At the number one fans group meeting last night AM implied that Steve Gallen is the go to person for just about everything now and that LDT is no longer around.
At the number one fans group meeting last night AM implied that Steve Gallen is the go to person for just about everything now and that LDT is no longer around.
Must have missed this, is LDT no longer taking takeover talks and Gallen running things with prospective buyers?
At the number one fans group meeting last night AM implied that Steve Gallen is the go to person for just about everything now and that LDT is no longer around.
Some confusion here. Steve Gallen himself is the guest at the AGM of the No 1 fans group on Nov 14.
But just joshing. More important will be to build on this info and see what the man himself is prepared to tell us.
I did start to wonder myself whether Bowyer had found a way to talk to RD so that RD trusts him more that he ever did any other coach. But when they made Gallen CEO, then I wondered whether it is actually Gallen who has found the way how to deal with RD. Something has definitely changed. Not enough, and I still fear January, but maybe SG is the new PV.
SG may have a significant role in the running of the club now, but he won't be dealing with any prospective bidders which presumably will still be down to LDT or RD directly, with maybe Murray as an initial intermediary.
SG may have a significant role in the running of the club now, but he won't be dealing with any prospective bidders which presumably will still be down to LDT or RD directly, with maybe Murray as an initial intermediary.
SG: “Roland! Great news my friend, some rich bidders have met your asking price and want to close quickly! Please just sign here...”
RD: “Ah Shteve this is errrr very good. Let me just get my taped up biro. Errrr Shteve this says ‘a sum of one-five million’. This is not errrr my asking price errrr...”
SG: “Roland, they are the Arabic buyers. They just write right to left sometimes. Just sign on the dotted line and we will take care of it from there.”
RD: “Ah thank you Shteve again errrr for all of errrr your help.”
Number 1 fans group had Gallen 14 months ago before he got big time, he's so last year now : - )
Seriously, he will be a great guest.
Don't think SG is officially CEO yet but imho is de facto.
AM said SG speaks direct to RD. A Richard Murray is at the training ground weekly as well as at all home and most away games
Murray isn’t at most away games. He wasn’t at Reading or Wigan, for example. I doubt if he was at Blackburn or Barnsley. He rarely turned up to L1 away games.
No disrespect to SG but what experience does he have to be chief executive? I’m sure he has the football side, but that is a fraction of the job. Kav didn’t really do football at all as chief exec at Charlton. Is he going to oversee finance, marketing, ticketing, commercial, comms, facilities, safety, HR, supplier contracts, relationship with CACT, with the council? I wouldn’t think so and I wouldn’t think we want him to do so, since it would distract him from the football, which appears to work very well.
Agree on SGs lack of experience but that never seemed to stop the last CEO and she did ever so well....oh, hang on.
SG is a far more capable person but how far his role extends isn't clear. Maybe a question for the Trust AGM.
In any case I been told since LDT is still around.
Others at the meeting took the same inference from what was said but perhaps we were wrong and misunderstood. Maybe Driesen is the Belgian who is no longer around.
Agree on SGs lack of experience but that never seemed to stop the last CEO and she did ever so well....oh, hang on.
SG is a far more capable person but how far his role extends isn't clear. Maybe a question for the Trust AGM.
In any case I been told since LDT is still around.
Others at the meeting took the same inference from what was said but perhaps we were wrong and misunderstood. Maybe Driesen is the Belgian who is no longer around.
Well, I obviously wasn’t there so I’m speculating, but I imagine Andy Marshall - like most football people in my experience - sees looking after that side as the job and the business side as an add-on.
Did anyone else come away with the impression that the conversation was about Driesen and not LDT?
It seems a bit confusing all round. Why would LDT suddenly have dropped out of the central position of handling the sale of the club? Why would Steve Gallen - who has done a fantastic job purely on the football side - be considered for the CEO role, which is (or should be) about running everything to do with the business, except the football side?
I can totally understand the comment that Dreisen is no longer involved, as Athletico_Charlton seems to have understood. Can anyone confirm that it was LDT that was said no longer to be involved?
I asked what additional duties Gallen now has. Marshall said he was now the go to man for everything, but bear in mind Marshall & JJ only deal with football matters. Marshall and or JJ mentioned the Belgian no longer being around. I assume that Gallen deals with most everything on the football side & probably LDT is dealing with the sale, but possibly not much else.
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At least one CAFC have been sold and to local fans too
https://www.crewealex.net/news/2019/october/club-statement----gresty-holdings/
LOST DOWN TOILET.
But just joshing. More important will be to build on this info and see what the man himself is prepared to tell us.
I did start to wonder myself whether Bowyer had found a way to talk to RD so that RD trusts him more that he ever did any other coach. But when they made Gallen CEO, then I wondered whether it is actually Gallen who has found the way how to deal with RD. Something has definitely changed. Not enough, and I still fear January, but maybe SG is the new PV.
Seriously, he will be a great guest.
Don't think SG is officially CEO yet but imho is de facto.
AM said SG speaks direct to RD.
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Richard Murray is at the training ground weekly as well as at all home and most away games
Not de jure but de facto I think is the Latin.
Apologies for the quality....
RD: “Ah Shteve this is errrr very good. Let me just get my taped up biro. Errrr Shteve this says ‘a sum of one-five million’. This is not errrr my asking price errrr...”
SG: “Roland, they are the Arabic buyers. They just write right to left sometimes. Just sign on the dotted line and we will take care of it from there.”
RD: “Ah thank you Shteve again errrr for all of errrr your help.”
No disrespect to SG but what experience does he have to be chief executive? I’m sure he has the football side, but that is a fraction of the job. Kav didn’t really do football at all as chief exec at Charlton. Is he going to oversee finance, marketing, ticketing, commercial, comms, facilities, safety, HR, supplier contracts, relationship with CACT, with the council? I wouldn’t think so and I wouldn’t think we want him to do so, since it would distract him from the football, which appears to work very well.
Agree on SGs lack of experience but that never seemed to stop the last CEO and she did ever so well....oh, hang on.
SG is a far more capable person but how far his role extends isn't clear. Maybe a question for the Trust AGM.
In any case I been told since LDT is still around.
Others at the meeting took the same inference from what was said but perhaps we were wrong and misunderstood. Maybe Driesen is the Belgian who is no longer around.
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Did anyone else come away with the impression that the conversation was about Driesen and not LDT?
It seems a bit confusing all round. Why would LDT suddenly have dropped out of the central position of handling the sale of the club? Why would Steve Gallen - who has done a fantastic job purely on the football side - be considered for the CEO role, which is (or should be) about running everything to do with the business, except the football side?
I can totally understand the comment that Dreisen is no longer involved, as Athletico_Charlton seems to have understood. Can anyone confirm that it was LDT that was said no longer to be involved?
Marshall said he was now the go to man for everything, but bear in mind Marshall & JJ only deal with football matters.
Marshall and or JJ mentioned the Belgian no longer being around.
I assume that Gallen deals with most everything on the football side & probably LDT is dealing with the sale, but possibly not much else.