a few on here 'in the know' and yet KM's resignation has not been mentioned at all. Are they as 'in the know' as they/we believe?
I don't think anyone ever suggested that Meire was their source (not even Doucher)?
And as for Doucher's probable source he didn't know either apparently:
Director Richard Murray added: “I was very surprised when Katrien told me she is stepping down and I am sad to see her go".
Another great Murray-ism. It's likely Meire's departure date of 31 December was agreed back in October, but at this stage was assumed to include a handover period to the new owner. This particular scenario then dragged out, but it sounds like she didn't want to wait around any longer for the various bidders (as now being reported) to be played off against each other.
Well this is a very welcome belated Christmas gift. Clearly both parties are confident that this takeover will go ahead or Duchatelet would want Meire in post to negotiate any player contracts in January. I think we can all start to get excited now.
Someone needs to post that Roly It's Happening gif!
Would suggest to me that the new owners saw enough during the due diligence not to want KM around for any handover - good sign that they have some judgement.
Would suggest to me that the new owners saw enough during the due diligence not to want KM around for any handover - good sign that they have some judgement.
I'm sure KM is happy to leave anyway, she's got "CEO of a Football Club" on her cv, and no doubt will be very good at bullsh*tting away at job interviews about what a great job she did
Well I know Jim White was in touch with Duchatelet some time ago because he did quite a lot of shows involving us and had Meire on to explain herself. Therefore it's probably the case that White text Roland to see if he could get some inside info and received the text in response. I believe RD did send White a text that he read out on the show around the same time, so it's quite credible IMO.
With the news that he's spend €4m on a farm to convert, he's going to want to cut his losses somewhere else. He'll also need to find 2% of his time for his Basil Fawlty work. Plus of course, no-one in their right mind would want to start such a public facing and easy to find business as a hotel when they still had so many enemies at large, it would be far to easy a target.
To me this all adds up to one thing: the fact that he's going.
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And as for Doucher's probable source he didn't know either apparently:
Director Richard Murray added: “I was very surprised when Katrien told me she is stepping down and I am sad to see her go".
What he actually said was:
'I was very surprised when I found out that Katrien worked here.'
Now I believe it really is happening.
Someone needs to post that Roly It's Happening gif!
No one had this before the OS.
WIOTOS Rules OK
I feel a big celebration is just around the corner!
http://www.football.london/championship/meire-charlton-athletic-muir-takeover-13997736