''Patience'' The Aussies are getting tiresome....My faith is now with the 'British group' and 'Sheik bin Skint'..
Whether we think Duchatelet’s asking price at £40m is ridiculous - and we all do - it is what it is. What the Aussies are doing is a bit like going into Harrods with a £3 off voucher from Tesco’s.
The biggest worry for me is how they've been in the picture all this time, yet at no stage have they looked like having any power over RD. He's still running the Club into the ground...
The biggest worry for me is that even if they do buy the Club, they don’t have the funds to dig us out of the hole. Warm words at the press conference about the fans are nice, but this is going to take lots of cash.
Wish it wasn't, but money is a major factor...Without it success will be short lived. If they are relatively skint, then selling on an improved Club in the near future is definitely the way forward, but who knows, history shows us that some people prefer to find out the hard way...…#Murray
The only conceivable reason for the constant delays must be that the Aussies don’t have the funds. Duchatelet may be a awkward twat, but he sold his other clubs a lot quicker.
A question for @lardiman and anyone else who might now. 6 weeks into last summer, had Charlton signed any new players? It just feels to me that this inertia might be some sort of pre season record...
Will get back to you on this question later tonight. I can't recall but I have the information somewhere at home.
Here you go Lardi. Just knocked this up using Excel, Word and a pint of London Pride. Player Name Selling Club Fee Please fill in if anything happens.
Unfortunately my own diary records from the previous two summer transfer windows are lost. According to Wiki and transfermarkt these were the earliest transfers from the past two summers; 2016 15 June - Ricky Holmes ... from Northampton Town (unknown fee) 16 June - Nicky Ajose ... from Swindon Town (£1,000,000) 01 July - Lee Novak ... from Birmingham City (free transfer) All other signings were later in July or in August. 2017 08 June - Billy Clarke ... from Bradford City (unknown fee) 17 June - Mark Marshall ... from Bradford City (free transfer) 19 June - Tarique Fosu ... from Reading (unknown fee) All other signings were in July or August as far as I know. So for the past two summers, the middle part of June has seen important signings made. In the summer of 2016 Charlton also signed significant first team players quite late on; Jason Pearce ... 4th August Josh Magennis ... 11th August Adam Chicksen ... 30th August In the summer of 2017 we signed Ben Reeves on 3rd August according to Wiki. I thought it was later than that. Sorry if any of these dates are slightly inaccurate. My diaries from the last two summers existed on other forums and have now either been deleted or are so deeply buried it would take ages to find them. I have done some text backups of forum code for a few important posts in the past, but these are not easy to read.
Thanks to @CafcFactsStats stats and a reinstated @lardiman So we are behind the curveball, even compared to last summer's paltry standard of player recruitment. I think it will really hit home to Charlton fans how we have been mugged off if and when Ben Amos signs for Millwall...to work with Lee Turner, the goalkeeping coach we also lost this summer. I'm sick of these glib messages from the Aussies "be patient" and "we are working at it".....14 fvcking months ...all the while further bits of the club's architecture are dropping off .... #getonwithit
and so the 'All Players MUST GO' sale continues Patrick Bauer’s Valley exit would only add more doubt to Charlton Athletic takeover viability – as owner Duchatelet opts against pre-season tour 19th June 2018 Richard Cawley 0 Comments FacebookTwitterEmailShare BY RICHARD CAWLEY [email protected] Further doubts over the viability of Andrew Muir’s takeover of Charlton Athletic have been raised as the South London club look set to cash in on Patrick Bauer. The Australian multi-millionaire has been in talks for months over a deal for the League One club – but the latest noises are far from encouraging. The South London Press has confirmation from a high level source on the buying side that it was current Addicks owner Roland Duchatelet who sanctioned the sale of Ezri Konsa to Brentford last week in a deal worth slightly over £3million. “Our policy will be to retain Charlton’s established players,” they said. But a report over the weekend in the national media claimed that Blackburn Rovers officials were heading to London to try and strike a deal for German centre-back Bauer. Even though the former Maritimo and VfB Stuttgart man only has 12 months to run on his Valley terms, the £400,000 figure reported looks low. All the indications are that if Duchatelet stays in control, then there will be cuts right across the board – with the players and staff wage bill the most expensive area of outlay. We have been told that winger Tariqe Fosu would be available for around £2m with box-to-box midfielder Joe Aribo another who could elicit offers. Duchatelet was in the capital last week and agreed a deal for Lee Bowyer to continue in caretaker charge of the Addicks. The club issued a statement which described the wantaway Belgian as making “provisional decisions to allow the club to best prepare for the start of the 2018-19 campaign”. They added: “The club’s ownership remain very hopeful of the takeover but felt it could not be left any longer to make key decisions with the season fast approaching and the players due back for pre-season at the end of the month.” Charlton’s traditional curtain-raiser friendly against Welling United has been pushed back a week until July 14 – with claims that the request to move it came from Bowyer. But that also looked the period when the Addicks would go away on a training camp. Duchatelet is unwilling to fork out the considerable expenses to take the squad away. Sources at the club suggest it is a move to bring them more in line with other League One clubs. Karl Robinson twice took Charlton out to Ireland last summer – initially for fitness work and then returning to play friendlies out there. The Muir-fronted bid has been in the pipeline since comfortably before the end of the 2017 and finding out the reasons why it has not been completed are extremely difficult. Not only are non-disclosure agreements thought to be in place, but the EFL will also not comment on individual cases regarding the ‘fit and proper’ test – which needs to be passed for anyone to buy an English football club. Both parties still maintain that the takeover is not dead, but any indications of a timescale are not being given. Muir’s attendance at the League One play-off semi-final home game against Shrewsbury Town seemed to be laying down a marker he was in the end game. But now there are genuine concerns over where the bid is at after they missed a hoped-for deadline of completion last week plus the sale of a prized youth product – with the threat of more outgoings to come.
Even up to the point where Miere told us he had a 'different kind of passion for the Club' he was selling our best players, so we all know what'll happen if RD stays... It'll be the usual threadbare, low quality squad, primarily padded up with cheap loans. Not sure how running the Club into the ground like this is going to help him walk away with what he wants.?? Meanwhile we still have fans who will be delighted if RD holds onto the ground and leases back to new owners, because it'll 'p1ss off the Belgium 20 & CARD'..
