For any hard of thinking mouth breathers still considering the bungler separating the club ownership from the real estate could be a way forward here is another example of why that's arrant nonsense: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47820117
Stalemate - I think we need to take back control and stage an indicative vote.
Fetch your coat AB, that's so far from funny The parallels are stunning - a clueless steward insisting on doing it his/her way flatly rejecting any outside hints, help or opinions, all the while the entity trundles inexorably toward an abyss of incalculable depth.
He is acting mostly out of vengeance.....just how much further he is prepared to go is anyone’s guess, maybe he is quite prepared to drive us out of business and that is my real fear.....somehow he has to be stopped before he does. In saying the club is for sale is actually untrue, because IF the sum he is asking is anything over £35,000,000 then in reality IT IS NOT FOR SALE, because it’s highly doubtful anyone out there would consider paying more.....so in reality everyone is just pissing in the wind. It seems that many people aren’t prepared to believe he is being vengeful....in my opinion those of you who think otherwise need a reality check. We need to speak to him directly.
A messy divorce is on the horizon; the patriarch in Europe handles the sale of their London pad while the wife stays in 3rd class accomodation. He asks three times what the property is worth, leading to no prospect of a sale and the wife suffers. How does she move things forward? Protests outside said pad while he is in a sleepy foreign town? Send the kids over on Eurostar to hassle him? We need lateral thinking Addicks. Legal action of some kind? Send the new boyfriend over? Target his workplace/business set-up?
Further to my earlier post.....I wish to make it quite clear that I am not advocating anything illegal here. Just somehow getting a group of determined knowledgeable fans together (via CARD), who can seek him out for an impassioned debate, it may just help to resolve this horrendous situation we now find ourselves in, after all, what do we have to lose. What one may ask, is the alternative? Would he agree to a meeting with a fans group (in Belgium if necessary), you never know, as far as I know no one has ever asked and there’s no harm in making an approach to arrange one? One for CARD to work on maybe?
RD is a self-centred egotistical arrogant buffoon who listens to nobody and feels the world is out of step with him.
The mistake people make it is thinking there is any logic to his behaviour - there isn't! He owns a club he doesn't want, has no interest in football and is expecting a buyer at a completely ridiculous price.
The longer he owns the club, the less it's worth, the fewer fans it has, the bigger the losses and the less likelihood there is of him selling it for an inflated price. Any normal person would sell but this deluded fool doesn't do failure.
He can absorb the losses to indulge his ridiculous ego and I can't see what will shift him short of a wealthy buyer.
RD is a self-centred egotistical arrogant buffoon who listens to nobody and feels the world is out of step with him.
The mistake people make it is thinking there is any logic to his behaviour - there isn't! He owns a club he doesn't want, has no interest in football and is expecting a buyer at a completely ridiculous price.
The longer he owns the club, the less it's worth, the fewer fans it has, the bigger the losses and the less likelihood there is of him selling it for an inflated price. Any normal person would sell but this deluded fool doesn't do failure.
He can absorb the losses to indulge his ridiculous ego and I can't see what will shift him short of a wealthy buyer.
Don’t you think he’s simply being vengeful.....you seem to think it’s all ego.....maybe it is to an extent but I for me he’s hell bent on vengeance.
RD is a self-centred egotistical arrogant buffoon who listens to nobody and feels the world is out of step with him.
The mistake people make it is thinking there is any logic to his behaviour - there isn't! He owns a club he doesn't want, has no interest in football and is expecting a buyer at a completely ridiculous price.
The longer he owns the club, the less it's worth, the fewer fans it has, the bigger the losses and the less likelihood there is of him selling it for an inflated price. Any normal person would sell but this deluded fool doesn't do failure.
He can absorb the losses to indulge his ridiculous ego and I can't see what will shift him short of a wealthy buyer.
Don’t you think he’s simply being vengeful.....you seem to think it’s all ego.....maybe it is to an extent but I for me he’s hell bent on vengeance.
I think the two are intrinsically entwined. His ego won’t let him ‘lose’ and won’t allow the fans to ‘win’.
He is unable to separate the two. I also believe he still thinks he can make a deal on his terms.
The man is deluded with a massively high opinion of himself ... a dangerous combination.
The Supporters' Trust have made many approaches and attempts to meet directly with RD, @SoundAsa£, always ignored or rebuffed.
I had half expected you to say that Weegie.....surely we have some ‘friends’ at SL who can help to pin him down somehow to a location where we can at the very least confront him face to face without him finding it easy to just walk away. Secondly......what about a peaceful visit to the Embassy, that never seems to have been seriously considered?
I like Roland as I now realise that he is being completely misunderstood. The reason for his evaluation £65-£75m might seem too high for a sale of a 3rd tier football club but it is in fact a compliment that he knows we are the greatest football club in the world. And something that is so precious should never be underestimated when considering the emotional value along with the real estate. Roland has obviously realised this and doesn’t feel that the club should under sell itself on what this club offers to the world of football and to the local community. Maybe it’s us fans that have underestimated Charlton Athletic Football Club?
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The parallels are stunning - a clueless steward insisting on doing it his/her way flatly rejecting any outside hints, help or opinions, all the while the entity trundles inexorably toward an abyss of incalculable depth.
In saying the club is for sale is actually untrue, because IF the sum he is asking is anything over £35,000,000 then in reality IT IS NOT FOR SALE, because it’s highly doubtful anyone out there would consider paying more.....so in reality everyone is just pissing in the wind.
It seems that many people aren’t prepared to believe he is being vengeful....in my opinion those of you who think otherwise need a reality check.
We need to speak to him directly.
drag this out for some time.
The club isn't 'for sale' by any stretch of objective reality. At the moment there is no chance whatsoever of us being free of the deluded Shitweasel.
I just can't see how our current situation is ever likely to come to an end.
Just somehow getting a group of determined knowledgeable fans together (via CARD), who can seek him out for an impassioned debate, it may just help to resolve this horrendous situation we now find ourselves in, after all, what do we have to lose.
What one may ask, is the alternative?
Would he agree to a meeting with a fans group (in Belgium if necessary), you never know, as far as I know no one has ever asked and there’s no harm in making an approach to arrange one?
One for CARD to work on maybe?
The mistake people make it is thinking there is any logic to his behaviour - there isn't! He owns a club he doesn't want, has no interest in football and is expecting a buyer at a completely ridiculous price.
The longer he owns the club, the less it's worth, the fewer fans it has, the bigger the losses and the less likelihood there is of him selling it for an inflated price. Any normal person would sell but this deluded fool doesn't do failure.
He can absorb the losses to indulge his ridiculous ego and I can't see what will shift him short of a wealthy buyer.
He is unable to separate the two. I also believe he still thinks he can make a deal on his terms.
The man is deluded with a massively high opinion of himself ... a dangerous combination.
Secondly......what about a peaceful visit to the Embassy, that never seems to have been seriously considered?
Roland In 😉
Therefore I'm.
A sobering thought whilst celebrating at Wembley.