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still not sure what to believe on this. would like it all to be true, especially with xmas and the transfer window coming. but we're never that lucky. would be nice if come january, the scum are gone, the fans come back, and we press on with a few decent strikers being signed
Well perhaps this explains why ittv went members only this week. Perhaps Reams has been wired and is spreading the info and was given this perk for supporting your owners... ...just saying.
Yes, it's likely. And Richard Cawley's total silence on the subject is likely to be for the same reason.
All still up in the air as far as I'm concerned but if Roland thinks the value has increased in the last few weeks, he's an idiot. A lot of people would walk away and describe these sort of shenanigans as not serious or professional - if Roland drives them off, may he lose even more face.
I believe Roland has wanted rid of us for a few months now. There must come a point when he says "F***it, I've had enough", and accepts what is on the table. Rick may turn out to be accurate or not, but I can't see us going into another season under Roland.
I bet we do if keep up our start and he might start thinking of promotion and then if we were to go up, he could look at one season trying to get to the premier league. Yes, I know the last bit is fanciful and goes against everything that has been his mindset since January 2014. I still think continued failure and the doldrums of division 3 is the easier way of getting rid of this vermin.
My chat with Karel surfaced on Charlton Life earlier in the week. 'THE coat' in all its glory. Come c*** likened me to a hand grenade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Roland had his chance to push Charlton towards the Premier League when we still had 15,000+ supporters coming to games. He deliberately chose to run the Club on a subsistence budget, with no ambition or backing to rise above 13th place at the very highest. For the first time in our history, not being competitive was the unwritten policy of the Board. Just one of the things Duchatelet will never be forgiven for. Take my word for it - this current squad cannot possibly survive in the Championship. Don't let our league position fool you into thinking we are "into something good" as our home fans were chanting yesterday. Even if Karl Robinson performs the miracle and wins us promotion in May, without maybe £10 million spent on five or six decent Championship quality players, Charlton are coming straight back down to League One next season. Never mind the kind of investment required to emulate what Sheffield United are doing - RD will leave Robinson (and anyone who is mug enough to take his place after he is fired) nothing to work with aside from a few free transfers and loans. The last person on this planet who would take a risk on reaching the Premier League is Roland Duchatelet. If we go up this season and he is still our owner by next August Charlton will be back to square one (except still minus thousands of fans), and we will crash and burn all over again.
The story makes sense, we are starting to verrrrrry slightly pull away in the play offs (4 points ahead of 5th now), so RD could either be thinking the price increases slightly or he could even be thinking of seeing it through to the end of the season. There is a heavy risk with doing that, but the temptation of a Wembley pay day followed by promotion could be too great an opportunity for RD to not gamble on.
Nail on head. Realistically, the tables don't lie, and they tell us we have a 25% chance of promotion, which should be reflected in the deal. But being realistic is not Roland's strong point.
25% chance of promotion, but we’re taking 3 and a half more shots this season and that too has to be reflected in the deal (the worrying thing is, RD would probably agree with SR in this case )
