to say in journalist land. Masterful.
As many have said, we are in a better position now than we have been for a very long time. First time it has properly felt stable.
He is a character for sure but has helped with the above it seems. Good luck to the bloke!
Interesting that you mention "stable" because that actually isn't the case given that we've had three managers and various changes in chairman plus we've lost the Director of Football and now the CEO.
Managers weren't good enough and they acted. Understand they hired them but cant always get it right.
The people we have "lost" were deeply unpopular and people wanted them gone. Cant use that as a stick to beat them with if they acted and got rid. I dont think Charlie for instance was in this for years to come was he? So if he goes now and we can get someone in who wants to be long term part of the project.
Its certainly feels calmer then, if not stable, and given how it has been in the not so distant past.
Good. I find some of the comments on here hilarious, with people desperate to believe whatever nonsense the club puts out, but never mind.
Shock / Horror - The first sign of something slightly out of the ordinary and Airman pipes up with his giant wooden spoon.
Predictable
Don’t worry. There’s bound to be someone new for you to boost on here soon.
I hardly boost him. I gave him a really hard time when he first got here but he proved he had a plan and has largely executed it. Surely even you can see that we are in a better position than we have been for a while.
And similarly ,I'm sure his replacement will be treated with contempt by you because you fucking hate it when this club does anything right.
The club has done so little right in the last decade or so it would be hard for you to know, even if you had the insight.
I could see who Jimenez/Slater, Duchatelet, Southall, Sandgaard and Methven were. It doesn’t require any inside information, just dropping the blinkers. Plenty of cheerleaders for all of them until there weren’t.
My hope with this ownership was that they would get rid of this management team as soon as possible, so I am very happy with Scott and Methven going and I give them full credit for that.
From what’s been said the operating loss is pretty much unchanged and at the current time we’re still in League One. The football has been much better since December certainly. We really need to get back to the Championship and tbh that’s all that matters.
That list of previous owners tells enough of a tale but CAFC is never going to get back on the straight and narrow overnight.
Jiminez/Slater was just a weird chapter and before I was involved with the club in any capacity other than as a fan so I can't really say much Duchatelet had a half decent concept with multi club ownership- just poor execution and the wrong people in place Southall wasn't here long enough for me to like/dislike him - but it was great fun knowing we had changed the locks on his rented property overlooking the Thames Sandgaard again had good intentions but no idea how to execute them and was too stubborn to take any advice.
The current group (owners and SMT) at least have us going in the right direction. If we hadn't had that shitty run earlier in the season we'd be very much in the hunt for 2nd - as it is we are still sniffing around it but the play-offs are more realistic. That's an improvement on last season and I guarantee no team wants to play us right now - and that's also something we haven't been able to say for a while. We have got some proper "Charlton" style players now that the fans get behind and we are MUCH better off the field too. We are undoubtedly still a work in progress but at least that progress is going in the right direction. Charlie has played his part.
Hopefully the replacement keeps the momentum up - and hopefully he joins in the summer with us in the Championship
This is a crazy statement. He might not have been around long but he was around long enough to nearly bury the club. If that doesn’t make you dislike someone then what will?
The first I heard of his departure was from a text from Sunderland - one of the guys who who did a lot of work there exposing what was going on. Its funny that in the resulting dialogue I seem to have been playing the @Swisdom role to his @Airman Brown impersonation. He wasnt even impressed when I mentioned Charlie’s support for the Regulator. And I could see his point. So I find it difficult to take a view on his time here. But objectively you can say it wasnt as disastrous for us as it was for Sunderland. I’ll just say I now think he is a complex character rather than a cartoon one, and I really hope his health issues havent played a role.
Charlie Methven is the type of bloke to shag your wife and when you find out your wife has had an affair, he says he will help you hunt down the other man.
Amazed how many people don't see through his bullshit but that's the power of being well spoken and well mannered I suppose. A true actor.
None of this season can be credited to him, the matchday experience is only better because the results are more enjoyable, which is what it has always been about. That credit goes to the manager, the players and the coaches, not suits and ties who navigated us to one of the most embarrassing seasons in our history.
Fair play to him leaving with any credit as he's completely lucked out this season, as we all saw what they were truly capable of last season.
Exciting times with the rumours of even bigger investors.
I know a lot of dislike for Charlie on here, personally I think he has done a good job! And club is much better place then previously, in terms on the pitch, and off the pitch with the partnerships, commercials and making the valley a better fan experience.
Done a fantastic job in helping building the structure of the club from nothing and building our relationships with outside companies … to bring in revenue to the club .
Which begs the question why is he going now when there is a reasonable chance we could be in the Championship next season ?
Small wager on he's on to his next project, been recruited for a bigger/better rewarded job elsewhere. This season's accounts will show the value of his time, CAFC's in the best position financially for at least 5 years and CM's been front and centre in achieving that. All the ownership funding in the world guarantees nothing, it always needs to be used well and augmented by the club making its own money commercially etc. We knew he wasn't a fan, he's not a Sarf Lahndun boy (whatever that's worth), he made a tit of himself early on at Sunderland but unarguably turned them around financially. In Charlton's history of owner/chairmen/whatever CM's not among the pricks, crooks, no-hopers or nutjobs. Replacing him will be no easy task.
What difference does it make if he has or hasn't? It's a tiny stake in a loss making business, how much could it possibly be worth? In his position I'd hold until and unless a chunky/silly offer is received.
I know a lot of dislike for Charlie on here, personally I think he has done a good job! And club is much better place then previously, in terms on the pitch, and off the pitch with the partnerships, commercials and making the valley a better fan experience.
Done a fantastic job in helping building the structure of the club from nothing and building our relationships with outside companies … to bring in revenue to the club .
Which begs the question why is he going now when there is a reasonable chance we could be in the Championship next season ?
Small wager on he's on to his next project, been recruited for a bigger/better rewarded job elsewhere. This season's accounts will show the value of his time, CAFC's in the best position financially for at least 5 years and CM's been front and centre in achieving that. All the ownership funding in the world guarantees nothing, it always needs to be used well and augmented by the club making its own money commercially etc. We knew he wasn't a fan, he's not a Sarf Lahndun boy (whatever that's worth), he made a tit of himself early on at Sunderland but unarguably turned them around financially. In Charlton's history of owner/chairmen/whatever CM's not among the pricks, crooks, no-hopers or nutjobs. Replacing him will be no easy task.
Great. I can expect another text from Wearside now.
I know a lot of dislike for Charlie on here, personally I think he has done a good job! And club is much better place then previously, in terms on the pitch, and off the pitch with the partnerships, commercials and making the valley a better fan experience.
Done a fantastic job in helping building the structure of the club from nothing and building our relationships with outside companies … to bring in revenue to the club .
Which begs the question why is he going now when there is a reasonable chance we could be in the Championship next season ?
Small wager on he's on to his next project, been recruited for a bigger/better rewarded job elsewhere. This season's accounts will show the value of his time, CAFC's in the best position financially for at least 5 years and CM's been front and centre in achieving that. All the ownership funding in the world guarantees nothing, it always needs to be used well and augmented by the club making its own money commercially etc. We knew he wasn't a fan, he's not a Sarf Lahndun boy (whatever that's worth), he made a tit of himself early on at Sunderland but unarguably turned them around financially. In Charlton's history of owner/chairmen/whatever CM's not among the pricks, crooks, no-hopers or nutjobs. Replacing him will be no easy task.
Wow, you’re rewriting Sunderland’s history as well as our own. He used Sunderland’s parachute payments to finance his own takeover of the club then wrote off the loans, Appleton, worst season in 90 odd years? Are you Charlie’s mum?
If he really is staying until the end of the season it seems a little odd to announce it now when all interest is on the team (for a change).
All a little strange.
Perhaps but if they run an open recruitment process then it would come out that we are looking for a new CEO before the club announced that CM is leaving which would cause more consternation.
Maybe or maybe not.
The announcement didn’t say one way or the other but could have.
Charlie Methven is the type of bloke to shag your wife and when you find out your wife has had an affair, he says he will help you hunt down the other man.
He's not leaving NOW but in MAY. And he's not leaving in disgrace but taking up a post at a club run by one of our footballing partners.
All a bit meh and a non story. Seems more of a sideways move than anything else.
I see it that it’s as equally unclear as was/ is his ownership stake and how it suddenly transpired he was the man to be CEO even though he wasn’t to be ‘involved’.
Spin and waffle.
He is going and we have to await news of the next incumbent.
A paid for senior employee would be less controversial.
Charlie Methven is the type of bloke to shag your wife and when you find out your wife has had an affair, he says he will help you hunt down the other man.
Outgoing Charlton CEO is leaving in May to run Mount Pleasant, the Addicks' partner academy club in Jamaica, and an associated sports investment fund based in the US. #cafc
Charlie Methven is the type of bloke to shag your wife and when you find out your wife has had an affair, he says he will help you hunt down the other man.
I never disliked him, though (like most of us), I was somewhat wary because of what went down with Sunderland. Never sought to turn us over and I strongly believe he genuinely wanted us to succeed. We didn’t get much, (if any), BS from him anyway and he was pretty straight with us into the bargain. Wish him well and there is still a connection (if somewhat tentative), with us and his new venture, which with any luck may turn out well for us.🤞
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Jiminez/Slater was just a weird chapter and before I was involved with the club in any capacity other than as a fan so I can't really say much
Duchatelet had a half decent concept with multi club ownership- just poor execution and the wrong people in place
Southall wasn't here long enough for me to like/dislike him - but it was great fun knowing we had changed the locks on his rented property overlooking the Thames
Sandgaard again had good intentions but no idea how to execute them and was too stubborn to take any advice.
The current group (owners and SMT) at least have us going in the right direction. If we hadn't had that shitty run earlier in the season we'd be very much in the hunt for 2nd - as it is we are still sniffing around it but the play-offs are more realistic. That's an improvement on last season and I guarantee no team wants to play us right now - and that's also something we haven't been able to say for a while. We have got some proper "Charlton" style players now that the fans get behind and we are MUCH better off the field too. We are undoubtedly still a work in progress but at least that progress is going in the right direction. Charlie has played his part.
Hopefully the replacement keeps the momentum up - and hopefully he joins in the summer with us in the Championship
Let’s see who comes in by the summer. I hope it’s someone with good, sensible football pedigree.
The people we have "lost" were deeply unpopular and people wanted them gone. Cant use that as a stick to beat them with if they acted and got rid. I dont think Charlie for instance was in this for years to come was he? So if he goes now and we can get someone in who wants to be long term part of the project.
Its certainly feels calmer then, if not stable, and given how it has been in the not so distant past.
Charlie Methven is the type of bloke to shag your wife and when you find out your wife has had an affair, he says he will help you hunt down the other man.
Amazed how many people don't see through his bullshit but that's the power of being well spoken and well mannered I suppose. A true actor.
None of this season can be credited to him, the matchday experience is only better because the results are more enjoyable, which is what it has always been about. That credit goes to the manager, the players and the coaches, not suits and ties who navigated us to one of the most embarrassing seasons in our history.
Fair play to him leaving with any credit as he's completely lucked out this season, as we all saw what they were truly capable of last season.
Exciting times with the rumours of even bigger investors.
This season's accounts will show the value of his time, CAFC's in the best position financially for at least 5 years and CM's been front and centre in achieving that.
All the ownership funding in the world guarantees nothing, it always needs to be used well and augmented by the club making its own money commercially etc.
We knew he wasn't a fan, he's not a Sarf Lahndun boy (whatever that's worth), he made a tit of himself early on at Sunderland but unarguably turned them around financially.
In Charlton's history of owner/chairmen/whatever CM's not among the pricks, crooks, no-hopers or nutjobs.
Replacing him will be no easy task.
It's a tiny stake in a loss making business, how much could it possibly be worth?
In his position I'd hold until and unless a chunky/silly offer is received.
He's not leaving NOW but in MAY. And he's not leaving in disgrace but taking up a post at a club run by one of our footballing partners.
All a bit meh and a non story. Seems more of a sideways move than anything else.
.....for failing.
Never sought to turn us over and I strongly believe he genuinely wanted us to succeed. We didn’t get much, (if any), BS from him anyway and he was pretty straight with us into the bargain.
Wish him well and there is still a connection (if somewhat tentative), with us and his new venture, which with any luck may turn out well for us.🤞