The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

Addickted said:

Davidsmith said:

creepyaddick said:

Is it actually£7M? If you were to pay the loans off in full, today, would it be £7M or is that the figure the Directors get if and when we get to the PL?

Buyers best option is to offer Murray involvement for his £2.6mn Loan, then only £4.4mn to pay off.

Why should the Aussies pay off Duchatalet's debt?

Would you pay my Council Tax bill?

If he was buying the house off of you, yes! I would expect him to take over the monthly payments upon completion!

But I get your point. Roland’s debt, Roland’s issue

Blimey one more to leave in addition to Josh and the whole house could come crashing down like kerplunk.

We're going to need one of those seasons where a team somehow has a good season only using about 15 players all season.

We're going to need pretty much a signing every weekday this week just to fill the bench next Saturday especially if the injury curse of CAFC has struck Taylor already.

catfordmorry said:

Chizz said:

I'm aware that this - the most popular thread on any forum, anywhere (or something like that) - attracts a lot of people who are very familiar with the takeover. People have spent more than a year forensically examining every jot and tittle of leaks, rumours, guesses, dissembling, fabrication, diversion and supposition. The motivation, wealth and travel plans of super-rich individuals from good guys in Australia to a Melexis madman in Belgium have been pored over in microscopic detail. Everyone who has made their way from page 1 to page 1116+ has become something of an expert - both in international finance and relaxation techniques required to deal with the one constant: waiting.

But I am also aware that some people visit rarely, some people aren't even Charlton fans and some people simply don't get what the fuss is about.

So here's the thing. In the 1940s we won the FA Cup. We're the only team playing in South London that has done. But we are not going to win it again this season. In the 1980s we signed the best player in Europe. But we are not going to sign the best players in South London this season. In the 1990s, we played in Europe. But we're not going to play competitive matches outside England this season. In the 2000s we competed at the higher end of the Premier League. In 2004 we finished as the third-highest placed London team. This season, we're fighting with AFC Wimbledon for the title of tenth-highest.

This season, we won't win anything.

But we are going to celebrate as if we have won promotion, the women's team have won the league, Charlton Invicta have won their league and the Upbeats have rightfully been named in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards as Team of the Year. Why? Because the life will be put back into the club the day - the moment - the takeover is complete.

Fans of other teams won't get it. Success is measured on the pitch, they'll claim. You can't celebrate a change of ownership, when there are points still to win. Wrong!

The takeover, when it happens, will be the most important thing that has happened to this club this century. And the galvanising effect it will have on the club, its prospects and its fans will be transformational. Improved crowds, better support, optimistic attitude, better press, more attention, better signings, more points, higher finish, healthier, happier future.

The most important, most worthwhile single piece of news that can emanate from SE7. So, to all fans of other clubs, here's the thing: we're going to go fucking mental when it happens. It's bigger than you winning the Premier League. It's more important than you pocketing shed loads of euros from a Champions League. This is our club, our title, our cup, our win, our celebration. And we're going to make the most of it.

Nick Hornby's 1992 book, "Fever Pitch", culminates, as we all know, with the Woolwich rejects winning the League in 1989. In it he writes about his reaction including the memory of the banter bullying and bitchiness of his friends from school and work over the years. And how he would like to see their reaction at that time. Well this takeover will be bigger and better than that.

It's so important, it's so welcome and it's going to be so transformational that I would like to say simply, "I can't wait". But, as the last year or so has proved, I can. And I will.

Hold tight - it's on its way.

I’m spending the day, yes the day, catching up on this thread. And before anyone gets in and says it, I do have a life.
Just read this post.
With the addition of a few ‘doths’ and ‘wherefores’ this could be Shakespeare.
Henry the Fifth springs to mind.
Thankyou Chizz.

I can see it clearly.

'Chizz', performed at the Globe theatre, by Catfordmorry, dressed in doublet, ruff and hose. The groundlings (from the covered end) doth hiss and boo, and wherefore the happy clapping? The East and West galleries of course.

Plod?

The Red Robin said:

Plod?

Pissed Lads Obliterate Duchatelet

PC Bruce Dundee, attached to Charlton nick.

The Red Robin said:

Plod?

Plod nickname comes directly from Enid Blyton’s Noddy stories. Officer plod was a fat, slow, thick policeman.

cblock said:

Scoham
5:01PM
So what were the latest rumours at the game today? Any new deadlines to count down to?

Went in a well known watering hole before the game, staff member told me, after plod had done their visit,
that plod told him that it would be signed today and announced next week.

Good gawd... will this thread get any more ridicilous?

You can always ask the bloke in the liberal club that told me, he's bigger and harder than me,
and probably you as well : -0

cblock said:

You can always ask the bloke in the liberal club that told me, he's bigger and harder than me,
and probably you as well : -0

Excuse me? Don't let Fanny hear you say that!

I heard something similar from old bill because Mick Everitt has told them it will happen after the Norwich game, we will see.

So Mag gone another going this week,Bowyer dosnt know about his own future and Lyle injured,wr cant even field a full subs bench one week before the kick off --------so Mr Seed just out of interest what do the Aussies expect to be left when they finaly arrive ----assuming of course that they are ,which i no longer believe. Only asking as they said through you "2tough weeks but it will all be worth it".

Im still thinking Bowyer could walk any day.

The Refs doing it as he leaves the pitch after checking VAR first

killerandflash said:

Oggy Red said:

bobcafc7 said:

I heard something similar from old bill because Mick Everitt has told them it will happen after the Norwich game, we will see.

The deadline has passed.

No because it will happen after the Norwich game

1 day after, 1 week after, 1 month after, 1 light year after...

Oh good. We can now have a diversion about light years and how they're not a unit of time, but of distance. Just when we were all beginning to think that this thread had run out of tangents.

I’m just struggling to find any positives and believe that the new season will be nothing other than looking over our shoulders and hoping there’s three or four other clubs that are shitter than us. I’ve abandoned hope and that hurts my heart.