A loss making 'business' that has lost most of its 'core customers' with an inept CEO who has no knowledge of football. There appears to be no long term planning or investment and no interest by the owner in the club actually being successful at football.
If cost cutting is the only strategy they might as well just withdraw the club from the league, get rid of all the staff and employ security staff to look after the empty real estate - this would at least stabilise losses.
KM could be given an office by RD to play make believe CEO games and everyone could get on with their lives.
I don't have a clue how this will end anymore - KM and RD have demonstrated their complete contempt for the club and its fanbase and nothing seems to touch them. Even if the whole ground was empty and we lost every game KM would still claim it was a success.
It's truly MADNESS!
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Charlton Athletic Won the Premier League 2016,
in their 40 thousand stadium.
Leicester City Were relegated to League 1.
The purpose of CAFC was for us to Dream of a Utopia.
Now we just have this Dystopian nightmeire.
I wish it was as simple as you suggest.
Look at the comments last week relating to the proposed winter break for our players, the noises coming out from the FA said "it was being discussed and on the agenda"
We all know the person that will have the final say on a winter break is Rupert Murdoch because Sky will have a huge say if football is not to be televised for 4 weeks.
Cash revenue, undisclosed fee's, payments to "agents", there is more to this and a bigger story to be told. You are not telling me the Chinese guy that has just bought Wolves has done so because he is a fan of either the club or English football.
I don't seek to criticise such a guess, simply to point out that nobody has uncovered any evidence of this. And let's remember that there are far more people in Belgium who have been looking for the answer, including the enterprising and aggressive supporters of Standard, and various journalists. Nobody has claimed to have worked it out.
If I'm correct then this explains his reticence to sell us, or even properly entertain offers, as if you're going to prove that football can be self sufficient then you really need to do it in the capital of footballing economic insanity - England.
I know that he was told directly last season that if he continues with his approach relegation will take place. He did not accept it then, and as far as I can see, he doesn't now, despite the relegation. It is all about cutting budgets and being efficient in how things are done. Obviously there was some need for cutting budgets due to relegation, but there seems to be a complete lack of ambition around the Valley at the moment.
If he really was interested in Charlton, as a football club with ambition, he would be looking at what investment he should put in to get promotion. Instead, it seems to be trying to find the least needed to get by. Forget promotion, maintaining our league one status is our only hope at the moment.
This is nothing more than me thinking out loud but if I were a multi-millionaire with more money that I could ever spend and I had, say, a friend that I wanted to buy gifts for I might consider bankrolling a football club for her to run as acceptable - especially if she were sufficiently grateful!
I know that sounds like a conspiracy theory but I can't think of anything else more credible, personally.
For all we know Roland could be laughing all the way to the bank.
See my post above and some of the very interesting comments in the West Ham/Olympic thread. Today's owners both British & Foreign are not snapping up our football clubs because they are fans of the club or football in general. There are a lot of benefits in owning a football club and businessmen are moving in on it and reaping the rewards.
For me yours is the explanation that best fits what he has done, taking into account the other countries.
I am intrigued and disturbed by the nature of the relationship between Duchatalet and Meire and would really like to know what is at the bottom of it all. It is quite obviously beyond a business relationship, anybody so monumentally bad at their job would have been fired long ago in any normal company.
Somebody on here (I forget who) mentioned a link between Duchatelet and Meire's father and that would seem to match how he goes about some of his other business dealings, personal connections and a very small circle of trusted individuals.
I don't believe for a second the old codger is playing hide the sausage but whatever is binding these two together is also flushing Charlton down the toilet - and for what? The thought of it being nothing more than a vanity project for some skanky old 'uncle' to gift to a family friend just appalls me.