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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)
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Quality haha, going to tweet him thatPopIcon said:
https://www.andrewmcdowall.co.uk/onlineCatalogue/Duck-Killer Brown said:
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It would appear this guy is also a model for Andrew McDowall.2 -
I thought everyone knew that Fairtree was a kid mucking about from last season.2
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How much did Leicester spend to win the league again?NapaAddick said:
And that’s the highest they will ever finish spending that amount. With the six clubs above them having literally 2-3x as much to spend or more, Wolves have likely hit their ceiling.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
600m is an entire team of 50m players. I'd like to bet that if you gave Benitez 600m he'd get them into Europe. Wolves have spent a fraction of that and got 7th.cafcfan1990 said:
But with the spending power of teams in the Prem, spending 600mil at Newcastle doesn’t mean you are going to do anything. So you could end up wasting a billion. Look at United, spent all that money and haven’t progressed, in fact gone backwards.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
It'd cost about 1.5-2bn to buy Arsenal these days. If you had that sort of cash it'd be better to look at a club with potential (like the UAE lot with Newcastle) that you can buy for 300-400m and then spend 600m on the team. If they do that Newcastle will be better than Arsenal anyway, so i think people would be crazy to buy Arsenal right now. Ok they're a big club with worldwide support, but worldwide support doesn't win you games.Cafc43v3r said:
Abramovich bought Chelsea when they had qualified for the champions league. The money he threw at Chelsea, that was seen as obscene at the time, is chicken feed compared to what has happened at City.blackpool72 said:
Absolutely this.razil said:
Not sure I agree, surely the prestige and money from owning a Premier League club is a factor?Cafc43v3r said:
Sorry I didn't mean its not Roland's fault he has wasted so much money and didn't have a credible plan. I ment that if he went tomorrow unless the new owner was prepared to put in a crazy amount of money we wouldn't be much better off.razil said:
So can we 'blame' Duchatelet? In my view yes, no-one forced him to buy the club, and it appears that he didn't do his homework. He's also wasted a LOT of money with poor hiring, and a flawed strategy in a number of ways, all of which has been rehearsed many times on this site.
Anyone that is prepared to spunk so much money, on a club they have no emotional link with, is probably not fit and proper in the 1st place. This is a problem the EFL now have, do you let an owner you know to be a risk take over a club or do you let it go into liquidation? I belive that was a choice they had to make with Sunderland in the summer.
Abramovich was not a Chelsea supporter when he bought them.
If your prepared to risk, say for sake of argument 150-200 million, on a club like us, with out any guarantee of even getting to the premier league you need your head testing. Or you have serious cash, if your in the later camp you might as well buy Arsenal.0 -
Who the *edited blooming heck* are the addicts??2
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Yep. And let’s be honest, what big global star wants to live in Newcastle, 2/3 of the way to the North Pole, when such nicer climate options are available in many countries.Cafc43v3r said:Sorry but if you WANT to spend £500 million on players at a club like Newcastle, who the hell are you going to buy? If the player is good enough they will go to one of the top 6 in England, Barca, Real, PSG, Juve or Munich. If they aren't going to be good enough for them you won't catch them with a team full of them will you? It's a bit like saying Real Madrid are worth £3 billion, you might as well buy us then chuck £2 billion in the transfer kitty.
Newcastle are the next Aston Villa; a glorified yo-to club. They just don’t know it yet.0 -
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Have removed the stuff to the fake parody account5
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This Fake Tan story ... has this got anything to do with messr Ackworth?0
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Leicester are the counter point to any argument you can ever make about anything football and finance related. That doesn't hide the fact that Leicester were "doped" whilst in the championship. It was a fluke, it will never happen in our life times again. Like Nottingham Forest winning back to back European cups.Dazzler21 said:
How much did Leicester spend to win the league again?NapaAddick said:
And that’s the highest they will ever finish spending that amount. With the six clubs above them having literally 2-3x as much to spend or more, Wolves have likely hit their ceiling.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
600m is an entire team of 50m players. I'd like to bet that if you gave Benitez 600m he'd get them into Europe. Wolves have spent a fraction of that and got 7th.cafcfan1990 said:
But with the spending power of teams in the Prem, spending 600mil at Newcastle doesn’t mean you are going to do anything. So you could end up wasting a billion. Look at United, spent all that money and haven’t progressed, in fact gone backwards.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
It'd cost about 1.5-2bn to buy Arsenal these days. If you had that sort of cash it'd be better to look at a club with potential (like the UAE lot with Newcastle) that you can buy for 300-400m and then spend 600m on the team. If they do that Newcastle will be better than Arsenal anyway, so i think people would be crazy to buy Arsenal right now. Ok they're a big club with worldwide support, but worldwide support doesn't win you games.Cafc43v3r said:
Abramovich bought Chelsea when they had qualified for the champions league. The money he threw at Chelsea, that was seen as obscene at the time, is chicken feed compared to what has happened at City.blackpool72 said:
Absolutely this.razil said:
Not sure I agree, surely the prestige and money from owning a Premier League club is a factor?Cafc43v3r said:
Sorry I didn't mean its not Roland's fault he has wasted so much money and didn't have a credible plan. I ment that if he went tomorrow unless the new owner was prepared to put in a crazy amount of money we wouldn't be much better off.razil said:
So can we 'blame' Duchatelet? In my view yes, no-one forced him to buy the club, and it appears that he didn't do his homework. He's also wasted a LOT of money with poor hiring, and a flawed strategy in a number of ways, all of which has been rehearsed many times on this site.
Anyone that is prepared to spunk so much money, on a club they have no emotional link with, is probably not fit and proper in the 1st place. This is a problem the EFL now have, do you let an owner you know to be a risk take over a club or do you let it go into liquidation? I belive that was a choice they had to make with Sunderland in the summer.
Abramovich was not a Chelsea supporter when he bought them.
If your prepared to risk, say for sake of argument 150-200 million, on a club like us, with out any guarantee of even getting to the premier league you need your head testing. Or you have serious cash, if your in the later camp you might as well buy Arsenal.2 -
I don't believe in luck as many others do. Everything has a chance of happening, it's how you tilt odds in your favour through preparation, hard work and belief. Much like Bowyer has done this season.Cafc43v3r said:
Leicester are the counter point to any argument you can ever make about anything football and finance related. That doesn't hide the fact that Leicester were "doped" whilst in the championship. It was a fluke, it will never happen in our life times again. Like Nottingham Forest winning back to back European cups.Dazzler21 said:
How much did Leicester spend to win the league again?NapaAddick said:
And that’s the highest they will ever finish spending that amount. With the six clubs above them having literally 2-3x as much to spend or more, Wolves have likely hit their ceiling.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
600m is an entire team of 50m players. I'd like to bet that if you gave Benitez 600m he'd get them into Europe. Wolves have spent a fraction of that and got 7th.cafcfan1990 said:
But with the spending power of teams in the Prem, spending 600mil at Newcastle doesn’t mean you are going to do anything. So you could end up wasting a billion. Look at United, spent all that money and haven’t progressed, in fact gone backwards.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
It'd cost about 1.5-2bn to buy Arsenal these days. If you had that sort of cash it'd be better to look at a club with potential (like the UAE lot with Newcastle) that you can buy for 300-400m and then spend 600m on the team. If they do that Newcastle will be better than Arsenal anyway, so i think people would be crazy to buy Arsenal right now. Ok they're a big club with worldwide support, but worldwide support doesn't win you games.Cafc43v3r said:
Abramovich bought Chelsea when they had qualified for the champions league. The money he threw at Chelsea, that was seen as obscene at the time, is chicken feed compared to what has happened at City.blackpool72 said:
Absolutely this.razil said:
Not sure I agree, surely the prestige and money from owning a Premier League club is a factor?Cafc43v3r said:
Sorry I didn't mean its not Roland's fault he has wasted so much money and didn't have a credible plan. I ment that if he went tomorrow unless the new owner was prepared to put in a crazy amount of money we wouldn't be much better off.razil said:
So can we 'blame' Duchatelet? In my view yes, no-one forced him to buy the club, and it appears that he didn't do his homework. He's also wasted a LOT of money with poor hiring, and a flawed strategy in a number of ways, all of which has been rehearsed many times on this site.
Anyone that is prepared to spunk so much money, on a club they have no emotional link with, is probably not fit and proper in the 1st place. This is a problem the EFL now have, do you let an owner you know to be a risk take over a club or do you let it go into liquidation? I belive that was a choice they had to make with Sunderland in the summer.
Abramovich was not a Chelsea supporter when he bought them.
If your prepared to risk, say for sake of argument 150-200 million, on a club like us, with out any guarantee of even getting to the premier league you need your head testing. Or you have serious cash, if your in the later camp you might as well buy Arsenal.
Winning the Premier League in a season that Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd, Liverpool, Spurs etc all underestimated them. Their manager got his tactics spot on and the players played out of their skins. They gave it everything.
Winning One European Cup could be 'Luck' as you put it, for me it's players excelling beyond their capabilities and being underestimated.
Winning Two confirms it's more likely my belief than your 'Luck'.
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Is it happening yet?
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I'm still sticking with the Austrians.4
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stick with em chief its only two weeks to wait0
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It's happening...
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I didn't say it was luck, I said it was a fluke, the perfect storm and you need all the cards to come up trumps. If it wasn't a fluke it would happen all the time, it doesn't.Dazzler21 said:
I don't believe in luck as many others do. Everything has a chance of happening, it's how you tilt odds in your favour through preparation, hard work and belief. Much like Bowyer has done this season.Cafc43v3r said:
Leicester are the counter point to any argument you can ever make about anything football and finance related. That doesn't hide the fact that Leicester were "doped" whilst in the championship. It was a fluke, it will never happen in our life times again. Like Nottingham Forest winning back to back European cups.Dazzler21 said:
How much did Leicester spend to win the league again?NapaAddick said:
And that’s the highest they will ever finish spending that amount. With the six clubs above them having literally 2-3x as much to spend or more, Wolves have likely hit their ceiling.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
600m is an entire team of 50m players. I'd like to bet that if you gave Benitez 600m he'd get them into Europe. Wolves have spent a fraction of that and got 7th.cafcfan1990 said:
But with the spending power of teams in the Prem, spending 600mil at Newcastle doesn’t mean you are going to do anything. So you could end up wasting a billion. Look at United, spent all that money and haven’t progressed, in fact gone backwards.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
It'd cost about 1.5-2bn to buy Arsenal these days. If you had that sort of cash it'd be better to look at a club with potential (like the UAE lot with Newcastle) that you can buy for 300-400m and then spend 600m on the team. If they do that Newcastle will be better than Arsenal anyway, so i think people would be crazy to buy Arsenal right now. Ok they're a big club with worldwide support, but worldwide support doesn't win you games.Cafc43v3r said:
Abramovich bought Chelsea when they had qualified for the champions league. The money he threw at Chelsea, that was seen as obscene at the time, is chicken feed compared to what has happened at City.blackpool72 said:
Absolutely this.razil said:
Not sure I agree, surely the prestige and money from owning a Premier League club is a factor?Cafc43v3r said:
Sorry I didn't mean its not Roland's fault he has wasted so much money and didn't have a credible plan. I ment that if he went tomorrow unless the new owner was prepared to put in a crazy amount of money we wouldn't be much better off.razil said:
So can we 'blame' Duchatelet? In my view yes, no-one forced him to buy the club, and it appears that he didn't do his homework. He's also wasted a LOT of money with poor hiring, and a flawed strategy in a number of ways, all of which has been rehearsed many times on this site.
Anyone that is prepared to spunk so much money, on a club they have no emotional link with, is probably not fit and proper in the 1st place. This is a problem the EFL now have, do you let an owner you know to be a risk take over a club or do you let it go into liquidation? I belive that was a choice they had to make with Sunderland in the summer.
Abramovich was not a Chelsea supporter when he bought them.
If your prepared to risk, say for sake of argument 150-200 million, on a club like us, with out any guarantee of even getting to the premier league you need your head testing. Or you have serious cash, if your in the later camp you might as well buy Arsenal.
Winning the Premier League in a season that Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd, Liverpool, Spurs etc all underestimated them. Their manager got his tactics spot on and the players played out of their skins. They gave it everything.
Winning One European Cup could be 'Luck' as you put it, for me it's players excelling beyond their capabilities and being underestimated.
Winning Two confirms it's more likely my belief than your 'Luck'.1 -
So about that 6pm announcement 😉Duck-Killer Brown said:5 -
Bit kinky for a family site.ShootersHillGuru said:Tan my arse. What a load of old cobblers.
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Rudders22 said:
No. I have just asked a mate and he confirmed no.Addickted said:
With Meire negotiating the deal?BigRedEvil said:Reckon Roland got any extra cash for Gomez winning the CL?
I suspect we probably owe Liverpool money.
Your mate must be seriously
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So you want to pin Charlton’s hopes on being the next 1500-1 shot? Does not sound like a sound strategy. Also, they wildly broke FFP rules to get promoted as well.Dazzler21 said:
How much did Leicester spend to win the league again?NapaAddick said:
And that’s the highest they will ever finish spending that amount. With the six clubs above them having literally 2-3x as much to spend or more, Wolves have likely hit their ceiling.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
600m is an entire team of 50m players. I'd like to bet that if you gave Benitez 600m he'd get them into Europe. Wolves have spent a fraction of that and got 7th.cafcfan1990 said:
But with the spending power of teams in the Prem, spending 600mil at Newcastle doesn’t mean you are going to do anything. So you could end up wasting a billion. Look at United, spent all that money and haven’t progressed, in fact gone backwards.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
It'd cost about 1.5-2bn to buy Arsenal these days. If you had that sort of cash it'd be better to look at a club with potential (like the UAE lot with Newcastle) that you can buy for 300-400m and then spend 600m on the team. If they do that Newcastle will be better than Arsenal anyway, so i think people would be crazy to buy Arsenal right now. Ok they're a big club with worldwide support, but worldwide support doesn't win you games.Cafc43v3r said:
Abramovich bought Chelsea when they had qualified for the champions league. The money he threw at Chelsea, that was seen as obscene at the time, is chicken feed compared to what has happened at City.blackpool72 said:
Absolutely this.razil said:
Not sure I agree, surely the prestige and money from owning a Premier League club is a factor?Cafc43v3r said:
Sorry I didn't mean its not Roland's fault he has wasted so much money and didn't have a credible plan. I ment that if he went tomorrow unless the new owner was prepared to put in a crazy amount of money we wouldn't be much better off.razil said:
So can we 'blame' Duchatelet? In my view yes, no-one forced him to buy the club, and it appears that he didn't do his homework. He's also wasted a LOT of money with poor hiring, and a flawed strategy in a number of ways, all of which has been rehearsed many times on this site.
Anyone that is prepared to spunk so much money, on a club they have no emotional link with, is probably not fit and proper in the 1st place. This is a problem the EFL now have, do you let an owner you know to be a risk take over a club or do you let it go into liquidation? I belive that was a choice they had to make with Sunderland in the summer.
Abramovich was not a Chelsea supporter when he bought them.
If your prepared to risk, say for sake of argument 150-200 million, on a club like us, with out any guarantee of even getting to the premier league you need your head testing. Or you have serious cash, if your in the later camp you might as well buy Arsenal.2 -
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Cafc43v3r said:
I didn't say it was luck, I said it was a fluke, the perfect storm and you need all the cards to come up trumps. If it wasn't a fluke it would happen all the time, it doesn't.Dazzler21 said:
I don't believe in luck as many others do. Everything has a chance of happening, it's how you tilt odds in your favour through preparation, hard work and belief. Much like Bowyer has done this season.Cafc43v3r said:
Leicester are the counter point to any argument you can ever make about anything football and finance related. That doesn't hide the fact that Leicester were "doped" whilst in the championship. It was a fluke, it will never happen in our life times again. Like Nottingham Forest winning back to back European cups.Dazzler21 said:
How much did Leicester spend to win the league again?NapaAddick said:
And that’s the highest they will ever finish spending that amount. With the six clubs above them having literally 2-3x as much to spend or more, Wolves have likely hit their ceiling.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
600m is an entire team of 50m players. I'd like to bet that if you gave Benitez 600m he'd get them into Europe. Wolves have spent a fraction of that and got 7th.cafcfan1990 said:
But with the spending power of teams in the Prem, spending 600mil at Newcastle doesn’t mean you are going to do anything. So you could end up wasting a billion. Look at United, spent all that money and haven’t progressed, in fact gone backwards.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
It'd cost about 1.5-2bn to buy Arsenal these days. If you had that sort of cash it'd be better to look at a club with potential (like the UAE lot with Newcastle) that you can buy for 300-400m and then spend 600m on the team. If they do that Newcastle will be better than Arsenal anyway, so i think people would be crazy to buy Arsenal right now. Ok they're a big club with worldwide support, but worldwide support doesn't win you games.Cafc43v3r said:
Abramovich bought Chelsea when they had qualified for the champions league. The money he threw at Chelsea, that was seen as obscene at the time, is chicken feed compared to what has happened at City.blackpool72 said:
Absolutely this.razil said:
Not sure I agree, surely the prestige and money from owning a Premier League club is a factor?Cafc43v3r said:
Sorry I didn't mean its not Roland's fault he has wasted so much money and didn't have a credible plan. I ment that if he went tomorrow unless the new owner was prepared to put in a crazy amount of money we wouldn't be much better off.razil said:
So can we 'blame' Duchatelet? In my view yes, no-one forced him to buy the club, and it appears that he didn't do his homework. He's also wasted a LOT of money with poor hiring, and a flawed strategy in a number of ways, all of which has been rehearsed many times on this site.
Anyone that is prepared to spunk so much money, on a club they have no emotional link with, is probably not fit and proper in the 1st place. This is a problem the EFL now have, do you let an owner you know to be a risk take over a club or do you let it go into liquidation? I belive that was a choice they had to make with Sunderland in the summer.
Abramovich was not a Chelsea supporter when he bought them.
If your prepared to risk, say for sake of argument 150-200 million, on a club like us, with out any guarantee of even getting to the premier league you need your head testing. Or you have serious cash, if your in the later camp you might as well buy Arsenal.
Winning the Premier League in a season that Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd, Liverpool, Spurs etc all underestimated them. Their manager got his tactics spot on and the players played out of their skins. They gave it everything.
Winning One European Cup could be 'Luck' as you put it, for me it's players excelling beyond their capabilities and being underestimated.
Winning Two confirms it's more likely my belief than your 'Luck'.NOUN
An unlikely chance occurrence, especially a surprising piece of luck.
‘their victory was a bit of a fluke’More example sentencesSynonyms
VERB
[WITH OBJECT]Achieve (something) by luck rather than skill.
Sounds awfully similar old chap.
That season every player gave everything the manager studied every opponent and set up well against all opponents.
It was sensational to see how they set up different each game and every player was willing to put their bodies on the line.
There was no luck. No fluke. The big guns underestimated them and they knew it.
You get away with that for one season, but you expose everything you have to do so, they didn't have the money to change out the weaker players or replace the ones that were sold and as such had little opportunity to replicate it the following season and ever since.0 -
now I know what is like to be in eye of the storm ^2
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This all sounds very encouraging for a club with an out of contract manager and 7 players.2
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add on clauses for Gomez for playing in European Cup Final. Nothing elseDave2l said:Rudders22 said:
No. I have just asked a mate and he confirmed no.Addickted said:
With Meire negotiating the deal?BigRedEvil said:Reckon Roland got any extra cash for Gomez winning the CL?
I suspect we probably owe Liverpool money.
Your mate must be seriously
"In the know"
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Bluebird Bestie has hunted for info re Tan and no one there has heard a thing.
What they did say was nothing would surprise them as he is bonkers.
Twinned with Cardiff anyone???0 -
It's not Tan.KBslittlesis said:Bluebird Bestie has hunted for info re Tan and no one there has heard a thing.
What they did say was nothing would surprise them as he is bonkers.
Twinned with Cardiff anyone???0 -
What have you heard then airman ??Airman Brown said:
It's not Tan.KBslittlesis said:Bluebird Bestie has hunted for info re Tan and no one there has heard a thing.
What they did say was nothing would surprise them as he is bonkers.
Twinned with Cardiff anyone???1 -
Airman Brown said:
It's not Tan.KBslittlesis said:Bluebird Bestie has hunted for info re Tan and no one there has heard a thing.
What they did say was nothing would surprise them as he is bonkers.
Twinned with Cardiff anyone???
Beige?27 -
No idea where the Tan thing has come from bar someone having some mischief on Twitter.0 -
Can't add anything more at the moment in fairness to others and it may not amount to anything anyway, so don't get too excited. But I do know that Vincent Tan isn't involved.FAVADDICK said:
What have you heard then airman ??Airman Brown said:
It's not Tan.KBslittlesis said:Bluebird Bestie has hunted for info re Tan and no one there has heard a thing.
What they did say was nothing would surprise them as he is bonkers.
Twinned with Cardiff anyone???19
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