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BREAKING NEWS - ROLAND AND BOWYER FAIL TO REACH CONTRACT AGREEMENT
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I just can’t see how bowyer can work for him after that statement25
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This thread reached 15 pages quicker than the takeover thread (might not have checked this for accuracy), I think the original poster deserves a promote10
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Roland must finally realise that he needs Lee more than Lee needs him!5
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Statements like that piss me off. It’s not the full picture at all and just dismissed as a run of the mill managerial change.JamesSeed said:5Live just put Bowyer in the frame for the Derby job as ‘by all accounts he left Charlton this morning’.
He hasn’t though.3 -
This is the key thing.roseandcrown said:I just can’t see how bowyer can work for him after that statement
If it’s a short term deal, it means he is close to going.1 -
I honestly think Roland thought that implying Bowyer's greed would mitigate the reaction. He is opening a very dangerous box for a few hundred grand - and he will lose far more than that as a result of this unless somebody close to him slaps him in the face and gets him to come to his senses before tomorrow.
Despite the insult of that statement, if Roland gave Bowyer a fair offer, I think he would stay for us. But it has to be a fair offer. What the bloke did was a miracle FFS!4 -
RD is utterly deranged - there is no other explanation. How can you deal with this arrogant turd?1
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Would that be being the bigger man, or just an admiral that Duchâtelet has ‘won’...Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch said:
If true, I suspect something will be done. Bowyer to sign a slightly improved deal, to be the bigger man, fans behind him even more, and a foot in the door when new owners come on board. Lee's agent I would hope will mainly focus on negotiating a suitable break clause, e.g. allowing Bowyer to leave if an alternative offer comes in, club not sold, etc. Pushing for a market rate salary with the current owner is a non starter. Buying time until there's a new owner / offer elsewhere does seem achievable.Bedsaddick said:
duchatelet has been clear in that he won’t offer more than he wants to pay so the only person likely to be coming down is bowyer0 -
How i read this……
First the statement put up on club o/s......not seen anything like it before.
No one can understand WHY Roland has done what he has done to this club since he became owner in JAN 2014.
If players start to leave Charlton Athletic in the next few weeks with Roland still owner of this club it can only spiral downwards.
My hope is that this is under instructions from NEW OWNERS OF CLUB but i would not count on that.
Bowyer and his management team have work wonders on this club since taking over in march 2018.
All deserve better treatment than what has been given.
Roland just sell the club...…..not the management and the players down the river.
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I hope Lee landed one on the deranged old fucker when he walked out on his foul presence!1
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If Bowyer ends up signing tomorrow, it has to only be because he knows Roland will be off soon. Maybe Lee would rather take the temporary low wages and stay at the club he truly has a passion for than walk away, knowing a new owner would give would be more likely to give him a pay raise. Given the statement today, he'd be a bigger man than I if he legitimately works something out in the morning. I'm quite confused by everything today and agree there is something mentally wrong with Roland to make a statement like that. Bowyer may yet outsmart him. Let's see4
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RD doesn't need LB as RD couldn't care-a-less about CAFC in the long run, he just wants to sell the club for his price and what happens on the field in the meantime is immaterial to him.
How much LB wants CAFC we don't know and that will be the crux of the continuing negotiations this week. I guess RD is also talking to interested parties to buy the club as now is the optimum time to sell, that will diminish as the new season progresses and the team start failing due to a lack of current investment by the owner.
As supporters all we can do is put pressure on RD, but I know not how, and show any prospective owner that we support the team not the regime.0 -
I'm absolutely gobsmacked that anyone would be surprised at this. The facts are:
1. Roland fell out of love with Charlton and English football as soon the other League clubs welched on FFP. He never did care if we were successful on the pitch, but now he hates the fans who never did recognise his 'genius'.
2. The one thing he is right about is that footballers and managers collectively are overpaid. What he has never grasped, is that it's built into the system - you can't buck the trend without becoming the fall guy.
3. He has zero emotional intelligence and precious little in the way of communication skills.
These three facts mean that as long as he is associated our club, the next crisis point will always be just around the corner. Getting promoted, and especially doing so at Wembley, was fantastic but that doesn't mean that everything is hunky dory. I fear that too many of our fans were suckered in, thinking that success on the pitch meant that things were somehow right at the club. Not a bit of it. The first team success last season was despite Duchâtelet, not because of him. Here's my advice to anyone supporting Charlton whilst he has his hand on the tiller:
1. Enjoy any good times, because they are likely to be few and far between.
2. Never expect the club to to the right thing, because invariably under Roly, it won't.
3. Not a penny more.17 -
If Lee stays working on peanuts and then the new owners decide to replace him I’ll be fuming.
we could get 0 point and lose 6-0 every week, Bowyer has earned a long contract regardless.1 -
I bloody hope you’re right. Has the prospective new owner said: ‘Take RD’s deal while I sort buying the club, then I’ll give you a new contract in a week or so.’? Or am i dreaming @Airman Brown ?Rossman92 said:If Bowyer ends up signing tomorrow, it has to only be because he knows Roland will be off soon. Maybe Lee would rather take the temporary low wages and stay at the club he truly has a passion for than walk away, knowing a new owner would give would be more likely to give him a pay raise. Given the statement today, he'd be a bigger man than I if he legitimately works something out in the morning. I'm quite confused by everything today and agree there is something mentally wrong with Roland to make a statement like that. Bowyer may yet outsmart him. Let's see0 -
Lee deserves a decent job, salary and owner.2
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Maybe don’t say anymore Lyle, no ones really expecting you to.ForeverAddickted said:12 -
Best if he kept his mouth shut.se9addick said:
Maybe don’t say anymore Lyle, no ones really expecting you to.ForeverAddickted said:1 -
Bollox! What a day.
That statement on our official site is not just embarrassing it is confusing. He must of been drunk,angry or both when writing that.0 - Sponsored links:
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Basically...hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
Best if he kept his mouth shut.se9addick said:
Maybe don’t say anymore Lyle, no ones really expecting you to.ForeverAddickted said:0 -
My daughter is absolutely distraught after I’ve just come in and told her what’s happened0
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https://mobile.twitter.com/josh_harris19/status/1140657379014598657
If that’s too far mods, delete it, but I found it funny.10 -
Exactly. RD has made it impossible for him to stay and retain his credibility. And I'm thinking that was intentional.roseandcrown said:I just can’t see how bowyer can work for him after that statement0 -
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I bloody hope you’re right. Has the prospective new owner said: ‘Take RD’s deal while I sort buying the club, then I’ll give you a new contract in a week or so.’? Or am i dreaming @Airman Brown ?Rossman92 said:If Bowyer ends up signing tomorrow, it has to only be because he knows Roland will be off soon. Maybe Lee would rather take the temporary low wages and stay at the club he truly has a passion for than walk away, knowing a new owner would give would be more likely to give him a pay raise. Given the statement today, he'd be a bigger man than I if he legitimately works something out in the morning. I'm quite confused by everything today and agree there is something mentally wrong with Roland to make a statement like that. Bowyer may yet outsmart him. Let's see
The more likely thing is Lee walks in and gives Roland the ol' Kieron Dyer1 -
Roland the Generous is paying for a tuk tuk to pick up Lee and take him to Belgium tomorrow. He should be there by Friday0
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We could always try this, although section 1 part 2 is a worry!
https://www.wikihow.com/Put-a-Curse-on-Someone
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Anger and disappointment at this news of course. The manner in which it has been done though has left me stunned. We all know RD’s approach to things is not normal but for an owner to do this is staggering. Totally unnecessary and totally classless.
I’m desperate for Bowyer the be here next season. My hope, like others have mentioned, is that Bowyer gets an offer more deserving of his tenure so far and then renegotiates once the sale goes through.2 -
I think Lee has to go after the way he has been treated - he deserves better.sirjohnhumphrey said:Anger and disappointment at this news of course. The manner in which it has been done though has left me stunned. We all know RD’s approach to things is not normal but for an owner to do this is staggering. Totally unnecessary and totally classless.
I’m desperate for Bowyer the be here next season. My hope, like others have mentioned, is that Bowyer gets an offer more deserving of his tenure so far and then renegotiates once the sale goes through.0 -
I don’t doubt Rich Cawley is well intentioned but you have to question his contacts as on Friday he told us talks are progressing well and then today we get another Roland rant. What would we have got if talks were progressing badly I wonder. Now Cawley says Bowyer and Roland are going to talk tomorrow. I’m taking that with a very large pinch of salt.1
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