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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • JamesSeed said:

    Statement is coming today and ‘is a joint statement of sorts’. Will be on the CAFC OS.

    WBOTOS

    Got a twitch then
  • All the tweets from Artful are all dated in January 2018
  • Much longer and the aussies can do one aswell.
  • ross1 said:

    All the tweets from Artful are all dated in January 2018

    They're just old ones i found to prove he knows nothing and just guesses.

    He has posted others this week claiming to be ITK.
  • JamesSeed said:

    Maybe I'm too much of a cynic, but I'm not expecting any statement from anybody today...

    Ditto
    Bet you a pint? And @East_Stand_Loopy
    Don't worry, James, I would never have taken a pint off you...

    (Like taking candy off a baby...)
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  • So not only can the Aussies not agree a deal they also can’t agree a statement.

    Go and mow the lawn SHG, there won't be a statement.
    Statement now there. Let's try this method again (feel free to join in).

    Go and mow the lawn SHG, the takeover won't be confirmed tomorrow.
  • so it is the australian football consortium, that we've known about for a long time, rather than muir coming in with a seperate bid..
  • so it is the australian football consortium, that we've known about for a long time, rather than muir coming in with a seperate bid..

    And not mysterious British group.
  • The key word is 'hope' - not when - but 'hope'
  • JamesSeed said:

    Maybe I'm too much of a cynic, but I'm not expecting any statement from anybody today...

    Ditto
    Bet you a pint? And @East_Stand_Loopy
    Don't worry, James, I would never have taken a pint off you...

    (Like taking candy off a baby...)
    Where as I would have....



    And am happy to honour my side of the deal.
  • Wait what? I was expecting that they’d be announcing how this was all a big laugh and they don’t really have any money! What a let down.
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  • Bland statement as predicted.

    Bloody hell.
  • edited June 2018
    Key sentence is this one from the Aussies:

    'Understandably, negotiations of this scale take time due to the enormous amount of due diligence that goes on behind the scenes, the need to satisfy the regulatory complexities of a football takeover and the challenges of assembling an ownership group.'


    'the need to satisfy the regulatory complexities' Suggests the EFL are not happy with the current status of the proposed ownership.

    'the challenges of assembling an ownership group.' See the repeated claims of @nth london addick. They haven't got all the investors on board / funds required yet. i.e Roland's asking price.

    This has got a while to go yet I feel.
  • JamesSeed said:

    Bland statement as predicted.

    Bloody hell.

    But still a statement nonetheless. Which you said would be happening, so perhaps your doubters might ease off a bit.
  • I wish I'd stayed in the garden.
  • https://www.cafc.co.uk/news/view/5b2a6b566699f/news-charlton-athletic-takeover-update

    The below statement has been jointly-produced by Charlton Athletic and a group of investors hoping to take over the club.

    Charlton Athletic can confirm that it is expecting a takeover of the club to be completed by a select group of investors linked to The Australian Football Consortium.

    The group has a significant interest in the long-term prosperity of the club and is committed to seeing the deal go ahead.

    Understandably, negotiations of this scale take time due to the enormous amount of due diligence that goes on behind the scenes, the need to satisfy the regulatory complexities of a football takeover and the challenges of assembling an ownership group.

    The current ownership would like to assure the club’s supporters that the running of the club will remain its priority throughout this process. The club’s management team are focused on the club’s operations, and Lee Bowyer and his staff are continuing their preparations for the upcoming season.

    We will provide a further update when further developments are made. In the meantime, thank you for your continued support.

    The positives are that it is a joint statement rather than the selective leaks from each side we've had for the past few weeks, and therefore it's also positive that it confirms that negotiations are ongoing and that the club is "is expecting a takeover of the club to be completed by a select group of investors linked to The Australian Football Consortium".

    However, while it lists the factors that have meant that negotiations have a taken a long time, it doesn't say which of these time consuming aspects are now complete and which are not - with "the challenges of assembling an ownership group" possibly being the most concerning (and possibly the aspect that is not yet complete?).

    No mention of price being a problem though?
  • edited June 2018
    Could they have been more explicit perhaps? Could they have said they've satisfied the EFL and that all the funds and investors are in place? That's the one doubt everyone has about the Aussies, would have been good of them to dampen that theory if they could.
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