There are a lot of posts urging Mr Duchatelet to go, to sell up effectively.
In the normal universe, I mean not selling the club for a token £1 or something, is there anybody out there willing and able to take us on?
My vague estimate is that £60million would be enough to buy the club, plus it's commitments, and get us through pretty well until the end of the 16/17 season. By then there would be a recognisable proper football squad, with a nice group of maturing (and valuable) youngsters hitting their stride.
I have not heard a dicky bird about any outside interest for about two years now so I wonder if there is anything about at all. For Roland to sell up there needs to be a buyer.
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Did say I was being vague in my estimate.
Having read views of many fans and non fans I believe time is right to support you guys!
I'm prepared to ask the question to KM
was she aware of an offer being made for the club in July 2015 for the sum of €47mil and why was it turned down point blank.
My Response was -:
So RD turned down 47 million euros (?), that's equivalent to £33,434,821.67 at today's currency rates. Which, if he has put in £21 million himself already (including buying the club I believe) would have made him a profit of £12 m in 18 months. If this is factual, and I don't know whether it is or not, he must have a reason for turning that down after such a short term in charge. So perhaps the sale of The Valley for residential houses and a new stadium on the peninsular is his plan, and if that's his master-plan he needs to be stopped.
Therefore it appears someone was around early in the summer, not sure if it is true or not to be honest with.
An eternity of mediocrity in the championship could be our future, if we are lucky ;-)
To equip whatever manager was chosen with the tools to do the job of getting us to the Prem? Who knows? The new owners could spend £100m and still not get promotion.
Every season in the Championship will cost around £5m in losses - increasing if more money is spent on players.
Total outlay around £100-150m depending on player investment - and the only fixed asset is the bricks and mortar. Any new owner (s) would need therefore to be able to spend and be prepared to potentially lose around £100m.
Out of the reach of a fan buy-out and I can't see a queue forming of interested billionaires.
Lots of people have suggested that RD is only here to feed off us. The above scenario suggests otherwise or alarmingly he either has no intention of selling his laboratory rat or even worse that he sees a bigger payoff in the future. Given our precarious league status with associated losses should we drop then I can't help feeling that it is the latter of the two.
By what possible means could RD see a profit greater than the 12 million without some dramatic means that perhaps Ghostofcharltonpast past has already highlighted ?
That does not even address why anyone would see a bid 47 million euros for us as good business.
As Prague has already posted. I wish Ghostofcharltonpast and cafc1263 would see fit to come back on the forum and help us out.
Who knows about @ghostofcharltonpast and his bid? The one thing we've established is its nothing to do with cafc1263 and his guys. I'm just wondering how you can name the price of a bid before you've had a chance to look at the books, do due diligence. How on earth otherwise do you get to €47m? And why do you make a bid without the faintest indication that the owner of a business is interested in selling? Would be nice to know the answers to that, if the writer really wanted us to take it seriously, and wasn't just on a windup.
And finally look how quiet this thread is compared to the protest threads. That's our problem. Sorry to say something people won't want to hear, but if not RD, then who? And why?