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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • Shouldn't we change this thread title to "next week becomes maybe the week after next week"?
  • Club off the market ??

    For the time being maybe. Don't think Roland has ever been that desperate to sell. Not saying he won't mind, just think there could be a bit more distance to tread.

    Looking around today, people are starting to come back regardless. There's a bit of a buzz around the place.
    Add to that a lucrative run in with a possible play off semi final and final ahead and all that brings. Shirts & merchandise will be flying off the shelves! ( Heard a few as I was walking out saying they are going to pop in the shop to get the home shirt) as the Bowyer bounce bounds on. And then who knows?

    No chief executive, no finance director, no chairman, no permanent manager, no season tickets. Not really the sign of someone planning to stick around.

    Debt circa £70m. Will take more than a few L1 play-off finals to cover that.
    Debt £70m, Napa.

    If the club isn't sold soon, one day you'll be proved right.
    And everybody will say, "Napa, take a bow, son" :smile:
  • Redhenry said:

    I don't know what or if anything has changed. I assumed the Aussies were about to complete.
    All I know is my mob are still in, but still haven't agreed a price.

    So not really relevant then are they (I'm not having a pop at you @Redhenry & always thankful of your posts).

    I might like the look of a house in Keston selling for £5m, but if I only offer £250k I can hardly say that I'm "in the game".
  • Redhenry said:

    Sounds like we've got LB a bit longer.

    Sounds like a takeover is far off in that case
  • Redhenry said:

    I don't know what or if anything has changed. I assumed the Aussies were about to complete.
    All I know is my mob are still in, but still haven't agreed a price.

    So not really relevant then are they (I'm not having a pop at you @Redhenry & always thankful of your posts).

    I might like the look of a house in Keston selling for £5m, but if I only offer £250k I can hardly say that I'm "in the game".
    I certainly wouldn't call them irrelevant. Do we know if anyone has agreed a price?
  • Redhenry said:

    I don't know what or if anything has changed. I assumed the Aussies were about to complete.
    All I know is my mob are still in, but still haven't agreed a price.

    So not really relevant then are they (I'm not having a pop at you @Redhenry & always thankful of your posts).

    I might like the look of a house in Keston selling for £5m, but if I only offer £250k I can hardly say that I'm "in the game".
    But if you've offered 4.5mil you're very much in the game
  • Club off the market ??

    For the time being maybe. Don't think Roland has ever been that desperate to sell. Not saying he won't mind, just think there could be a bit more distance to tread.

    Looking around today, people are starting to come back regardless. There's a bit of a buzz around the place.
    Add to that a lucrative run in with a possible play off semi final and final ahead and all that brings. Shirts & merchandise will be flying off the shelves! ( Heard a few as I was walking out saying they are going to pop in the shop to get the home shirt) as the Bowyer bounce bounds on. And then who knows?

    Went in the shop after the game to kill time before my train, place was rammed and queue for the tills was winding around the isles, bowyer bounce seems to be working, heard European & American accents
  • Redhenry said:

    Redhenry said:

    I don't know what or if anything has changed. I assumed the Aussies were about to complete.
    All I know is my mob are still in, but still haven't agreed a price.

    So not really relevant then are they (I'm not having a pop at you @Redhenry & always thankful of your posts).

    I might like the look of a house in Keston selling for £5m, but if I only offer £250k I can hardly say that I'm "in the game".
    I certainly wouldn't call them irrelevant. Do we know if anyone has agreed a price?
    I still say no

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  • edited April 2018

    Redhenry said:

    I don't know what or if anything has changed. I assumed the Aussies were about to complete.
    All I know is my mob are still in, but still haven't agreed a price.

    So not really relevant then are they (I'm not having a pop at you @Redhenry & always thankful of your posts).

    I might like the look of a house in Keston selling for £5m, but if I only offer £250k I can hardly say that I'm "in the game".
    But then you wouldn't have spent £20k odd, on searches, surveyors and architects if you never had a way of getting the £5m
  • and soon next week will become next month, and next month will become next year...
  • Rothko said:

    and soon next week will become next month, and next month will become next year...

    Correct.
  • Chins up
  • If we win every game by at least 2 goals. I don't care how long it takes for RD to fuck off. He certainly won't be around long.
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  • DA9 said:

    Club off the market ??

    For the time being maybe. Don't think Roland has ever been that desperate to sell. Not saying he won't mind, just think there could be a bit more distance to tread.

    Looking around today, people are starting to come back regardless. There's a bit of a buzz around the place.
    Add to that a lucrative run in with a possible play off semi final and final ahead and all that brings. Shirts & merchandise will be flying off the shelves! ( Heard a few as I was walking out saying they are going to pop in the shop to get the home shirt) as the Bowyer bounce bounds on. And then who knows?

    Went in the shop after the game to kill time before my train, place was rammed and queue for the tills was winding around the isles, bowyer bounce seems to be working, heard European & American accents
    I think we got a few "new" people at the match yesterday - something to do on a wet Bank Holiday, I imagine a few will have been converted
  • Rothko said:

    This can't go on for much longer, we won't have any planning for next season, be that contracts, manager or purchases for the squad, to selling season tickets.

    There is a point where business as usual needs to happen, or next season one way or the other is going to be the mother of all clusterfucks.

    I doubt RD cares about any of that, he just wants the best price he can get sod our future.
  • Rothko said:

    This can't go on for much longer, we won't have any planning for next season, be that contracts, manager or purchases for the squad, to selling season tickets.

    There is a point where business as usual needs to happen, or next season one way or the other is going to be the mother of all clusterfucks.

    I would not be so pessimistic. A football club will have players identified for life in either division they find themselves, and I am not sure how many of our players are out of contract this summer, but I did not think we had any?

    Season tickets would of course been on sale by now, and I am a bit surprised that Rolly has not tried it on. Numbers for tickets can only go up, unfortunately the same for prices!

    As for managers, we have a good one in place and hopefully he would want to stay. If not, managers come and go all the time.

    Obviously it would be better if all sorted, but need not be a complete disaster.
  • edited April 2018

    Redhenry said:

    I don't know what or if anything has changed. I assumed the Aussies were about to complete.
    All I know is my mob are still in, but still haven't agreed a price.

    So not really relevant then are they (I'm not having a pop at you @Redhenry & always thankful of your posts).

    I might like the look of a house in Keston selling for £5m, but if I only offer £250k I can hardly say that I'm "in the game".
    But if you had the money to buy the house 100 times over and were just biding your time because you'd heard from the estate agent that the other interested party didn't really have enough funds to buy it, then yes you'd be in the game.
  • The takeover won’t happen until it’s determined what league we are in next year I am convinced of that and have been since this all started

    Hope you're right mate. Could be a huge disruptive influence of it happens now.
    We've waited this long.
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    If a second group are playing catch-up I’m not surprised that RD is waiting to see how that develops.

    Providing a sale goes through before or soon after the end of the season I actually think that a lull in proceedings could work for Bowyer and the team and allow them and us focus on what looks like being an exciting season’s end.

    Meanwhile contracts don't get renewed and player targets missed, the sale on or off needs sorting very soon. From the academy upwards the players need to know where they stand. Leaving this until the end of the season is too late.
    Spot on with this! No point in getting promoted if half the squad leave and there's no-one to arrange the negotiating of new contracts or signing of new players. Crazy!! But then again, we know RD couldn't give a toss about the playing side - he wouldn't care if we were in League 2 or the bloody National League - he will only sell when he gets his dosh, whether that be in two weeks or two months.
  • Redrobo said:

    Rothko said:

    This can't go on for much longer, we won't have any planning for next season, be that contracts, manager or purchases for the squad, to selling season tickets.

    There is a point where business as usual needs to happen, or next season one way or the other is going to be the mother of all clusterfucks.

    I would not be so pessimistic. A football club will have players identified for life in either division they find themselves, and I am not sure how many of our players are out of contract this summer, but I did not think we had any?

    Season tickets would of course been on sale by now, and I am a bit surprised that Rolly has not tried it on. Numbers for tickets can only go up, unfortunately the same for prices!

    As for managers, we have a good one in place and hopefully he would want to stay. If not, managers come and go all the time.

    Obviously it would be better if all sorted, but need not be a complete disaster.
    nor am I BUT at the moment we are playing all the loanees so even losing all them would be a massive blow.

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