Charlton Athletic mess!

[Turkey_Twizzler]

Recently a few clubs have been struggling, Bolton, Northampton and Charlton. Bolton have been spending like a premier league club and carelessly ran into massive debt, Northampton had a crook of an owner.

But what happened to Charlton? I was hoping someone could clue me in as to why their fans have been protesting?

[Piethagoram 𝕏 @piethagoram]

http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/sport/14238855.Former_Charlton_Athletic_boss_reveals_owner_told_him_to_pick_certain_players/

http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/sport/14178689.Former_Liverpool_forward_commends_Charlton_Athletic_fans_for_Valley_protests/?ref=ar

 

 

 

[allardyces tash]

Charlton have been in pickle ever since their chairman took over, look up the reasons for some of his decisions behind sacking ex managers.

[liampie]

the chairman picks the players? oh dear

[Turkey_Twizzler]

Sounds like a right mess, thank god Mr T isn't a power hungry lunatic

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[boddle]

We're protesting because the owner, Roland Duchatelet has stated that he doesn't care if we win, lose or draw. He wants us to be a club with no ambition, but to produce good players, that we will not keep to try and be successful, but to sell on to bigger clubs for a profit.

Foreign owners who don't understand the English game are increasingly buying clubs and have crazy ideas that are not in keeping with the clubs ethos, history or tradition. We've seen it at Hull, with the Hull Tigers fiasco, Cardiff with the kit colour temporarily changing from traditional blue to red, Leeds with Cellino's crazy behaviour and now Charlton with the kamikazi approach. There's probably lots more out there and the ways it's going, and if we don't stop it, there'll be many more and it will end up with a club, or if we're not careful clubs, going out of business.

How are these owners passing the Football Association's fit and proper test and becoming owners of English clubs?

He has put a woman called Katrien Meire in charge of day to day running of the club. She maybe a good accountant and good in some other types of business, but she knows nothing about football. She is confused that the supporters seem to think they own the club and refers to us not as fans, but as customers, and she also says things like, if someone had a bad meal at a restaurant they would not stand outside it and chant about the bad quality of the meal.

Mr Duchatelet will not enter into any sort of dialogue with the fans or potential investors. He just sits in his office in Belgium and gives orders from afar.

We are bottom of the Championship, but he has waited until the recent transfer window had closed, to see which players hadn't been signed up by anyone else, and that he could pick up cheap. He has signed players who are either without a club or available on the emergency loan scheme.

These players are not going to give everything possible to get Charlton out of trouble, as they have no real connection or allegiance to the club.

Ms Meire states that only 2% of the fans want the regime out but she is clearly out of touch with the feeling of the supporters, because it is clearly more like only 2%, if that, who actually want them in.

Wednesday's and Thursday's the ticket office is closed. These are vital days as they are fast closing in on the match day, which as anyone knows is the day most matches are played.

The ticket office has recently been used as an NHS call centre.

Under this regime the club is going nowhere but down the football leagues. I say leagues because the way things are going no one knows where we are likely to end up.

Please, if anyone out there who genuinely loves English football and can offer any help in our efforts, support us in trying to either get them to see sense, or sell the club to someone who is interested in seeing us become a Premiership outfit once more. We need to rekindle the club and the supporters ambition.

Charlton are in a mess.

This really is a football emergency which could end up as a tragedy.

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