I've never understood the reason behind Roland's purchase of the club, what achievement will he deem the venture a success?
-Stripping the club of its talent in the Youth Team for hefty (undisclosed) Fees
-Their work in the community
-Success with the 1st team
-Sell up the Valley to property developers
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Provided that happens they dont care what happens on the pitch
Meire increasing her profile and living a good lifestyle
Property ownings increase
Perhaps some tax relief and whatever else also.
Basically everything but football stuff, L2 would only mean less income (less outgoings too) and struggles for the academy. Other than that it's barely a failure to the man, could tell that the second he bought our Club.
At first I thought he was just dumb but I don't think that any more.
Serious investors like Roland look 15-20 years down the track.
He is spinning Meire lots of lines. The talk of creating players to sell on to the prem was just a yarn he spun to keep her on board.
The real reason he wants her here is to oversee the systematic destruction of CAFC as it's current football entity. She just doesn't know it.
Rolands long term aim is either to use the asset for another income stream or destroy it in its current form and start again as a whole new football club with a completely different fan and social base.
This is Roland's opportunity to demonstrate why the Belgian electorate was wrong to dismiss him, and to finally live up to his self-proclaimed Alan Turing moniker. Balancing the books at a football club - and focusing on its place at the center of the community - is a brilliant way to demonstrate that he really is a forward thinking visionary.
Whilst for Katrien this is a way of building a reputation for herself, giving herself some status and a vehicle for projecting herself with. Award ceremonies, conferences, TV and news interviews.. these are just the beginning. This is why she finely grooms her online appearance and mixes with the likes of Jo Tongue.
Think back to the ramifications of the Belgium 20 visit, and how their actions led to an angry and ill-thought out statement on the official site: that was the result of a bruised ego and some embarrassment. Did the actions of 20 people, some leaflets and an inquisitive knock-on-a-door really warrant more than hundreds of fans protesting after every match? No! Which one inflicted greater damage to the ego though?
I have studied this hypothesis and ran test through various independent
outlets and even sent the data to a Emeritus at Cambridge who is as erudite a man that you can find.
The conclusion is ?
"This Model of running a professional football club is absolute Bollocks."
still apparently needing to fund the club to the tune of £1mn a month after 32 months of having his people in place pursuing his strategies (as @Grapevine49 pointed out) he still cannot accept failure as he lays claim to a mindset different from ordinary mortals.
It becomes very dangerous when an eccentric has the means at his disposal to indulge his fantasies.
We, the club. the fans, must now pay the price, perhaps the ultimate price in the disintegration of the club engineered by Duchatelet seemingly not by malice but sheer incompetence and pig-headedness aided and abetted by CEO Meire who seems to be on a self-appointed power trip in which the well-being of the club is secondary to her ambition.
Remember and remember well that despite her unwavering allegiance to Duchatelet and his madness she was prepared openly to blame him for relegation citing the lack of stabilty in the managerial post last season (along with player indiscipline) as the two contributory factors.
Meire will not take on any of the blame for any perceived or real failing at CAFC
A crazy eccentric owner and an arrogantly deluded CEO hell-bent on furthering her own credentials as a businesswoman but without the wit to understand that football is more than a business and the investment of fans cannot be measured in pound notes.
and the Football Authorities think its ok for this deplorable situation to continue unchecked!!!!!!!!!!!!1
No more having to deal with an annoying CEO who constantly demands extra police to deal with 2% protesters
Even with the limitations that @mogodon mentions, I think you're bang on the money. I'd never looked at it that way... even though Katrien has pretty much spelt it out previously.
Alas, @mogodon was correct when he pointed out the limitations of that idea. It's very weird, but I've been a Charlton fan my entire life - but I drifted away until I was about 19 (6 years ago) and my brother invited me to a match at The Valley as a catch up.
Suddenly, being an adult and having the cash/confidence to go alone and whenever I wanted, I fell for the club so fucking hard again. Considering the amount of time I spend on here, I probably spend more time thinking about Charlton than I do work, sex or most other things to be entirely fair.
I run a software company, do onsite contract work to finance it, go to the gym, have a long term relationship, a very good social life.. etc. So it's not like I'm bored, lonely or addicted to the internet! Yet still, somehow, Charlton rises above those commitments. It's not a restaurant, it's so much more, but she doesn't realise that does she?
We're going to get our club back.
Promotion to league 2