Wonder if the Sint Truiden forum's potential takeover thread was as insane as ours
For that matter, were the Sint Truiden fans as anti Roland as we are, and indeed the Standard Liege fans were before he sold them?
Not much of a comparison, They are a fraction of our size and Duchatelet's personality looms large over the town, so many work for him directly or indirectly and he was probably seen, quite rightly, as a safer pair of hands because he wouldn't strangulate the club or put them in an invidious longterm commercial position.
I was told by the Chief of Police that most of his business interests were out of town, for example Melexis is more than an hour drive away, and not many locals were employed by him. Believe me the locals do not like him.
The locals I spoke with were keen to whisper negatively about him because they said he has fingers in all the local businesses and a big say in everything that happens in the town. The police were all over us like rash and we had done nothing wrong and posed a threat to no-one when I was there. Even at the ground he owns just about everything you can see.
Seems to be lots of stories in the Belgian & Dutch media regarding Duchatelet selling STVV. Some direct quotes as well as video interviews with the great man. I don't understand a word of it, but have none of these media outlets asked him what he intends to do with us?
I can help you as I am fluent in Dutch and saw these interviews.
VOTV puts more flesh on the bone with the name of the legal firm doing DD and other info about a possible Australian connection (buy it if you want chapter and verse) but doesn't confirm the name of the buyer.
VOTV puts more flesh on the bone with the name of the legal firm doing DD and other info about a possible Australian connection (buy it if you want chapter and verse) but doesn't confirm the name of the buyer.
I would put the probability of it being Andrew Muir at about 90 per cent and rising but I can’t absolutely link him to the due diligence, the existence of which I am certain about.
My advice to any lawyers advising the acquirers would be to be very thorough in your due diligence. I'm sure the fingerprints of one of Belgium's finest legal minds are all over the club's contracts.
I still have concerns over this consortium having enough money.
Muir wasn't involved initially when it was reported that the consortium were looking to raise more funds and rumours they couldn't buy the ground. If he is now involved or maybe leading I doubt there will be an issue of funds.
Of course he could now be acting alone, having heard through AFC or simply being a coincidence that both are Australian.
I’m concerned that we will still be used openly as a feeder club for The Premiership in order to survive. As a fan of many many years I have seen so many of our top youngsters come and go I’ve lost count......it’s been soul destroying heartbreak for 60 years. Before I die, my one wish is that we become a club that doesn’t “have” to sell to survive but one that will keep our best young players and build a team using them alongside established well thought of pros in order to establish ourselves at Premiership level. We are known as ‘the go to club’ for any aspiring team that wants to succeed as we always seem to have something to offer them by way of having our best players wearing for sale signs around their necks. We have more f’ing scouts in our directors box than directors or club officials! Dream on SoundAs....dream on!
I’m concerned that we will still be used openly as a feeder club for The Premiership in order to survive. As a fan of many many years I have seen so many of our top youngsters come and go I’ve lost count......it’s been soul destroying heartbreak for 60 years. Before I die, my one wish is that we become a club that doesn’t “have” to sell to survive but one that will keep our best young players and build a team using them alongside established well thought of pros in order to establish ourselves at Premiership level. We are known as ‘the go to club’ for any aspiring team that wants to succeed as we always seem to have something to offer them by way of having our best players wearing for sale signs around their necks. We have more f’ing scouts in our directors box than directors or club officials! Dream on SoundAs....dream on!
To be honest, I think unless football fundamentally changes or you start supporting Barcelona you're never going to see that happen. Every club except the top two in Spain ends up selling their best players if a bigger fish comes in. If Real bid £200m for Kane he will be gone. Same with Rashford. The best we can hope for is that any new owners a) understand just what ridiculously high sums you can get for young English talent and b) bring in enough decent players that we progress and can at least get a few more years out of our academy products
Just because Muir is involved it also doesn’t mean there are not other funding gaps in their plan.
I’m still concerned until it’s certain we get new owners with enough money for club and The Valley and enough going forward.
No it doesn't mean there are no gaps and it doesn't mean there are.
Let's start worrying that a meteor will land on the Valley tomorrow because no one can prove it won't.
IF IF IF a takeover happens then we can judge the relative wealth of the owner/s.
Of course you’re right. I don’t know.
But I do know that the original AFC approach was less than impressive and widely accepted as without finance.
Yes I know that can change in an instant and Muir could solve all or some of that funding gap but given we can now I think, legitimately speculate that this takeover is Australian I am still concerned that the AFC group have now got enough to get things over the line but still not enough for what us fans like.
A buyout that doesn’t include The Valley wouldn’t exactly be many fans first choice of outcome regardless of getting shot of the Belgians.
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Can 1992 hurry up please
Ohh wait.
VOTV puts more flesh on the bone with the name of the legal firm doing DD and other info about a possible Australian connection (buy it if you want chapter and verse) but doesn't confirm the name of the buyer.
The interview with the rugby coach after England battered them was good, they hate losing, and then https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/4944030/crawley-manager-harry-kewell-confrontation-fans/arry Kewell yesterday, calling out the Crawley fans in the stand
Of course he could now be acting alone, having heard through AFC or simply being a coincidence that both are Australian.
I’m still concerned until it’s certain we get new owners with enough money for club and The Valley and enough going forward.
As a fan of many many years I have seen so many of our top youngsters come and go I’ve lost count......it’s been soul destroying heartbreak for 60 years.
Before I die, my one wish is that we become a club that doesn’t “have” to sell to survive but one that will keep our best young players and build a team using them alongside established well thought of pros in order to establish ourselves at Premiership level.
We are known as ‘the go to club’ for any aspiring team that wants to succeed as we always seem to have something to offer them by way of having our best players wearing for sale signs around their necks.
We have more f’ing scouts in our directors box than directors or club officials!
Dream on SoundAs....dream on!
Let's start worrying that a meteor will land on the Valley tomorrow because no one can prove it won't.
IF IF IF a takeover happens then we can judge the relative wealth of the owner/s.
https://www.movoto.com/blog/novelty-real-estate/asteroid/
But I do know that the original AFC approach was less than impressive and widely accepted as without finance.
Yes I know that can change in an instant and Muir could solve all or some of that funding gap but given we can now I think, legitimately speculate that this takeover is Australian I am still concerned that the AFC group have now got enough to get things over the line but still not enough for what us fans like.
A buyout that doesn’t include The Valley wouldn’t exactly be many fans first choice of outcome regardless of getting shot of the Belgians.
And yes I have heard talk of exactly that.