Strangely I don't feel euphoric ....... but definitely curious.
My first reaction yesterday was 'Blimey, us!' - followed by 'I'm not sure about this' and 'is this the end of the club run by supporters?', which has made following Charlton so special in this day and age.
The first feel-good factor feeling came when Richard Murray said this is the very best deal for the club, supporters and community - followed by Murray himself saying that he'd been personally asked to stay on and run the club with Zabeel.
Murray has been around a while now, and as we all know, he's proved to us his tremendous value as both supporter and chairman, and that he's worthy of our trust.
Finding out a little more about Zabeel, we discover that a key partner is the son of the Sheikh of UAE, and he already has a sound reputation in the horse racing world.
We also see that once they take over at Charlton, they aim to work closely with the Academy and Community projects, as well as evolving the infrastructure and 1st team affairs.
Sure, I had initial misgivings. But all the right people are making all the right noises.
It's all beginning to sound okay. Perhaps I should be excited.
Underwhelmed by what? Surely you can't be referring to the multi-million pound buyout of Charlton? How can you be underwhelmed by the most important thing to happen to our club since we won the play-off final? How? Please explain.
[cite]Posted By: Valley_floyd_red[/cite]Underwhelmed by what? Surely you can't be referring to the multi-million pound buyout of Charlton? How can you be underwhelmed by the most important thing to happen to our club since we won the play-off final? How? Please explain.
Because I've been a fan of CHARLTON ATHLETIC for 40+ years and I want to support Charlton with genuine Charlton fans not the next generation of Chelsea muppets paying £1000 for a season ticket. I want to continue to support players that give their all for the shirt not mercenaries waiting for next weeks £100k+ pay cheque
I know a lot of older Chelsea fans who simply can't go and support 'their' team anymore. No one gives Chelsea any credit for what they've achieved because of the money that's been put into the club by Roman.
Charlton's journey to the Premier and our stay there was done the Charlton way, through bloody hard work and shrewd management on and off the pitch. Amen
Time to move on. Everything has changed in football, indeed in the world. With the financial situation as it is, how long could we continue servicing our debt? How long before there is no CAFC at all.
If you can't beat 'em (and no one can) join 'em!
Charlton's journey to the Premier and our stay there was done the Charlton way, through bloody hard work and shrewd management on and off the pitch. Amen
Not going to happen anymore, we need investment just to get back to being a mid table club. It'll be very hard for clubs like Wigan who have been up for a few years to survive in the league unless they get investment as well.
Any potential investment of this size is bound to provoke the kind of response we've seen on this site all through today. I've read all sorts of posts and most fans seen to be quite optimistic/bewildered/cautious/excited about the potential takeover. How a fan of 40 plus years "couldn't give a sheet", well, that's a bit odd I reckon.
I see what you're saying Stone, and I too have the cautious approach, but all this goes to prove that you actually DO give a "sheet", surely? Win or lose we'll still all be Charlton, but this is just crackers and I for one, as a normal pessimist, am absoluely hooked on "what next"!
Good or bad, let's hang on for the ride - in the standard Charlton way!
got to say half agree with Stone. charlton being charlton half expect this to not go through and we'll be the laughing stock. not going to og overboard like Pet tong posting teams he wants in Jan - phil neville FFS LOL
WHEN/if it goes through I'll get excited then. Acoording to SSN it will make us one of the richest club in UK which is gobsmacking to be perfectly honest.
[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Agree with Off it and Chirpy.
Dead right not to get too excited until it's a done deal but can't see any fan can't to excited even a little by the prospect.
Henry do you think this will happen????
cough once for yes and twice for no.....
The guy has already been making statements in the media about how he's looking forward to the challenge re getting us back into The Prem...also due diligence is taking place....99% certain I'd say.
Add to that the fact that the club has made an anouncement and it all 'looks' tickity boo wouldn't you say.
[cite]Posted By: Valley_floyd_red[/cite]Underwhelmed by what? Surely you can't be referring to the multi-million pound buyout of Charlton? How can you be underwhelmed by the most important thing to happen to our club since we won the play-off final? How? Please explain.
Because I've been a fan of CHARLTON ATHLETIC for 40+ years and I want to support Charlton with genuine Charlton fans not the next generation of Chelsea muppets paying £1000 for a season ticket. I want to continue to support players that give their all for the shirt not mercenaries waiting for next weeks £100k+ pay cheque
I know a lot of older Chelsea fans who simply can't go and support 'their' team anymore. No one gives Chelsea any credit for what they've achieved because of the money that's been put into the club by Roman.
Charlton's journey to the Premier and our stay there was done the Charlton way, through bloody hard work and shrewd management on and off the pitch. Amen
Stone I'm surprised, I'd never put you down as a 'glass half empty' merchant!
Like most posters on here I am very excited at the potential of all this (how could anyone not be?), being Charlton through and through tho does tend to make you err on the side of caution - as in desperately hoping it all goes through and doesn't go tits up etc! As others have said on here the prognosis for a successful completion does look rather good,everyone making the right noises.I really don't see this as selling out for cash and not having earned it tho, I think if any club has battled and toiled over the last 25 years and has mixed it and matched it on their terms then that club is Charlton Athletic. How many times has big money come along and bought big monied bloated Premier League teams and everyone in football groaned as one? I think most neutrals who love football would feel that buying Charlton is more honourable and exciting than taking over yet again the likes of Newcastle United.
im not happy with how football is changin but agree that if we are stubborn and never accept investment just because we want to stay as the little club run by proper fans. Then we are in trouble financially. And im pretty sure that most most fans would grumble that not enough was done to get us out of the doo doo.
I think we should ignore Stone's first post as not being really what he wants to say. Of course he gives a shit. However, his second post really gets to the point of how he really feels and I have to say that I have similar misgivings.
And I don't go along whatsoever with Chirpy Red's and Carlberg's attitudes that if everyone else is doing it then so should we - that's personally not my outlook on life. I hate what Chelsea have to stand for and now I'll be at risk of sounding like a hypocrite.
I have been accused of being a hypocrite, I personally have verbally attacked Chelsea, Q.P.R and Man City saying that the cash involved in these takeovers is obscene and ruining our game. However, since we have been linked with a similar takeover my thoughts have changed, I think that I was jealous of these clubs and used the 'properly run club' arguement to make myself feel that our way is the only way. Whichever way you look at it, sadly it is not. I know for a fact that I have been watching Charlton for twenty years and am interested to see what happens in the next few months, I dont feel angry, I honestly feel excited, that is my natural reaction.
1) Massive foreign investment as much interested in a sound business with its own ground as it is in the history who clearly want a "bargain" club to get into the premier league within 18 months, possible ticket price increases of 25% + ...or
2) Charlton run as they are next year with no £10M parachute money forced to sell any player with wages > £300K pa or with any talent at all, i.e., back to the early 90s NOT the late 90s
Not sure there is a third option of run it on a shoe string, hard work etc. etc. AND get promoted - we are the lucky ones who will get to see Charlton in the top flight for a third run (counting the 80s) - so I don't really care if this time we "buy" promotion!!!... so underwhelmed - no - very relieved that the board have found someone to take us back (and that Newcasltle were asking silly money for a failing club)
I'm not sure you can just throw money at a club and then expect it to work, everyone keeps referring to the situation at Chelsea as if we could be compared to them, I'd prefer to look at what's happened at Portsmouth over the last few years.
It's all very well spending on players but unless you have the chemistry right it just isn't going to work. The idea that with a new rich owner we'd be virtually guaranteed success/promotion isn't borne out by what's happening over at Loftus road at the moment. I can't believe a company of Zabeels standing would expect a club of our size to leap straight into the top 6 of the premiership. Though I believe that Zabeel hope to be purchasing more than just a football club (our location in relation to local property development and the Olympics) I do believe the Values installed in the club by it's existing owners were what will have attracted their investment in the club in the first place.
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My first reaction yesterday was 'Blimey, us!' - followed by 'I'm not sure about this' and 'is this the end of the club run by supporters?', which has made following Charlton so special in this day and age.
The first feel-good factor feeling came when Richard Murray said this is the very best deal for the club, supporters and community - followed by Murray himself saying that he'd been personally asked to stay on and run the club with Zabeel.
Murray has been around a while now, and as we all know, he's proved to us his tremendous value as both supporter and chairman, and that he's worthy of our trust.
Finding out a little more about Zabeel, we discover that a key partner is the son of the Sheikh of UAE, and he already has a sound reputation in the horse racing world.
We also see that once they take over at Charlton, they aim to work closely with the Academy and Community projects, as well as evolving the infrastructure and 1st team affairs.
Sure, I had initial misgivings. But all the right people are making all the right noises.
It's all beginning to sound okay. Perhaps I should be excited.
Because I've been a fan of CHARLTON ATHLETIC for 40+ years and I want to support Charlton with genuine Charlton fans not the next generation of Chelsea muppets paying £1000 for a season ticket. I want to continue to support players that give their all for the shirt not mercenaries waiting for next weeks £100k+ pay cheque
I know a lot of older Chelsea fans who simply can't go and support 'their' team anymore. No one gives Chelsea any credit for what they've achieved because of the money that's been put into the club by Roman.
Charlton's journey to the Premier and our stay there was done the Charlton way, through bloody hard work and shrewd management on and off the pitch. Amen
If you can't beat 'em (and no one can) join 'em!
Not going to happen anymore, we need investment just to get back to being a mid table club. It'll be very hard for clubs like Wigan who have been up for a few years to survive in the league unless they get investment as well.
I'll be underwhelmed if it all falls thorugh.
Good or bad, let's hang on for the ride - in the standard Charlton way!
WHEN/if it goes through I'll get excited then. Acoording to SSN it will make us one of the richest club in UK which is gobsmacking to be perfectly honest.
Dead right not to get too excited until it's a done deal but can't see any fan can't to excited even a little by the prospect.
Dead right not to get too excited until it's a done deal but can't see any fan can't to excited even a little by the prospect.[/quote]
Henry do you think this will happen????
cough once for yes and twice for no.....
The guy has already been making statements in the media about how he's looking forward to the challenge re getting us back into The Prem...also due diligence is taking place....99% certain I'd say.
Add to that the fact that the club has made an anouncement and it all 'looks' tickity boo wouldn't you say.
You miserable old so-an-so...CHEER UP. We're going to be Millyonairs Rodney
Stone I'm surprised, I'd never put you down as a 'glass half empty' merchant!
I just want tit officail so we have the best January weve had in years...
As others have said on here the prognosis for a successful completion does look rather good,everyone making the right noises.I really don't see this as selling out for cash and not having earned it tho, I think if any club has battled and toiled over the last 25 years and has mixed it and matched it on their terms then that club is Charlton Athletic.
How many times has big money come along and bought big monied bloated Premier League teams and everyone in football groaned as one? I think most neutrals who love football would feel that buying Charlton is more honourable and exciting than taking over yet again the likes of Newcastle United.
;o)
And I don't go along whatsoever with Chirpy Red's and Carlberg's attitudes that if everyone else is doing it then so should we - that's personally not my outlook on life. I hate what Chelsea have to stand for and now I'll be at risk of sounding like a hypocrite.
Life is always evolving, and nothing stands still. Not football. Not even Charlton.
For the past few years we've been on a downward spiral - and the buzz and energy has all but disappeared.
This will certainly re-start the engine.
1) Massive foreign investment as much interested in a sound business with its own ground as it is in the history who clearly want a "bargain" club to get into the premier league within 18 months, possible ticket price increases of 25% + ...or
2) Charlton run as they are next year with no £10M parachute money forced to sell any player with wages > £300K pa or with any talent at all, i.e., back to the early 90s NOT the late 90s
Not sure there is a third option of run it on a shoe string, hard work etc. etc. AND get promoted - we are the lucky ones who will get to see Charlton in the top flight for a third run (counting the 80s) - so I don't really care if this time we "buy" promotion!!!... so underwhelmed - no - very relieved that the board have found someone to take us back (and that Newcasltle were asking silly money for a failing club)
It's all very well spending on players but unless you have the chemistry right it just isn't going to work. The idea that with a new rich owner we'd be virtually guaranteed success/promotion isn't borne out by what's happening over at Loftus road at the moment. I can't believe a company of Zabeels standing would expect a club of our size to leap straight into the top 6 of the premiership. Though I believe that Zabeel hope to be purchasing more than just a football club (our location in relation to local property development and the Olympics) I do believe the Values installed in the club by it's existing owners were what will have attracted their investment in the club in the first place.