I am pretty sure there will be no takeover unless there are big decisions soon, which have not happened yet.
I heard on the grapevine, and therefore treat this post as rumour with speculation that I can't verify, that there are actually more than two parties interested in taking over, though I don't know the make up of them....this suggests to me that the wall of silence is the preferred position of those selling rather than different groups bidding.
I understand that there is a huge gap between what is offered and what the current owners will accept.
I also understand that there is a decision to not decide, and to shore things up on the expectation of promotion, where it is hoped that as a championship club, Charlton will be easier to sell....in the meantime Charlton are leaking money, and additionally the present (non-football) management structure will continue.
I don't know if the supporters will be formally told this, but there is perhaps a time limit on the wall of silence, or there ought to be, otherwise the situation will become absurd and the takeover thread will reach 10,000 before we hear more.
With regard to the non-football paid leadership structure at the club, perhaps the members of the fans forum might like to enquire if it is true that the wages of just three club employees account for very nearly a quarter of the entire income from season ticket sales. If a kosher fans forum member wants to whisper me I will suggest the names of those three club employees who drain in my estimation £500,000 of club money in wages. The fans forum members may also wish to enquire as to whether we get half a million squids worth of value from those three individuals.
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As for the takeover, I'm pretty sure we'd have lost a player or two if it was definately off as the Board cannot sustain the current losses for much longer. My guess is it is still ongoing but if it does fail sales are certain in January.
We got lucky with Turner and that is why we saw McKenzie & Sodje come in.
They only came in when Fleetwood and Moo2 left.
But I'd agree that it is still on-going, if it was off the Board would make an announcement to that effect, what the delays are, who knows.
Have to disagree. Both could be back in 4-5 months. New signings are here till the end of the season. Really think the Turner windfall was a major factor.
I suspect that at times Nathan doen't even know what his own name is or where he was born........
Your mate!! wouldn't answer to the name of Ron, would he?
Maybe you could phone them?
so it could have been 500k then. Either way the case is still that we don't need all three of them. Cuts have been made everywhere except amongst the Chiefs.
He looked very tired, I thought.
It was thought that the board was skint and had no more cash to invest, but they apparently came up with some (Hatter? Murray? Perhaps one more?) in the hopes that a promoted side is worth considerably more back in The Championship next season.
I don't know how much longer they can hold on, or hold out, without a takeover or another infusion of cash that they really don't want to throw in.
They are taking a gamble, but they also know what the club is worth in the Premier League, in The Championship and what the potential is. So they don't want to sell it on the cheap, and not get what they believe would be a reasonable return.
It is obvious that more money will be needed, since the club in League 1 is almost certainly going to continue to bleed money.
It will be interesting to see how much longer this can go on without a takeover of some kind.
If it drags on into the New Year, and promotion still looks on the cards in January, will they hold on to the key players and perhaps stump up even more to push for promotion?
And if it is slipping, would there be a deal before a fire sale, or a fire sale before a deal?
I think the bottom line is that while there are interested parties, that nothing appears to be immanent.