To King Addick,i totally agree with most of your comments,but I have supported Charlton for 65 years and the supply from youth to first team has never dried up Kids will always come to Charlton because they know that they will if good enough get a chance. Rd has given Bowyer a budget,albeit a very low one,but as I said ,a good manager and team will find the players.How many Aribos and Lookmans are out there playing Sunday Morning and lower league saturday afternoon football.These players are there to be found.Kinsella was playing for Colchester,look how he turned out. Who had heard of Beilick and Burrington prior to them coming to us,I personally think that despite the lack of funds we will do very well next year.
Just to clarify, the well drying up was eventually RD putting a halt to any transfer fee. Whilst Charlton have a fantastic academy as we know. It serves the team for a short while then we as a club are asset stripped.
Granted there are good players out there and we have a great team in place to try and find them. However, when other clubs come in and offer that 1k more because our wage budgets only stretch so far....we will miss out.
Whether Dalman can be convinced to revive his interest remains to be seen,
No, it’s a hedge against them being used by Dalman to threaten RD and the story reversing the situation - as happened over the Bowyer contract. I can guarantee that the info comes from the Dalman camp.
Remember that it was the Standard he used to announce a £30m offer in March.
Lets just hope that this goes the same way as Bowyers contract negotiations, fail to agree and then all done and dusted double sharpish. I just cannot get my head round how long this is taking for someone who is so desperate to sell this man is like the turd that will not flush.
Whether Dalman can be convinced to revive his interest remains to be seen,
No, it’s a hedge against them being used by Dalman to threaten RD and the story reversing the situation - as happened over the Bowyer contract. I can guarantee that the info comes from the Dalman camp.
Remember that it was the Standard he used to announce a £30m offer in March.
That line makes it look like the whole story has been "placed" by Dalman - or those close to him - for exactly that reason, ie as leverage to get RD to see sense.
So, if this is true, we have an owner who has spent the few weeks since Wembley bemoaning the fact that costs and losses are so much greater in the Championship, yet BECAUSE we are now a Championship club, he increases the asking price by £17m? Am I missing something? (rhetorical question btw..... I do know that the answer is lunacy).
Jim White was telling us recently that we should be rejoicing because Duchatelet is desperate to sell. He doesn't act like a desperate seller though - putting the price up after promising not to suggests he is not as desperate as he wishes to make out!
Jim White talks complete bollocks. Don't believe a word he says
I hate to say it but he is either very badly advised or he’s deliberately making mischief.....I’d like to think it’s the former. Would be nice if he came on and said he was sorry for misleading us on several glaring occasions and explaining why he made such adamant, but latterly false statements.
£50m plus debenture debt. Ok Roland, whatever. You will be chucking more money into the Charlton black hole then.
Someone needs to teach him how to cut his losses as he will fund a relegation to League One, see a rise in protests again and have returned the club to a value of bob all.
So the director's loans are a problem - even according to Dalman, where it appears the Standard story has come from.
I don't really understand why they need to be an issue here - they will get them paid on arrival to the premier league. It's up to the current owners if they want to pay them now or not surely?
"investors struggled to get sufficient funds into the country before the team won the League One Play-off Final"
Airman, were you the source of this information on the Aussies or are you aware whether that is credible information or not?
I’m not the source on any of the story - I’m just able to fill in the blanks, for example to point them at Prague’s comments, supply the detail of the directors’ loans and to remind them of LDT’s minuted statement in April that the price would not change.
My understanding is that the Aussies still don’t have the money (to meet the higher price), but I didn’t give the Standard anything on their situation pre-Wembley.
Clutching at straws. Increase in asking price is one last gamble by Duchatelet and he might do as he do what he did with Bowyer once the other party has walked.
I think that is lazy journalism by the Standard. I cannot see how or why RD can insist the £7m loans need to be paid, as doing so hinders a sale. He can say that he isn't paying them, and they become the new owners liability but that is different entirely.
If find it unlikely that RD would publicly state the price wouldn't go up upon promotion and then hike it, even for his lunacy, seems extreme.
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Granted there are good players out there and we have a great team in place to try and find them. However, when other clubs come in and offer that 1k more because our wage budgets only stretch so far....we will miss out.
Remember that it was the Standard he used to announce a £30m offer in March.
Because it's fast becoming obvious he ain't going anywhere.
Would be nice if he came on and said he was sorry for misleading us on several glaring occasions and explaining why he made such adamant, but latterly false statements.
"investors struggled to get sufficient funds into the country before the team won the League One Play-off Final"
Airman, were you the source of this information on the Aussies or are you aware whether that is credible information or not?
Close the thread - we've got Roland forever.
Someone needs to teach him how to cut his losses as he will fund a relegation to League One, see a rise in protests again and have returned the club to a value of bob all.
My understanding is that the Aussies still don’t have the money (to meet the higher price), but I didn’t give the Standard anything on their situation pre-Wembley.
Wont happen of course.
Can't blame Dalman for walking ,doing any type of business with RD and his ego must be totally fecking bewildering .
Straw clutching time but just maybe walking away might spur the Rat to actually sell, however that needs sanity and he is devoid of that
If find it unlikely that RD would publicly state the price wouldn't go up upon promotion and then hike it, even for his lunacy, seems extreme.