Blimey, there should be a street party outside the ground after it's finally/hopefully announced to welcome the new lot in. Could this be organised? Not sure how it would work with the council, as it could obviously be well attended.
Blimey, there should be a street party outside the ground after it's finally/hopefully announced to welcome the new lot in. Could this be organised? Not sure how it would work with the council, as it could obviously be well attended.
Possibly the worst idea since on a balmy July evening in 1888 in the small town of Braunau- am- Inn Austria. Customs officer Alois Hitler turned to his wife Klara and said “ Fancy an early night love.”
Blimey, there should be a street party outside the ground after it's finally/hopefully announced to welcome the new lot in. Could this be organised? Not sure how it would work with the council, as it could obviously be well attended.
Folks, I have lived in Oz for 20 plus years now and am pretty familiar with the local sporting scene across all codes.
Sorry to piss on the chips here but I have never heard of any “mid 30s” businessman involved in AFL that is minted - nobody comes to mind.
None of the AFL clubs have anything like the sort of cash needed to compete at Premier League level - not even the biggest clubs like Collingwood who regularly draw 80,000 crowds.
There are very few Aussies with the sort of cash that Charlton need except for the likes of James Packer, Gin Rinehart, Kerry Stokes or a handful of others.
The only young businessman with the sort of cash we are talking about here is someone like Mike Cannon-Brookes, founder of software firm Atlassian, but he has zero interest in football AFAIK.
Just doesn’t feel right to me.
It is a consortium though. Several very wealthy individuals and not one. Let’s wait and see.
Even so you still need at least one of them to have serious cash and - more importantly be willing to invest it in the club.
People need to remember that Roland is fucking minted, he HAS the cash to get Charlton into the PL but doesn’t want to spend it.
If you look at what other people are spending then you’d have to be looking at overall investment of around £100 million to get us to the PL and to stay there.
If you want a comparison then look at Palarse - they spent $110 million on transfer fees in 2016/17 - and another $100 million on wages.
We are nowhere near Championship level right now let alone PL level and need massive investment to get to the squad to where it needs to be which is, hard though it is to admit it, about where the Beagles are now.
Blimey, there should be a street party outside the ground after it's finally/hopefully announced to welcome the new lot in. Could this be organised? Not sure how it would work with the council, as it could obviously be well attended.
Possibly the worst idea since on a balmy 1898 July evening in the tiny village of Braunau- am- Inn Austria. School teacher Alois Hitler turned to his wife Klara and said “ Fancy an early night love.”
Blimey, there should be a street party outside the ground after it's finally/hopefully announced to welcome the new lot in. Could this be organised? Not sure how it would work with the council, as it could obviously be well attended.
Possibly the worst idea since on a balmy 1898 July evening in the tiny village of Braunau- am- Inn Austria. School teacher Alois Hitler turned to his wife Klara and said “ Fancy an early night love.”
A mere 9 years after Hitler was born.
Also Alois Hitler wasn't a teacher.
My post should have read 1888 not 1898. I am also pretty certain that Alois was a teacher at some point in his life.
My wife asked me recently "do you miss going to charlton".My answer was "no not really".I have replaced it with a regular game of golf and have a tee time booked as usual for this saturday at 10.07. When this latest rumour started gathering speed I noticed that I was already planning in my head to phone my playing partners up to "cry off" and return to the valley on saturday for the sunderland match.If the sale goes through I will be there .I wont be able to stop myself as I am hopelessly addicted to the mighty reds.If the rumours dont materialise I will revert to the golf course until the rat departs. I suppose after 35 years of marriage she knows I lied to her when I said I didnt miss going to charlton.It is in my blood and has been since september 1967.It hurts like hell to see what Roland [and Katrien] have done in 5 short years but I will be back the second he is gone.
Me too. I am due to referee a game on Saturday and hate the idea of letting both teams down, but I will.
This ain't happening. Jim been fed another plate of shyte like the rest.
What do you think Duchatelet’s motive for misleading Jim White is then? What does he gain from that? And spare us any nonsense about curtailing the almighty wrath of the fans’ forum or the prospect of protests hundreds of miles away from him, which in fact it is more likely to provoke.
This ain't happening. Jim been fed another plate of shyte like the rest.
What do you think Duchatelet’s motive for misleading Jim White is then? What does he gain from that? And spare us any nonsense about curtailing the almighty wrath of the fans’ forum or the prospect of protests hundreds of miles away from him, which in fact it is more likely to provoke.
Resurrect interest from other parties because everything had gone very quiet on all fronts?
This ain't happening. Jim been fed another plate of shyte like the rest.
What do you think Duchatelet’s motive for misleading Jim White is then? What does he gain from that? And spare us any nonsense about curtailing the almighty wrath of the fans’ forum or the prospect of protests hundreds of miles away from him, which in fact it is more likely to provoke.
I’m convinced what we have heard now from multiple sources is all true. What needs to happen now is for the buyers to get it over the line. That hasn’t proved easy so far and might still not be but let’s be hopeful.
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Fuck knows why I’m even refreshing this thread every 5 minutes.
Will I be booking a trip to The Valley for Sat or heading off to the wilds of the West of Scotland?
Time will tell.
People need to remember that Roland is fucking minted, he HAS the cash to get Charlton into the PL but doesn’t want to spend it.
If you look at what other people are spending then you’d have to be looking at overall investment of around £100 million to get us to the PL and to stay there.
If you want a comparison then look at Palarse - they spent $110 million on transfer fees in 2016/17 - and another $100 million on wages.
We are nowhere near Championship level right now let alone PL level and need massive investment to get to the squad to where it needs to be which is, hard though it is to admit it, about where the Beagles are now.
This ain't happening. Jim been fed another plate of shyte like the rest.
Also Alois Hitler wasn't a teacher.
I am also pretty certain that Alois was a teacher at some point in his life.
(names probably just taken from this thread)
(And also probably your brother.)