So it's not a good idea to have a foreign owner, but he doesn't really count?
And not a whiff of Premiership ambition.
Yep. Back to having a nice day out and seeing a few kids play before they are sold on to those nasty clubs that are happy to spend up to the FFP rules.
He has basically come out and said what KM said in Dublin, they still think we just want to plod along in the Championship with no hope of challenging for promotion and all meet up and have a jolly old time watching a 17 year old kid played when he is not good enough because its Rolys way or an 18 year old who plays for us 20 times before sold to a PL team and we should be grateful.
He is also saying on one hand he did not tell CP to play platers but at the start he was very involved? I know who i would believe thanks you tosser.
“Definitely not [a local businessman who would buy the club next]. Varney’s choice would be a Chinese or Qatari guy. I’m quite sure it would not be an English person..."
He may be right but without meeting with them he'll never find out will he!
In any event what's that got to do with the price of fish? Maybe Bill Gates has got bored trying to stop malaria and fancies getting involved in our basket case of a club instead?
Well I, for one, cannot express how glad I am that he has saved the club from ownership by someone who does not share the English footballing culture...
Nice of him to infer that any Chinese or Arab investor in English football is essentially Beelzebub in disguise, unlike nice "local" Uncle Roly.
And reading the quote below, I really wish I could get the image of the Duchatelet football business philosophy as a puppy farm out of my head.
So what would Duchatelet define as success?
He said: “The main goal is that the fans and people see this as a place where they can have a great time - meet friends, enjoy the game, watch good football and see youngsters perform well.
The question is what kind of football do you need? I think at the minimum Championship level. That’s what we definitely need.
Sounds like FFP, or lack of it, is the best chance we have of getting rid.
Duchatelet said: “We feel we should be very close to the community - we cannot be close when the price is too high.
“That means we have to open the doors - we’re doing a big programme for schools and inviting youngsters to come to the games.”
This is never going to happen, people getting freebies or with no real affinity with the club may not depise all you stand for, but almost everyone else does.
“I did discuss on occasions about players - there were also problems at the time with key ones who wanted to leave, like Yann Kermorgant."
He openly told staff that he had better players than Kermorgant. He absolutely did not think he was a key player. And Kermorgant leaving was 100% avoidable - if he really saw him as a key player he would still be at the club now.
“If you want to be a good boss in an organisation you should leave the decisions to the management. “Of course you have to talk to your management and see what the pros and cons are. But the ultimate decision you have to leave with the manager - not just in football."
Ultimately Powell had the final choice, it's true. He didn't do what Roland told him to, and very quickly he was out of a job. But Roland 100% categorically put him under pressure to explain why certain players weren't playing, and made clear he expected them to start getting game time. Any attempt to suggest otherwise is a downright lie.
So it's not a good idea to have a foreign owner, but he doesn't really count?
And not a whiff of Premiership ambition.
He couldn't be more wrong that Belgian and English cultures are the same. That's at the root of a lot of what KM has been doing.
As regards football ambituon he makes very clear that clubs not prepared to spend will be at the bottom, and by implication suggests therefore everyone else must change for Charlton to compete. He seems to be accepting that we cannot compete at that level under him, but he's in for a rude awakening in League One.
Well I, for one, cannot express how glad I am that he has saved the club from ownership by someone who does not share the English footballing culture...
Nice of him to infer that any Chinese or Arab investor in English football is essentially Beelzebub in disguise, unlike nice "local" Uncle Roly.
And reading the quote below, I really wish I could get the image of the Duchatelet football business philosophy as a puppy farm out of my head.
So what would Duchatelet define as success?
He said: “The main goal is that the fans and people see this as a place where they can have a great time - meet friends, enjoy the game, watch good football and see youngsters perform well.
The question is what kind of football do you need? I think at the minimum Championship level. That’s what we definitely need.
Yes Roland. FFP a disaster. It's not changing Amy time soon, certainly not in your life time.
In a hundred years we'll look back and say "Roland told us so"
So the fat lady has pretty much sang. This is not what you're about and not how you envisaged things would go. The plan has been and will continue to be doomed to failure. We are a laughing stock.
I'd thank you for your time, but it's been pretty much been one balls up to the next.
“I never read that he [Powell] said that,” responded Duchatelet. “But if he did, it is certainly wrong.
First line and a lie
“I did discuss on occasions about players - there were also problems at the time with key ones who wanted to leave, like Yann Kermorgant.
Another lie. I believe Powell over RD any day, and Powell said Yann was having to hold on for the right deal. We still don't know to this day if the deal tabled to Yann was good enough or acceptable to him to stay. But what we do know is he wanted to stay.
“For reference, since we acquired Ujpest in Hungary, that’s around four years ago, I attended maybe one game. In Carl Jeiss Zena, which we acquired at the same time as Charlton, I have attended one game. And in Madrid I have attended two games. “Here I have been four times.”
It almost sounds like he thinks we should be grateful that he has attended 4 games. He's a loon.
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And not a whiff of Premiership ambition.
I know which one my money's on.
If an email exists telling Powell who to play at Sheffield United for example, I wonder what Roland would say then.
One disaster trying to blame another disaster. Comedy gold were it not so awful.
Begians out.
He has basically come out and said what KM said in Dublin, they still think we just want to plod along in the Championship with no hope of challenging for promotion and all meet up and have a jolly old time watching a 17 year old kid played when he is not good enough because its Rolys way or an 18 year old who plays for us 20 times before sold to a PL team and we should be grateful.
He is also saying on one hand he did not tell CP to play platers but at the start he was very involved? I know who i would believe thanks you tosser.
He may be right but without meeting with them he'll never find out will he!
In any event what's that got to do with the price of fish? Maybe Bill Gates has got bored trying to stop malaria and fancies getting involved in our basket case of a club instead?
Nice of him to infer that any Chinese or Arab investor in English football is essentially Beelzebub in disguise, unlike nice "local" Uncle Roly.
And reading the quote below, I really wish I could get the image of the Duchatelet football business philosophy as a puppy farm out of my head.
So what would Duchatelet define as success?
He said: “The main goal is that the fans and people see this as a place where they can have a great time - meet friends, enjoy the game, watch good football and see youngsters perform well.
The question is what kind of football do you need? I think at the minimum Championship level. That’s what we definitely need.
Duchatelet said: “We feel we should be very close to the community - we cannot be close when the price is too high.
“That means we have to open the doors - we’re doing a big programme for schools and inviting youngsters to come to the games.”
This is never going to happen, people getting freebies or with no real affinity with the club may not depise all you stand for, but almost everyone else does.
He's said that as though he did everything in his power too keep Kermorgant and that regardless it was him who wanted out
Did Roland really say this?
Its like someone sleeping with your wife and him saying: You want to be careful mate, some people might want to shag your missus
“I did discuss on occasions about players - there were also problems at the time with key ones who wanted to leave, like Yann Kermorgant."
He openly told staff that he had better players than Kermorgant. He absolutely did not think he was a key player. And Kermorgant leaving was 100% avoidable - if he really saw him as a key player he would still be at the club now.
“If you want to be a good boss in an organisation you should leave the decisions to the management.
“Of course you have to talk to your management and see what the pros and cons are. But the ultimate decision you have to leave with the manager - not just in football."
Ultimately Powell had the final choice, it's true. He didn't do what Roland told him to, and very quickly he was out of a job. But Roland 100% categorically put him under pressure to explain why certain players weren't playing, and made clear he expected them to start getting game time. Any attempt to suggest otherwise is a downright lie.
As regards football ambituon he makes very clear that clubs not prepared to spend will be at the bottom, and by implication suggests therefore everyone else must change for Charlton to compete. He seems to be accepting that we cannot compete at that level under him, but he's in for a rude awakening in League One.
In a hundred years we'll look back and say "Roland told us so"
So the fat lady has pretty much sang. This is not what you're about and not how you envisaged things would go.
The plan has been and will continue to be doomed to failure. We are a laughing stock.
I'd thank you for your time, but it's been pretty much been one balls up to the next.
Now please, will you just FUCK OFF!
First line and a lie
“I did discuss on occasions about players - there were also problems at the time with key ones who wanted to leave, like Yann Kermorgant.
Another lie. I believe Powell over RD any day, and Powell said Yann was having to hold on for the right deal. We still don't know to this day if the deal tabled to Yann was good enough or acceptable to him to stay. But what we do know is he wanted to stay.
This guy is just a tosser, through and through.
“It is not good for football in the end - because what really happens is some of the clubs pay stupid wages to very average players.
Jeez, if other clubs have average players, what the feck have we got?
“There is interest, of course, but I don’t see the point [in selling]."
Why? Because he has ulterior motives.
It almost sounds like he thinks we should be grateful that he has attended 4 games. He's a loon.
However, it's unlikely to change so if you don't like it Roly, please fuck off.
Charlton were doing that before RD knew we existed or KM was out of school but we're expected to say "wow, what a great idea".
Great in principal, but never EVER going to happen.
Roland is trying to be a renegade but shows no interest in football or the clubs he owns.
Hardly leading from the front is he!
Box 'o frogs.