The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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Redhenry said:

Nicholas said:

Redhenry said:

carly burn said:

Redhenry said:

One of the parties was at the club today. This has got at least another week to run.

Do you genuinely know who these people are RH?

Yes he is foreign and very very wealthy.

When you say wealthy do you mean Man city Billionaire wealthy where money doesnt matter.

Or is he a wealthy poor millionaire who needs to watch the pennies still

Closer to Man C

Maybe the investor thinks he is buying the Peninsular and not the club?

Henry likes a cryptic clue and has a Union Jack badge.
Redhenry says close to Man City rich and foreign.

I give you, Britain’s richest man...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312348/Alisher-Usmanov-UKs-richest-man-Arsenal-FC-owning-oligarch-Uzbekistan-worth-13-3bn.html

Dragging his feet because he is waiting for Kroenke to buy his Arsenal stake before he can buy us....

2+2 = me very excited - and almost certainly wrong, but hey it is fun.

Whatever, Nasri and Song won’t hang around for our contract offers forever even though they are Charlton fans so get it done RD.

Can you imagine spending millions on something only for someone to announce it before you got the chance to be the one to lord it over the fan base

You might be a tad pissed off about it I certainly would

Today’s changes are another example of people retaining caution and not being sucked in to the vacuum for information

We have been through the mill as fans and it’s nearing the end

Wait for the official announcement from the official source let the new owner/owners have the joy of being revealed

I still believe there’s a way to go but we are closer to being sold than ever before under RD and that’s a great bit of news

Redhenry said:

carly burn said:

Redhenry said:

One of the parties was at the club today. This has got at least another week to run.

Do you genuinely know who these people are RH?

Yes he is foreign and very very wealthy.

Like Roland??

I think we should win

carly burn said:

Airman Brown said:

AFKABartram said:

Airman Brown said:

Redskin said:

Airman Brown said:

eaststandmike said:

Sorry to put a downer on all your enthusiasm but am I the only one who is still a bit apprehensive to the news announced yesterday?

Apart form 3 or 4 tweeted messages suggesting we have a "done deal" we have nothing else to go on apart from what we have always had in this thread i.e. speculation, jokes and piss taking.

Surely if a deal was "done" yesterday, by that I mean a hand shake between all parties then we would have heard more. As with all deals like this nobody is interested when the lawyers get the paperwork signed, all we what we want to see is the new owner with a Charlton scarf round his neck.

I am sure a lot of us have heard of, or experienced the sale of a house falling through on the day the new buyer was supposed to move in or a business deal collapsing at the last minute.

I get the feeling we are not as close as some people think and looking at the excitement those tweets have generated on here some people seem to be getting ahead of themselves.

I hope I am way off the mark and scarfy is paraded soon, however as a boycotter I refuse to consider what game I will be attending next until the sale of the club is signed, sealed and the new owner has revealed him/herself.

In any event the FL have to approve the deal. You could argue it isn't done until that has happened but what I am taking about is the point at which a buyer and seller reach agreement. We have not been here before.

One insurance against the deal failing to reach completion is that there are clearly two potential buyers here and consequently I don't think there's much chance of both walking away/falling through.

Fascinating: who's actually buying the club, or are you not in a position to say as usual?

I’m not saying because I am not 100 per cent confident of the answer. The Australian camp leaks. One source yesterday was from that side. The other came from the legal process - they are consequently very well placed to know when they say it’s a “done deal”, but they have never been willing to elaborate on the identity of the interested parties.

The coincidence of the two, entirely independent of each other, within hours, points to the Australians, but because the Aussie side have jumped the gun before I am still cautious about saying it is them. And I still believe the other party is about.

Appreciate you posting what you know, but I might be being a bit slow here. I don’t see how you can confidently believe a deal has been ‘done’ and then at the same time believe another party could still be in play? In which case, it’s not ‘done’ and a rival bid could still be made and accepted.

Or am I reading this incorrectly?

From experience I trust the legal source, but I am more wary of the one from the Aussie camp. So one could be right and the other wrong. It’s less likely both are wrong.

Ultimately, things can change. For example I think something RM said to the FF on Wednesday night was already wrong by the time he said it, but I doubt if he knew that.

And what was that?

It's just an internet thing

SE23 said:

#cafc takeover off

lucky you put "#cafc" in that post, I wouldn't have had a clue which club you were talking about otherwise

SE23 said:

#cafc takeover off

I’m fed up with people on here posting as if they are in the know. Reveal your source who has confirmed the takeover is off.

Athletico Charlton said:

http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/57971/takeover-rumours-ed-deal-allegedly-done-p-66/p113

And to bring everyone back down to earth a little look at some of the final quotes on this old thread. @SE7toSG3 , I particularly smiled at yours on the last page!

And what a complete twat I was! Its fair cop, I am a total mooncup and always will be (hangs head in shame emoji)

Whoooosh alert

Any buyer still hanging around at £45m must have some serious cash.

I’m conked in a French bar can we have takeaway now