Interesting interview and good for Peter that he continues to try and help the club and I honestly believe there is invetsment to be had but Duchatelet is not interested.
Greenie asks how did RD become successful? Well I guess, and I don't know for certain, that he knew the electonics business inside out, had great people around him and so developed a very successful business. What is clear is that he isn't lacking ego and so believes that he has a solution to the woes of the Football business, which unlike his other interests, he neither understands or has a clue how to put into operation.
It is true that the Sky money is going to skew the leagues even more with Aston Villa potentially receiving £99M for being ablsoutely useless, you couldn't make it up. So how old RD thinks any club can compete and potentially get promotion on two bags of crisps and a doughnut is beyond my comprehension. As I have said many times this is a rich man's vanity project and he won't back down, basically because he doesn't have the need to.
Lets all hope Peter Varney finally gets through it's our best hope
Interesting to hear this stuff straight from the horses mouth but can't see how it is going to make Roland more likely to sell to PV's interested party. Probably having the exact opposite effect.
Interesting to hear this stuff straight from the horses mouth but can't see how it is going to make Roland more likely to sell to PV's interested party. Probably having the exact opposite effect.
Possibly, but it surely must be helping to win over those fans who don't like the regime but think there isn't any alternative. The more fans that join the protests, the more pressure on Meire and Duchatelet to think again.
Interesting to hear this stuff straight from the horses mouth but can't see how it is going to make Roland more likely to sell to PV's interested party. Probably having the exact opposite effect.
Business is business. Of course the club is for sale. If you offered him £200M he'd bite your hand off, experiment or no experiment.
It is great to get these interviews with Peter Varney but the information needs to get out to people who aren't on sites like Charlton Life, otherwise it is just preaching to the converted. And I don't know how we do that apart from giving people the facts on flyers in simple, easily digested, incontestable form as they enter the ground.
Interesting to hear this stuff straight from the horses mouth but can't see how it is going to make Roland more likely to sell to PV's interested party. Probably having the exact opposite effect.
Business is business. Of course the club is for sale. If you offered him £200M he'd bite your hand off, experiment or no experiment.
You've got to get to talk to him in order to make that offer though.
Interesting to hear this stuff straight from the horses mouth but can't see how it is going to make Roland more likely to sell to PV's interested party. Probably having the exact opposite effect.
Business is business. Of course the club is for sale. If you offered him £200M he'd bite your hand off, experiment or no experiment.
You've got to get to talk to him in order to make that offer though.
Sadly, it makes no difference. Duchatalet won't sell, end of. And I suspect he's the kind of arrogant rich man who would become more obstinate the more things are chucked his way. Standard Leige was different as the protests were on his doorstep. Nothing we do or can do impacts on his daily life.
Sadly, it makes no difference. Duchatalet won't sell, end of. And I suspect he's the kind of arrogant rich man who would become more obstinate the more things are chucked his way. Standard Leige was different as the protests were on his doorstep. Nothing we do or can do impacts on his daily life.
I suspect he will sell when theres an offer on the table that gives him a decent amount of profit. The club is always for sale as he's only in it for the money, 'the network' has been screwed up and thrown in the bin with the sale of SL.
Sadly, it makes no difference. Duchatalet won't sell, end of. And I suspect he's the kind of arrogant rich man who would become more obstinate the more things are chucked his way. Standard Leige was different as the protests were on his doorstep. Nothing we do or can do impacts on his daily life.
I suspect he will sell when theres an offer on the table that gives him a decent amount of profit. The club is always for sale as he's only in it for the money, 'the network' has been screwed up and thrown in the bin with the sale of SL.
Never underestimate the arrogance of a rich man surrounded by sycophants. I am sure he would like a profit on his investment, but the key is he doesn't need the money. So ego will win out over economics.
If money is that important, why not go all out to get back into the Premier League. From next year, clubs will get £99m just for finishing bottom! I just don't get why he's not interested in progressing.
If money is that important, why not go all out to get back into the Premier League. From next year, clubs will get £99m just for finishing bottom! I just don't get why he's not interested in progressing.
Money isn't important to him, he has loads.
It's about proving he can do something others can't ie run a club successfully and break even.
And yes we all know he's doing neither but that is his motivation ie being proved right, not making money as such.
If money is that important, why not go all out to get back into the Premier League. From next year, clubs will get £99m just for finishing bottom! I just don't get why he's not interested in progressing.
Money isn't important to him, he has loads.
It's about proving he can do something others can't ie run a club successfully and break even.
And yes we all know he's doing neither but that is his motivation ie being proved right, not making money as such.
I disagree 100% with this part of your post. People like RD get up every morning to earn a Euro, every Euro is a Euro more than they had yesterday. That is their reason for getting up, yes I agree he wants to prove himself right that he can run club and be successful his way. We and I suspect he, now knows that it wont work so I suggest that when he sells he will want to walk away with more money than he bought the club for.........at least then in his eyes he will have been a success.
You also make a great point Greenie of course he is motivated by money. What doesn't make sense though is surely the worse the situation gets, and it looks like League 1 beckons, then the value of his assett starts to fall and so there is every chance he will walk away with a loss not a profit so how does that stack up with the idea that money is the only motivation? I have no idea but I have thought for a long time that there is more behind this I just don't know what it is.
I do still believe that he wants to prove that his system works, trouble is he is like the lunatic in the asylum who thinks it is the rest of the world is mad.
If money meant so much to him, he wouldn't waste so much on the likes of Polish Pete and hiring and firing managers every six months. He also thinks it's a great idea to give everyone free money in addition to their welfare. The bloke is just a socialist nitwit.
I believe he is more likely somehow obsessed by money, the figures and how they stack up or play out. However if he is motivated by money we would have a better chance to get through to him, he is motivated by some other stuff. To paraphrase Katrien, it is not the supporters who are weird, it is the owner.
If money is that important, why not go all out to get back into the Premier League. From next year, clubs will get £99m just for finishing bottom! I just don't get why he's not interested in progressing.
Money isn't important to him, he has loads.
It's about proving he can do something others can't ie run a club successfully and break even.
And yes we all know he's doing neither but that is his motivation ie being proved right, not making money as such.
I disagree 100% with this part of your post. People like RD get up every morning to earn a Euro, every Euro is a Euro more than they had yesterday. That is their reason for getting up, yes I agree he wants to prove himself right that he can run club and be successful his way. We and I suspect he, now knows that it wont work so I suggest that when he sells he will want to walk away with more money than he bought the club for.........at least then in his eyes he will have been a success.
I don't think that is his motivation in owning Charlton. He makes money from his other businesses.
He is motived by other things, not JUST money, hence his political party and activities.
yes, he likes money but that's not what he is aiming for here.
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Greenie asks how did RD become successful? Well I guess, and I don't know for certain, that he knew the electonics business inside out, had great people around him and so developed a very successful business. What is clear is that he isn't lacking ego and so believes that he has a solution to the woes of the Football business, which unlike his other interests, he neither understands or has a clue how to put into operation.
It is true that the Sky money is going to skew the leagues even more with Aston Villa potentially receiving £99M for being ablsoutely useless, you couldn't make it up. So how old RD thinks any club can compete and potentially get promotion on two bags of crisps and a doughnut is beyond my comprehension. As I have said many times this is a rich man's vanity project and he won't back down, basically because he doesn't have the need to.
Lets all hope Peter Varney finally gets through it's our best hope
Part 2!
Thanks PV.
Clearly not obvious to Katrien and not to a few fans who say to protesters/leafleters "No one will buy the club"
It's about proving he can do something others can't ie run a club successfully and break even.
And yes we all know he's doing neither but that is his motivation ie being proved right, not making money as such.
I do still believe that he wants to prove that his system works, trouble is he is like the lunatic in the asylum who thinks it is the rest of the world is mad.
However if he is motivated by money we would have a better chance to get through to him, he is motivated by some other stuff.
To paraphrase Katrien, it is not the supporters who are weird, it is the owner.
He is motived by other things, not JUST money, hence his political party and activities.
yes, he likes money but that's not what he is aiming for here.