Sorry to butt in this way but isn't the real question who is dealing with the financials? Or maybe it is such a minor role it doesn't matter. As this transfer window kicks off it looks like we have an absentee owner, dealing with Richard Murray by phone or something, doing the doings on the player football front. Cojones runs everything else including trench inspections, and there is nobody to count the pennies. Chris Parke's runs the fixtures and needs access to money for the incidental football related spending. Doesn't look too solid to run a serious football club. When agents call who are they put through to? I know it was never Joyes, but there seems to be a decision making communication issue brewing and possibly a lack of financial information forthcoming. Or is Roland across all this stuff?
Good luck to Mr Joyes. He’s a really nice guy and a family man.
No need for any animosity in his direction.
His departure presumably means he is no longer required
I'd dispute the first two points.
I'd question why he's no longer needed though @Swisdom a takeover and a transfer window plus normal operation of the business and we have no CEO or FD to either run the club or hand it over.
Not had many dealings with him but those I have have been amiable. Not heard people talk about him like Keohane so assumed he was fairly well liked.
My assumption is it is pretty much a done deal and so they are free to go. If this drags for more than a week or two our season is over so prospective owners are likely to want to move at pace.
As with Meire - strange time to go as the takeover would probably lead to a redundancy payout...unless that’s already sorted
He may well be more amicable than Keohane but that is a very low benchmark. The views I have heard expressed about him were less than favourable, shall we say.
I'm not one of those drawing up a list of quislings to have their heads shaved on the pitch but Joyes held a very senior role in this regime and the last. He knew what he was doing.
I've got a lot of time for David Joyes. I've worked with him on VG and he's a nice guy, family man, and very professional.
There have been compromises along the way, which is undoubtedly understating it as we both know (especially under the spivs), but for me he's not one for the gallows. I got the impression more than once that mistakes of the past (knowing or otherwise) wouldn't be repeated moving forward. Company man, that said.
Job opportunity at the club he supports, timing coincides with huge changes and unknowns with his current employer. Who'd blame him really.
Don't blame him for taking the job and he may well have gone for it regardless of the situation at Charlton given that he's from that area.
I do blame him for his actions while FD at Charlton and for his active support of KM in her disastrous mismanagement of the club.
I also question his cooperation with the financial policies of the previous regime when two directors (one of them a qualified accountant) had declined to continue their own involvement on ethical grounds.
He was also just plain wrong in not disclosing KM's emoluments in the accounts.
Sorry to butt in this way but isn't the real question who is dealing with the financials? Or maybe it is such a minor role it doesn't matter. As this transfer window kicks off it looks like we have an absentee owner, dealing with Richard Murray by phone or something, doing the doings on the player football front. Cojones runs everything else including trench inspections, and there is nobody to count the pennies. Chris Parke's runs the fixtures and needs access to money for the incidental football related spending. Doesn't look too solid to run a serious football club. When agents call who are they put through to? I know it was never Joyes, but there seems to be a decision making communication issue brewing and possibly a lack of financial information forthcoming. Or is Roland across all this stuff?
I've heard that Vera, the tea lady has now been promoted to senior tea lady and had her financial limits raised to £15k so she can now sign off any new player acquisitions.
Can we all stop talking about him being a family man, means nothing in this context. It’s how he’s acted in his role and his defence of the regime I have a problem with. On that account I hold him as an ally of the regime and I’m glad he’s gone.
Can we all stop talking about him being a family man, means nothing in this context. It’s how he’s acted in his role and his defence of the regime I have a problem with. On that account I hold him as an ally of the regime and I’m glad he’s gone.
In a similar fashion I remember hearing what a nice guy Kevin Muscat was off the pitch but I didn’t give a fiddlers fart as he was such a scumbag on it!
What with a massive part of his portfolio disappearing with the halting of the works at Sparrows Lane, Keohane must have a lot more time to carry out other duties at the Club.
Well someone has to clear the snow from the car park.
Four of them - see @carly burn's list a few posts earlier. The former CFO role has been replaced - at least temporarily - by a Finance Manager, Emma Parker, who joined in November. Her main previous job was as a controller at Commerzbank, that well-known Bundesliga club.
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As this transfer window kicks off it looks like we have an absentee owner, dealing with Richard Murray by phone or something, doing the doings on the player football front. Cojones runs everything else including trench inspections, and there is nobody to count the pennies. Chris Parke's runs the fixtures and needs access to money for the incidental football related spending.
Doesn't look too solid to run a serious football club.
When agents call who are they put through to? I know it was never Joyes, but there seems to be a decision making communication issue brewing and possibly a lack of financial information forthcoming.
Or is Roland across all this stuff?
OS staff list:
Director: Roland Duchâtelet
Director: Richard Murray
Honorary Life President: Sir Maurice Hatter
Club Ambassador: Keith Peacock
FINANCE
Finance Manager: Emma Parker
Payroll Manager: Belinda Miller
Credit Control/ Bookkeeper: Esperance Kabanyana
Purchase Ledger Administrator: Bethany Webb
OPERATIONS
Chief Operating Officer: Tony Keohane
Operations Manager: Paul Bailey
Head Groundsman – The Valley: Nathan Chapman
Well someone has to clear the snow from the car park.
Wrap up warm Tony.
(RD, obviously)
https://www.mfc.co.uk/david-joyes
Was it just him?