If I was buying the club and Roland's faffing caused the deal to miss the transfer window I'm looking for a big discount for the wasted season and expense of another year in League One. He is delaying and trying to engineer a bidding war. Another genius plan, guaranteed to piss off his prospective buyers.
Don’t forget this period of limbo is all CARDs fault. If they hadn’t pushed Roly into a corner and made him want to sell he’d be funding a promotion push now.
Some people (not you Harry) want to blame the protests for everything bad but at the same time believe the protests didn't bother Roland and had no impact on him selling.
I think the term is cognitive dissonance
Translation for those without a dictionary to hand: utter bollox.
He has been the one saying the club isn't for sale when we all knew it was. if this has really come as a shock to him you would expect him to be annoyed they lied to him, instead he says how brilliant they all are.
Maybe RM can get on the blower to Pussy Galore and get in a few Chef Wendy loans......after all, she loves the cloob.........................................allegedly!
No chance mate, londonowl reckons their owner collects players like vintage cars and keeps in a garage doesn't rather than putting put them on the forecourt for sale / loan
Think hes being honest there and it's no surprise. Could Murray reach into his pocket to keep this season going? Looks unlikely. Let's hope the buyers get this done fast. It's a bit of a mess right now.
Maybe for sentiments sake. As long as there aren't a load of people calling him a wanker and telling him to fuck off......oh, wait a sec
Surely he wouldn't take notice of just "a message board thing".
Don’t forget this period of limbo is all CARDs fault. If they hadn’t pushed Roly into a corner and made him want to sell he’d be funding a promotion push now.
First sentence is indeed what the 'site that shall not be named' are saying.
Utterly depressing but equally utterly predictable.
Would have been the same had there been no takeover discussions.
Exactly. Cant help think that Robinson knows this as well and is using the hard done by angle in that interview. He knew full well what he was in for when he joined.
Not sure he did tbh. He was probably fed bullshit by KM and possibly RD, the same way the fans have been
Utterly depressing but equally utterly predictable.
Would have been the same had there been no takeover discussions.
Exactly. Cant help think that Robinson knows this as well and is using the hard done by angle in that interview. He knew full well what he was in for when he joined.
Not sure he did tbh. He was probably fed bullshit by KM and possibly RD, the same way the fans have been
Of course he did, when at MK he called us a basket case of a club ............ probably the only time I've read a quote of his when I haven't thought "thats bullshit"
A couple of thoughts having read KR's statement & other comments on here.
1) Could or would RM dip into his pocket to fund any signing ?? How much are we looking at - £250k ? (Keifer Moore). Or get all the directors to club together. I remember Parkinson paying for a player when he was in charge - maybe Robinson can do the same.
2) As we are now very unlikely going to sign anyone during January can we not recall ALL our players that are out on loan, including Ajose & Vetokele ?? It seems daft trying (and failing) to bring in a striker when we have 2 out on loan. They may not be what we really need, but they are better than nothing & they are OURS. Also, wouldn't any new owner want their assets in the building & not in some foreign field.
Just trying to think "outside of the box" as there doesn't seem to be any other options.
Utterly depressing but equally utterly predictable.
Would have been the same had there been no takeover discussions.
Exactly. Cant help think that Robinson knows this as well and is using the hard done by angle in that interview. He knew full well what he was in for when he joined.
Not sure he did tbh. He was probably fed bullshit by KM and possibly RD, the same way the fans have been
Im not sure i can have that, when the same people had employed, let down and sacked 6 managers before him.
Fare comment.
I've stupidly worked for people with bad reputations for one thing or other, and got me fingers burnt though.
I thought you was the sole proprietor mate of your Newsagents shiop ?
Would expect prospective owners to have a view on promotion prospects for this season and to therefore have a plan should they takeover before the window closes. If the right players are available and want to come we’d surely have a good shot at the playoffs?
Also RD is probably hoping to leverage the ‘no-one in’ tactic to encourage the prospective buyers to move faster?
A while ago around one of the managerial searches, the advice was 'get it in writing'. Once again we have been in lovely people verbal assurance land. Robinson decided to trust the regime just as he asks people to trust him. If Robinson is a bit of a scally chancer in all this, he has been trumped by people who are massively bigger chancers and massively more unsupportive than he thought anybody could be. Somewhere inside Robinson he must have thought that the regime were serious about the progression of Charlton Athletic as a football club. Perhaps he simply couldn't countenance that something called a football club with sporting aims could really be the 'basket case' he thought it was. Welcome to Charlton Karl your pre-appointment description is at least one thing you have got spot on. The regime is not about football, we and Karl are. We are in a world of oil and water, of irresistible force and immovable objects, of pregnant men and flying submarines. Should've got it in writing Karl mate.
This is the ideal time. With no signings coming in, he should just change it. We got sussed a few months back with the 4-2-3-1 and a fully fit team (fosu etc).
Now we're so predictable. We've got Mavididi and Magennis has looked so isolated and crap up top on his own.
We're not going to suddenly rediscover the early season form if we keep doing what we've done with poorer players. It's worth just changing it
I'd have
Amos
Solly/Dijksteel Konsa Sarr Da Silva
Holmes Aribo Jackson Marshall
Mavididi Magennis
If Kashi is fit he takes JJ's place but I think we'd get more out of that team than the current tried and failing KR 4231
A couple of thoughts having read KR's statement & other comments on here.
1) Could or would RM dip into his pocket to fund any signing ?? How much are we looking at - £250k ? (Keifer Moore). Or get all the directors to club together. I remember Parkinson paying for a player when he was in charge - maybe Robinson can do the same.
2) As we are now very unlikely going to sign anyone during January can we not recall ALL our players that are out on loan, including Ajose & Vetokele ?? It seems daft trying (and failing) to bring in a striker when we have 2 out on loan. They may not be what we really need, but they are better than nothing & they are OURS. Also, wouldn't any new owner want their assets in the building & not in some foreign field.
Just trying to think "outside of the box" as there doesn't seem to be any other options.
To respond to no. 2, it would firstly depend on the structure of the loan deal. In general deals for a full season cannot be ended early unless there is an agreement by both parties. Secondly, RD would have to sanction the extra cost on the wage bill. The clubs that loaned the players will at least be paying a contribution to the players wages and if they return, CAFC would have to fund the entire bill until the end of the season.
Don’t forget this period of limbo is all CARDs fault. If they hadn’t pushed Roly into a corner and made him want to sell he’d be funding a promotion push now.
Some people (not you Harry) want to blame the protests for everything bad but at the same time believe the protests didn't bother Roland and had no impact on him selling.
I think the term is cognitive dissonance
Some people will twist & turn every single thing & blame CARD & the protests because of a personal dislike for someone who has done more for this club than all on that other site have done & will ever do in their lives. Jealousy by one & the sheep follow maybe ?
Best situation as I see it. We're not going up or down this season, so wait until we get a new broom to sweep out all the poisonous shit from the club and start fresh in the summer............
"I would have loved to have stayed and finished the job at Charlton but the owner disrespected me and won't led me sign the players I needed. I'm now looking forward to playing 4231 with the players I have here at Sheffield Wednesday. It's a massive club"
I'm really surprised, at the surprise at this, but then I don't generally believe this is news to KR.
We all suspect RD wasn't going to put his hand very deep into his pocket anyway and it would have been a net profit as Konsa was likely to be sold. As soon as KM resigned and RD held out the white flag he was never going to spend any more money than he had to unless it increased the sale price.
theres still a chance of a quick sale, but day by day that eats away at the transfer window.
I'd just accept it's highly unlikely that anyone will be signed on a perm deal and quite unlikely we'll see any more loans come in.
Even if there is a take over this weekend, we all suspect (as I'm sure KR does) that will mean a change of manager and therefore it'll all be too late anyway. Even if new owners give him some time I don't think it'd be this window that they invest in the squad KR wants.
2018/2019 Season champions with a record points tally for League one.
"I would have loved to have stayed and finished the job at Charlton but the owner disrespected me and won't led me sign the players I needed. I'm now looking forward to playing 4231 with the players I have here at Sheffield Wednesday. It's a massive club"
where you can see how much it means to the fans, there the heart and soul of every club the fans and that who we play for the fans and aslong as there happy the fans then its good
Don’t forget this period of limbo is all CARDs fault. If they hadn’t pushed Roly into a corner and made him want to sell he’d be funding a promotion push now.
Some people (not you Harry) want to blame the protests for everything bad but at the same time believe the protests didn't bother Roland and had no impact on him selling.
I think the term is cognitive dissonance
How could they have bothered him ? He was never f'king there !!
I can't see how anybody was seriously expecting anything than a disapointing window when every window under this owner has been disapointing and he is now selling the club. Anybody who want's to claim that if it were not for the sale he would have gone for it this month need to book themselves into the funny farm. Our best hope is the club is sold within the next couple of weeks and the new manager is lining players up for when it happens.
Utterly depressing but equally utterly predictable.
Would have been the same had there been no takeover discussions.
Exactly. Cant help think that Robinson knows this as well and is using the hard done by angle in that interview. He knew full well what he was in for when he joined.
Not sure he did tbh. He was probably fed bullshit by KM and possibly RD, the same way the fans have been
Im not sure i can have that, when the same people had employed, let down and sacked 6 managers before him.
Fare Fair comment.
Fixed it for you.
I've stupidly worked for people with bad reputations for one thing or other, and got me fingers burnt though.
Comments
1) Could or would RM dip into his pocket to fund any signing ?? How much are we looking at - £250k ? (Keifer Moore). Or get all the directors to club together. I remember Parkinson paying for a player when he was in charge - maybe Robinson can do the same.
2) As we are now very unlikely going to sign anyone during January can we not recall ALL our players that are out on loan, including Ajose & Vetokele ?? It seems daft trying (and failing) to bring in a striker when we have 2 out on loan. They may not be what we really need, but they are better than nothing & they are OURS. Also, wouldn't any new owner want their assets in the building & not in some foreign field.
Just trying to think "outside of the box" as there doesn't seem to be any other options.
Also RD is probably hoping to leverage the ‘no-one in’ tactic to encourage the prospective buyers to move faster?
Once again we have been in lovely people verbal assurance land.
Robinson decided to trust the regime just as he asks people to trust him. If Robinson is a bit of a scally chancer in all this, he has been trumped by people who are massively bigger chancers and massively more unsupportive than he thought anybody could be.
Somewhere inside Robinson he must have thought that the regime were serious about the progression of Charlton Athletic as a football club. Perhaps he simply couldn't countenance that something called a football club with sporting aims could really be the 'basket case' he thought it was. Welcome to Charlton Karl your pre-appointment description is at least one thing you have got spot on.
The regime is not about football, we and Karl are. We are in a world of oil and water, of irresistible force and immovable objects, of pregnant men and flying submarines.
Should've got it in writing Karl mate.
Now we're so predictable. We've got Mavididi and Magennis has looked so isolated and crap up top on his own.
We're not going to suddenly rediscover the early season form if we keep doing what we've done with poorer players. It's worth just changing it
I'd have
Amos
Solly/Dijksteel Konsa Sarr Da Silva
Holmes Aribo Jackson Marshall
Mavididi Magennis
If Kashi is fit he takes JJ's place but I think we'd get more out of that team than the current tried and failing KR 4231
Exit Strategy for Roland and for KR
We all suspect RD wasn't going to put his hand very deep into his pocket anyway and it would have been a net profit as Konsa was likely to be sold. As soon as KM resigned and RD held out the white flag he was never going to spend any more money than he had to unless it increased the sale price.
theres still a chance of a quick sale, but day by day that eats away at the transfer window.
I'd just accept it's highly unlikely that anyone will be signed on a perm deal and quite unlikely we'll see any more loans come in.
Even if there is a take over this weekend, we all suspect (as I'm sure KR does) that will mean a change of manager and therefore it'll all be too late anyway. Even if new owners give him some time I don't think it'd be this window that they invest in the squad KR wants.
2018/2019 Season champions with a record points tally for League one.