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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited May 2018
    Muir with Scarfy,
    ASAP
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    Beer in Australia is actually so much more than XXXX Fosters, when Inwas there in 03 they had a thriving local Craft style beer industry a bit like the Yanks. Aussies I knew wouldn’t touch that aforementioned bile.
  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    So just to be clear, because I am easily confused, is it now fact that Roland has agreed a sale of CAFC to someone, and that it is now just a question of EFL approval of new owners, and just other loose ends to be sorted?
    I know I could be accused of not paying enough attention in class here, but someone else made me do it.
  • daveydanger
    daveydanger Posts: 1,338
    AFKABartram said:

    No more fish puns please, the joke has passed. Ta

    Thanks, saves me trawling for any actual takeover news...
  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    I vote we all give it another week, then we all go completely nuts.
    ( I have never written this before)
  • PeteF
    PeteF Posts: 1,698
    3blokes said:

    So just to be clear, because I am easily confused, is it now fact that Roland has agreed a sale of CAFC to someone, and that it is now just a question of EFL approval of new owners, and just other loose ends to be sorted?
    I know I could be accused of not paying enough attention in class here, but someone else made me do it.

    Pay attention fella....
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082
    Still refuse to believe this is actually happening until I see the Sue Parkes gif !!!
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    PWR the last 10 pages or so -

    I've personally been dubious about the Aussies since it was reported that they were allegedly sniffing round for more investors, but in the last NS report it said "Muir is close to finalising a deal and News Shopper understands the Aussie will have full ownership of the Valley." does this mean that he (Muir) will be the out-right sole owner of the Club / Ground / Training ground and there is no consortium? Or is the report just reiterating that the Ground will be included in the sale, and when they say Muir, they actually mean the consortium, headed by Muir?

    Very good. Popping that right in the middle where you thought no one would notice.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    On the one hand the takeover is close on the other hand Roland appointing staff to run the gaff is close.
    Very easy to think we are being played. Our desperation is our weakness and we cling to rafts made of straw.
    It puts me in mind of us being a dog that goes scurrying after the ball but it is a pretend throw.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    Steve Brown on what the new owner needs to do.

    https://www.londonnewsonline.co.uk/charlton-athletic-fans-favourite-has-his-say-on-takeover-bid-and-what-new-owners-need-to-do-at-the-valley/
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  • Covered_End_Lad
    Covered_End_Lad Posts: 5,725
    Scoham said:

    Steve Brown on what the new owner needs to do.

    https://www.londonnewsonline.co.uk/charlton-athletic-fans-favourite-has-his-say-on-takeover-bid-and-what-new-owners-need-to-do-at-the-valley/

    Love Steve Brown, proper Charlton.
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,974
    I've really set myself up for the takeover happening today. If it doesn't- and now I don't think it will - I think I will burst and self combust.
  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,421
    Redbull on offer in Sainsbury’s Charlton.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    seth plum said:

    On the one hand the takeover is close on the other hand Roland appointing staff to run the gaff is close.
    Very easy to think we are being played. Our desperation is our weakness and we cling to rafts made of straw.
    It puts me in mind of us being a dog that goes scurrying after the ball but it is a pretend throw.

    Who is "playing" us? Who is "desperate" or weak?

    It hasn't happened yet, that is all.

    We've done all we can to influence the process and have done that successfully. Now we don't need desperation, just patience.

    WIOTOS
  • JordanJLD
    JordanJLD Posts: 165
    FORD said:

    Done...1pm announcement scheduled.

    Excellent. Our friendly against Greenwich Borough is finally being confirmed!
  • Mal
    Mal Posts: 616
    AFKABartram said:

    No more fish puns please, the joke has passed. Ta

    I think he wants us to stop carping on about it.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Henry Irving said:

    seth plum said:

    On the one hand the takeover is close on the other hand Roland appointing staff to run the gaff is close.
    Very easy to think we are being played. Our desperation is our weakness and we cling to rafts made of straw.
    It puts me in mind of us being a dog that goes scurrying after the ball but it is a pretend throw.

    Who is "playing" us? Who is "desperate" or weak?

    It hasn't happened yet, that is all.

    We've done all we can to influence the process and have done that successfully. Now we don't need desperation, just patience.

    WIOTOS
    I am desperate, I am too weak to ignore the rumours, Richard Murray is one of the characters playing us.
    There are plenty of others too, who get a kick out of exploiting our desperation for progress by saying any old thing.
    More and more I think the Charlton special forces like ROT and Big in Brazov are the most correct in consistently refusing to believe Roland is anything other than a malevolent and mendacious force.
  • Cordoban Addick
    Cordoban Addick Posts: 5,448
    Arsenetatters said:

    I've really set myself up for the takeover happening today. If it doesn't- and now I don't think it will - I think I will burst and self combust.

    Not sure it is possible that you can do both, might have to be one or the other.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    iamdan said:

    Redbull on offer in Sainsbury’s Charlton.

    Any John West products on sale?
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    Cordoban Addick said:

    Arsenetatters said:

    I've really set myself up for the takeover happening today. If it doesn't- and now I don't think it will - I think I will burst and self combust.

    Not sure it is possible that you can do both, might have to be one or the other.
    I think it is entirely reasonable to be able to do both - sequentially though!
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  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Let's hope our Australians manage to do better than this lot. Homebase: bought for £340mn two years ago, messed up, sold for a £1. bbc.com/news/business-44248409
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,715
    so this announcement is coming in the next two hour?
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    Shame it wasn't yesterday, daughter's birthday, would have been a nice present.

    Be nice if it is today, as it's the birthday of my mate who I sit next to in the Lower North.

    But any day would do, as long as it soon...
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    No
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Karim_myBagheri said:

    so this announcement is coming in the next two hour?

    Don't hold your breath
  • Rufus_Ambition
    Rufus_Ambition Posts: 603
    cafcfan said:

    Let's hope our Australians manage to do better than this lot. Homebase: bought for £340mn two years ago, messed up, sold for a £1. bbc.com/news/business-44248409

    "This must go down as one of the most disastrous retail acquisitions ever - a textbook example of how not to do it.

    The Australian firm thought they could show the Brits how to do DIY. So confident, they immediately sacked Homebase's senior management team. That was a huge mistake."

    This has a familiar ring to it :neutral:
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,454
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    Rufus_Ambition said:

    cafcfan said:

    Let's hope our Australians manage to do better than this lot. Homebase: bought for £340mn two years ago, messed up, sold for a £1. bbc.com/news/business-44248409

    "This must go down as one of the most disastrous retail acquisitions ever - a textbook example of how not to do it.

    The Australian firm thought they could show the Brits how to do DIY. So confident, they immediately sacked Homebase's senior management team. That was a huge mistake."

    This has a familiar ring to it :neutral:
    Don't worry, we have virtually no senior management team left for the Aussies to sack
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,677
    Rufus_Ambition said:

    cafcfan said:

    Let's hope our Australians manage to do better than this lot. Homebase: bought for £340mn two years ago, messed up, sold for a £1. bbc.com/news/business-44248409

    "This must go down as one of the most disastrous retail acquisitions ever - a textbook example of how not to do it.

    The Australian firm thought they could show the Brits how to do DIY. So confident, they immediately sacked Homebase's senior management team. That was a huge mistake."

    This has a familiar ring to it :neutral:
    Bunnings Warehouse adverts use the strapline: "Lowest prices are just the beginning."

    At £1 for the whole Homebase business they're not wrong.
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    edited May 2018
    Rufus_Ambition said:

    cafcfan said:

    Let's hope our Australians manage to do better than this lot. Homebase: bought for £340mn two years ago, messed up, sold for a £1. bbc.com/news/business-44248409

    "This must go down as one of the most disastrous retail acquisitions ever - a textbook example of how not to do it.

    The Australian firm thought they could show the Brits how to do DIY. So confident, they immediately sacked Homebase's senior management team. That was a huge mistake."

    This has a familiar ring to it :neutral:
    To be fair, the spivs dismantled the senior management team not the Belgians. Of the seven people employed on the non-football side when they arrived, only Mick Everett was left by 2014.

    But I’m sure Roland would have wrecked that too if he’d had the chance.
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,927
    Wow! What a mess Duchatelet has got himself into. Unless he sells soon he will have to employ a CEO/Financial bod/new manager and none of them will have any idea how long the job will last for. With that scenario we limp into the new season with a crappy temporary management staff - I doubt if any decent players will want to know. The fool really should have sold in January. What a reputation he deserves, eh?
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