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BBC Breakfast news this morning

MuttleyCAFCMuttleyCAFC
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What is this story saying RD has warned fans that Charlton may sell there best players to one of the other clubs he owns - Is it lazy reporting based on the press conference or a new worrying statement! Repeating it every half hour on BBC breakfast on the London bit!
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  • RothkoRothko
    might be from an interview on Late Kick off tonight
  • PragueAddickPragueAddick
    It doesn't make any sense...sell them? Who will negotiate the price? And to which club, other than Standard? For what goal? None of the other clubs have a pot to piss in.His goal is to make money from the whole network. He won't do that by selling Jordan Cousins to Ujpest for a song.

    Sounds like someone's got hold of the wrong end of a stick to me.
  • LLMTPLLMTP
    Weird feature and the guy introducing the article was staying 'London club Carlton'. Is this yet another club RD has purchased?
  • razilrazil
    To other clubs in his network doesnt makes sense to me.. Will be interested to see the quote if it appears in full somewhere
  • Kap10Kap10
    Lets not panic till we see Late Kick Off tonight, then panic tomorrow!
  • RothkoRothko
    Also said on the 6:30 version of the story that RD owned 16 clubs.
  • cafcfancafcfan
    Timing is weird too. Why say this with a relegation fight on-going and next year's season tickets still needing to be sold. Thought this guy was supposed to be an intelligent, successful businessman?
  • Kap10Kap10
    Shock horror BBC say something about Charlton owner which is not backed up with footage on the morning of the screening of BBC show which has a feature on Charlton.

    Outraged Charlton fans increase viewing figures of said program.

  • charltonkestoncharltonkeston
    Makes real sense, buy a club for a few millon then strip the assets and decrease its value.
    I think I'll make up my own mind about this one.
  • Kap10Kap10
    "Charlton football clubs new owner has warned fans that the teams best players maybe sold to other teams that he owns including the biggest Standard Liege"

    Against a backdrop of the RD, Kate, CP and Murray press conference.
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  • SillybillySillybilly
    edited March 2014
    Sounds like a rehashed nothing story on a very quiet news day. Having said that, I'll probably turn the radio on in a minute and discover that the shard has fallen over now!
  • AddicktedAddickted
    Rothko said:

    Also said on the 6:30 version of the story that RD owned 16 clubs.

    I thought that the R&A said you could only have 14?

  • MuttleyCAFCMuttleyCAFC
    edited March 2014
    As Charlton fans, we know that our best players will usually be sold at some point. What we don't know is whether they will all go to Standard Liege in the Summer or that this is a non story!

    Does seem odd to talk in these terms just before an FA cup QF and a crucial relegation battle and the need to sell STs!!!
  • MortimericianMortimerician
    I suspect that the term "sold" is being used figuratively as it's something that football fans understand. What it means is that they'll be moved. I also suspect that this story is something that's emerged in a non-UK newspaper over the weekend (they had no audio, too late to be something from the press conference, papers all over Europe do more sport features over the weekend) and further suspect (proper Charlton Life scoop suspicions cubed, but at least I'm not claiming inside knowledge), that what he said was that he has a network of clubs and plans to shuffle players between them for the optimum result: nothing we didn't know. Doubt he particularly Charlton fans in particular. More likely that he said that the fans of clubs in my network should be prepared for me to move players between the clubs as I see fit.

    The good news is that we've got nobody remotely good enough for SL so it's not an immediate concern.
  • MuttleyCAFCMuttleyCAFC
    A fit Solly, Wiggins, Cousins, Poyet?
  • seriously_redseriously_red
    No players can be sold right now and we have an important set of fixtures coming up so strange timing. In the medium term it is possible that top players might move. But, as have been posted on this site before, the biggest prize available within the network is promotion to the Premier League...
    Perhaps it might be a consideration when trying to get Poyet and other young players to sign - they can be offered a fast track to European football.
  • MuttleyCAFCMuttleyCAFC
    So a possible scenario, we get Poyet to sign a contract at the end of the season and sell him to SL - then we get promoted next season and SL have to sell him back to us!!!
  • ColinTatColinTat
    I imagine it's more like young players being moved/loaned IF we ever got to the prem. How many players who've made a reputation choose to go to Belgium? This isn't the seventies.
  • Addick AddictAddick Addict
    Do the players not actually want to move for that to happen?
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  • Kap10Kap10
    MuttleyCAFC said:

    A fit Solly, Wiggins, Cousins, Poyet?

    Simon Church

  • MuttleyCAFCMuttleyCAFC
    Goes without saying that one
  • Derek1952Derek1952
    If player,s are sold to Belgium do they have to go as part of their contract,or can they refuse to go?Some player,s might not want to uproot,and move to a foreign country.
  • MuttleyCAFCMuttleyCAFC
    good point - I don't think you can force a player to go to Belgium - they are not slaves!
  • Kap10Kap10
    MuttleyCAFC said:

    good point - I don't think you can force a player to go to Belgium - they are not slaves!

    Wasn't a Liege player touted to us, who turned us down and went to Holland?

  • ShootersHillGuruShootersHillGuru
    Exactly what top players do we have that would stroll into Standard Liege's team right now ? Poyet and Cousins maybe in a couple of years but it's more likely they are off to the Prem for good money. At least in Cousins case. I suspect Poyet will leave for a development fee.

    I suspect that this comment is looking at us in a few years when RD hopes that the likes if Reza and Piotr and a few others by then no doubt come good.
  • AFKABartramAFKABartram
    ShootersHillGuru said:

    Exactly what top players do we have that would stroll into Standard Liege's team right now ?

    We've seen though movement already within the group of players that have not strolled into our first team, so i wouldn't rule out the same thing happening in the other direction. Of course, it doesn't really make sense, but a lot that has happened so far hasn't really made sense to me !

    I think it will be very interesting what the summer strategy will be and whether it differs what division we are in. Certainly the efforts to try and secure Championship status have so far been limp at best.

  • MuttleyCAFCMuttleyCAFC
    edited March 2014
    Yes, I think we will stay up - but mainly because of the division being weaker this year at the bottom, being lucky that young players have settled in well and Chrissy Powell. Selling our best striker and midfielder can never be a good approach towards staying up! nor can not strengthening the team a bit when the opportunity is there! All the decisions seem to be long term, but sometimes the situation dictates a bit of short termism as relegation puts you back - and as others have said in different threads- this would be the most needless and avoidable relegation in our history, if it did happen!
  • razilrazil
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xhbxs


    as mentioned elsewhere the Late kick off show is airing tonight
  • Danny AddickDanny Addick
    Which players? The ones with contracts? Jordan Cousins isn't going to go to Belgium is he now.
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