Football is so fucking stupid. They say you get out of life what you put in - well I put in a season ticket every year, but it feels I'll only get anything remotely palatable out of it if by providence Charlton manages to successfully whore itself out to some overwealthy dickhead who doesn't mind spending vast sums on placating their own ego. When will the bottom fall out of this mind-numbing procession?
I know Fulham are in an attractive location and that answers it really I guess but they seem to have no trouble attracting a string of owners willing to plow in mega millions and there’s no way they have a bigger support than us - the big money has always been attracted to west and north London I guess
Better catchment area now the middle and upper classes have stolen top flight football (in the south anyway) from the working classes
1. Will the new owner be normal and or professional?
Probably not
2. Will the new owner know a lot about football?
It's unlikely
3. Will the new owner hold required wealth to run a football club?
£25million is now more favourable instead of just a £1. Plus £75million for the valley...(which will be rejected after the offer is made) and your gana need a lot of money for everything else!
4. Will the new owner be mad?
Yes
5. Will the new owner just be buying Charlton as an advertising method for their own benefit?
Somethings gotta give. They won't all of a sudden be actual Charlton athletic supporters.
6. Will the new owner remain quiet and just allow football to be an enjoyable sport for the clubs supporters?
No Dave, now sign out of charltonlife and get a lunchtime kebab, you seem to be going off on one.
I know it's mental saying this but I think Mike Ashley would be excellent for us. We'd not agree with all of his decisions (renaming the stadium) but I think we'd end up in a much better place than we have been for a few years.
Can't believe I typed that.
Christ, You’d bite Mike Ashley’s hand off at the moment wouldnt you?
If nothing else he’ll make you a decent prospect to sell on.
And I can't believe I am agreeing with a Millwall fan.
Roland is much less of a problem than he was two years ago.
Thomas will sell.
The "total package" will cost less than the aussies agreed, especially if your not paying in £s.
Mistic Meg time but I suspect our next owner will be greated with much more hostility/scepticism than the last half a dozen but after about 18 months we will be much happier.
The next two owners are critical
Do you know the asking price then for the club and SL?
Well he’s saying less than £35m inc freeholds. Can’t see that happening, but hope I’m wrong.
RD is asking for less than £35m? Where have you heard that?
Ashley would be interesting, think I read he was beginning to step back from Sports direct. I think the biggest issue Newcastle had was he wouldn't invest heavily in the PL, I'd love it if we could have that problem
I'd be surprised if it was Ashley. Can see possibly another American group as an option, potentially one with some kind of sports background as they seem to be buying stakes in clubs galore at the moment
I know it's mental saying this but I think Mike Ashley would be excellent for us. We'd not agree with all of his decisions (renaming the stadium) but I think we'd end up in a much better place than we have been for a few years.
Can't believe I typed that.
Christ, You’d bite Mike Ashley’s hand off at the moment wouldnt you?
If nothing else he’ll make you a decent prospect to sell on.
I think there might be cheaper options out there though. Negotiation with two parties, Club and Freehold wouldn't be easy either.
Jesus. Are people really seeing Ashley as a reasonable replacement for Sandergaard?
There has been uproar about the treatment of staff, look at the treatment of Sports Direct Staff under Ashley's watch......
Newcastle fans despise him. We would simply be jumping from a sinking ship to a burning one.
Right, because Sandgaard has had not a single whiff of an issue about staff treatment/morale has he?
Don't get me wrong, I really don't actually want it to be Ashley. But given the choice of a club with unhappy staff and zero funds, or unhappy staff but actual money to keep things running, it would be one deal with a devil that couldn't be rejected entirely out of hand...
Roland is much less of a problem than he was two years ago.
Thomas will sell.
The "total package" will cost less than the aussies agreed, especially if your not paying in £s.
Mistic Meg time but I suspect our next owner will be greated with much more hostility/scepticism than the last half a dozen but after about 18 months we will be much happier.
The next two owners are critical
Do you know the asking price then for the club and SL?
Well he’s saying less than £35m inc freeholds. Can’t see that happening, but hope I’m wrong.
RD is asking for less than £35m? Where have you heard that?
“Roland is much less of a problem than he was two years ago.
Thomas will sell.
The "total package" will cost less than the aussies agreed, especially if your not paying in £s.”
From memory Aussies agreed £35m price with RD.
Who then raised it and it had reached £40M by the time ESI sat at the table with him, which they agreed to before he raised it again to the £50M signed off on in the contract I believe. Unless there have been any noises coming from RD's camp of a change in attitude, I'd expect him to stick with the existing agreement if any offer made now is only in the neighbourhood of £35M, even though that's a very respectable neighbourhood.
Jesus. Are people really seeing Ashley as a reasonable replacement for Sandergaard?
There has been uproar about the treatment of staff, look at the treatment of Sports Direct Staff under Ashley's watch......
Newcastle fans despise him. We would simply be jumping from a sinking ship to a burning one.
Right, because Sandgaard has had not a single whiff of an issue about staff treatment/morale has he?
Don't get me wrong, I really don't actually want it to be Ashley. But given the choice of a club with unhappy staff and zero funds, or unhappy staff but actual money to keep things running, it would be one deal with a devil that couldn't be rejected entirely out of hand...
I’d probably be up for Genghis Khan buying us if it got us out of this bloody division!
I know it's mental saying this but I think Mike Ashley would be excellent for us. We'd not agree with all of his decisions (renaming the stadium) but I think we'd end up in a much better place than we have been for a few years.
Can't believe I typed that.
Christ, You’d bite Mike Ashley’s hand off at the moment wouldnt you?
If nothing else he’ll make you a decent prospect to sell on.
I think there might be cheaper options out there though. Negotiation with two parties, Club and Freehold wouldn't be easy either.
We could be at a very cheap entry point though, if TS is reasonable (haha) then it will not cost much at all to buy the club and then can just keep the rent agreement in place. The cost of buying us and getting us to the premier league is therefore less than it would be for buying another similar sized club where the initial fee would be more substantial. That is where our attraction lies at the moment.
Our only hopes are that eventually someone actually gets us to the premier league and then we might be able to afford to buy the assets back, or probably more likely Roland dies and the asking price is reduced
Mike Ashley is a bottom feeder, buys completely distressed assets. The club is that but RD is not. He may take less than £50M who knows, but he won't give The Valley and training ground away which is what Ashley would want.
Some other clueless American or a conman seem most likely but I live in hope.
This may be out last chance and likely we have missed the boat but South London deserve and has room for a big team, and despite Palace being light years from us they have not yet improved their stadium significantly or made top half of PL once in their 10 years. Plus they are in Thornton Heath, the armpit of London.
Jesus. Are people really seeing Ashley as a reasonable replacement for Sandergaard?
There has been uproar about the treatment of staff, look at the treatment of Sports Direct Staff under Ashley's watch......
Newcastle fans despise him. We would simply be jumping from a sinking ship to a burning one.
Right, because Sandgaard has had not a single whiff of an issue about staff treatment/morale has he?
Don't get me wrong, I really don't actually want it to be Ashley. But given the choice of a club with unhappy staff and zero funds, or unhappy staff but actual money to keep things running, it would be one deal with a devil that couldn't be rejected entirely out of hand...
I’d probably be up for Genghis Khan buying us if it got us out of this bloody division!
Jesus. Are people really seeing Ashley as a reasonable replacement for Sandergaard?
There has been uproar about the treatment of staff, look at the treatment of Sports Direct Staff under Ashley's watch......
Newcastle fans despise him. We would simply be jumping from a sinking ship to a burning one.
Right, because Sandgaard has had not a single whiff of an issue about staff treatment/morale has he?
Don't get me wrong, I really don't actually want it to be Ashley. But given the choice of a club with unhappy staff and zero funds, or unhappy staff but actual money to keep things running, it would be one deal with a devil that couldn't be rejected entirely out of hand...
I’d probably be up for Genghis Khan buying us if it got us out of this bloody division!
Are you sure? I heard he’s a Millwall supporter
Most of society is descended from him apparently, but Millwall fans are descended from Neanderthals.
Jesus. Are people really seeing Ashley as a reasonable replacement for Sandergaard?
There has been uproar about the treatment of staff, look at the treatment of Sports Direct Staff under Ashley's watch......
Newcastle fans despise him. We would simply be jumping from a sinking ship to a burning one.
Right, because Sandgaard has had not a single whiff of an issue about staff treatment/morale has he?
Don't get me wrong, I really don't actually want it to be Ashley. But given the choice of a club with unhappy staff and zero funds, or unhappy staff but actual money to keep things running, it would be one deal with a devil that couldn't be rejected entirely out of hand...
I’d probably be up for Genghis Khan buying us if it got us out of this bloody division!
Are you sure? I heard he’s a Millwall supporter
Most of society is descended from him apparently, but Millwall fans are descended from Neanderthals.
Neanderthals credibly reckoned to have been more intelligent and peaceful than homo sapiens, but the more vicious latter basically eradicated them
Jesus. Are people really seeing Ashley as a reasonable replacement for Sandergaard?
There has been uproar about the treatment of staff, look at the treatment of Sports Direct Staff under Ashley's watch......
Newcastle fans despise him. We would simply be jumping from a sinking ship to a burning one.
Right, because Sandgaard has had not a single whiff of an issue about staff treatment/morale has he?
Don't get me wrong, I really don't actually want it to be Ashley. But given the choice of a club with unhappy staff and zero funds, or unhappy staff but actual money to keep things running, it would be one deal with a devil that couldn't be rejected entirely out of hand...
I’d probably be up for Genghis Khan buying us if it got us out of this bloody division!
Are you sure? I heard he’s a Millwall supporter
Most of society is descended from him apparently, but Millwall fans are descended from Neanderthals.
Neanderthals credibly reckoned to have been more intelligent and peaceful than homo sapiens, but the more vicious latter basically eradicated them
Nah, they were just outcompeted weren't they?
Sorry, didn't mean to derail the thread over a throwaway joke about Millwall fans being thick!
Let's just agree that Genghis Khan probably would have been a Man Utd fan that didn't go to games but watched them on TV in Mongolia.
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Probably not
2. Will the new owner know a lot about football?
It's unlikely
3. Will the new owner hold required wealth to run a football club?
£25million is now more favourable instead of just a £1. Plus £75million for the valley...(which will be rejected after the offer is made) and your gana need a lot of money for everything else!
4. Will the new owner be mad?
Yes
5. Will the new owner just be buying Charlton as an advertising method for their own benefit?
Somethings gotta give. They won't all of a sudden be actual Charlton athletic supporters.
6. Will the new owner remain quiet and just allow football to be an enjoyable sport for the clubs supporters?
No Dave, now sign out of charltonlife and get a lunchtime kebab, you seem to be going off on one.
Cafc43v3r said:
Thomas will sell.
The "total package" will cost less than the aussies agreed, especially if your not paying in £s.”
From memory Aussies agreed £35m price with RD.
This is currently hell under TS, if both options were on the table it's a no brainer.
Don't get me wrong, I really don't actually want it to be Ashley. But given the choice of a club with unhappy staff and zero funds, or unhappy staff but actual money to keep things running, it would be one deal with a devil that couldn't be rejected entirely out of hand...
Some other clueless American or a conman seem most likely but I live in hope.
This may be out last chance and likely we have missed the boat but South London deserve and has room for a big team, and despite Palace being light years from us they have not yet improved their stadium significantly or made top half of PL once in their 10 years. Plus they are in Thornton Heath, the armpit of London.
Americans...owning Charlton?
I can imagine them going over to to steward pointing in his face
"Hey asshole, you're fired"
Sorry, didn't mean to derail the thread over a throwaway joke about Millwall fans being thick!
Let's just agree that Genghis Khan probably would have been a Man Utd fan that didn't go to games but watched them on TV in Mongolia.