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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)
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^ this, with bells and whistles on.3
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Cawley gone down in my estimations. He just writes the same thing every other week, but in a different way and throws in a "might" and "could" here and there. He'd make a better weather man imo1
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You may not be blinkered enough, but I do wonder if you and a small number of others have been paying full attention to the actions of the man since he bought us. With all due respect. Therein should lie the required clues!AFKABartram said:
Behave. I despise RD but I’m not blinkered enough to think everything is his fault in this saga without some form of evidence that suggests that. Given he is desperate to offload the club then uneducated guesswork would actually suggest to me the oppositeJamesSeed said:
Yes. Having no shortage of funds doesn't mean you have to act like mugs.Airman Brown said:
Indeed. And if it’s true all roads lead to Roland. Fundamentally, though, the issue is that he wants more money than the club is worth because he has pissed it up the wall. There is no shortage of buyers at a realistic price, as the last year has shown.Bedsaddick said:
I thought they had already signed off on it ?Airman Brown said:We need confirmaton from the EFL about whether the Aussies have met the fit and proper persons requirements before we can decide who is responsible for the latest stand-off.
It suits certain people who want their money back to brief some on here aganst the Aussies, but don't fall for it folks.
My message to the Aussies, and I am sure the message of most Charlton fans would be that we are fully behind you and immensely grateful for your attempts to rid us of this vile piece of sh*t!5 -
It's possible to think they have been playing games over the price, whilst still fully behind them.MuttleyCAFC said:
You may not be blinkered enough, but I do wonder if you and a small number of others have been paying full attention to the actions of the man since he bought us. With all due respect. Therein should lie the required clues!AFKABartram said:
Behave. I despise RD but I’m not blinkered enough to think everything is his fault in this saga without some form of evidence that suggests that. Given he is desperate to offload the club then uneducated guesswork would actually suggest to me the oppositeJamesSeed said:
Yes. Having no shortage of funds doesn't mean you have to act like mugs.Airman Brown said:
Indeed. And if it’s true all roads lead to Roland. Fundamentally, though, the issue is that he wants more money than the club is worth because he has pissed it up the wall. There is no shortage of buyers at a realistic price, as the last year has shown.Bedsaddick said:
I thought they had already signed off on it ?Airman Brown said:We need confirmaton from the EFL about whether the Aussies have met the fit and proper persons requirements before we can decide who is responsible for the latest stand-off.
It suits certain people who want their money back to brief some on here aganst the Aussies, but don't fall for it folks.
My message to the Aussies, and I am sure the message of most Charlton fans would be that we are fully behind you and immensely grateful for your attempts to rid us of this vile piece of sh*t!
Personally I'm not fully behind them, atm, almost all everything ive seen about them so far worries me and I fear it could be a real out of the frying pan, into the fire moment.
Although i can't even begin to imagine how hard it must be dealing with a maniac like RD.)
I really hope I'm wrong and they manage to get this over the line and go on to be a success.3 -
Of course we don't know everything, but there is a clue in your post to why we ought to know who the good guys are here - How you describe Roland as a maniac. Which is spot on!0
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Yet we've seen from their very own sources that some of the delays have been down to the aussies.MuttleyCAFC said:Of course we don't know everything, but there is a clue in your post to why we ought to know who the good guys are here - How you describe Roland as a maniac. Which is spot on!
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He's a 'journalist' mate. I wouldn't expect anything else in all honesty.i_b_b_o_r_g said:Cawley gone down in my estimations. He just writes the same thing every other week, but in a different way and throws in a "might" and "could" here and there. He'd make a better weather man imo
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It will all come out at some point. When we eventually discover who is to blame, my money is fully on the maniac - to use your description of him.0
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Not sure if this guy posts on here but this tweet pretty much sums us up right now.
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It's not an easy business when neither side is willing to go on the record and their versions contradict each other. You either recognise that in what you write or you end up saying nothing, in which case no doubt he'd be criticised for saying nothing.i_b_b_o_r_g said:Cawley gone down in my estimations. He just writes the same thing every other week, but in a different way and throws in a "might" and "could" here and there. He'd make a better weather man imo
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8 pages now to the next milestone of 900
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What's the chances of duct tape bill being down the valley this morning?0
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I reckon an 80/20 split.MuttleyCAFC said:It will all come out at some point. When we eventually discover who is to blame, my money is fully on the maniac - to use your description of him.
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It is clear that Cawley is the personification of our debate here .
Multiple sources giving conflicting information .
Too many people here are so desperate to hear good news ( as am I) , so will believe certain posters and find fault in others .
I really feel depressed about next season after really getting behind Bowyer in the last ten games . We need a manager in place ASAP (or even yesterday) and some players to make us competitive .
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WOW, only 8 pages. Is it time for more fish puns?!Henry Irving said:8 pages now to the next milestone of 900
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Yes, yes, yes, I know I could have opened that sentence with Whale instead of WOW. I avoided the temptation to prevent a riot!2 -
Can @AFKABartram remove a promote from Henners each time he does this?Henry Irving said:8 pages now to the next milestone of 900
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Oh, no, he can't can he?
Can admin introduce a new category of "Demote" then or perhaps have minus "Promotes"?1 -
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Is that what they teach at Journalism school these days? I wonder how much of the Watergate scandal would have been uncovered with that docile approach? It is unarguably the case that over the last 5 or 6 years Charlton fans have being plagued with shit owners, shit CEOs, shit managers and shit players. I think they have also being plagued by shit journalists.Airman Brown said:
It's not an easy business when neither side is willing to go on the record and their versions contradict each other. You either recognise that in what you write or you end up saying nothing, in which case no doubt he'd be criticised for saying nothing.i_b_b_o_r_g said:Cawley gone down in my estimations. He just writes the same thing every other week, but in a different way and throws in a "might" and "could" here and there. He'd make a better weather man imo
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This is now a game for poker players. The Aussies have the better hand, this being a buyers' market, but RD still has the merchandise. He's using the Aussies' clear desire for CAFC as his trump card against them in the same way that he's always used Addicks' loyalty and love for the club against us. He's actually weaponised our Addicktion - fancy that!!
The Konsa play wrong-footed everyone. RD is a smart guy, and has the further advantage that he can make his own decisions, whereas the buyers are a consortium and decisions have to be discussed and agreed.
RD wants to cut his losses and to save face. The buyers want to save money (you can only spend it once) and to reach the best deal they can with the Bonkers Billionaire - in all their collective years in business it's unlikely that they've ever met anyone quite like RD.
RD will fight for the last cent. Oz are beating the price down. As this has always been, it's all about the bottom-line valuation. Somewhere amidst all the bluff, bullshit and bravado there is a sweet-spot which all parties, not least the many costly professional advisers, are trying fervently to find, to bring this marathon to an end. Nearly there.
And a personal message to RD. Mr Roland, sir, over these past years many unkind and spiteful things have been said about you, but now it is time to take our leave may I offer a different farewell. You and I are the same age - 71 - and the years ahead will truly be special ones. I have Parkinson's and what the future holds is rather uncertain. Your coming years, on the other hand, I hope will be many and vigorous. I wish you good health and the chance to step aside from your hectic life to enjoy years of quiet contemplation. That being so, I know that you will not give a second thought to your quite disastrous stewardship of my beloved football club, but I can only hope that every waking moment of your long years ahead are filled with an agony of remorse over all those poor euros and centjes you have so wantonly - and uncharacteristically - thrown away on the ungrateful CAFC. After all, it's the only thing you really care about. Look after yourself, ok?
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Whilst I agree the standards of journalism is the UK can be appalling, we also have to accept thst we are a league one team, I can't imagine we get enough attention to warrant the effort of good, investigative journalism.Red_in_SE8 said:
Is that what they teach at Journalism school these days? I wonder how much of the Watergategate scandal would have being uncovered with that docile approach? It is unarguably the case that over the last 5 or 6 years Charlton fans have being plagued with shit owners, shit CEOs, shit managers and shit players. I think they have also being plagued by shit journalists.Airman Brown said:
It's not an easy business when neither side is willing to go on the record and their versions contradict each other. You either recognise that in what you write or you end up saying nothing, in which case no doubt he'd be criticised for saying nothing.i_b_b_o_r_g said:Cawley gone down in my estimations. He just writes the same thing every other week, but in a different way and throws in a "might" and "could" here and there. He'd make a better weather man imo
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I wasn't talking about Roland.AFKABartram said:
Behave. I despise RD but I’m not blinkered enough to think everything is his fault in this saga without some form of evidence that suggests that. Given he is desperate to offload the club then uneducated guesswork would actually suggest to me the oppositeJamesSeed said:
Yes. Having no shortage of funds doesn't mean you have to act like mugs.Airman Brown said:
Indeed. And if it’s true all roads lead to Roland. Fundamentally, though, the issue is that he wants more money than the club is worth because he has pissed it up the wall. There is no shortage of buyers at a realistic price, as the last year has shown.Bedsaddick said:
I thought they had already signed off on it ?Airman Brown said:We need confirmaton from the EFL about whether the Aussies have met the fit and proper persons requirements before we can decide who is responsible for the latest stand-off.
It suits certain people who want their money back to brief some on here aganst the Aussies, but don't fall for it folks.0 -
Strange thing to say. Where has that idea come from?Stu_of_Kunming said:MuttleyCAFC said:
You may not be blinkered enough, but I do wonder if you and a small number of others have been paying full attention to the actions of the man since he bought us. With all due respect. Therein should lie the required clues!AFKABartram said:
Behave. I despise RD but I’m not blinkered enough to think everything is his fault in this saga without some form of evidence that suggests that. Given he is desperate to offload the club then uneducated guesswork would actually suggest to me the oppositeJamesSeed said:
Yes. Having no shortage of funds doesn't mean you have to act like mugs.Airman Brown said:
Indeed. And if it’s true all roads lead to Roland. Fundamentally, though, the issue is that he wants more money than the club is worth because he has pissed it up the wall. There is no shortage of buyers at a realistic price, as the last year has shown.Bedsaddick said:
I thought they had already signed off on it ?Airman Brown said:We need confirmaton from the EFL about whether the Aussies have met the fit and proper persons requirements before we can decide who is responsible for the latest stand-off.
It suits certain people who want their money back to brief some on here aganst the Aussies, but don't fall for it folks.
My message to the Aussies, and I am sure the message of most Charlton fans would be that we are fully behind you and immensely grateful for your attempts to rid us of this vile piece of sh*t!
Personally I'm not fully behind them, atm, almost all everything ive seen about them so far worries me and I fear it could be a real out of the frying pan, into the fire moment.0 -
Promotes are for quality of material, not quantity ;-)Henry Irving said:8 pages now to the next milestone of 900
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Has anyone wondered if yesterday was the first meeting between Muir and Roland?
If so, it went well, didn't it.4 -
Never mind the quality, feel the widthJamesSeed said:
Promotes are for quality of material, not quantity ;-)Henry Irving said:8 pages now to the next milestone of 900
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Trump has a good couple of words for "conflicting information"....It's called Fake NewsRichard J said:It is clear that Cawley is the personification of our debate here .
Multiple sources giving conflicting information .
Too many people here are so desperate to hear good news ( as am I) , so will believe certain posters and find fault in others .
I really feel depressed about next season after really getting behind Bowyer in the last ten games . We need a manager in place ASAP (or even yesterday) and some players to make us competitive .0 -
There has to be a reason for Roland coming to England. It clearly isn't something he enjoys doing! The decisions to sell players can be just as easily be made in Belgium.1
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