looking at how this thread has slowed down recently I'm beginning to wonder if we will ever reach the point when we have to start predicting the future ...
Supporters were left hoping that Gallen’s change of status indicated that a takeover could be close.
“Not that I know of,” he responded. “I knew we were getting close in the summer. I’ve spoken to prospective buyers a few times in the last 12 months. In the summer I was talking to them about transfer targets because if they came through the door they needed to be aware who we were looking at signing.
“Unfortunately it looks like that has gone back into the background. It will still come back, I just don’t know when.
Supporters were left hoping that Gallen’s change of status indicated that a takeover could be close.
“Not that I know of,” he responded. “I knew we were getting close in the summer. I’ve spoken to prospective buyers a few times in the last 12 months. In the summer I was talking to them about transfer targets because if they came through the door they needed to be aware who we were looking at signing.
“Unfortunately it looks like that has gone back into the background. It will still come back, I just don’t know when.
Roland has backed LB to the extent that he’s been able to sign 15 quality players to add to the quality players LB wanted to keep. He’s bought into the dream. He’s not selling.
Supporters were left hoping that Gallen’s change of status indicated that a takeover could be close.
“Not that I know of,” he responded. “I knew we were getting close in the summer. I’ve spoken to prospective buyers a few times in the last 12 months. In the summer I was talking to them about transfer targets because if they came through the door they needed to be aware who we were looking at signing.
“Unfortunately it looks like that has gone back into the background. It will still come back, I just don’t know when.
Roland has backed LB to the extent that he’s been able to sign 15 quality players to add to the quality players LB wanted to keep. He’s bought into the dream. He’s not selling.
Why did he recently say the priority is still to sell the club?
Supporters were left hoping that Gallen’s change of status indicated that a takeover could be close.
“Not that I know of,” he responded. “I knew we were getting close in the summer. I’ve spoken to prospective buyers a few times in the last 12 months. In the summer I was talking to them about transfer targets because if they came through the door they needed to be aware who we were looking at signing.
“Unfortunately it looks like that has gone back into the background. It will still come back, I just don’t know when.
Roland has backed LB to the extent that he’s been able to sign 15 quality players to add to the quality players LB wanted to keep. He’s bought into the dream. He’s not selling.
Why did he recently say the priority is still to sell the club?
Errrm.....excuse me for asking but is that a serious question?
Supporters were left hoping that Gallen’s change of status indicated that a takeover could be close.
“Not that I know of,” he responded. “I knew we were getting close in the summer. I’ve spoken to prospective buyers a few times in the last 12 months. In the summer I was talking to them about transfer targets because if they came through the door they needed to be aware who we were looking at signing.
“Unfortunately it looks like that has gone back into the background. It will still come back, I just don’t know when.
Roland has backed LB to the extent that he’s been able to sign 15 quality players to add to the quality players LB wanted to keep. He’s bought into the dream. He’s not selling.
Why did he recently say the priority is still to sell the club?
Supporters were left hoping that Gallen’s change of status indicated that a takeover could be close.
“Not that I know of,” he responded. “I knew we were getting close in the summer. I’ve spoken to prospective buyers a few times in the last 12 months. In the summer I was talking to them about transfer targets because if they came through the door they needed to be aware who we were looking at signing.
“Unfortunately it looks like that has gone back into the background. It will still come back, I just don’t know when.
Roland has backed LB to the extent that he’s been able to sign 15 quality players to add to the quality players LB wanted to keep. He’s bought into the dream. He’s not selling.
Why did he recently say the priority is still to sell the club?
Errrm.....excuse me for asking but is that a serious question?
I’m asking how has he “bought into the dream”, he’s still talking about selling. It’s no dream to him, just gives him a better chance of getting his money back.
Supporters were left hoping that Gallen’s change of status indicated that a takeover could be close.
“Not that I know of,” he responded. “I knew we were getting close in the summer. I’ve spoken to prospective buyers a few times in the last 12 months. In the summer I was talking to them about transfer targets because if they came through the door they needed to be aware who we were looking at signing.
“Unfortunately it looks like that has gone back into the background. It will still come back, I just don’t know when.
Roland has backed LB to the extent that he’s been able to sign 15 quality players to add to the quality players LB wanted to keep. He’s bought into the dream. He’s not selling.
Why did he recently say the priority is still to sell the club?
Errrm.....excuse me for asking but is that a serious question?
I’m asking how has he “bought into the dream”, he’s still talking about selling. It’s no dream to him, just gives him a better chance of getting his money back.
Supporters were left hoping that Gallen’s change of status indicated that a takeover could be close.
“Not that I know of,” he responded. “I knew we were getting close in the summer. I’ve spoken to prospective buyers a few times in the last 12 months. In the summer I was talking to them about transfer targets because if they came through the door they needed to be aware who we were looking at signing.
“Unfortunately it looks like that has gone back into the background. It will still come back, I just don’t know when.
Roland has backed LB to the extent that he’s been able to sign 15 quality players to add to the quality players LB wanted to keep. He’s bought into the dream. He’s not selling.
Why did he recently say the priority is still to sell the club?
It’s on an old 8 track recording that’s playing on a loop...
Supporters were left hoping that Gallen’s change of status indicated that a takeover could be close.
“Not that I know of,” he responded. “I knew we were getting close in the summer. I’ve spoken to prospective buyers a few times in the last 12 months. In the summer I was talking to them about transfer targets because if they came through the door they needed to be aware who we were looking at signing.
“Unfortunately it looks like that has gone back into the background. It will still come back, I just don’t know when.
Roland has backed LB to the extent that he’s been able to sign 15 quality players to add to the quality players LB wanted to keep. He’s bought into the dream. He’s not selling.
Why did he recently say the priority is still to sell the club?
Because he has verbal diarrhoea.
And is a pillock.
This thread was started by HI in April 2017. Surely you don’t still think the club will be sold anytime soon do you ?
Supporters were left hoping that Gallen’s change of status indicated that a takeover could be close.
“Not that I know of,” he responded. “I knew we were getting close in the summer. I’ve spoken to prospective buyers a few times in the last 12 months. In the summer I was talking to them about transfer targets because if they came through the door they needed to be aware who we were looking at signing.
“Unfortunately it looks like that has gone back into the background. It will still come back, I just don’t know when.
Roland has backed LB to the extent that he’s been able to sign 15 quality players to add to the quality players LB wanted to keep. He’s bought into the dream. He’s not selling.
Why did he recently say the priority is still to sell the club?
Because he has verbal diarrhoea.
And is a pillock.
This thread was started by HI in April 2017. Surely you don’t still think believe the club will be sold anytime soon do you ?
I'm sure everyone is getting tired of this thread as nothing is happening .... and it meanders on and on.
The only purpose of keeping it open is for Henry to get to one billion pages, set a new Charlton Life record for pointlessness and get bragging rights.
Instead can't Admin just give Henry a 'Promote' ..... and then this thread could be put out of it's misery?
Now is the best opportunity that Roland has to sell - we may not be as attractive as we are right now for many more years. Get it done you old scrote.
The best opportunity for a sale will be between February and May if we are in the mix for the automatics or a play off place. Nobody will pay the price before then and after we are promoted they won’t be able to afford the club for another 12 months.
Wouldn't it be great if Roland just wasn't such a disrespectful tosser plus other stuff.
Our league position. The players and coaches. Ticket prices. You can't really fault it.
I'm guilty of a short memory.....but as it currently stands, those things are going rather well at the moment.
If Roland just kept his trap shut, employed the right people from the start of his ownership and didn't treat us like an experiment.....He would have been a great owner....mostly because, no one would have really been forced to moan about him that much. We would have just been a safe and secure club...led by the right people to direct us.
He could have enjoyed his Belgian waffles in Belgium and just left us to get on with it. Even if he unnecessarily still always gave us a crappy budget. Goes to show...the right people can manage it.
Supporters were left hoping that Gallen’s change of status indicated that a takeover could be close.
“Not that I know of,” he responded. “I knew we were getting close in the summer. I’ve spoken to prospective buyers a few times in the last 12 months. In the summer I was talking to them about transfer targets because if they came through the door they needed to be aware who we were looking at signing.
“Unfortunately it looks like that has gone back into the background. It will still come back, I just don’t know when.
Roland has backed LB to the extent that he’s been able to sign 15 quality players to add to the quality players LB wanted to keep. He’s bought into the dream. He’s not selling.
Why did he recently say the priority is still to sell the club?
Because he has verbal diarrhoea.
And is a pillock.
This thread was started by HI in April 2017. Surely you don’t still think the club will be sold anytime soon do you ?
He won't sell anytime soon, but he still thinks he might do. Therefore we won't be seeing things that suggest he's planning to be here longer term, such as Bowyer given a longer contract and more permanent signings instead of loanees.
Supporters were left hoping that Gallen’s change of status indicated that a takeover could be close.
“Not that I know of,” he responded. “I knew we were getting close in the summer. I’ve spoken to prospective buyers a few times in the last 12 months. In the summer I was talking to them about transfer targets because if they came through the door they needed to be aware who we were looking at signing.
“Unfortunately it looks like that has gone back into the background. It will still come back, I just don’t know when.
Roland has backed LB to the extent that he’s been able to sign 15 quality players to add to the quality players LB wanted to keep. He’s bought into the dream. He’s not selling.
Why did he recently say the priority is still to sell the club?
Because he has verbal diarrhoea.
And is a pillock.
This thread was started by HI in April 2017. Surely you don’t still think the club will be sold anytime soon do you ?
He won't sell anytime soon, but he still thinks he might do. Therefore we won't be seeing things that suggest he's planning to be here longer term, such as Bowyer given a longer contract and more permanent signings instead of loanees.
My not ITK reading of the situation is that now LB has said he’d sign a 2 year deal RD will be on the phone and asking him how much money he wants. As for more permanent signings instead of loanees ?, that’s something that is dependent upon how the team is performing as the months go on and who is performing, or not. Personally, I think LB has got the balance of perms and loans just right atm and this isn’t the time to change it.
We'll see on Bowyer's contract. Roland's concern was that new owners might want their own manager so he didn't want to give Bowyer a longer deal. I don't see that changing just a few months after he last signed a contract.
It's clear we bring in loans because we don't have the budget for permanent signings. That means paying out transfer fees and handing out more longer term contracts. As with Bowyer's contract that points towards Roland not looking too far beyond this season.
We'll see on Bowyer's contract. Roland's concern was that new owners might want their own manager so he didn't want to give Bowyer a longer deal. I don't see that changing just a few months after he last signed a contract.
It's clear we bring in loans because we don't have the budget for permanent signings. That means paying out transfer fees and handing out more longer term contracts. As with Bowyer's contract that points towards Roland not looking too far beyond this season.
LB is rapidly becoming the hottest ticket in town and the model of give him a budget and let him get on with it is the ideal one. RD will want to keep him in situ whether he is selling the club or not and, in fact, he’s already demonstrated that when he doubled LB’s wages this summer. Now that the first few games in the Championship have shown we can compete, giving LB a 2 year contract and offering another increase or performance related one looks to be a no-brainier. If anything it will add to the attraction in a sale, not a distraction.
The time to think about more permanent contracts and less loans is December to May when we start to see whether we do have a chance to challenge for promotion or not and, if so, which players are likely to cut it in the PL.
We'll see on Bowyer's contract. Roland's concern was that new owners might want their own manager so he didn't want to give Bowyer a longer deal. I don't see that changing just a few months after he last signed a contract.
It's clear we bring in loans because we don't have the budget for permanent signings. That means paying out transfer fees and handing out more longer term contracts. As with Bowyer's contract that points towards Roland not looking too far beyond this season.
LB is rapidly becoming the hottest ticket in town and the model of give him a budget and let him get on with it is the ideal one. RD will want to keep him in situ whether he is selling the club or not and, in fact, he’s already demonstrated that when he doubled LB’s wages this summer. Now that the first few games in the Championship have shown we can compete, giving LB a 2 year contract and offering another increase or performance related one looks to be a no-brainier. If anything it will add to the attraction in a sale, not a distraction.
The time to think about more permanent contracts and less loans is December to May when we start to see whether we do have a chance to challenge for promotion or not and, if so, which players are likely to cut it in the PL.
Agree giving Bowyer a longer contract is a no brainer. It was also a no brainer back before we won at Wembley. Unfortunately RD didn't agree and nearly let him go, though at least he saw sense in the end.
For RD he wants to make the club as attractive as possible to sell - but it's based on his logic, not what we as fans would see as common sense. RD sees a manager tied down potentially putting a new buyer off, even though we know we have our best manager in years.
The time to think about more permanent contracts over loanees is when we have an owner interested in the longer term. That's not RD now and very unlikely he ever will be.
Gallen said himself we can't be signing so many players again next summer. That can only happen if enough of the squad are on longer contracts.
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Yeah, it happened a few pages back. How did you miss it?
So did I - and she's still suffering!
Supporters were left hoping that Gallen’s change of status indicated that a takeover could be close.
“Not that I know of,” he responded. “I knew we were getting close in the summer. I’ve spoken to prospective buyers a few times in the last 12 months. In the summer I was talking to them about transfer targets because if they came through the door they needed to be aware who we were looking at signing.
“Unfortunately it looks like that has gone back into the background. It will still come back, I just don’t know when.
https://www.londonnewsonline.co.uk/charlton-transfer-chief-we-cant-have-repeat-of-last-summers-signing-spree-it-throws-up-too-many-problems/
Something I will never forget.
And is a pillock.
The only purpose of keeping it open is for Henry to get to one billion pages, set a new Charlton Life record for pointlessness and get bragging rights.
Instead can't Admin just give Henry a 'Promote' ..... and then this thread could be put out of it's misery?
Our league position. The players and coaches. Ticket prices. You can't really fault it.
I'm guilty of a short memory.....but as it currently stands, those things are going rather well at the moment.
If Roland just kept his trap shut, employed the right people from the start of his ownership and didn't treat us like an experiment.....He would have been a great owner....mostly because, no one would have really been forced to moan about him that much. We would have just been a safe and secure club...led by the right people to direct us.
He could have enjoyed his Belgian waffles in Belgium and just left us to get on with it.
Even if he unnecessarily still always gave us a crappy budget. Goes to show...the right people can manage it.
Bowyer is obviously a fast learner.
Please do not flatter him.
It's clear we bring in loans because we don't have the budget for permanent signings. That means paying out transfer fees and handing out more longer term contracts. As with Bowyer's contract that points towards Roland not looking too far beyond this season.
Keeping costs,and so losses, down until that happens is his other priority.
When serious building work starts again on the training ground then we'll have an owner who isn't planning to sell.
There were buyers out there in the summer, Gallen said he spoke to them. Dalmen hasn't gone away.
There will be new and renewed interest because we're second. If we are still doing well in November/December then that interest will only increase.
Unfortunately most likely so will Duchatelet's unrealistic valuation.
We'll be sold IMHO unexpectedly and with little or no prelude. We'll wake up to a story from @Ollywozere on the OS telling us it's done.
When that will be I don't know.
The time to think about more permanent contracts and less loans is December to May when we start to see whether we do have a chance to challenge for promotion or not and, if so, which players are likely to cut it in the PL.
For RD he wants to make the club as attractive as possible to sell - but it's based on his logic, not what we as fans would see as common sense. RD sees a manager tied down potentially putting a new buyer off, even though we know we have our best manager in years.
The time to think about more permanent contracts over loanees is when we have an owner interested in the longer term. That's not RD now and very unlikely he ever will be.
Gallen said himself we can't be signing so many players again next summer. That can only happen if enough of the squad are on longer contracts.