The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)
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Been saying the same for weeks. He doesn't give a fig for the club, we were just an experiment that didn't work out. The man is a sociopath and cares little for the affect his actions have had on the ordinary people whose lives revolve in a great part around Charlton. I'm not a vindictive person ( I hope) but I can't help wishing him all the bad luck there is going!KINSELLA7 said:Understandably and because Charlton means so much to many supporters (including myself) we are inclined to guess at RD's motives and actions based on the mistaken view that he thinks about Charlton much. In fact he was only ever going to sell when he got bored with the idea, peripheral though it was, totally regardless of Card, protests results etc. The little nudge to get on and sell came with Katrien's departure. It is now down to having some games with buyers so that he can leave with that small satisfaction of getting a decent deal for himself. He may now be coming bored even with that and hopefully we will then get a result.
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No CEO, no CFO, soon no manager and then NFI.
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No doubt that focused his attention, but I doubt if he'd have been paying Mishcon de Reya to work on it for months and engaging in multiple due diligence exercises prior to 2018 if he had no intention of selling before she quit.KINSELLA7 said:Understandably and because Charlton means so much to many supporters (including myself) we are inclined to guess at RD's motives and actions based on the mistaken view that he thinks about Charlton much. In fact he was only ever going to sell when he got bored with the idea, peripheral though it was, totally regardless of Card, protests results etc. The little nudge to get on and sell came with Katrien's departure. It is now down to having some games with buyers so that he can leave with that small satisfaction of getting a decent deal for himself. He may now be coming bored even with that and hopefully we will then get a result.
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Roland said in an interview in Belgium that the dissent from the fans made the project unsustainable, or words to that effect.
There's no doubt that the protests have swung this and saved us from becoming a St Truiden. Now we just need to get it over the line.
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Quite. Meire left because RD was selling. RD isn't selling because Meire left.Airman Brown said:
No doubt that focused his attention, but I doubt if he'd have been paying Mishcon de Reya to work on it for months and engaging in multiple due diligence exercises prior to 2018 if he had no intention of selling before she quit.KINSELLA7 said:Understandably and because Charlton means so much to many supporters (including myself) we are inclined to guess at RD's motives and actions based on the mistaken view that he thinks about Charlton much. In fact he was only ever going to sell when he got bored with the idea, peripheral though it was, totally regardless of Card, protests results etc. The little nudge to get on and sell came with Katrien's departure. It is now down to having some games with buyers so that he can leave with that small satisfaction of getting a decent deal for himself. He may now be coming bored even with that and hopefully we will then get a result.
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Got it slightly wrong. It was the brilliant work of @ROT that drew this quote out of the rat when they recorded that conversation with him:Neil Heaney said:Roland said in an interview in Belgium that the dissent from the fans made the project unsustainable, or words to that effect.
There's no doubt that the protests have swung this and saved us from becoming a St Truiden. Now we just need to get it over the line.
COYR. Nearly there.
"The whole, the whole atmosphere got poisoned, and you know without the 12th man you cannot win, you cannot win. You need the 12th man otherwise you are, for example today huh, so as long as there is no 12th man again, there is no point in me investing sums of money in Charlton, makes no sense"
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Well please go forth and multiply asap then you old scrote..........Not you Neil Twoshats I mean of course
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Is Duchatelet toying with the idea of selling Alcorcan as well?
Could be, but no one expects the Spanish indecision.13 -
120 followers...ridiculous and 1st September - crazy date - trolling for commentsJ BLOCK said:
Known fake account. Ignore.flyingkiwiDK said:Make of this what you will..
Roger Rose
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It’s time! RD has had the paperwork finalised, and on September the 1st 2018 he will no longer be the owner of #cafc more to follow in regards to the next owner to follow shortly. Questions are welcomed. RR
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1st September chosen deliberately to provoke hysteria. Must try harder.1
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Yeah so he gets the paperwork completed and waits five and a half months.3
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All it says it that on Sept 1st RD will not be our owner, it didn't say that was when the takeover would be completed.......he may not be our owner on June 1st as well.cafc-west said:
120 followers...ridiculous and 1st September - crazy date - trolling for commentsJ BLOCK said:
Known fake account. Ignore.flyingkiwiDK said:Make of this what you will..
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It’s time! RD has had the paperwork finalised, and on September the 1st 2018 he will no longer be the owner of #cafc more to follow in regards to the next owner to follow shortly. Questions are welcomed. RR0 -
A month ago it was a pleasant "it's happening gif" type vibe and we believed things were moving forward in some sense.
It's now turned into torture, no one knows what's going on and it's gone way too quiet.
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Well that is almost certainly true, but what is the biggest factor here is the ability of people to find an excuse, any excuse. The reason the project failed was due to his own failings, but it is easier to blame somebody else. Duchatelet has already shown that he rewrites history to suit his position, like when he told Belgian media that Riga saved us from relegation with the players he brought in. I think many of us have picked up that he has some form of mental illness which if it were not so damaging to the club we love, we might show some sympathy towards.Neil Heaney said:Roland said in an interview in Belgium that the dissent from the fans made the project unsustainable, or words to that effect.
There's no doubt that the protests have swung this and saved us from becoming a St Truiden. Now we just need to get it over the line.
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So I guess all the pressure that was put on Meire by the fans was probably at least a part of what made her want to leave, and as a result, made Roland want to sell. Therefore the protests did work, regardless of what the doubters say. Let's hope this business doesn't drag on for too much longer, it's been a few years since I visited The Valley and I'm desperate to return.KINSELLA7 said:Understandably and because Charlton means so much to many supporters (including myself) we are inclined to guess at RD's motives and actions based on the mistaken view that he thinks about Charlton much. In fact he was only ever going to sell when he got bored with the idea, peripheral though it was, totally regardless of Card, protests results etc. The little nudge to get on and sell came with Katrien's departure. It is now down to having some games with buyers so that he can leave with that small satisfaction of getting a decent deal for himself. He may now be coming bored even with that and hopefully we will then get a result.
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Of course Meire could have played the fans better, but she had two things that prevented her doing this. She was employed by Duchatelet and whether this was because or why, she sucked up to everything he said, and she had a complete arrogance in the way she communicated. I put this down to the inexperience of youth more than her being a bad person - I think to bring everybody with you requires emotional intelligence more than academic intelligence. She wanted to take the we know so much more than them line when something more concialiatory would have much greater impact, even if the actions behind it were the same.
But of course, ultimately the problem was we could see the plan was going to end in failure quite early on. That is because when you support a football club for decades you do sort of pick these things up.4 -
I think this is largely true - but there is another factor. The football powers moved the goalposts on FFP - so the financial fairplay limits changed and this affected his financial model (which was probably already flawed) but, I think, the changes made his forecasts redundant.MuttleyCAFC said:
Well that is almost certainly true, but what is the biggest factor here is the ability of people to find an excuse, any excuse. The reason the project failed was due to his own failings, but it is easier to blame somebody else. Duchatelet has already shown that he rewrites history to suit his position, like when he told Belgian media that Riga saved us from relegation with the players he brought in. I think many of us have picked up that he has some form of mental illness which if it were not so damaging to the club we love, we might show some sympathy towards.Neil Heaney said:Roland said in an interview in Belgium that the dissent from the fans made the project unsustainable, or words to that effect.
There's no doubt that the protests have swung this and saved us from becoming a St Truiden. Now we just need to get it over the line.
COYR. Nearly there.
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Fair enough, but you always have to react to what is happening around you.2
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No tweets today from CAFC account. Mnnnn are they busy preparing other news?0
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I have a feeling these Australians will be pony as well6
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Lazy journalism if you ask me.1
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Okay, that news is a week old now.Crispy said:
But no smoke without fire. It seems Karl desperately wants out ; everything is unsettled and turning to ratshit behind the scenes.
Contracts are not worth the paper they are written on these days - and if he wants to go, just let him go.
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So Karl has done a good job and there will be no shortage of offers for him?The Red Robin said:
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By the way - isn't the behaviour of Roland only proving us protesters right, even when we haven't protested this season?2
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Redhenry are your lot ready with a bid yet or have they walked away0
