Can’t believe people are supporting Roland by saying his overvaluation is irrelavent. Makes me wonder what their motives are, can’t be for the future good of Charlton, must be something else.
Have we had OFFICIAL confirmation on the following:
- Has the takeover been cancelled - Have the Aussies Pulled Out
???
Didn't think so. We haven't heard anything official. Now i'll be the first to admit that it's not looking good from what people are hearing from their sources (not saying any of them are incorrect or false). However there are 2 sides to everything involved in this and we aren't hearing anything from one of the sides. So for all we know the deal could be still alive and they are working through the final (seemingly never-ending) steps and the NDA's are doing their job keeping the details confidential. The NDA's that have been put in place seem to have stopped most of the information coming out and the stuff that is 'leaking' does tends to be via a 3rd party (who might not be party of the NDA).
All we're doing is trying to put together the jigsaw that is the Takeover out of these rumours and its hard work
Keep the Faith
#TeamWIOTOS
(Wonder if the Aussies are travelling up for the Sunderland Game?)
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Nothing new there then, just a brief summary of what's been in the public domain for months. As you were...
So if Duchatelet doesn't get his asking price, he will have to continue to fund the losses. So next year, in his eyes, he'll be looking for c£50m, the year after c£60m ad infinitum, as we sink toward the National League. Makes perfect business sense to me.
Not surprised no one wants to pay Roland's unrealistic asking price.
I can't believe people talked about stalling protests - some clearly way too suckered in by the takeover saga. The bloke's personal life needs to be made very uncomfortable indeed. The sooner he realises holding on to CAFC isn't in his best interests, the better.
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
Fair play if you turned out to be right all along. As I’ve said I’ve only had very little info since the beer meeting, and none of that was financial. Of course we still don’t know definitively what’s going on, but I guess we’ll hear soon. If they’ve failed it’s a damned shame, because I think they had the potential to give us ‘proper’ ownership for the first time in years.
I think anyone has the potential to give us 'proper' ownership but let's face initially it at the time of takeover we thought the same about RD and the spivs!
Not surprised no one wants to pay Roland's unrealistic asking price.
I can't believe people talked about stalling protests - some clearly way too suckered in by the takeover saga. The bloke's personal life needs to be made very uncomfortable indeed. The sooner he realises holding on to CAFC isn't in his best interests, the better.
I think I'm beginning to agree. I can see this season approaching RD's ultimate exit endgame. A bit dystopian but...
If he can't find anyone mug enough to meet his price by the end of this season he will 1. Withdraw from the EFL 2. Liquidate all the playing assets 3. Redevelop the Valley Stayen-esque into a 6-8k 'Twoshits Community Stadium' and look for a tenant/new team the season after 4. Hang on to Sparrows until the pressure for housing becomes so great RBG allows residential development
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
Fair play if you turned out to be right all along. As I’ve said I’ve only had very little info since the beer meeting, and none of that was financial. Of course we still don’t know definitively what’s going on, but I guess we’ll hear soon. If they’ve failed it’s a damned shame, because I think they had the potential to give us ‘proper’ ownership for the first time in years.
I think anyone has the potential to give us 'proper' ownership but let's face initially it at the time of takeover we thought the same about RD and the spivs!
The problem is when your ship is sinking you are not really bothered who is in charge of the life boat.
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
Fair play if you turned out to be right all along. As I’ve said I’ve only had very little info since the beer meeting, and none of that was financial. Of course we still don’t know definitively what’s going on, but I guess we’ll hear soon. If they’ve failed it’s a damned shame, because I think they had the potential to give us ‘proper’ ownership for the first time in years.
I think anyone has the potential to give us 'proper' ownership but let's face initially it at the time of takeover we thought the same about RD and the spivs!
The difference here being that no one knew them personally did they? (As far as I know). I wouldn’t have said those things if I didn’t know GM, who I know for a fact isn’t/wasn’t trying to make a land grab, at least.
I'm pretty certain that no-one will have noticed but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to drum up any enthusiasm to post on this great site lately.
Part of me says I should contribute whether everything in the SE7 garden is rosy or whether it's being strangled by Japanese knotweed , but I can barely force myself to open this thread at the moment and that says it all.
In the close season, CL has always been my "saviour" - full of news, rumours but most of all optimism for the coming term and this has kept me going until we flood through those turnstiles once again, bursting with excitement and indeed, love for our club.
Oh for those days when life seemed so simple!
Pathetically, I have been reduced to a shadow of the Addick who couldn't wait for the next match , whether home or away and for whom there would have been one subject of conversation with friends & family from August to May.
During August and into September in past years, there has been a minor conflict between supporting my football club and my cricket team with the former inevitably being the winner.
However, with the decision not to travel to both Sunderland and Accrington ( not totally for footballing reasons) I find myself making plans for more visits to Canterbury and Beckenham whilst a family break to Disneyland Paris has been arranged in October with another home game the casualty.
A sad state of affairs indeed.
Of course, I shall be at our Valley home for the Shrewsbury match & there are no plans to miss subsequent ones but my enthusiasm is flagging alarmingly at this moment in time.
With matters on & off the pitch seemingly in total chaos, it could take something very special to rekindle "the love" and for Fanny's considerable, if saggy, loins to be girded once again.
Oh for a knight on a white charger !
Reg ! Where art thou ?
Hey Buddy we both know too well that although CAFC is a big part of life and the part that is meant to take away the shit stuff we face and be the escape it hasnt been like that for a while, nut we both also know theres more to lose in life than the thrill of 3 points and the pride in the team,
my advice Jean is to just focus on the real world stuff and let CAFC worry about its future theres not a jot any one can do to make RD sell any quicker if they dont front up the dough theres no sale the rest is all conjecture and bullshit peddled out deliberately to try and win favour from both sides
RD will sell when someone makes the right offer and shows their money, his valuation is irrelavent it doesnt matter if we think itys too high, if its too high no one will bite and he will have to reconsider
Fuck the takeover
Maybe just feeling particularly low this morning & reading the report from the SLP seems to have opened the flood gates.
Your post exudes common sense- something I've always lacked, letting my heart rule my head.
Thanks for the good advice.
We have both been feeling the 1st world pain stuff Jean CAFC just exagerates our euphoria or our sorrow, Its really not worth it
i think the fans have done a great job rallying and forcing the old scroat to sell up and that has happened he is selling so be proud of that
but we can do no more so do not let it over take whats important
But your whole point NLA is that he isn’t selling, he wants to sell, but he is not putting a reasonable value on it.
So why can’t we do more to make him realise that he has to sell at a lower price?
In the UK I feel that this is limited but if we had people in Sint Truiden every week pushing the ROT agenda, that must be worth the effort.
For too many months now we have thought the takeover was imminent but it may not be and the main reason is because while Duchatelet wants to sell, he doesn’t want to sell enough.
He is selling ?
the club is up for sale is it not,
the valuation of CAFC is not for us to decide, he has had 2 offers in or around his valuation so as far as he is concerned he is in the correct ball park
i aint saying stop doing whatever people wish to do to continue embarrasing him but he is a very very wealthy man and his financial clout is a big concern as i honestly believe that he is rich enough to make this very very difficult for us as fans and will go when he decides the time and the price is right, not when he has had enough of the gripes we cause
Not surprised no one wants to pay Roland's unrealistic asking price.
I can't believe people talked about stalling protests - some clearly way too suckered in by the takeover saga. The bloke's personal life needs to be made very uncomfortable indeed. The sooner he realises holding on to CAFC isn't in his best interests, the better.
Problem is that it seems the Aussies were willing to pay an agreed price if they could get funding. Unfortunately if true that may have raised Roland's expectations. Perhaps without their interest Roland would have to have listened to one of the more reasonable bids some time ago! If they could not complete what they started they have probably right f'd us up!
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
That's assuming the consortium was ever complete in the first place, not including people who already had stakes in other clubs, which the EFL were never going to stand for.
You know my personal view on it Stu , i have never for one moment believed they had the funds secured to complete and i was then and i still am very happy to be proven wrong
I'm pretty certain that no-one will have noticed but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to drum up any enthusiasm to post on this great site lately.
Part of me says I should contribute whether everything in the SE7 garden is rosy or whether it's being strangled by Japanese knotweed , but I can barely force myself to open this thread at the moment and that says it all.
In the close season, CL has always been my "saviour" - full of news, rumours but most of all optimism for the coming term and this has kept me going until we flood through those turnstiles once again, bursting with excitement and indeed, love for our club.
Oh for those days when life seemed so simple!
Pathetically, I have been reduced to a shadow of the Addick who couldn't wait for the next match , whether home or away and for whom there would have been one subject of conversation with friends & family from August to May.
During August and into September in past years, there has been a minor conflict between supporting my football club and my cricket team with the former inevitably being the winner.
However, with the decision not to travel to both Sunderland and Accrington ( not totally for footballing reasons) I find myself making plans for more visits to Canterbury and Beckenham whilst a family break to Disneyland Paris has been arranged in October with another home game the casualty.
A sad state of affairs indeed.
Of course, I shall be at our Valley home for the Shrewsbury match & there are no plans to miss subsequent ones but my enthusiasm is flagging alarmingly at this moment in time.
With matters on & off the pitch seemingly in total chaos, it could take something very special to rekindle "the love" and for Fanny's considerable, if saggy, loins to be girded once again.
Oh for a knight on a white charger !
Reg ! Where art thou ?
Hey Buddy we both know too well that although CAFC is a big part of life and the part that is meant to take away the shit stuff we face and be the escape it hasnt been like that for a while, nut we both also know theres more to lose in life than the thrill of 3 points and the pride in the team,
my advice Jean is to just focus on the real world stuff and let CAFC worry about its future theres not a jot any one can do to make RD sell any quicker if they dont front up the dough theres no sale the rest is all conjecture and bullshit peddled out deliberately to try and win favour from both sides
RD will sell when someone makes the right offer and shows their money, his valuation is irrelavent it doesnt matter if we think itys too high, if its too high no one will bite and he will have to reconsider
Fuck the takeover
Maybe just feeling particularly low this morning & reading the report from the SLP seems to have opened the flood gates.
Your post exudes common sense- something I've always lacked, letting my heart rule my head.
Thanks for the good advice.
We have both been feeling the 1st world pain stuff Jean CAFC just exagerates our euphoria or our sorrow, Its really not worth it
i think the fans have done a great job rallying and forcing the old scroat to sell up and that has happened he is selling so be proud of that
but we can do no more so do not let it over take whats important
But your whole point NLA is that he isn’t selling, he wants to sell, but he is not putting a reasonable value on it.
So why can’t we do more to make him realise that he has to sell at a lower price?
In the UK I feel that this is limited but if we had people in Sint Truiden every week pushing the ROT agenda, that must be worth the effort.
For too many months now we have thought the takeover was imminent but it may not be and the main reason is because while Duchatelet wants to sell, he doesn’t want to sell enough.
He is selling ?
the club is up for sale is it not,
the valuation of CAFC is not for us to decide, he has had 2 offers in or around his valuation so as far as he is concerned he is in the correct ball park
i aint saying stop doing whatever people wish to do to continue embarrasing him but he is a very very wealthy man and his financial clout is a big concern as i honestly believe that he is rich enough to make this very very difficult for us as fans and will go when he decides the time and the price is right, not when he has had enough of the gripes we cause
So he's happy to lose x million per year as long as it pisses off a few fans?
Seems like an even weirder individual than I thought if he's effectively willing to pay a "wind up Charlton fans" subscription service.
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
That's assuming the consortium was ever complete in the first place, not including people who already had stakes in other clubs, which the EFL were never going to stand for.
You know my personal view on it Stu , i have never for one moment believed they had the funds secured to complete and i was then and i still am very happy to be proven wrong
Aye, I reckon we've dodged a bullet, hopefully someone with proper money shows an interest soon.
I'm pretty certain that no-one will have noticed but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to drum up any enthusiasm to post on this great site lately.
Part of me says I should contribute whether everything in the SE7 garden is rosy or whether it's being strangled by Japanese knotweed , but I can barely force myself to open this thread at the moment and that says it all.
In the close season, CL has always been my "saviour" - full of news, rumours but most of all optimism for the coming term and this has kept me going until we flood through those turnstiles once again, bursting with excitement and indeed, love for our club.
Oh for those days when life seemed so simple!
Pathetically, I have been reduced to a shadow of the Addick who couldn't wait for the next match , whether home or away and for whom there would have been one subject of conversation with friends & family from August to May.
During August and into September in past years, there has been a minor conflict between supporting my football club and my cricket team with the former inevitably being the winner.
However, with the decision not to travel to both Sunderland and Accrington ( not totally for footballing reasons) I find myself making plans for more visits to Canterbury and Beckenham whilst a family break to Disneyland Paris has been arranged in October with another home game the casualty.
A sad state of affairs indeed.
Of course, I shall be at our Valley home for the Shrewsbury match & there are no plans to miss subsequent ones but my enthusiasm is flagging alarmingly at this moment in time.
With matters on & off the pitch seemingly in total chaos, it could take something very special to rekindle "the love" and for Fanny's considerable, if saggy, loins to be girded once again.
Oh for a knight on a white charger !
Reg ! Where art thou ?
Hey Buddy we both know too well that although CAFC is a big part of life and the part that is meant to take away the shit stuff we face and be the escape it hasnt been like that for a while, nut we both also know theres more to lose in life than the thrill of 3 points and the pride in the team,
my advice Jean is to just focus on the real world stuff and let CAFC worry about its future theres not a jot any one can do to make RD sell any quicker if they dont front up the dough theres no sale the rest is all conjecture and bullshit peddled out deliberately to try and win favour from both sides
RD will sell when someone makes the right offer and shows their money, his valuation is irrelavent it doesnt matter if we think itys too high, if its too high no one will bite and he will have to reconsider
Fuck the takeover
Maybe just feeling particularly low this morning & reading the report from the SLP seems to have opened the flood gates.
Your post exudes common sense- something I've always lacked, letting my heart rule my head.
Thanks for the good advice.
We have both been feeling the 1st world pain stuff Jean CAFC just exagerates our euphoria or our sorrow, Its really not worth it
i think the fans have done a great job rallying and forcing the old scroat to sell up and that has happened he is selling so be proud of that
but we can do no more so do not let it over take whats important
But your whole point NLA is that he isn’t selling, he wants to sell, but he is not putting a reasonable value on it.
So why can’t we do more to make him realise that he has to sell at a lower price?
In the UK I feel that this is limited but if we had people in Sint Truiden every week pushing the ROT agenda, that must be worth the effort.
For too many months now we have thought the takeover was imminent but it may not be and the main reason is because while Duchatelet wants to sell, he doesn’t want to sell enough.
He is selling ?
the club is up for sale is it not,
the valuation of CAFC is not for us to decide, he has had 2 offers in or around his valuation so as far as he is concerned he is in the correct ball park
i aint saying stop doing whatever people wish to do to continue embarrasing him but he is a very very wealthy man and his financial clout is a big concern as i honestly believe that he is rich enough to make this very very difficult for us as fans and will go when he decides the time and the price is right, not when he has had enough of the gripes we cause
So he's happy to lose x million per year as long as it pisses off a few fans?
Seems like an even weirder individual than I thought if he's effectively willing to pay a "wind up Charlton fans" subscription service.
He certainly has shown nothing to me prior to this situation to say he is anything other than a very rich Oddball and because of this why we expect him to act rationally or with the business accumin that others have pointed out as the best thing he can do
the bloke is hell bent on fucking us over i am sure of it
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
That's assuming the consortium was ever complete in the first place, not including people who already had stakes in other clubs, which the EFL were never going to stand for.
You know my personal view on it Stu , i have never for one moment believed they had the funds secured to complete and i was then and i still am very happy to be proven wrong
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
That's assuming the consortium was ever complete in the first place, not including people who already had stakes in other clubs, which the EFL were never going to stand for.
You know my personal view on it Stu , i have never for one moment believed they had the funds secured to complete and i was then and i still am very happy to be proven wrong
I believe they did on May 18th.
But if that involved people any idiot knew The EFL would reject, it amounts to the same thing, surely?
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
That's assuming the consortium was ever complete in the first place, not including people who already had stakes in other clubs, which the EFL were never going to stand for.
You know my personal view on it Stu , i have never for one moment believed they had the funds secured to complete and i was then and i still am very happy to be proven wrong
I believe they did on May 18th.
But if that involved people any idiot knew The EFL would reject, it amounts to the same thing, surely?
That assumes these ARE people "any idiot knew the EFL would reject" , which is far from confirmed. There is only one person confirmed as part of the consortium and that's Muir, who the EFL would have no reason to reject. The other names have all been speculative.
I'm pretty certain that no-one will have noticed but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to drum up any enthusiasm to post on this great site lately.
Part of me says I should contribute whether everything in the SE7 garden is rosy or whether it's being strangled by Japanese knotweed , but I can barely force myself to open this thread at the moment and that says it all.
In the close season, CL has always been my "saviour" - full of news, rumours but most of all optimism for the coming term and this has kept me going until we flood through those turnstiles once again, bursting with excitement and indeed, love for our club.
Oh for those days when life seemed so simple!
Pathetically, I have been reduced to a shadow of the Addick who couldn't wait for the next match , whether home or away and for whom there would have been one subject of conversation with friends & family from August to May.
During August and into September in past years, there has been a minor conflict between supporting my football club and my cricket team with the former inevitably being the winner.
However, with the decision not to travel to both Sunderland and Accrington ( not totally for footballing reasons) I find myself making plans for more visits to Canterbury and Beckenham whilst a family break to Disneyland Paris has been arranged in October with another home game the casualty.
A sad state of affairs indeed.
Of course, I shall be at our Valley home for the Shrewsbury match & there are no plans to miss subsequent ones but my enthusiasm is flagging alarmingly at this moment in time.
With matters on & off the pitch seemingly in total chaos, it could take something very special to rekindle "the love" and for Fanny's considerable, if saggy, loins to be girded once again.
Oh for a knight on a white charger !
Reg ! Where art thou ?
Hey Buddy we both know too well that although CAFC is a big part of life and the part that is meant to take away the shit stuff we face and be the escape it hasnt been like that for a while, nut we both also know theres more to lose in life than the thrill of 3 points and the pride in the team,
my advice Jean is to just focus on the real world stuff and let CAFC worry about its future theres not a jot any one can do to make RD sell any quicker if they dont front up the dough theres no sale the rest is all conjecture and bullshit peddled out deliberately to try and win favour from both sides
RD will sell when someone makes the right offer and shows their money, his valuation is irrelavent it doesnt matter if we think itys too high, if its too high no one will bite and he will have to reconsider
Fuck the takeover
Maybe just feeling particularly low this morning & reading the report from the SLP seems to have opened the flood gates.
Your post exudes common sense- something I've always lacked, letting my heart rule my head.
Thanks for the good advice.
We have both been feeling the 1st world pain stuff Jean CAFC just exagerates our euphoria or our sorrow, Its really not worth it
i think the fans have done a great job rallying and forcing the old scroat to sell up and that has happened he is selling so be proud of that
but we can do no more so do not let it over take whats important
But your whole point NLA is that he isn’t selling, he wants to sell, but he is not putting a reasonable value on it.
So why can’t we do more to make him realise that he has to sell at a lower price?
In the UK I feel that this is limited but if we had people in Sint Truiden every week pushing the ROT agenda, that must be worth the effort.
For too many months now we have thought the takeover was imminent but it may not be and the main reason is because while Duchatelet wants to sell, he doesn’t want to sell enough.
He is selling ?
the club is up for sale is it not,
the valuation of CAFC is not for us to decide, he has had 2 offers in or around his valuation so as far as he is concerned he is in the correct ball park
i aint saying stop doing whatever people wish to do to continue embarrasing him but he is a very very wealthy man and his financial clout is a big concern as i honestly believe that he is rich enough to make this very very difficult for us as fans and will go when he decides the time and the price is right, not when he has had enough of the gripes we cause
So he's happy to lose x million per year as long as it pisses off a few fans?
Seems like an even weirder individual than I thought if he's effectively willing to pay a "wind up Charlton fans" subscription service.
He certainly has shown nothing to me prior to this situation to say he is anything other than a very rich Oddball and because of this why we expect him to act rationally or with the business accumin that others have pointed out as the best thing he can do
the bloke is hell bent on fucking us over i am sure of it
Is he? Or does he just want his asking price?
If someone could complete a deal for£50m (or whatever he wants) today he'd sell. I don't believe he'd hang on for a few months to wind up Charlton fans.
I'm pretty certain that no-one will have noticed but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to drum up any enthusiasm to post on this great site lately.
Part of me says I should contribute whether everything in the SE7 garden is rosy or whether it's being strangled by Japanese knotweed , but I can barely force myself to open this thread at the moment and that says it all.
In the close season, CL has always been my "saviour" - full of news, rumours but most of all optimism for the coming term and this has kept me going until we flood through those turnstiles once again, bursting with excitement and indeed, love for our club.
Oh for those days when life seemed so simple!
Pathetically, I have been reduced to a shadow of the Addick who couldn't wait for the next match , whether home or away and for whom there would have been one subject of conversation with friends & family from August to May.
During August and into September in past years, there has been a minor conflict between supporting my football club and my cricket team with the former inevitably being the winner.
However, with the decision not to travel to both Sunderland and Accrington ( not totally for footballing reasons) I find myself making plans for more visits to Canterbury and Beckenham whilst a family break to Disneyland Paris has been arranged in October with another home game the casualty.
A sad state of affairs indeed.
Of course, I shall be at our Valley home for the Shrewsbury match & there are no plans to miss subsequent ones but my enthusiasm is flagging alarmingly at this moment in time.
With matters on & off the pitch seemingly in total chaos, it could take something very special to rekindle "the love" and for Fanny's considerable, if saggy, loins to be girded once again.
Oh for a knight on a white charger !
Reg ! Where art thou ?
Hey Buddy we both know too well that although CAFC is a big part of life and the part that is meant to take away the shit stuff we face and be the escape it hasnt been like that for a while, nut we both also know theres more to lose in life than the thrill of 3 points and the pride in the team,
my advice Jean is to just focus on the real world stuff and let CAFC worry about its future theres not a jot any one can do to make RD sell any quicker if they dont front up the dough theres no sale the rest is all conjecture and bullshit peddled out deliberately to try and win favour from both sides
RD will sell when someone makes the right offer and shows their money, his valuation is irrelavent it doesnt matter if we think itys too high, if its too high no one will bite and he will have to reconsider
Fuck the takeover
Maybe just feeling particularly low this morning & reading the report from the SLP seems to have opened the flood gates.
Your post exudes common sense- something I've always lacked, letting my heart rule my head.
Thanks for the good advice.
We have both been feeling the 1st world pain stuff Jean CAFC just exagerates our euphoria or our sorrow, Its really not worth it
i think the fans have done a great job rallying and forcing the old scroat to sell up and that has happened he is selling so be proud of that
but we can do no more so do not let it over take whats important
But your whole point NLA is that he isn’t selling, he wants to sell, but he is not putting a reasonable value on it.
So why can’t we do more to make him realise that he has to sell at a lower price?
In the UK I feel that this is limited but if we had people in Sint Truiden every week pushing the ROT agenda, that must be worth the effort.
For too many months now we have thought the takeover was imminent but it may not be and the main reason is because while Duchatelet wants to sell, he doesn’t want to sell enough.
He is selling ?
the club is up for sale is it not,
the valuation of CAFC is not for us to decide, he has had 2 offers in or around his valuation so as far as he is concerned he is in the correct ball park
i aint saying stop doing whatever people wish to do to continue embarrasing him but he is a very very wealthy man and his financial clout is a big concern as i honestly believe that he is rich enough to make this very very difficult for us as fans and will go when he decides the time and the price is right, not when he has had enough of the gripes we cause
So he's happy to lose x million per year as long as it pisses off a few fans?
Seems like an even weirder individual than I thought if he's effectively willing to pay a "wind up Charlton fans" subscription service.
He certainly has shown nothing to me prior to this situation to say he is anything other than a very rich Oddball and because of this why we expect him to act rationally or with the business accumin that others have pointed out as the best thing he can do
the bloke is hell bent on fucking us over i am sure of it
Is he? Or does he just want his asking price?
If someone could complete a deal for£50m (or whatever he wants) today he'd sell. I don't believe he'd hang on for a few months to wind up Charlton fans.
Thats not what i have suggested,
if you read back its about the fact that there are people saying he has an unrealistic valaution, I am saying that may well be the case but RD is not bothered by that, so far 2 sets of people have offered his valuation or close enough to it to be willing to sell,
but until the point of completion to his valuation he will just continue being a cock
You have to admit. At this point things are not looking good.
Am I alone in thinking that The Trust should once again be pushing for a statement from the club. The new season is right here. Right now. We currently have No Chairman, CEO, CFO, No permanent team manager and only 17 players on the coach to Sunderland tomorrow.
maybe they could ask for an apology at the same time
I'm pretty certain that no-one will have noticed but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to drum up any enthusiasm to post on this great site lately.
Part of me says I should contribute whether everything in the SE7 garden is rosy or whether it's being strangled by Japanese knotweed , but I can barely force myself to open this thread at the moment and that says it all.
In the close season, CL has always been my "saviour" - full of news, rumours but most of all optimism for the coming term and this has kept me going until we flood through those turnstiles once again, bursting with excitement and indeed, love for our club.
Oh for those days when life seemed so simple!
Pathetically, I have been reduced to a shadow of the Addick who couldn't wait for the next match , whether home or away and for whom there would have been one subject of conversation with friends & family from August to May.
During August and into September in past years, there has been a minor conflict between supporting my football club and my cricket team with the former inevitably being the winner.
However, with the decision not to travel to both Sunderland and Accrington ( not totally for footballing reasons) I find myself making plans for more visits to Canterbury and Beckenham whilst a family break to Disneyland Paris has been arranged in October with another home game the casualty.
A sad state of affairs indeed.
Of course, I shall be at our Valley home for the Shrewsbury match & there are no plans to miss subsequent ones but my enthusiasm is flagging alarmingly at this moment in time.
With matters on & off the pitch seemingly in total chaos, it could take something very special to rekindle "the love" and for Fanny's considerable, if saggy, loins to be girded once again.
Oh for a knight on a white charger !
Reg ! Where art thou ?
Hey Buddy we both know too well that although CAFC is a big part of life and the part that is meant to take away the shit stuff we face and be the escape it hasnt been like that for a while, nut we both also know theres more to lose in life than the thrill of 3 points and the pride in the team,
my advice Jean is to just focus on the real world stuff and let CAFC worry about its future theres not a jot any one can do to make RD sell any quicker if they dont front up the dough theres no sale the rest is all conjecture and bullshit peddled out deliberately to try and win favour from both sides
RD will sell when someone makes the right offer and shows their money, his valuation is irrelavent it doesnt matter if we think itys too high, if its too high no one will bite and he will have to reconsider
Fuck the takeover
Maybe just feeling particularly low this morning & reading the report from the SLP seems to have opened the flood gates.
Your post exudes common sense- something I've always lacked, letting my heart rule my head.
Thanks for the good advice.
We have both been feeling the 1st world pain stuff Jean CAFC just exagerates our euphoria or our sorrow, Its really not worth it
i think the fans have done a great job rallying and forcing the old scroat to sell up and that has happened he is selling so be proud of that
but we can do no more so do not let it over take whats important
But your whole point NLA is that he isn’t selling, he wants to sell, but he is not putting a reasonable value on it.
So why can’t we do more to make him realise that he has to sell at a lower price?
In the UK I feel that this is limited but if we had people in Sint Truiden every week pushing the ROT agenda, that must be worth the effort.
For too many months now we have thought the takeover was imminent but it may not be and the main reason is because while Duchatelet wants to sell, he doesn’t want to sell enough.
He is selling ?
the club is up for sale is it not,
the valuation of CAFC is not for us to decide, he has had 2 offers in or around his valuation so as far as he is concerned he is in the correct ball park
i aint saying stop doing whatever people wish to do to continue embarrasing him but he is a very very wealthy man and his financial clout is a big concern as i honestly believe that he is rich enough to make this very very difficult for us as fans and will go when he decides the time and the price is right, not when he has had enough of the gripes we cause
So he's happy to lose x million per year as long as it pisses off a few fans?
Seems like an even weirder individual than I thought if he's effectively willing to pay a "wind up Charlton fans" subscription service.
He certainly has shown nothing to me prior to this situation to say he is anything other than a very rich Oddball and because of this why we expect him to act rationally or with the business accumin that others have pointed out as the best thing he can do
the bloke is hell bent on fucking us over i am sure of it
Totally agree NLA and like you, I have been saying it all along.
The money is irrelevant to him. All he wants is payback for the embarrassment that he has rightly suffered in his own country. He is a sadistic megalomaniac and will be absolutely loving the merry-go-round that he has put everybody on! Trouble is, this merry-go-round only has a stop button when he decides to push it.
Click on it to read it. Basically says Keith Harris has been trying to find new investors so the takeover can go through, and that it’s unclear if that’s happened. If it hasn’t happened it says it’s in danger of collapsing.
Ahem “Aussies ain’t got the money”
Drops mic and walks away could’ve closed the thread in October
Ah, so this is the famous ‘waving of the willy’ that I’ve heard so much about ;-)
seems to be what the SLP are indicating @JamesSeed i think theres been so much dragging of heels that people interested have said i am off
That's assuming the consortium was ever complete in the first place, not including people who already had stakes in other clubs, which the EFL were never going to stand for.
You know my personal view on it Stu , i have never for one moment believed they had the funds secured to complete and i was then and i still am very happy to be proven wrong
Aye, I reckon we've dodged a bullet, hopefully someone with proper money shows an interest soon.
If there was any other party interested in paying RD's price then they'd surely have come forward by now.
On the eve of a new season & the club is dying. Surely its not to much to ask for an update from BOTH sides. NDA's are dead & buried if everyone knows who is trying to buy us so time for honesty all round. If its over then say so......if its the ex-director loans holding it up then say so.
If not, get in touch with the EFL & get them to sort it out. We have no CEO & CFO - transfer window shuts in less than a week & we haven't enough players to field a full 18 man squad.
Comments
- Has the takeover been cancelled
- Have the Aussies Pulled Out
???
Didn't think so. We haven't heard anything official. Now i'll be the first to admit that it's not looking good from what people are hearing from their sources (not saying any of them are incorrect or false). However there are 2 sides to everything involved in this and we aren't hearing anything from one of the sides. So for all we know the deal could be still alive and they are working through the final (seemingly never-ending) steps and the NDA's are doing their job keeping the details confidential. The NDA's that have been put in place seem to have stopped most of the information coming out and the stuff that is 'leaking' does tends to be via a 3rd party (who might not be party of the NDA).
All we're doing is trying to put together the jigsaw that is the Takeover out of these rumours and its hard work
Keep the Faith
#TeamWIOTOS
(Wonder if the Aussies are travelling up for the Sunderland Game?)
I can't believe people talked about stalling protests - some clearly way too suckered in by the takeover saga. The bloke's personal life needs to be made very uncomfortable indeed. The sooner he realises holding on to CAFC isn't in his best interests, the better.
If he can't find anyone mug enough to meet his price by the end of this season he will
1. Withdraw from the EFL
2. Liquidate all the playing assets
3. Redevelop the Valley Stayen-esque into a 6-8k 'Twoshits Community Stadium' and look for a tenant/new team the season after
4. Hang on to Sparrows until the pressure for housing becomes so great RBG allows residential development
I wouldn’t have said those things if I didn’t know GM, who I know for a fact isn’t/wasn’t trying to make a land grab, at least.
He is selling ?
the club is up for sale is it not,
the valuation of CAFC is not for us to decide, he has had 2 offers in or around his valuation so as far as he is concerned he is in the correct ball park
i aint saying stop doing whatever people wish to do to continue embarrasing him but he is a very very wealthy man and his financial clout is a big concern as i honestly believe that he is rich enough to make this very very difficult for us as fans and will go when he decides the time and the price is right, not when he has had enough of the gripes we cause
Seems like an even weirder individual than I thought if he's effectively willing to pay a "wind up Charlton fans" subscription service.
He certainly has shown nothing to me prior to this situation to say he is anything other than a very rich Oddball and because of this why we expect him to act rationally or with the business accumin that others have pointed out as the best thing he can do
the bloke is hell bent on fucking us over i am sure of it
If someone could complete a deal for£50m (or whatever he wants) today he'd sell. I don't believe he'd hang on for a few months to wind up Charlton fans.
if you read back its about the fact that there are people saying he has an unrealistic valaution, I am saying that may well be the case but RD is not bothered by that, so far 2 sets of people have offered his valuation or close enough to it to be willing to sell,
but until the point of completion to his valuation he will just continue being a cock
The money is irrelevant to him. All he wants is payback for the embarrassment that he has rightly suffered in his own country. He is a sadistic megalomaniac and will be absolutely loving the merry-go-round that he has put everybody on! Trouble is, this merry-go-round only has a stop button when he decides to push it.
On the eve of a new season & the club is dying. Surely its not to much to ask for an update from BOTH sides. NDA's are dead & buried if everyone knows who is trying to buy us so time for honesty all round. If its over then say so......if its the ex-director loans holding it up then say so.
If not, get in touch with the EFL & get them to sort it out. We have no CEO & CFO - transfer window shuts in less than a week & we haven't enough players to field a full 18 man squad.
This ain't a fecking game.