Standoff in the Boardroom - New Insights and quotes.

charltonbob said:

RedRobin said:

That article makes me both proud and angry! That prick really did think he was something didn’t he? Lee Amis better not show his face down the Valley ever again! Scumbags the lot of them. It changes my perception of TN but only slightly.

Not sure what to make of TN after this, was he just stupid/naive/ caught up by mouthalls lies. He does seem to have been "working" with/ taking into confidence Tracey, & he brought the Rumanian lawyer in who it appears to have been a big help in sorting things within the club. Or do I have the wrong end of the stick ? Whatever, thanks to all who played a massive part in clearing the way forward to where we are today.

I'd recommend people to continue to regard Nimer/Nemer with utmost suspicion, for reasons I'll lay out. Before that though,I'd just say that I have huge sympathy for those CAFC staff having to make the difficult call of Nimer v Southall, and in their shoes I'd probably have made the same call. 

That said, we need to remember the following:

1. We know beyond reasonable doubt that Nimer did not put in any money to the club at all.
2. We have reasonable evidence that he took, or expected to take, money out, in the form of 'fees', and likely, extravagant expenses as well. I'd very much like to know whether or not the bill for that dinner with the players and all found its way back to the club, for example, ditto his first class tickets from the Emirates.
3. (Most damaging, and also most puzzling). ADBD. It was presented to us as "his" "investment fund". He appointed Heller to it as CEO, while Hirst and van Seventer (standing to the left of Nimer in those photos) were presented as executive directors. Each of them were given three of the six cars to drive around in. This means that Nimer was exercised by lavish expenditures on, mainly, the cars, but three of them were driven by his own "employees"! You all see the slight difficulty with that, I hope...(although how to explain it, is still something we are struggling with)
4. Nimer went to Romania and teamed up with Florica. Florica is a notorious rogue in Romania who still has to pay back €10m to the State. Mihail was Florica's sidekick. I now accept that, for whatever reason, Mihail did decide to do right by Charlton. We have parted on friendly terms on LinkedIn, and I hope one day he will pitch up in Prague (quite likely if he gets back into Romanian football) when I hope to ask him why he remained loyal to Florica in the face of all the evidence. But I don't think Nimer had much to do with Mihail per se.
5. Van Seventer, Hirst, Southall and Farnell, have had long business-based friendly relationships, although Farnell seems to specialise in falling out with such friends. But here is the key one. Van Seventer - Nimer; they go back to at least 2008.

Whatever else we do therefore, let's not make it tribal. Not "he was the bad guy, he was the good guy" I don't any more even think it was two rival gangs. As you can see, they all interlock in various ways, at various times. NImer has loads of questions to answer but is probably out of  easy reach and scrutiny. Unlike the others, happily...