I thought I would post this extract here for the benifit of those not living in South East London and perhaps missing the story in todays South London Press.
"Peter Varney has urged Charlton supporters to show patience as the wait for takeover developments writes Richard Crawley.
The club's former cheif executive is representing a mystery investor group who are planning on taking control by Christmas Eve.
Varney was at Sunday's 1-0 defeat to Wallsall and a number of fans were asking why the buyout could not be done sooner.
"There are two banks that hold Charlton's debt and there is a massive array of complex legal documentation." said Varney. "There are liabilities to be resolved as well as issues to be resoved with the football league."
"There is no change to the position. We remain on target for December 24 and the supporters have got to understand that iot is a hugely complex process."
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Good news they're still on target for the 24th.
I can say that our new sponsors are Orange.
Make of that what you will...
wonder what they are, if outside of the standard Fit and proper stuff ?
I'm thinking that the Boxing Day game could be quite a big one!
Applause all round for Muzza before kick off and he announces the arrival - on the pitch - of the new owners.
"They burn onto the pitch in solid gold Bentleys - do a few doughnuts around the centre circle and are then fired out like a human cannonball into the North stand penalty area where they are caught by a pile of cash 10m x 10m x 10m which is then evenly distributed to the crowd (even the West stand with us plastics in it get some)"
***That last bit might or might not happen
Cliff Richard, the cast of The Wizard of Oz, an investment group who all like James Bond, Elvis & Herbie films. Someone like that.
Seriously though, I do hope people are patient. There's nothing we can do to hurry it along, but there's plenty we can do to put off potential investors.
Just like xmas presents, we'll have to wait till xmas.
If the potential owners are going to be put off of a deal because of the way a crowd reacts, how people comment on message boards or a single terrible performance on the pitch do we really want them owning our club?
Nah, these silly criptic messages of people trying to big up what little they know are getting on my tits so I'll wait till 24th and the three wise men (Dennis, his Dad and Brother -fact*) to arrive.
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.CL Rule 43 never a fact unless typed in capitals - FACT
AS I inderstand it, the deal can only fall through if the due dilligence unearths information that has not been dislosed and is material to the purchase. The fact that we have some goons on message boards and in the crowd is unlikely to be new information. otherwise its a legally binding contract.
Don't get the sensitivity myself. Want to avoid making things overly public or advanced until the due diligence is complete, fine, fair enough. But that is very different to a complete shutdown in people even mentioning for fear of disrupting the process. How could it possibly be disrupted unless there were negative things in association with the individuals which may / may not impact on whether the supporters will take to them ? But those aspects would eventually emerge anyway.
On a general point, why anyone would want to buy a very public, community vehicle in the first case such as a football club seems a bit odd given the majority of people who buy football clubs nowadays largely do so for egotistical / profile reasons.
I have a lot of respect for Peter Varney, but who might have made the issue so complex in the first place?.......
Patience is a virtue, not normally associated with football these days, so a bit of wishful thinking here.
Ask Sam Allardyce, Carlos Tevez, or Chris Hughton ..........
Charlton fan's not patient!....... You should try talking to some other club's fans Peter.
Didn't Abramovich buy Chelsea predominantly to stay alive? It made him too public a figure to be "wacked"
I read that somewhere - may have been rubbish
1. When’s it happening? Christmas Eve? 24th December? No, “December 24”. Clearly this indicates a Qatar bid. If Varney were representing a “Christian” country, he would have called it “Christmas Eve”. If the consortium was British, it would be “24th December”. But no, he’s gone with “December 24” – exactly how they would write the date in Qatar.
2. “Show patience”. Why? We know the deal is supposed to be done “on or before “December 24”. What Varney’s doing here is to head off any impatience shown if the deal isn’t done by the next game. Why? Simple: that’s December 18. Ring any bells? The National Day of Qatar.
3. And finally, Varney states: it’s a “hugely complex process”. He’s clearly talking about the Khalifa International Tennis Complex, built by Nüssli Gruppe – who will obviously be designing the new East Stand extension.
FACT
That does beg the question of why anything was announced in the first place though...
If the potential new owners wanted that sort of secrecy then they should buy a club in Nth Korea.
From once it was announced we were going into a legally binding period of due dillegence and i would pressume exclusivity then fans will talk.
If the Internet was not here it would be in fanzines and discussed in pubs.
Some people should get a grip
yes its interesting yes it is midly exciting tinged with an edge of worry but ultimatly what will be will be
I can assure you that if I knew that Tangoman was on his way to Charlton I'd be using a very different four letter word beginning with "f". Take a chill pill brother.
Who said Tango man?
Dowie also couldn't string a sentence together and Richard agreed. How do Dowie and Dean Windass earn a living on Sky Sports? - guess this is more for the shocking thread.
Not too much longer to wait.