This could well be the case. I suppose fans will never know though, unless something verifiable is leaked. Presumably CM is still a shareholder in the Club - what was it, £75,000 he invested out of his own pocket?
I’ve edited the title as it appears he’s moving to Mount Pleasant. Meanwhile, SR is claiming that he brought “stability” to the club. My memory must be playing up, I thought we’d had 3 managers in 14 months on his watch, plus Scott fired. Imagine what instability looks like.
From Rick Everitt. Airman Brown said: » show previous quotes I don’t rate him and I don’t trust him, but I think the length of his tenure as chief exec tells you all you need to know. I also heard the club had approached someone else to take his job in recent months.
Let’s just rebut the “some fans wanted Methven to fail” line being put forward by Aaronaldo and the part time Crombie Model. I won’t waste time on BB, he’s the Missing Link. Let’s also deal with the “Methven did a good job” line. In his 9-18 months in charge, depending on who you believe - Three managers appointed, two quickly fired. The lowest league finish in 100 years, The smallest outfield squad in the league. Procurement a disaster - £750,000 allegedly spent on the worst pitch in League One, No closer to owning the club’s only real security - its assets - despite a well remunerated Property Exec on the SMT, A first team squad worth how much at most - £2m ? The lowest attendances at the Valley since the early 1980s - unarguable. The only thing this regime have done well is recruit Nathan Jones, but even that came after Appleton, probably the worst manager in our history. Not only that, Methven disgracefully tried to divide the fanbase by leaking favourable titbits greased with free hospitality to handpicked stooges. Again, not the behaviour of a credible CEO. You can also guarantee that CM has taken a decent wedge out of the club in the past 18 months, and that his small equity stake would have to have been bought out at a profit. So what exactly did Methven do well ?
Carter must have been reporting back to the Yanks and led to these changes. Hopefully Carter can bring in good people.
please log in to view this image reamsofverse Season Ticket Holder please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image 58 minutes ago valleyfaithful likes this Quote I have mentioned this in the Charlie leaving thread but thought I would post it in a thread of it's own too. Apparently our current owners rejected a bid from more wealthy Americans a few months ago but are still said to be interested. Maybe they're going to come on board in some capacity with a view of taking over entirely at some point. The announcement of the next CEO will hold plenty of clues. Before anyone asks, I have no idea who they are.
I reckon the Yanks got the wheels in motion after last season's disaster. Bringing in Carter seems to be the key to the movements.
The immediate future will be very interesting, the Yanks came over and wielded the big stick by outing Appleton, they then promoted Carter as the eyes and ears to report back home. Clearly they were very p***** off with last season and the first half of this season culminating in two of the three out of the door, Gerry Adams soon to follow it would appear. I would say that they may look for more backers to put more dough into the recruitment.
So Charlie boy has walked to take over a new role. Thank f@#k for that. I wonder will the billionaire owners say something? Does the twit still own part of the club?
Charlton Athletic announced today that Charlie Methven is stepping down as CEO. The club will recruit a replacement, aiming to have the new person in place during the close season. The club has strongly reassured CAST that this is an amicable and planned change and will cause no disruption at all on the footballing side, where Nathan Jones and Karen Hills continue to report in to James Rodwell. Regarding the non-footballing side, the Commercial and Communications teams will temporarily report to CFO Ed Warrick, who retains leadership of Valley Operations, supported by the CAFC board. Charlie Methven will also no longer be an owner. The club’s major shareholders continue to be Gabriel Brener, the Friedman family and the Rosenfeld family. Non-executive Chair, Gavin Carter, oversees the organisation on behalf of the ownership group, who prefer to stay in the background. CAST has spoken today with Gavin Carter who reports that the owners are very much enjoying their involvement with Charlton. Like all of us, they would love to see both Addicks teams, men and women, promoted this season. Gavin confirmed that the owners are nevertheless aware that sport can be unpredictable and they are fully realistic about scenario planning and the ongoing level of investment required to sustain Charlton. He says they are committed to this as a project and aim to ensure ongoing progress, with no immediate pressure to cut costs and no intention to gamble with the club’s future. While the news of the change this morning came as a surprise to fans, we are reassured from speaking with Gavin Carter. He has always been consistent and transparent with CAST and is of course a Addick himself. We view this change as a deliberate and considered step to ensure longer term stability and sustainability. This is refreshing after the turbulence under previous owners. We wish Charlie Methven all the best in his new role with Mount Pleasant in Jamaica. He leaves with the club in a better place than when he joined. The club's statement: https://www.charltonafc.com/news/charlie-methven-step-down-clubs-ceo
The bottom line is things have been going so fantastically well that the Technical Director and the CEO have been moved out by the investors mid season. I always find it strange that 2-3 posters “elsewhere” devote vast amounts of posting time to theorising about strategies and structures, and yet when those strategies and structures are ripped up overnight they stick their fingers in their ears, and quickly move on (“no point discussing the past” ) They did the same with 8-8-8. One particularly notorious windbag, ok let’s waive his anonymity on this occasion - it’s Kev Hawtrey aka Seriously Boring - has gone as far as to say we should thank Andy Scott The same Scott who while on a six figure wedge, signed at least 20 ****e players over four transfer windows (remember Kilkenny and Penney …) that left us in our lowest league position in 100 years. We don’t hear much from Hawtrey and his fellow ITTV soporific Mundell about the “8-8-8 strategy” these days ?
There’s always going to be “believers “ in society who believe anything they’ve been conditioned to accept. It’s why society is in such a mess. Getting back to CM. Who’s bought him out? Why did his influence in the club far outweigh his percentage of ownership? We’re on a roll but haven’t achieved anything yet. We could still see that Barnsley and Stockport are way better than us so our squad isn’t as good as our position but we’ll take it. Be interesting to see who takes over and who will make the announcement… probably the “club “ will say this or the “club “will say that!
Im pretty sure that Methven said at the beginning he was in for a nominal amount of £75,000, which is loose change for these guys. As for your other point - Methven sold them the dream that he would competently distance manage the whole club for them - after 9 months as CEO the Yanks clearly didn’t concur. Not to worry though …Reams said he’s done a great job
Global Football Partners have announced the shareholder with five per cent or more. They are: Gabriel Brener + family Private investor and former majority shareholder of a Major League Soccer team Joshua Friedman + family Co–Founder, Co–Chairman and Co–Chief Executive Officer of Canyon Partners, LLC, a leading global alternative asset management firm Warren Rosenfeld + family Owner of major US Recycling firm Calbag Metals ACA Football Partners (acafp.com) Singapore–based group that invests in football with a focus on building a foundation for sustainable growth Munir Javeri Founder of Connecticut–based investment firm Sahana Capital Marc Boyan CEO Miroma Group (global marketing, media and content company) and Miroma Ventures Charlie Methven Sports and leisure industry entrepreneur and adviser ACA Football Partners and Methven are no longer Shareholders. So presumably been bought out in equal share by the main owners.
