Now is not about divisions in the fanbase, it is about working together. If anybody can do better go and do it YOUR F****** SELF.
I wonder if it's that bloke Mehmet Dalman from Cardiff City. If so, he has a questionable choice in business associates. Goes with the territory I suppose. Having said that, I have heard of a squeaky clean Belgian who has loadsamoney, but would never consort with spivs or crooks. Maybe he can help
Haven't we all missed the division in the Charlton fanbase on this forum in the last three weeks. So nice to have it back...
Behind the scenes I have been, unlike anyone on here ....especially you. 500 one liners a day across all three forums are achieving precisely nothing as usual, other than p1ssing people off. There’s no need to worry @lardiman , my regular days on this forum are well & truly over. It’s been all but ruined IMO. I just came back to provide an update from ESI based on what I know.
Be a long time, we're down to about 3.4 now. I'll sort comps for you and your boy. Perhaps bring the dog pretending you're blind. I'll ensure Kojak has a ban.
No senior CAFC execs from the RD era either. Official match programme by Rick Everitt; £2 for 2 x A4 sheets photocopied, folded and stapled down the middle.
I'd have a 1/2 page giving travel details to outposts I would know about, having been there before! My time would be unpaid of course.
Last week of april. The month that Nimer told everyone he'd be putting money into the club. The excuses if and when the money fails to arrive should be interesting.
The consequences will be as bad as the excuses. I understand the EFL have come to the end of their patience with this. By this time next week Charlton could be facing a huge points deduction along with relegation, or expulsion from the League. Perhaps only those three ex-directors and their lawyers can save the Club now.
It's almost a welcome swing. We either see the owner do what he promised, or he stands revealed as the fraud he is becoming seen as. Should he not pay up, the new Rumanian directors will also be in a bit of an odd sitution. There again, there was a rumour on CL yesterday from the Rumanian press that Nimer is still trying to buy a club over there. Then there is Southall sat in the wings with his new set of vultures (I asume Bassini will be in this new investor group). Mind you, the EFL have once again vanished into silence. They demanded the correct papers with a 4pm deadline last week, and then promised to bring it up at a meeting the following day. Not exactly been too loud about whatever papers they were sent have they? But as they kept the transfer embargo under wraps for over a month until it came out in the wash here, that's not really much of a surprise. When Bowyer got caught saying the takeover had some 'strange' details way back in november, I wonder if this was what he meant?
We have two owners of CAFC (the Club) who are now blood enemies. One will never pay the other off, even if it means the Club goes under. That is a measure of how little either of them thinks of the Club or its fans. Nimer & Southall's feud will destroy Charlton Athletic unless they are both removed from ownership of the Club. The ESI take-over of CAFC must be declared illegal and void. By the Courts and the EFL. Unless that happens our old Club is finished.
The main issue here is that nothing that has been done is illegal. The EFL cannot stop a sale or even how a sale is structured. All they can do is deny membership to the EFL if certain conditions aren’t met. It’s a bit like me selling you a car, which you then try to race. If you can’t meet the requirements of the governing body to race said car then that’s it. How you came by the car is frankly irrelevant to the powers to be. Rowland has played a blinder here. He’s got rid of the day to day debt whilst holding on to the only things of any value. All it says to me is that Rowland has no interest in CAFC, so why would he be remotely interested in returning to the club. He now either gets what the assets are worth (£50m) or sits on them until he can sell them off. As I’m guessing he doesn’t need the cash, he could happily sit on this and leave it as a legacy to his children.
I accept only the Courts can rule the ESI take-over illegal. That will be for the lawyers of the three ex-Directors to establish, if they can. If such a ruling is made, the EFL will presumably abide by who the Court decides is still the legal owner of CAFC. Logic suggests that will be one of three people; Tahnoon Nimer (alone) Matt Southall (alone) Roland Duchatelet - most likely, if the court rules the take-over was wholly illegal, not just partially flawed. Once the EFL knows who it is dealing with it will act appropriately - requiring the owner to prove funds, or face the consequences. RD has the money, and if he is ruled still legally responsible for CAFC I think he would be shamed into using some, at least for a while. Getting the take-over voided (or settling finally the feud between Nimer & Southall) will not solve our problems. But it will make matters much clearer... or at least you'd hope it would. Sadly I get the feeling that the wrangling will last rather longer than the Club does - just like the Bury FC case.
If the directors got as far as court (and I’m assuming that will against Rowland), I think the likely outcome would be that he has to weigh out to the directors what is owed. With assets totalling £50m, the £7m won’t IMO break his heart.
