Will the Trust be contacting the Football League, regarding Roland Duchatelet being "not fit and proper" to run a football league club ?
I appreciate that he may pass the present criteria, but should this now be amended.
Surely it is fundamental, that one of the requirements of a football league club, is that they participate in the sport under the normal rules ?
It is inconceivable that you are allowed to particiapate in the football league, if you are unconcerned whether or not your club wins football matches.
Mr Duchatelet has stated that he is not bothered whether Charlton win matches. No doubt because his primary aim is to showcase and develop Academy players in the first team instead of in the U21's where they belong. So as with the Academy games, the primary function is developing youth players as opposed to competing to win matches.
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It has never happened in the history of the football league, that an owner has stated that he does not care whether his team win games or not.
(but seriously, I wondered at times under KF whether the league would think that we were deliberately trying to lose some games...)
He has demonstrated this by appointing coaches, because they are good with youth players as opposed to first team players.
He said himself, that he isn't concerned whether the first team win or not. This is not professional sport.
So other than Cellino and Duchatelet No.
Both seem unfit to be owners.
One for tax reasons.
the other for lax reasons.
If they can't keep the likes of them out of football then there's no way they can take any action against RD for supposedly not caring whether we win or not. We pay our bills on time and don't spend beyond our means - we know that he's running the club into the ground, but virtually impossible to put any formal charge against him. Until and unless we follow the German ownership model, clubs in this country will continue to be taken for a ride but unscrupulous or idiotic owners.
Regarding Portsmouth, the supporters called him Ali Al-Mirage, can't remember his actual name, but there is still no conclusive proof that he actually existed when Peter Story put together a sale of the club to him.
For as bad as RD has done things, he would not be affected by laws like FPP, even if they were enacted properly.
16 wins and 5 draws in last 21 competitive games.
1st team, 5 wins in 31 Matches.
All Duchatelet cares about is Getting our academy to Category A.
Develop Sparrows Lane.
Have a decent car park for the scouts.
The U16 will wash their cars while they watch the U18.
Has his refund for getting relegated run out ?
- Knowledge test about the rules and structure of the league, and the history and traditions of the club that the are buying. This would be a proper sit down written examination with a set pass/fail mark. It may sound silly, but it would perhaps head off ridiculous situations like the Venkys not realising that they could be relegated or Duchatelet's pathetic underestimations of the standard of the Championship.
- Signed declaration that they intend their club to be competitive to the best of their ability. Vetted business plan to show that they have properly thought through how to do this. Asset stripping not considered suitable.
- All directors would have to sign a declaration that they will watch x number of matches live and in person every season. Six figure fines for every match that they fall short of the required number. Get the time wasters out of our sport: if you want to be involved then be involved, if not then take your money elsewhere.
- Requirement to have a proper plan in place for supporter-engagement. Heavy fines for not acting in accordance with this. Yes Katrien, that would mean that your boss would be fined for each unanswered email.
- Probably a lot more as well.
A man who has not watched a live game of ours, I'm not talking on the stream, and I do not believe for one second does he watch every one of our streams, for over 2 years; has no care for the direction of the Club.
Unfortunately it's like a homeless man complaining to the Prime Minister, they won't care. It will be in one ear out the other, if it even reaches said ear.
I would be grateful for an inbox, if there is some reason why you won't respond on here. Thanks very much.
Also, multi-club ownership isn't allowed within a single federation but multi-club ownership across Europe (within EU) is?
Surely, RD is the named owner of Alcorcon in Spain if not the others in his pyramid?
I think the answer is that there is a lot going on and we have to prioritise our time. A lot of time over the last few weeks has gone into CARD activities, fundraising, approaches to RD, producing Trust News 11, the recent survey, meeting MPs, website articles, Fans Forum etc.
Davo55 compiles a list of protest suggestions and I'll make sure the Fit Person one is considered at the CARD meeting this week.
I guess the FL and others could point to the success story at Watford where the owners there also own Udinese in Serie A and in their first season brought over a lot of loan players to Watford that weren't getting a game at Udinese. One major difference is that I don't think the CEO at Watford ever made the kind of statement that Katrien Miere made in Ireland about the purpose of the Club being the production of young players whom the fans (sorry Customers) will see develop in the Championship before being sold on to the Premier League. As far as I am aware she has not fully retracted that statement although RD has I believe disowned it.
If nothing else this demonstrates the dysfunctional relationship between KM and RD and was another instance where KM has shot her mouth off without thinking of the consequences or indeed without any thought at all (just like the ill-judged restaurant analogy and "the fans don't see themselves as customers" in the same Irish interview and the ludicrous heralding of Guy Luzon as the next Alex Ferguson - add your own further examples ad infinitum).
No sane, hard-nosed businessman - I refer here to Jimenez and Slater - would sanction a deal that would leave them liable for the mistakes and incompetence of others.
The more rolland and katrien talks the more the masterplan is revealed to be flawed and the media latch onto that.
we dont want it to just be us vs us because they refuse to engage 100%