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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • seth plum said:

    On the one hand the takeover is close on the other hand Roland appointing staff to run the gaff is close.
    Very easy to think we are being played. Our desperation is our weakness and we cling to rafts made of straw.
    It puts me in mind of us being a dog that goes scurrying after the ball but it is a pretend throw.

    Who is "playing" us? Who is "desperate" or weak?

    It hasn't happened yet, that is all.

    We've done all we can to influence the process and have done that successfully. Now we don't need desperation, just patience.

    WIOTOS
  • FORD said:

    Done...1pm announcement scheduled.

    Excellent. Our friendly against Greenwich Borough is finally being confirmed!
  • No more fish puns please, the joke has passed. Ta

    I think he wants us to stop carping on about it.
  • I've really set myself up for the takeover happening today. If it doesn't- and now I don't think it will - I think I will burst and self combust.

    Not sure it is possible that you can do both, might have to be one or the other.
    I think it is entirely reasonable to be able to do both - sequentially though!
  • Let's hope our Australians manage to do better than this lot. Homebase: bought for £340mn two years ago, messed up, sold for a £1. bbc.com/news/business-44248409
  • so this announcement is coming in the next two hour?
  • Shame it wasn't yesterday, daughter's birthday, would have been a nice present.

    Be nice if it is today, as it's the birthday of my mate who I sit next to in the Lower North.

    But any day would do, as long as it soon...
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  • so this announcement is coming in the next two hour?

    Don't hold your breath
  • cafcfan said:

    Let's hope our Australians manage to do better than this lot. Homebase: bought for £340mn two years ago, messed up, sold for a £1. bbc.com/news/business-44248409

    "This must go down as one of the most disastrous retail acquisitions ever - a textbook example of how not to do it.

    The Australian firm thought they could show the Brits how to do DIY. So confident, they immediately sacked Homebase's senior management team. That was a huge mistake."

    This has a familiar ring to it :neutral:
  • edited May 2018

    cafcfan said:

    Let's hope our Australians manage to do better than this lot. Homebase: bought for £340mn two years ago, messed up, sold for a £1. bbc.com/news/business-44248409

    "This must go down as one of the most disastrous retail acquisitions ever - a textbook example of how not to do it.

    The Australian firm thought they could show the Brits how to do DIY. So confident, they immediately sacked Homebase's senior management team. That was a huge mistake."

    This has a familiar ring to it :neutral:
    To be fair, the spivs dismantled the senior management team not the Belgians. Of the seven people employed on the non-football side when they arrived, only Mick Everett was left by 2014.

    But I’m sure Roland would have wrecked that too if he’d had the chance.
  • seth plum said:

    Has there been any noticeable difference at the club with no CEO?

    Not since the COO upped his game! ;)
  • T_C_E said:

    seth plum said:

    Has there been any noticeable difference at the club with no CEO?

    Not since the COO upped his game! ;)
    Adding fried onions to the burger was his real highlight.
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  • razil said:

    Beer in Australia is actually so much more than XXXX Fosters, when Inwas there in 03 they had a thriving local Craft style beer industry a bit like the Yanks. Aussies I knew wouldn’t touch that aforementioned bile.

    Well things have changed mate, its basically piss water.
  • razil said:

    Beer in Australia is actually so much more than XXXX Fosters, when Inwas there in 03 they had a thriving local Craft style beer industry a bit like the Yanks. Aussies I knew wouldn’t touch that aforementioned bile.

    Well things have changed mate, its basically piss water.
  • TEL said:

    razil said:

    Beer in Australia is actually so much more than XXXX Fosters, when Inwas there in 03 they had a thriving local Craft style beer industry a bit like the Yanks. Aussies I knew wouldn’t touch that aforementioned bile.

    Well things have changed mate, its basically piss water.
    You can say that again.

    I always found Toohey's Old an agreeable beverage.
  • TEL said:

    razil said:

    Beer in Australia is actually so much more than XXXX Fosters, when Inwas there in 03 they had a thriving local Craft style beer industry a bit like the Yanks. Aussies I knew wouldn’t touch that aforementioned bile.

    Well things have changed mate, its basically piss water.
    Why anybody would touch Aussie or American beer when we have our own and such good German, Belgian and Czech beers readily available I would never know.

  • 50 minutes............till no press conference.
  • TEL said:

    razil said:

    Beer in Australia is actually so much more than XXXX Fosters, when Inwas there in 03 they had a thriving local Craft style beer industry a bit like the Yanks. Aussies I knew wouldn’t touch that aforementioned bile.

    Well things have changed mate, its basically piss water.
    Why anybody would touch Aussie or American beer when we have our own and such good German, Belgian and Czech beers readily available I would never know.

    The Americans do make incredible IPA’s, first class in that respect. Also American Pale Ale’s.

    Belgian beer is also class.
  • Tooheys Old is unfashionable, but more to our European tastes I agree.
  • Feck this thread.
  • Oh shit, it's turning into a beer thread now. Just sell up you pathetic old scrote.

    Yes. Hopefully Duchatalet hops to it quick.
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