A comatosed midget is nearer the truth.
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Charlton attendance 3,889 today including 925 Stockport fans so 8,000 home fans were absent. With the Upper North Stand closed there was not one song from home fans and all the atmosphere was generated by the away fans. I doubt any other club shuts out its most passionate fans.
Obviously they need help, passionate fans and Charlton do not go together!
Charlton attendance 3,889 today including 925 Stockport fans so 8,000 home fans were absent. With the Upper North Stand closed there was not one song from home fans and all the atmosphere was generated by the away fans. I doubt any other club shuts out its most passionate fans.
Obviously they need help, passionate fans and Charlton do not go together!
Phlion54
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the only sleepers associated with Charlton are the ones on their train tracks
I think, a bit of reverse psychcology is needed here. Let em in for free and charge them a score to leave.
Wippa
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They even used to include comps, even if they wasn’t used. Big club my arse
Life with the Lions
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The biggest problem is Sandgaard. He started up and ran his own US based, successful company, and thought that buying and running a football club would be just as easy. Now, 3 years on, and with 3 ex managers paid off and the shares in his US company tanking, he’s realising it isn’t as easy as he thought. He only owns the club (for which he bought for £1), but not the Valley or the training ground, yet he has already spent a number of millions trying to get back to the Championship on the cheap, and it isn’t working!
Because of this, Sandgaard cannot (or will not), give his now 4th manager, Garner, the sufficient dough to buy in the right players to mount a serious promotion push! He has got a bee in his bonnet about making sure that his club breaks even, financially, by the end of this season, whilst being oblivious that the poor number of players they have, are serving up poor football that none of his supporters want to see, and which has put them mid table, when they believe they should be top six at the very least. It’s a vicious circle that for now, cannot be broken!
Sandgaard’s only way out of this mess is to sell the club back to the Belgian, and pay him the £1 he paid to buy the club in the first place! He will have to forget about making any profit via a sell on, and concentrate more about his failing US based company, and how he is going to stop his share price tanking even lower, that will effect his personal financial position. Better to lose a few million now, having learnt his lesson the hard way as to what it takes financially to fund a football club, than toss more good money after bad!
It’s highly unlikely that Sandgaard will be able to con another buyer (as he was), to buy the club without having the Valley and the training ground as part of the deal, so the Dane’s only other option is to take a hit on the money he‘s spent already, and sell the club back to the Belgian for the amount he paid (£1), and chalk this experience up as a bad financial loss!
If he did that, then the Spotters would be in serious trouble, as the Belgian would once again own the club, the Valley and the training ground, and if he decided to sell the Valley to property speculators, he would be making the Spotters homeless! If they couldn’t then find another club to let them ground share to complete their fixtures for the rest of this season, Charlton would have to go into administration, which could result in a penalty which might see them be relegated to at least the conference league! All a far cry of a decade or so ago, when they were flying high as a Premier League club, and laughing at little old smallwall!
Oh, how the tables have turned!
Fuck ‘em!
Because of this, Sandgaard cannot (or will not), give his now 4th manager, Garner, the sufficient dough to buy in the right players to mount a serious promotion push! He has got a bee in his bonnet about making sure that his club breaks even, financially, by the end of this season, whilst being oblivious that the poor number of players they have, are serving up poor football that none of his supporters want to see, and which has put them mid table, when they believe they should be top six at the very least. It’s a vicious circle that for now, cannot be broken!
Sandgaard’s only way out of this mess is to sell the club back to the Belgian, and pay him the £1 he paid to buy the club in the first place! He will have to forget about making any profit via a sell on, and concentrate more about his failing US based company, and how he is going to stop his share price tanking even lower, that will effect his personal financial position. Better to lose a few million now, having learnt his lesson the hard way as to what it takes financially to fund a football club, than toss more good money after bad!
It’s highly unlikely that Sandgaard will be able to con another buyer (as he was), to buy the club without having the Valley and the training ground as part of the deal, so the Dane’s only other option is to take a hit on the money he‘s spent already, and sell the club back to the Belgian for the amount he paid (£1), and chalk this experience up as a bad financial loss!
If he did that, then the Spotters would be in serious trouble, as the Belgian would once again own the club, the Valley and the training ground, and if he decided to sell the Valley to property speculators, he would be making the Spotters homeless! If they couldn’t then find another club to let them ground share to complete their fixtures for the rest of this season, Charlton would have to go into administration, which could result in a penalty which might see them be relegated to at least the conference league! All a far cry of a decade or so ago, when they were flying high as a Premier League club, and laughing at little old smallwall!
Oh, how the tables have turned!
Fuck ‘em!
chopsboysie
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The gift that keeps giving
He is right that they should be trying to break even. but the fans won't have it cause they've convinced themselves that they're a big club. Whoever owns the club will have the same issues, the fans don't want a sustainable club. They want success regardless of the cost, well-being and long term future/ existence.
Kryan Bing
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By the sound of it and what I have read (if true), he isn't that loaded that he can afford to lose a few million or lose more millions. If he does move on, he will sell players to recuperate at least some of his loses. Probably paving the way for a relegation. So yeah...fuck 'em!
Edward Alistair
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If we don't get a move on and get the training ground built soon they won't have anywhere to play when they rise from the ashes in the Kent league.
Wonder what they will call themselves?
Platform 3 FC?
Wonder what they will call themselves?
Platform 3 FC?
Wippa
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Why on Earth would the Belgian buy them back for a quid? All he would be buying is the debts and the liabilities and running costs. No, that’s not even an option for Danish Dave. And the Belgian will be happy to watch them stew, after they hounded his relatives in Belgium. They really are up shit creek without a paddle.
The land must be worth a few quid, I've always pressumed he bought them for that reason. I hope he bloody did
Wippa
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But the Belgian has got the land! When he sold the club the DD he retained the ground and the training ground! He’s a shrewd old fox that belgian. He’s basically separated the club from the ground. He’s kept the only thing thts worth anything there and passed on all the running costs to Danish!The land must be worth a few quid, I've always pressumed he bought them for that reason. I hope he bloody did
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Wippa
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good old Roland. He who laughs last and all that
ringo_the_lion
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I work with a Stockport fan who probably regrets asking me "What's going on at Charlton?" earlier on, ten minutes later I was only half warmed up in my telling of their demise and how much I'm enjoying their fall from grace
I can see him swerving me for the next few weeks as there is still so much to tell him
I can see him swerving me for the next few weeks as there is still so much to tell him
Life with the Lions
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The only reason why he might buy the club back for a quid, is if he had a buyer lined up to buy the team, the Valley and the training ground as one packaged deal. The buyer wouldn’t want to buy the team from Sandgaard, because he is looking for a price of £25M (no doubt to cover what he’s already paid out, as well as making some profit on top after expenditures), and then he’d be expected to buy the Valley and the training ground from the Belgian for a further £50M! Why spend £75M for all 3 elements when you can deal with one seller wanting £50M for the lot?
The Belgian isn’t going to get any buyer wanting to buy the Valley and the training ground, if he doesn’t also have a squad of players available to train on one, and play matches on the other! All the Belgian has to do is sit back and watch as Sandgaard’s money pinching keeps the club in league 1, thereby forcing the Dane to spend more money just to survive in that division! Ultimately, Sandgaard will have to cut his losses and quit! Better to write off the money he’s already lost, then keep continually losing more! If his only option is to sell the squad for a Pound (thereby absolving himself of any further financial commitments), he would have to do it!
Wouldn’t you if you were in his position?
They are after the land. Flatten the stadium and build overpriced houses. Winner!!
Wippa
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As it stands the land has to be used for sporting events but if charlton vacated it in the near future (an actual possibility) and it sat dormant for long enough then I’m sure the council will over ride that, such is the demand for housing in London. The Belgian is playing the long game I believe. He knows they’re fucked and is happy to watch them bomb knowing that it could lead to him (or his family, if he’s not around to see it) owning a patch of land in south London worth tens of millions.
Kryan Bing
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I doubt if Welling would want to be involved with that mob. The Spotters could try Dartford I suppose...
