A Question,if Duchatelet will not sell up,maybe he needs to be persuaded that Meire, Murray and Riga need to go and be replaced with a management team with the knowledge and capability to take us forward.
If he really isn't involved in the day to day running of the Club then his management team has failed and need replacing, all 3 of them banished to the wilderness.
Come on RD you know it makes sense, or you have blown all your cash and there will be more pain and suffering.
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Backwards and Down are the only directions we will be heading.
His CEO is his seedy sidekick who revels in our pain, and I've no doubt that they get off over the grief they cause us when they have their regular conference calls! Quite a sickening thought in all honesty!
They both, no doubt, suffer from an inferiority complex and have allowed the fact that they have money/power to feed their insecure whims!
I am a really amiable character who is often chastised for trying to see the best in everyone! But never have a pair of loathsome, cringeworthy individuals caused me to feel so much angst, disdain and total dislike toward someone/something.
Just piss off you deluded imbeciles! Go on, piss off!!
If there was a change of management team we should continue our battle
Rest assured the pressure will continue I'm sure not just from CARD but from all those individual fans who wish to bring this horrible experiment at the expense of our club to an end. Will anti-RD and Meire banners appear at the Euros for example?
You may be aware also from other threads that attention is being drawn to Meire's outrageous statement (in Belgium) re her dissmisive attitude to the history of the club. This may seem tangental to the more serious issues of mismanagement but she will feel it deeply if she has to explain herself to her old Uni (who recently awarded her a prize) or, more seriously, if Greenwich University begin to have doubts about her credibility as a business partner. Her academic standing with her Uni (KU Leuven) and her assumed standing with Greenwich Uni is one which is entirely undeserved and should be exposed.
Finally, IMO the removal/resignation of Katrien Meire would be the first step in the dismantling of the failed and flawed RD ownership but to replace her simply with another yes man or woman (Valerie Gys from Ujpest?) is simply going to draw out the length of the process of collapse. In any other business scenario Katrien Meire would be long gone. It is a measure of the depth of her arrogance and mis-placed loyalty to RD that she is prepared to sacrifice many aspects of good business practice to adhere religiously to the crackpot ideas of Duchatelet.
So what does the owner do? He appoints a new chairman who is tasked with finding out what went wrong and to plan for promotion back to Premiership next season. He has brought in a former a manager, Brian Little, as an advisor, sacked the CEO and a foreign sounding Sporting Director. The manager is expected to leave any day.
The new chairman said “It will be the board that actually makes decisions now (rather than Lerner). We will go through a proper process as to what we do and what we don’t do. That will include buying and selling players."
It is also reported that they want to appoint a new manager who has a promotion to the Premiership on their cv. Nigel Pearson is current favourite.
Now moving on to our plight accepting that the owner won't go away. Most of the above would be a good start to our fight to return to the Championship.
First appoint a new chairman since our current one seems to have lost his way. Someone who is not part of the owner's conglomerate and will be able to assure us that:
“It will be the board that actually makes decisions now (rather than Roland)
We will go through a proper process as to what we do and what we don’t do.
That will include buying and selling players."
We appoint a currently unemployed former manager, who apparently has previously offered help, as an adviser,
Appoint a British manager who has a promotion to the Championship on his cv (anyone come to mind?)
Appoint a CEO who understands the difference between a fan and a customer and who has experience in running an English Professional Football Club.
Come on Roland take your head out of that very dense Belgian sand and see a future for our club.
No chance of course but surprise me!
That appears to be the gist of it Gnome - no chance.
Whilst all all your suggestions make sense, to implement them by RD would be to take Charlton out of the Network and to do something different rather than stick with is avowed if deeply flawed strategy. I believe he said in the SLP that it was 'too early' to think about selling up. If so, how bad do things have to get before he admits that the current set up ain't going to work?
The bad news is that this a man who formed an alternative political party in Belgium in 1998 which was going to revolutionise Belgian politics with novel approaches to political issues. Instead, I believe it remains a minor fringe party but limps along with its brand of largely unworkable policies - rejected by the majority of the electorate but with RD still at the helm.
Heaven help us if he is still around at Charlton Athletic in 18th months let alone 18 years.