Regarding the sale, the club will apparently make a statement today. Sounds as if this may have legs. Dodger has posted a statement to the effect that I don't entirely follow, that Panorama have sold CAFC, meaning Nimer has gone. No mention of Southall's 35%. There is also the problem that RD is now the landlord. Plus the question of who is coming in. Oh yeah, and Cawley has mentioned that Southsll is looking for a high end six figure payout for his shares. Imagine. Buy something with no value for a pound, damage it, and expect 800 000 pounds to offload it. Parallel universe. That guy should be put in a coronavirus ward helping out, with no ppe. Disgusting avaricious scum.
I’m sorry but that is absolutely criminal and that’s how he should be treated,as a criminal and taken to court for fraud . Disgusting little man !
Guess the Apologists will have another field day. "You wanted anyone but Roland, blah blah blah..." #blameanyonebutroland is the motto they live by. I expect they'll be quite chuffed to have RD as Landlord at the Valley and Sparrows Lane, and CAFC his tenant. They worship the ground he walks on, and when the virus pandemic is over they can walk on ground he owns and pay him rent. And of course, continue to gush on about what a wonderful person he is, while pretending not to like him very much. If Roland does end up as Landlord I think I'll join CARD. (If they'll have me. We haven't seen eye to eye in the past, but at least they tried to do something about the old scrote, and will be doing so again).
Presumably this means Tahnoon Nimer has sold ESI to somebody? And the "much needed stability" remark implies that Southall is gone as well? What a bloody pantomime CAFC has become. What an utter basket case.
Even if it's true, I can't get too excited. Who would buy us the way the club is now? Ground owned buy an ex owner. Chronic debts no income, and most of the squad out of contract in a month. On CL Airman Brown was saying there were some serious investors interested, but buying the whole shebang was a minefield that only chances would risk. Getting rid of Southall would be great, but I do not doubt there are others like him out there.
Yes. The rest of the letter looks dull enough to be 'real' - presumably cloned from a real document. But 'Project Haddock' is ridiculous.
so it could be one of the two italians.. would one of them owning 100% be better than Tweedledee and Tweedledum? whatever happened to rolling it back to RD?
Whoever has bought ESI now owns the 65% of CAFC that Nimer used to own. Presumably, the existing deal between ESI and Roland would still stand - so the new owner will supposedly be buying the rest of Charlton Athletic gradually from RD over 5 years. The complicating factor is Matt Southall of course. The statement on the Club website said there would be much needed stability. Assuming that line means anything at all, it might mean that Matt Southall has also been bought out, and one person now owns all of CAFC (the football Club) again. If the new CAFC owner can provide proof of funds to the EFL, then there will be no practical need for CAFC to revert to Roland's ownership again, assuming the new owner passes the fit & proper person test. Roland (current owner of the land & assets) will be the Landlord if he wishes, while the 5 year purchase progresses. That's my understanding anyway. As to the character of this mystery new ESI owner, it's anybody's guess until the Club deigns to tell us who it is. I would like to think that the crooks who were involved with Leeds Utd and Bolton Wanderers would not be sanctioned by the EFL. But my hopes are not high.
Southall will come out of all this with his bank balance increased substantially. Hopefully we see Karma.
Sadly it is likely that Matt Southall will end up with a lot of money he has not earned. This on top of the Club's money that he spent on himself in the last 6 months. In my view he is no better than a doorstep con-man who talks his way into a pensioner's home and then robs them. He is pond life. Even if he escapes criminal prosecution, I hope that money brings him nothing but misery. His name will forever be despised by all Charlton fans.
In all this shambles Southall has perhaps been used to deflect away from whatever Nimer has been rustling up? In my opinion, if Nimer sells up now he is a total fraud along with peanut head.
Much as some of us may think he deserves worse, I wouldn't actually want to see that. I'd like to think the lack of human decency in the behaviour of people like Matt Southall and Roland Duchatelet won't lead me into following suit. I won't be forgiving them - ever. But I have neither the power or the inclination to do them harm. In truth they harm themselves when they hurt others while pursuing their own ambitions. In a world where we are being reminded of the best and most selfless qualities in good people, MS and RD are just pitiable no-marks.