Just back from another 'what the fuck was that about' but I digress.For those of us of many years - and I mean at leat 45 yrs.whetre do you stand re the above.Lets remember the Glickstein Brothers owned our beloved club for 50yrs including a FA Cup final victory but were ultimately respsonsible for us going to Sell Out Park.And then we have our Beloved RD and all his wealth taking us to our lowest point in our lifetime.The one thing that sticks in my gut more than anything else is his wealth and how he is destroying our club.More then that I miss ny mates - Many of you I have known through thick and thin and the division he he has created within our fans I will always ditest him for that and for that only reason I say Fuck of Duchatelet
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They didn't have much in the way of ambition for the club but at least they knew how to run a professional football club.
Roland Duchatelet is a very Bad owner.
Gliksten wins by only being a bad owner.
But until Duchatelet has taken Charlton to successive promotions, hired the club's longest-serving manager, won the FA Cup and spent a period of time in which Charlton could be said to be amongst the best teams in the world, he won't be able to be mentioned in the same breath.
The Glikstens were poor because they didn't know enough about football. Duchatelet is dangerous because he thinks he does.
Edited.
The correct way to spells the name of the two brother and a son who owned CAFC is the Glikstens.
Every one including me spelt their names wrong ! (now corrected)
No club had ever achieved that before. And not forgetting, also in successive seasons, a losing Wembley Final and the FA Cup win.
Charlton became so successful with regular huge crowds (including 75,000 against Villa in the Cup), that they were tipped to become as big as Arsenal, then the leading club in the country.
People felt all it needed was more investment in the ground and team, but it never happened. Even the opportunity to sign Stanley Matthews was lost - but just as well financially as it turned out, as the League was abandoned at the outbreak of War and football ground to a halt.
Michael Gliksten was only 21 when he inherited the position of Chairman - and sure, he oversaw the gradual run down of the club over the next 20 years.
But despite everything he did take a personal interest and attended games, keeping the club running for a long time with a few decent player sales but also frequently from his own pocket.
It became an expensive hobby and he gradually tired of it. Then Mark Hulyer bought the club, but not the ground.
In addition to Hulyer's reckless extravangancies, what did for the pre-1984 club was Gliksten keeping hold of the ground - and was one of the major causes of Sunleys taking the club to Selhurst.
Compare that to Duchatelet, who appears to have bought Charlton solely as an eventual profiteering exercise.
The present owners are worst than Michael Glickstein in my opinion and I thought he was bad enough.
What beggars belief is the quick time scale the present owner and his team have achieved the complete destruction of the heart of the club. During the MG reign I think fans sung from the same him sheet albeit one of disenchantment. Unlike now split in to factions.
If the present owner and SMT stay and persist with their way of doing things I wouldn't be surprised to see the clubs status heading to where the Glicksteins brought it up from.
I think he bought it initially as an experiment to see if his 'pioneering' feeder system would work.
It didn't.
I think he holds on out of sheer disinterest, and bloodimindedness.
He is right to say he doesn't feel the economic loss of his past mistakes, and this is what makes him such a terrible terrible owner.
If it hurt him, KM would have been fired an age ago.
He just genuinely doesn't give a shit about us and that's the most scary part.
At least he's not yet the Oystons who seem to be hell bent on wantonly screwing their club up, but he's not too far off.
By all means slag the son Michael off for his actions .
Michael took over after his dad and uncle had let the stadium become a mess. he also let Bailey, Glover, Bonds etc leave the club for modest fees.
When i was a lad at a cafc open day, i was told by a cafc player from the 30's, who was an old man by this time that the brothers would sell anybody and anything if they could make a few pounds.
The Glikstens were mediocre owners at best.
Duchatelet is a shocking owner.
Compare that with what RD has achieved.
No contest really.
GET OUT OF OUR CLUB