Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
I think we need to assemble on Blackheath Common next Saturday - Wat Tyler style - and March to the Valley with pitchforks and flaming torches.
The trouble with that is Wat Tyler ended up being killed when he met the King, and his head ended up on a spike on London Bridge. But it is perhaps comforting to know that the king in question, Richard II was starved to death a few years later in Pontefract.
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
I think we need to assemble on Blackheath Common next Saturday - Wat Tyler style - and March to the Valley with pitchforks and flaming torches.
The trouble with that is Wat Tyler ended up being killed when he met the King, and his head ended up on a spike on London Bridge. But it is perhaps comforting to know that the king in question, Richard II was starved to death a few years later in Pontefract.
I'm pretty certain that no-one will have noticed but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to drum up any enthusiasm to post on this great site lately.
Part of me says I should contribute whether everything in the SE7 garden is rosy or whether it's being strangled by Japanese knotweed , but I can barely force myself to open this thread at the moment and that says it all.
In the close season, CL has always been my "saviour" - full of news, rumours but most of all optimism for the coming term and this has kept me going until we flood through those turnstiles once again, bursting with excitement and indeed, love for our club.
Oh for those days when life seemed so simple!
Pathetically, I have been reduced to a shadow of the Addick who couldn't wait for the next match , whether home or away and for whom there would have been one subject of conversation with friends & family from August to May.
During August and into September in past years, there has been a minor conflict between supporting my football club and my cricket team with the former inevitably being the winner.
However, with the decision not to travel to both Sunderland and Accrington ( not totally for footballing reasons) I find myself making plans for more visits to Canterbury and Beckenham whilst a family break to Disneyland Paris has been arranged in October with another home game the casualty.
A sad state of affairs indeed.
Of course, I shall be at our Valley home for the Shrewsbury match & there are no plans to miss subsequent ones but my enthusiasm is flagging alarmingly at this moment in time.
With matters on & off the pitch seemingly in total chaos, it could take something very special to rekindle "the love" and for Fanny's considerable, if saggy, loins to be girded once again.
Oh for a knight on a white charger !
Reg ! Where art thou ?
Hey Buddy we both know too well that although CAFC is a big part of life and the part that is meant to take away the shit stuff we face and be the escape it hasnt been like that for a while, nut we both also know theres more to lose in life than the thrill of 3 points and the pride in the team,
my advice Jean is to just focus on the real world stuff and let CAFC worry about its future theres not a jot any one can do to make RD sell any quicker if they dont front up the dough theres no sale the rest is all conjecture and bullshit peddled out deliberately to try and win favour from both sides
RD will sell when someone makes the right offer and shows their money, his valuation is irrelavent it doesnt matter if we think itys too high, if its too high no one will bite and he will have to reconsider
Fuck the takeover
Maybe just feeling particularly low this morning & reading the report from the SLP seems to have opened the flood gates.
Your post exudes common sense- something I've always lacked, letting my heart rule my head.
Thanks for the good advice.
We have both been feeling the 1st world pain stuff Jean CAFC just exagerates our euphoria or our sorrow, Its really not worth it
i think the fans have done a great job rallying and forcing the old scroat to sell up and that has happened he is selling so be proud of that
but we can do no more so do not let it over take whats important
But your whole point NLA is that he isn’t selling, he wants to sell, but he is not putting a reasonable value on it.
So why can’t we do more to make him realise that he has to sell at a lower price?
In the UK I feel that this is limited but if we had people in Sint Truiden every week pushing the ROT agenda, that must be worth the effort.
For too many months now we have thought the takeover was imminent but it may not be and the main reason is because while Duchatelet wants to sell, he doesn’t want to sell enough.
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
Fair play if you turned out to be right all along. As I’ve said I’ve only had very little info since the beer meeting, and none of that was financial. Of course we still don’t know definitively what’s going on, but I guess we’ll hear soon. If they’ve failed it’s a damned shame, because I think they had the potential to give us ‘proper’ ownership for the first time in years.
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
That's assuming the consortium was ever complete in the first place, not including people who already had stakes in other clubs, which the EFL were never going to stand for.
I think we need to assemble on Blackheath Common next Saturday - Wat Tyler style - and March to the Valley with pitchforks and flaming torches.
The trouble with that is Wat Tyler ended up being killed when he met the King, and his head ended up on a spike on London Bridge. But it is perhaps comforting to know that the king in question, Richard II was starved to death a few years later in Pontefract.
Good point. We’ll have to think of another plan - if we wait a few years for Roland’s demise, the club won’t exist any more.
I think we need to assemble on Blackheath Common next Saturday - Wat Tyler style - and March to the Valley with pitchforks and flaming torches.
The trouble with that is Wat Tyler ended up being killed when he met the King, and his head ended up on a spike on London Bridge. But it is perhaps comforting to know that the king in question, Richard II was starved to death a few years later in Pontefract.
Good point. We’ll have to think of another plan - if we wait a few years for Roland’s demise, the club won’t exist any more.
I think Harry was suggesting that we invite Roland to Pontefract and then starve the fucker.
That's how it gets to you @Fanny Fanackapan first you revolve your life around this great club, holidays etc all organised around fixtures or out of season. Many a birthday, anniversary, engagement or wedding spent using lounges or match day facilities. Many a weekend spoiled by a bad result or a poor performance and then as if by magic along comes someone like this character and his team of nodding dogs and Suddenly you have an appointment you "can't get out of" or "rearrange" and the more it drags on the more disheartening it becomes and you find yourself making appointments on match day or booking holidays in the season and before you know it your half looking out for the results on a Saturday evening to seen if they won or not. I needed the last trip to St Truiden it showed me much me how much missed Charlton, it's fans and the club. I needed to have a season ticket this season this year to get that same feeling back, it hasn't happened so sadly I fear next March will be my last Upbeats walk and I'm hoping to take part in the cycle to Amsterdam and they will be my last visits to the club. No dramas, I'm not vain enough to think I'll make a difference and sure people will say good riddance but as I found out in the world of employment you can give as much of your life to the cause as you wish, but at the end of the day. To them you are just a number on a season ticket.
You have to admit. At this point things are not looking good.
Am I alone in thinking that The Trust should once again be pushing for a statement from the club. The new season is right here. Right now. We currently have No Chairman, CEO, CFO, No permanent team manager and only 17 players on the coach to Sunderland tomorrow.
Can’t believe people are supporting Roland by saying his overvaluation is irrelavent. Makes me wonder what their motives are, can’t be for the future good of Charlton, must be something else.
Have we had OFFICIAL confirmation on the following:
- Has the takeover been cancelled - Have the Aussies Pulled Out
???
Didn't think so. We haven't heard anything official. Now i'll be the first to admit that it's not looking good from what people are hearing from their sources (not saying any of them are incorrect or false). However there are 2 sides to everything involved in this and we aren't hearing anything from one of the sides. So for all we know the deal could be still alive and they are working through the final (seemingly never-ending) steps and the NDA's are doing their job keeping the details confidential. The NDA's that have been put in place seem to have stopped most of the information coming out and the stuff that is 'leaking' does tends to be via a 3rd party (who might not be party of the NDA).
All we're doing is trying to put together the jigsaw that is the Takeover out of these rumours and its hard work
Keep the Faith
#TeamWIOTOS
(Wonder if the Aussies are travelling up for the Sunderland Game?)
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Nothing new there then, just a brief summary of what's been in the public domain for months. As you were...
So if Duchatelet doesn't get his asking price, he will have to continue to fund the losses. So next year, in his eyes, he'll be looking for c£50m, the year after c£60m ad infinitum, as we sink toward the National League. Makes perfect business sense to me.
Not surprised no one wants to pay Roland's unrealistic asking price.
I can't believe people talked about stalling protests - some clearly way too suckered in by the takeover saga. The bloke's personal life needs to be made very uncomfortable indeed. The sooner he realises holding on to CAFC isn't in his best interests, the better.
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
Fair play if you turned out to be right all along. As I’ve said I’ve only had very little info since the beer meeting, and none of that was financial. Of course we still don’t know definitively what’s going on, but I guess we’ll hear soon. If they’ve failed it’s a damned shame, because I think they had the potential to give us ‘proper’ ownership for the first time in years.
I think anyone has the potential to give us 'proper' ownership but let's face initially it at the time of takeover we thought the same about RD and the spivs!
Not surprised no one wants to pay Roland's unrealistic asking price.
I can't believe people talked about stalling protests - some clearly way too suckered in by the takeover saga. The bloke's personal life needs to be made very uncomfortable indeed. The sooner he realises holding on to CAFC isn't in his best interests, the better.
I think I'm beginning to agree. I can see this season approaching RD's ultimate exit endgame. A bit dystopian but...
If he can't find anyone mug enough to meet his price by the end of this season he will 1. Withdraw from the EFL 2. Liquidate all the playing assets 3. Redevelop the Valley Stayen-esque into a 6-8k 'Twoshits Community Stadium' and look for a tenant/new team the season after 4. Hang on to Sparrows until the pressure for housing becomes so great RBG allows residential development
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
Fair play if you turned out to be right all along. As I’ve said I’ve only had very little info since the beer meeting, and none of that was financial. Of course we still don’t know definitively what’s going on, but I guess we’ll hear soon. If they’ve failed it’s a damned shame, because I think they had the potential to give us ‘proper’ ownership for the first time in years.
I think anyone has the potential to give us 'proper' ownership but let's face initially it at the time of takeover we thought the same about RD and the spivs!
The problem is when your ship is sinking you are not really bothered who is in charge of the life boat.
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
Fair play if you turned out to be right all along. As I’ve said I’ve only had very little info since the beer meeting, and none of that was financial. Of course we still don’t know definitively what’s going on, but I guess we’ll hear soon. If they’ve failed it’s a damned shame, because I think they had the potential to give us ‘proper’ ownership for the first time in years.
I think anyone has the potential to give us 'proper' ownership but let's face initially it at the time of takeover we thought the same about RD and the spivs!
The difference here being that no one knew them personally did they? (As far as I know). I wouldn’t have said those things if I didn’t know GM, who I know for a fact isn’t/wasn’t trying to make a land grab, at least.
I'm pretty certain that no-one will have noticed but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to drum up any enthusiasm to post on this great site lately.
Part of me says I should contribute whether everything in the SE7 garden is rosy or whether it's being strangled by Japanese knotweed , but I can barely force myself to open this thread at the moment and that says it all.
In the close season, CL has always been my "saviour" - full of news, rumours but most of all optimism for the coming term and this has kept me going until we flood through those turnstiles once again, bursting with excitement and indeed, love for our club.
Oh for those days when life seemed so simple!
Pathetically, I have been reduced to a shadow of the Addick who couldn't wait for the next match , whether home or away and for whom there would have been one subject of conversation with friends & family from August to May.
During August and into September in past years, there has been a minor conflict between supporting my football club and my cricket team with the former inevitably being the winner.
However, with the decision not to travel to both Sunderland and Accrington ( not totally for footballing reasons) I find myself making plans for more visits to Canterbury and Beckenham whilst a family break to Disneyland Paris has been arranged in October with another home game the casualty.
A sad state of affairs indeed.
Of course, I shall be at our Valley home for the Shrewsbury match & there are no plans to miss subsequent ones but my enthusiasm is flagging alarmingly at this moment in time.
With matters on & off the pitch seemingly in total chaos, it could take something very special to rekindle "the love" and for Fanny's considerable, if saggy, loins to be girded once again.
Oh for a knight on a white charger !
Reg ! Where art thou ?
Hey Buddy we both know too well that although CAFC is a big part of life and the part that is meant to take away the shit stuff we face and be the escape it hasnt been like that for a while, nut we both also know theres more to lose in life than the thrill of 3 points and the pride in the team,
my advice Jean is to just focus on the real world stuff and let CAFC worry about its future theres not a jot any one can do to make RD sell any quicker if they dont front up the dough theres no sale the rest is all conjecture and bullshit peddled out deliberately to try and win favour from both sides
RD will sell when someone makes the right offer and shows their money, his valuation is irrelavent it doesnt matter if we think itys too high, if its too high no one will bite and he will have to reconsider
Fuck the takeover
Maybe just feeling particularly low this morning & reading the report from the SLP seems to have opened the flood gates.
Your post exudes common sense- something I've always lacked, letting my heart rule my head.
Thanks for the good advice.
We have both been feeling the 1st world pain stuff Jean CAFC just exagerates our euphoria or our sorrow, Its really not worth it
i think the fans have done a great job rallying and forcing the old scroat to sell up and that has happened he is selling so be proud of that
but we can do no more so do not let it over take whats important
But your whole point NLA is that he isn’t selling, he wants to sell, but he is not putting a reasonable value on it.
So why can’t we do more to make him realise that he has to sell at a lower price?
In the UK I feel that this is limited but if we had people in Sint Truiden every week pushing the ROT agenda, that must be worth the effort.
For too many months now we have thought the takeover was imminent but it may not be and the main reason is because while Duchatelet wants to sell, he doesn’t want to sell enough.
He is selling ?
the club is up for sale is it not,
the valuation of CAFC is not for us to decide, he has had 2 offers in or around his valuation so as far as he is concerned he is in the correct ball park
i aint saying stop doing whatever people wish to do to continue embarrasing him but he is a very very wealthy man and his financial clout is a big concern as i honestly believe that he is rich enough to make this very very difficult for us as fans and will go when he decides the time and the price is right, not when he has had enough of the gripes we cause
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But it is perhaps comforting to know that the king in question, Richard II was starved to death a few years later in Pontefract.
So why can’t we do more to make him realise that he has to sell at a lower price?
In the UK I feel that this is limited but if we had people in Sint Truiden every week pushing the ROT agenda, that must be worth the effort.
For too many months now we have thought the takeover was imminent but it may not be and the main reason is because while Duchatelet wants to sell, he doesn’t want to sell enough.
Of course we still don’t know definitively what’s going on, but I guess we’ll hear soon.
If they’ve failed it’s a damned shame, because I think they had the potential to give us ‘proper’ ownership for the first time in years.
Am I alone in thinking that The Trust should once again be pushing for a statement from the club. The new season is right here. Right now. We currently have No Chairman, CEO, CFO, No permanent team manager and only 17 players on the coach to Sunderland tomorrow.
- Has the takeover been cancelled
- Have the Aussies Pulled Out
???
Didn't think so. We haven't heard anything official. Now i'll be the first to admit that it's not looking good from what people are hearing from their sources (not saying any of them are incorrect or false). However there are 2 sides to everything involved in this and we aren't hearing anything from one of the sides. So for all we know the deal could be still alive and they are working through the final (seemingly never-ending) steps and the NDA's are doing their job keeping the details confidential. The NDA's that have been put in place seem to have stopped most of the information coming out and the stuff that is 'leaking' does tends to be via a 3rd party (who might not be party of the NDA).
All we're doing is trying to put together the jigsaw that is the Takeover out of these rumours and its hard work
Keep the Faith
#TeamWIOTOS
(Wonder if the Aussies are travelling up for the Sunderland Game?)
I can't believe people talked about stalling protests - some clearly way too suckered in by the takeover saga. The bloke's personal life needs to be made very uncomfortable indeed. The sooner he realises holding on to CAFC isn't in his best interests, the better.
If he can't find anyone mug enough to meet his price by the end of this season he will
1. Withdraw from the EFL
2. Liquidate all the playing assets
3. Redevelop the Valley Stayen-esque into a 6-8k 'Twoshits Community Stadium' and look for a tenant/new team the season after
4. Hang on to Sparrows until the pressure for housing becomes so great RBG allows residential development
I wouldn’t have said those things if I didn’t know GM, who I know for a fact isn’t/wasn’t trying to make a land grab, at least.
He is selling ?
the club is up for sale is it not,
the valuation of CAFC is not for us to decide, he has had 2 offers in or around his valuation so as far as he is concerned he is in the correct ball park
i aint saying stop doing whatever people wish to do to continue embarrasing him but he is a very very wealthy man and his financial clout is a big concern as i honestly believe that he is rich enough to make this very very difficult for us as fans and will go when he decides the time and the price is right, not when he has had enough of the gripes we cause