Chris Solly is 22 now and will be 23 in January, as long as we offer him a contract at his current wages he will be going nowhere for free next summer
All Hell the Brian Glanville of the old 606 site. Good to hear from you, mate. The point about the Mysterious Lucan Twins pumping £6m a year into the Club is a fair one, but they are not doing it in any spirit of altruism. They are doing it because they are/ were speculators who saw buying a London based football club, much loved by the 15,000 or so who religiously follow it, as a project to make money out of. In short, the Jiminez Plan was to get to the Premier League as quickly and as cheaply as possible, buy some time with the fans by appointing a "club legend" to lead us, and once there to sell to a Russian or Arab entranced by the Sky deal, and ride off back to his villa in Cyprus with a MASSIVE profit in his pocket. He doesn't give a shiny ****e about what us ordinary fas would be left with. And now it's all gone wrong. The plan is in tatters. But I don't feel one iota of sympathy for people like that.
It is a business to them, they are trying to make it into a saleable asset I do not have any sympathy for them but I do not see the advantage in fighting them either if that is at the expense of the Club ... We should be making it easier for them to find a buyer not harder!
They shouldn't have let this contract situation arise with a player as good as Chris in the first place. Twice POTY....committed owners would have slapped a new three year contract before him faster than you can say "Simon Francis" oh Chris Solly, Solly, he's going to leave for free
It would be easier to find a buyer if they lowered the asking price. A big stumbling block seems to be the former Directors loans, prospective owners do not want to take on that liability.
The staff members like Wendy Perfect,finance director Steve Kavanagh, former director Peter Varney, Matt Wright etc all left of their own volition, the Club didn't release them. So your theory on bloat All Hell is wide of the mark. The only reason that there are so many players out of contract is because the owners cannot afford to offer the current players new contracts. It has got nothing to do with FFP. They are actively looking to sell the club and it will be down to the new owners to negotiate new contracts. I agree totally with Volauvent it is an extremely dangerous game to play.
Dicky with all due respect your talking out your bottom. YOU and nobody else on here on CL on ITV have any idea what this board can and cannot afford. Just because a load of figures have been posted on other sites that nobody has explained with any accuracy and or even given a proper detailed anaylasis don't make it so. I did a course in forensic accounting once, lasted ten mins and what I learned in those 10 mins, is that if you post enough numbers and ask people to work them out, they wont bother, they will just agree with you. Instead, of twisting the knife, answer some of the posts about the previous board, the steps taken by the current board and the motivation and prospects of the Trust and its allies? According to my calculations the Trust are £39,997,000.00 short of their target to achieve ownership? Do you expect the Board will sell the Club to the trust for £3k?
Is anyone trying to suggest that there is something wrong with a businessman trying to run a business at a profit? And this old chestnut about Matt Wright etc leaving the club- are we supposed to say "oh dear they mustn't be very nice people at Charlton".? The contract situation is dreadful- I hope there is method in this madness.
No one thinks it's hunky dory - but just not diving head first in to the posts of a few individuals who inform us they are ITK. Compare our accounts with many in the Championship and tell me the difference..
This is spot on, I trust these owners as far as I could throw them, but many of the questions & criticisms being thrown at this lot, could easily have applied to the old Board, but weren't due to the old pals act that permeates most forums... That's the basic difference.
Remember under FFP this year we can lose £8m under the rules but the owners have to inject £5m into the club as new equity these limits reduce each year to 2015-16 when the max loss is £5m when the owners have to again inject £5m of new cash. It is inevitable that these rules will have an effect on the playing budget! http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/resources/wsc0001.pdf
The one positive to take is that this sense of limbo cannot go on for much longer. If the owners haven't sold the Club by January, they are going to have to "squeeze one out, or get off the pot" , as they say in Spain. After all, a club with only four players is not exactly an attractive proposition to purchase.
Typical, do you post on CL? I would love to see the grief youd get for your opinions posted above!! Incidently I make you dead right RE 'SCP', Airman Whatshischops & current goings on. I no longer post on CL as I am accused of being a WUM etc. Finally here lies a thread that is being debated rationally and long may it continue. I have nothing of any note to add, and agree with the sentiments that we do owe a lot to the current board SO FAR.
Latest news from the Valley,Paul Ellison the banqueting Manager has been suspended. Would the last one at the Valley please turn out the lights.What is going on?
Touchy You are spot on . Even constructive criticism of Baron Powell on CL quickly sees your In Box fill up with death threats. The regular clique on that site are a strange mixture of the prurient and the congenitally thick. I have never bothered with posting on there myself. This site and ITV are proper Charlton , trust me
