I've said it before & I'll say it again..........IF and its a big IF, the Aussies are simply delaying the purchase so that they dont have to pay now & are waiting until December then that is a very high risk strategy. We all know that we are short on players NOW and that by January we could be well off the pace in terms of table position. Surely the quicker you buy the club the quicker you can sort out the problems - get players in before the loan window shuts & give yourself half a chance to be top 6/top 10 by January when you can re-assess and then buy the players you need. As every game passess & we don't win then we are getting worse.
as I said...........its a big IF...........and if true then they are more foolish than I ever thought possible.
Are you SURE you're a financial advisor? Only you seem to have a very very short term attitude to life.
If you were advising a client about an investment would you always be looking for the immediate short term answer?
Most financial advisers look to the short term, cos it gets their commission payed into their bank accounts quicker.
That is an incredibly sweeping generalisation that is not at all correct.
A little facetious on my part maybe.
However, the experience I have (as a customer) dealing with people in insurance, mortgage brokers and banks etc. is generally bad. It seems to me brokers are always trying to max out on their profit at my cost. Have you tried renewing an insurance policy lately?
Apologies to you if you are in the trade and a honest broker as they say.
Do the Australians have funds? Could this be the hold up, is the asking price too high? If they do buy the club, will they have money to turn things around?
I have heard 2 separate rumours that the Aussie deal is dead. Also you have to ask yourself, if they were still keen why have none of them watched any games since the Shrewbury games.
My restraining order against them is still in force.
Joking apart, I think GM has had a break (I know, I know), but they do seem to be keeping a massively low profile at the moment. They are being kept informed about latest developments (not just by me of course). I still haven’t heard anything recently since ‘it’ll be worthwhile in the end’.
My belief is that they’re close, and they don’t want to risk jeopardising anything by breaking NDA.
Do the Australians have funds? Could this be the hold up, is the asking price too high? If they do buy the club, will they have money to turn things around?
Why dont Roland and his lackies just say that then... Of course they wont know the details yet all they need to say is: "The issue is with the Aussies" and thats it, its off their plate and the buck isnt passed to the EFL
The way Airman's source has spoken makes it sound as though its Roland holding something up his end
If the club is indeed telling lies about the EFL documents then surely it’s with the complicity of the Australians in order to obscure from perhaps their inability to complete their consortium or something else or CAFC are deliberately looking to make it look like the delay is with the Aussies.
If it’s the latter then perhaps the Australians might think it the right time to make a statement. If I’m being honest I think the former is unfortunately more likely.
The reason the club has not been sold is that Duchatelet wants too much money and no one will pay it. That's all there is to it. Everything else is noise.
I have heard 2 separate rumours that the Aussie deal is dead. Also you have to ask yourself, if they were still keen why have none of them watched any games since the Shrewbury games.
If I had a Pound for ever rumour along those lines I’d be joining Henry and buying the club.
If they had pulled out, what possible benefit could there be to them in keeping it secret?
The reason the club has not been sold is that Duchatelet wants too much money and no one will pay it. That's all there is to it. Everything else is noise.
maybe we could just delete every other comment apart from above and close thread ...whilst its stating the bloomin obvious it would save us the pain
The reason the club has not been sold is that Duchatelet wants too much money and no one will pay it. That's all there is to it. Everything else is noise.
If that's true then the club isn't just lying about the Aussies needing to provide documents to the EFL but also that the Aussies and the on-off' 'mystery' 2nd bidder have both 'agreed a price' with Duchatelet?
Interesting, I can't see the EFL intervening on the bonuses issue, but they won't like being used in this way if it's untrue
And furthermore I would think that to reveal the status of the ODT of a buyer must be a breach of the relevant NDA with the buyer. If the statement is untrue, the club's behaviour beggars belief.
The reason the club has not been sold is that Duchatelet wants too much money and no one will pay it. That's all there is to it. Everything else is noise.
This is most likely true. By May 18th the price was agreed, although ‘a couple of backers had to sign off on it’. Perhaps these backers were the more realistic ones, and maybe they’ve reduced the offer and are waiting for RD to agree to their revised offer.
Roland, enraged, is doing anything in his power to attract a higher bid, hence all the cuts, alongside allowing Bowyer to try to get in one or two players.
So it’s a wait and see. Hopefully, if this scenario is true, Roland will crack, accepting a loss (yippee!), and the Aussies will have more to invest in moving the club forwards, as the upfront cost will have been reduced.
I take it then that nothing will happen until the Shitweasel has an epiphany resulting in his re-engaging with reality and dropping the ridiculous asking price for what is now a husk of a once prestigious club that is currently losing money hand over fist due to his disastrous stewardship.
Shan't be holding my breath, in that case.....
So, we are where we have always been under this greedy, incompetent, deluded Shitweasel of an owner.....screwed. His arrogance and pride mean that he is unlikely to budge, he'll just make the club suffer even more to punish us all for HIS failure.
The reason the club has not been sold is that Duchatelet wants too much money and no one will pay it. That's all there is to it. Everything else is noise.
maybe we could just delete every other comment apart from above and close thread ...whilst its stating the bloomin obvious it would save us the pain
Allied that to the fact that nobody knows how much he is asking for the club we might as well delete Airman's comment. He's probably right but its no more fact than anything else.
The reason the club has not been sold is that Duchatelet wants too much money and no one will pay it. That's all there is to it. Everything else is noise.
maybe we could just delete every other comment apart from above and close thread ...whilst its stating the bloomin obvious it would save us the pain
Allied that to the fact that nobody knows how much he is asking for the club we might as well delete Airman's comment. He's probably right but its no more fact than anything else.
I cannot think of any other club that has gone through what we have in the last 4 years!!! The Arsenal fans moaning about Wenger, Newcastle fans moaning about Mike Ashley .....nothing in comparison to us!
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However, the experience I have (as a customer) dealing with people in insurance, mortgage brokers and banks etc. is generally bad. It seems to me brokers are always trying to max out on their profit at my cost. Have you tried renewing an insurance policy lately?
Apologies to you if you are in the trade and a honest broker as they say.
I think @Henry Irving needs to change his " WIOTOS".
Joking apart, I think GM has had a break (I know, I know), but they do seem to be keeping a massively low profile at the moment.
They are being kept informed about latest developments (not just by me of course). I still haven’t heard anything recently since ‘it’ll be worthwhile in the end’.
My belief is that they’re close, and they don’t want to risk jeopardising anything by breaking NDA.
That’s a guess.
The way Airman's source has spoken makes it sound as though its Roland holding something up his end
If it’s the latter then perhaps the Australians might think it the right time to make a statement. If I’m being honest I think the former is unfortunately more likely.
Whatever the reason. It stinks the house out.
If they had pulled out, what possible benefit could there be to them in keeping it secret?
Roland, enraged, is doing anything in his power to attract a higher bid, hence all the cuts, alongside allowing Bowyer to try to get in one or two players.
So it’s a wait and see. Hopefully, if this scenario is true, Roland will crack, accepting a loss (yippee!), and the Aussies will have more to invest in moving the club forwards, as the upfront cost will have been reduced.
Absolutely depressing and utterly predictable.