Hello guys, first of all good luck for success in promotion this season. You fans deserve it. There are stories that Charlie Methven is going to be part of a supposed imminent takeover at Charlton. Word is that he is basically bad news and that he was bad for you with various cost cutting and player sales. Are these stories true and thus we are to be concerned?
In a word, yes. In more than one word, yes be very concerned. I posted something a while back on your board when it was first suggested he was involved in a take over of you lot warning you about him. I thought it had fallen through, but like Michael Myers in "Halloween" he seems to be coming back. He'll talk a good fight at first to get you on side, visit your pubs, seem like he's wanting to really turn things round for you, but some of the antics he pulled while involved here left a very bad taste to us. That includes selling off some of our prize assets from tour academy, such as Bali Mumba, Logan Pye and Joe Hugill. After about a year he'd burned his bridges with us when he had a go at the fans saying that we "didn't understand business" when he was called out about something at a meeting with fans.
As C Montgomery Burns said, thought the chancer had been linked before and told to sling his hook as he had no money?
He was, he went quiet when a new buyer came in but that fell through 3 days ago. Now he is thought to be back with a third party interested.
The man is a nightmare, he doesn't have the ability to be anywhere near a professional football club...100% chancer
A guy called Josh Friedman, an American, is said to be taking us over. He is meant to be loaded and the questions are where does Methven supposedly fit into it all.
He will be helping them with PR and the such (Dear god) and gain a percentage of the shares, to flog at some stage as he is a potless chancer
Because of his utter incompetence he will get found out very soon and shown the door. He came to Sunderland and acted like a low grade David Brent...totally out of his depth and a complete t wat
To say Mr Methven isn't on any of our Christmas Card lists is understating his effect on his time with our club. Barge pole and not touching springs to mind.
Always got on great with Charlton fans. Such a pity to see their club slipping away like this. Yes he’s that bad
He might do alright with Charlton to be fair - because Southerners understand business and there are far more entrepreneurs in the South East In summary, he's a Tory **** who clings on the coat tails of millionaires without having any money of his own. He will treat Charlton like a failing business, cut half the (off field) workforce then demand everyone works longer hours to compensate.
Hmm, Friedman is a producer/director that runs a hedge fund. What could possibly go wrong. He may of course employed Charlie for comedic value
Canyon Partners is an employee-owned hedge fund founded by Joshua S. Friedman and Mitchell R. Julis in 1990 located in Los Angeles, California.[2][3] Canyon Partners is a multi-strategy hedge fund and invests across asset classes ranging from bank debt, high yield and distressed securities, securitized assets, direct investments, convertible arbitrage, risk arbitrage, equities, and special situation securities.[4] It has offices across the world in cities including Dallas, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Seoul, Shanghai, and Tokyo.
