We all know that eventually he will have to lower his asking price, but when that will happen, who knows? Think we’re peaking under bowyer now, unfortunately can I only see things getting very messy from here on in .
Only after Bowyer and non contract players have left
and the fat lady is in the final scales of her tune up
EFL in all its crooked bungling will probably save one team from relegation from each of leagues 1 & 2 to keep the numbers up if a phoney baloney "rescue" for the Trotters can't be cooked up in time for the new season's commencement. With the abandonment of the Brentford fixture even EFL seem to be belatedly entertaining the notion that yet another terribly badly run club is beyond redemption. fit for purpose my baggy old arse
We all know that eventually he will have to lower his asking price, but when that will happen, who knows? Think we’re peaking under bowyer now, unfortunately can I only see things getting very messy from here on in .
Thus far there has not been one jot of evidence that the toxic old crackpot will entertain reducing his preposterous price. 2 parties to our certain knowledge have engaged genuine interest in acquiring CAFC. One of those publicly declared the price to be too high. Another party seemed to be engaged in the process for many months at significant cost to themselves, the only really credible explanation for their departure has to be financial. Individuals supposedly connected to at least 2 further interested parties have been shown around club premises to no tangible outcome. However many other parties roly and his toady have imagined/invented - nobody has ponied up the necessary in more than 2 years of "availability". Based on his past record he is more likely to raise the price than lower it. If Lee Bowyer and his grafters achieve promotion, roly will be peddling a place in the championship held by a managerless squad of about 11, 4 of whom have no league starts at all. And that's before he cashes in on Lyle Taylor and flogs him to any other club at all.
Price isn't the issue, the fact is no one wants to spunk £300 million on our football club. I would imagine RD is pretty open to "creative ways" for his price to be paid.
If he had given us away the day he admitted he wanted to sell, we could be in an even worse place today.
The take over will happen when a billionaire turns up with the money to take us back to the prem or RD gets so fed up he flogs us to the first con man, spiv, bankrup or idiot that offers to take it off his hands.
Price isn't the issue, the fact is no one wants to spunk £300 million on our football club. I would imagine RD is pretty open to "creative ways" for his price to be paid.
If he had given us away the day he admitted he wanted to sell, we could be in an even worse place today.
The take over will happen when a billionaire turns up with the money to take us back to the prem or RD gets so fed up he flogs us to the first con man, spiv, bankrup or idiot that offers to take it off his hands.
Well, you’re a cheerful chappie.......Christ alive.
If we go up, no way is Roland selling at the prices agreed with parties a year-plus ago. Anyone who thinks he won't wiggle out and aim for a higher price is living in dreamland. I doubt very much the so-called multiple agreements require him to sell just because the buying party gets finally league approval after many months, that is why there are supposedly multiple buyers. The price of going up is that we might be stuck with Roland another year. Not to mention that the extra money in The Championship would cut his million-per month losses by some amount, allowing him to hang on a little longer. With Roland as owner, being a fan always comes at a price, even when good things happen.
If we go up, no way is Roland selling at the prices agreed with parties a year-plus ago. Anyone who thinks he won't wiggle out and aim for a higher price is living in dreamland. I doubt very much the so-called multiple agreements require him to sell just because the buying party gets finally league approval after many months, that is why there are supposedly multiple buyers. The price of going up is that we might be stuck with Roland another year. Not to mention that the extra money in The Championship would cut his million-per month losses by some amount, allowing him to hang on a little longer. With Roland as owner, being a fan always comes at a price, even when good things happen.
But he would have to make sure we have a team capable of surviving in The Championship for buyers to be interested at anything like that increased valuation he will (almost certainly knowing him), still be looking for. No one would be interested in buying a club in a shambles (both on and off the pitch), that has a strong possibility of being relegated. Either he puts in the investment himself (not likely I’d say), or sells within a time frame, at a reasonable price, for any buyer to do so. However, in Goldfingers world, would that simple logic apply?
I remember a long time ago comparing the number of posts on this thread to the size of The Valley wondering if he'd sell before we got to 27,111 and how much of The Valley you could fill if each post represented a seat.
Now we're only a few short of filling the Stadium Of Light.
Ok, but what's it doing in this thread, you ask, quite reasonably. Well because of this little nugget:
The big one came last year. In a two-year stint in London, where he learnt English, he was approached to buy unfancied sides such as Charlton Athletic and Brentford. Instead, in September he acquired 51 per cent of Real Valladolid, a team in the lower reaches in La Liga, Spain’s top division, for €28m
So there we have it, another benchmark to add to the many that would show any reasonable person that anything over £30m for Charlton is ludicrously over-priced, and that any buyer of a club has options outside the English bubble that may be much more viable.
Thinking about it....@CharltonMadrid would you know if Valladolid own their own stadium, and roughly what sort of TV revenue they would get in La Liga? If I recall, didn't it improve recently when they moved to a collective deal? And what sort of gates do they get?
Thinking about it....@CharltonMadrid would you know if Valladolid own their own stadium, and roughly what sort of TV revenue they would get in La Liga? If I recall, didn't it improve recently when they moved to a collective deal? And what sort of gates do they get?
Or how do they compare in terms of wage bill, to Villa, Leeds, WBA or Derby, 3 of which won't go up this season.......
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EFL in all its crooked bungling will probably save one team from relegation from each of leagues 1 & 2 to keep the numbers up if a phoney baloney "rescue" for the Trotters can't be cooked up in time for the new season's commencement. With the abandonment of the Brentford fixture even EFL seem to be belatedly entertaining the notion that yet another terribly badly run club is beyond redemption.
fit for purpose my baggy old arse
Based on his past record he is more likely to raise the price than lower it. If Lee Bowyer and his grafters achieve promotion, roly will be peddling a place in the championship held by a managerless squad of about 11, 4 of whom have no league starts at all. And that's before he cashes in on Lyle Taylor and flogs him to any other club at all.
If he had given us away the day he admitted he wanted to sell, we could be in an even worse place today.
The take over will happen when a billionaire turns up with the money to take us back to the prem or RD gets so fed up he flogs us to the first con man, spiv, bankrup or idiot that offers to take it off his hands.
May have more pages than this Big boy ?
No one would be interested in buying a club in a shambles (both on and off the pitch), that has a strong possibility of being relegated.
Either he puts in the investment himself (not likely I’d say), or sells within a time frame, at a reasonable price, for any buyer to do so.
However, in Goldfingers world, would that simple logic apply?
I remember a long time ago comparing the number of posts on this thread to the size of The Valley wondering if he'd sell before we got to 27,111 and how much of The Valley you could fill if each post represented a seat.
Now we're only a few short of filling the Stadium Of Light.
Ok, but what's it doing in this thread, you ask, quite reasonably. Well because of this little nugget:
The big one came last year. In a two-year stint in London, where he learnt English, he was approached to buy unfancied sides such as Charlton Athletic and Brentford. Instead, in September he acquired 51 per cent of Real Valladolid, a team in the lower reaches in La Liga, Spain’s top division, for €28m
So there we have it, another benchmark to add to the many that would show any reasonable person that anything over £30m for Charlton is ludicrously over-priced, and that any buyer of a club has options outside the English bubble that may be much more viable.