Well if he is suggesting we give Wiltshire an opportunity now then I suggest he does not quite have his finger on the pulse. We can do nothing before January can we.
I am delighted by anybody expressing an interest in the club but no matter the interest the world and his wife had 3 years to invest in Charlton. Mr Barclay didn’t. If he had the money to blow Duchatelet away why didn’t he?
What because he elected to use a consultant who was persona non grata?
Whose interests does that serve? Not his and not the clubs. Ah it is question of leverage. What leverage?
I will happily welcome Mr Barclay to the table. Will M.Duchâtelet? If so why? What’s changed?
We can sign him now but he just can’t play until January.
Well if he is suggesting we give Wiltshire an opportunity now then I suggest he does not quite have his finger on the pulse. We can do nothing before January can we.
I am delighted by anybody expressing an interest in the club but no matter the interest the world and his wife had 3 years to invest in Charlton. Mr Barclay didn’t. If he had the money to blow Duchatelet away why didn’t he?
What because he elected to use a consultant who was persona non grata?
Whose interests does that serve? Not his and not the clubs. Ah it is question of leverage. What leverage?
I will happily welcome Mr Barclay to the table. Will M.Duchâtelet? If so why? What’s changed?
Free agent isn’t he ? So can sign outside of the window I think.
Well if he is suggesting we give Wiltshire an opportunity now then I suggest he does not quite have his finger on the pulse. We can do nothing before January can we.
I am delighted by anybody expressing an interest in the club but no matter the interest the world and his wife had 3 years to invest in Charlton. Mr Barclay didn’t. If he had the money to blow Duchatelet away why didn’t he?
What because he elected to use a consultant who was persona non grata?
Whose interests does that serve? Not his and not the clubs. Ah it is question of leverage. What leverage?
I will happily welcome Mr Barclay to the table. Will M.Duchâtelet? If so why? What’s changed?
Free agent isn’t he ? So can sign outside of the window I think.
Well if he is suggesting we give Wiltshire an opportunity now then I suggest he does not quite have his finger on the pulse. We can do nothing before January can we.
I am delighted by anybody expressing an interest in the club but no matter the interest the world and his wife had 3 years to invest in Charlton. Mr Barclay didn’t. If he had the money to blow Duchatelet away why didn’t he?
What because he elected to use a consultant who was persona non grata?
Whose interests does that serve? Not his and not the clubs. Ah it is question of leverage. What leverage?
I will happily welcome Mr Barclay to the table. Will M.Duchâtelet? If so why? What’s changed?
Free agent isn’t he ? So can sign outside of the window I think.
Well if he is suggesting we give Wiltshire an opportunity now then I suggest he does not quite have his finger on the pulse. We can do nothing before January can we.
I am delighted by anybody expressing an interest in the club but no matter the interest the world and his wife had 3 years to invest in Charlton. Mr Barclay didn’t. If he had the money to blow Duchatelet away why didn’t he?
What because he elected to use a consultant who was persona non grata?
Whose interests does that serve? Not his and not the clubs. Ah it is question of leverage. What leverage?
I will happily welcome Mr Barclay to the table. Will M.Duchâtelet? If so why? What’s changed?
Free agent isn’t he ? So can sign outside of the window I think.
Haven't we submitted our squad?
I'm not sure it's actually been submitted yet? The deadline is 30th September.
Well if he is suggesting we give Wiltshire an opportunity now then I suggest he does not quite have his finger on the pulse. We can do nothing before January can we.
I am delighted by anybody expressing an interest in the club but no matter the interest the world and his wife had 3 years to invest in Charlton. Mr Barclay didn’t. If he had the money to blow Duchatelet away why didn’t he?
What because he elected to use a consultant who was persona non grata?
Whose interests does that serve? Not his and not the clubs. Ah it is question of leverage. What leverage?
I will happily welcome Mr Barclay to the table. Will M.Duchâtelet? If so why? What’s changed?
Free agent isn’t he ? So can sign outside of the window I think.
Haven't we submitted our squad? Sign him & fork out £200K in wages, but can't play him until January?
Well if he is suggesting we give Wiltshire an opportunity now then I suggest he does not quite have his finger on the pulse. We can do nothing before January can we.
I am delighted by anybody expressing an interest in the club but no matter the interest the world and his wife had 3 years to invest in Charlton. Mr Barclay didn’t. If he had the money to blow Duchatelet away why didn’t he?
What because he elected to use a consultant who was persona non grata?
Whose interests does that serve? Not his and not the clubs. Ah it is question of leverage. What leverage?
I will happily welcome Mr Barclay to the table. Will M.Duchâtelet? If so why? What’s changed?
Ah great so Roland won’t sell the Valley at a reasonable price, the Peninsula is off the cards so he’s moving us right down to the South bloody West.
Well if he is suggesting we give Wiltshire an opportunity now then I suggest he does not quite have his finger on the pulse. We can do nothing before January can we.
I am delighted by anybody expressing an interest in the club but no matter the interest the world and his wife had 3 years to invest in Charlton. Mr Barclay didn’t. If he had the money to blow Duchatelet away why didn’t he?
What because he elected to use a consultant who was persona non grata?
Whose interests does that serve? Not his and not the clubs. Ah it is question of leverage. What leverage?
I will happily welcome Mr Barclay to the table. Will M.Duchâtelet? If so why? What’s changed?
Free agent isn’t he ? So can sign outside of the window I think.
Haven't we submitted our squad?
I'm not sure it's actually been submitted yet? The deadline is 30th September.
Perhaps there's still room for manoeuvre?
There’s definitely room for manoeuvre, one of them is Ronnie Schwartz.
"I haven’t been injured since before lockdown, and it was not a serious injury, I've trained every day. When I was at Bournemouth I was available for every single game, so I feel like it's a lazy answer because I can. Give me a chance, let me prove myself to you then, show you that I’m fit."
I wonder if he'd accept a pay as you play deal?
I think he will end up signing a play but no pay deal somewhere. He doesn't need to prove he is good, he needs to prove he is capable of actually getting on the pitch.
Barclay threw his hat into the ring and never fully took it back. TS previously has said he's open to investment so you never know.
Barclay didnt proceed further because he said he didnt want to purchase the club without buying The Valley and SL.....iirc
Might be different though if he was only a minority shareholder or suchlike
Not entirely truthful to end the story there. He backed out because he didn't want to pay the price that was being demanded to include the Valley & SL. Not just because he didn't want to purchase the club without them.
No he backed out and cleared the way for TS because he couldn’t get Roland round the table to even negotiate (due to Varney’s involvement)
Barclay threw his hat into the ring and never fully took it back. TS previously has said he's open to investment so you never know.
Barclay didnt proceed further because he said he didnt want to purchase the club without buying The Valley and SL.....iirc
Might be different though if he was only a minority shareholder or suchlike
Not entirely truthful to end the story there. He backed out because he didn't want to pay the price that was being demanded to include the Valley & SL. Not just because he didn't want to purchase the club without them.
But that's really the same thing. He would only buy the club with the Valley and SL but not at the silly price Southall agreed.
It's not the full context to say simply he wasn't willing to do a deal for the club without assets.
The full context is he wasn't willing to pay the price for the full package (rightly or wrongly).
Well if he is suggesting we give Wiltshire an opportunity now then I suggest he does not quite have his finger on the pulse. We can do nothing before January can we.
I am delighted by anybody expressing an interest in the club but no matter the interest the world and his wife had 3 years to invest in Charlton. Mr Barclay didn’t. If he had the money to blow Duchatelet away why didn’t he?
What because he elected to use a consultant who was persona non grata?
Whose interests does that serve? Not his and not the clubs. Ah it is question of leverage. What leverage?
I will happily welcome Mr Barclay to the table. Will M.Duchâtelet? If so why? What’s changed?
Yep I agree - it’s annoying that every time the club is up for sale or needs a buyer, certain characters make themselves unable to do a deal or disappear and then when the club isn’t for sale, they re appear as a viable alternative
It was varney and his sheiks or whoever being a viable alternative that really ramped up the duchatalet protests - not saying we didn’t want him out but I really hope people don’t turn on TS if things don’t immediately go to plan coz that’s the last thing we need and the noises from the likes of whitehand and everitt etc r all starting to sound a bit like that to me - we have to gamble millions on trying to get to the prem seems to be the only way is what I hear from them and of course varney and Barclay are waiting to do that
It was varney and his sheiks or whoever being a viable alternative that really ramped up the duchatalet protests - not saying we didn’t want him out but I really hope people don’t turn on TS if things don’t immediately go to plan coz that’s the last thing we need and the noises from the likes of whitehand and everitt etc r all starting to sound a bit like that to me - we have to gamble millions on trying to get to the prem seems to be the only way is what I hear from them and of course varney and Barclay are waiting to do that
You are an idiot, Doucher, aren’t you? Nobody is campaigning to get TS out, and people asking questions about his appointments or strategy can perfectly easily inhabit a space between adulation and antipathy. It was the former that had intelligent people lapping up nonsense from Southall and you can see the same phenomenon now. It is all about outcomes.
I’m not advocating Barclay or anyone at this point. I am saying that to believe you can get from where we are to the PL without investing millions more is just daydreaming.
As far as Barclay is concerned, he had tried and failed to get to Duchatelet before he was introduced to PV by me. Duchatelet wasn’t talking to anyone because he had a deal with Southall and co - even though the deal was nonsense. He was only interested in escaping the operating liabilities, which ESI enabled. He never knew what Barclay and co might have offered because he wouldn’t talk to them, before and after Varney got involved. In fact the reason Barclay spoke to me was because he couldn’t get to RD.
It’s quite true that Barclay would not proceed without the assets, but his principal interest was in the training ground because he was very keen on the academy. However, Barclay had an associate with the firepower to pay Duchatelet whatever if they jointly decided to do that to get The Valley. It made no sense to publicise that. The other guy also has a solid track record owning major sporting assets. But I’ve no idea if he’s still around.
TS got to RD because he offered a similar risk-free proposition as Southall (and with rather better credentials). Retain the assets, receive more rent and, even better, lose the liability for the ex-director loans. And by the time TS rocked up, even RD had worked out that his mate Murray had sold him a pup.
Well if he is suggesting we give Wiltshire an opportunity now then I suggest he does not quite have his finger on the pulse. We can do nothing before January can we.
I am delighted by anybody expressing an interest in the club but no matter the interest the world and his wife had 3 years to invest in Charlton. Mr Barclay didn’t. If he had the money to blow Duchatelet away why didn’t he?
What because he elected to use a consultant who was persona non grata?
Whose interests does that serve? Not his and not the clubs. Ah it is question of leverage. What leverage?
I will happily welcome Mr Barclay to the table. Will M.Duchâtelet? If so why? What’s changed?
Yep I agree - it’s annoying that every time the club is up for sale or needs a buyer, certain characters make themselves unable to do a deal or disappear and then when the club isn’t for sale, they re appear as a viable alternative
They probably are a viable alternative Mr DOUCHER and to a lot of Charlton supporters they were the better choice because getting the Valley and training ground back was priority number one. We all have experience of divorcing the ground from the club and its been stated elsewhere that the problem hasn't gone away and at the rate of knots that Sandgaard is losing money that problem may rear its head sooner rather than later and certainly will appear before the end of the 15 year lease. Good luck to Sandgaard I think he is an honest man who wants success but people need to realise that the Belgian still owns our destiny by way of his ownership of the infrastructure and he is still presents the biggest danger to this football club that anyone can remember.
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Perhaps there's still room for manoeuvre?
Sign him & fork out £200K in wages, but can't play him until January?
Get him on the transfer committee.
Arter Watson Wilshire midfield 🍆💦💦
The full context is he wasn't willing to pay the price for the full package (rightly or wrongly).
I’m not advocating Barclay or anyone at this point. I am saying that to believe you can get from where we are to the PL without investing millions more is just daydreaming.
It’s quite true that Barclay would not proceed without the assets, but his principal interest was in the training ground because he was very keen on the academy. However, Barclay had an associate with the firepower to pay Duchatelet whatever if they jointly decided to do that to get The Valley. It made no sense to publicise that. The other guy also has a solid track record owning major sporting assets. But I’ve no idea if he’s still around.