Apr 29
The good folk on Charlton Life with their ear close to the ground have hinted that next season’s Charlton kits will be made by Reebok.
I’m not sure whether there will be other English clubs choosing Reebok but this marks the old English trainer maker’s re-entry back into the manufacturing and supplying of football kits.
Please click for moreCharlton Athletic’s 2023/24 finances were published today and football economics expert Kieran Maguire was quick to make an assessment. Read down Kieran’s tweets here for Charlton commentary.
Maguire also cautioned that “Charlton’s auditors are unable to say whether or not the 23/24 accounts are accurate following a cyber attack against the club which meant that the auditors could not obtain supporting evidence.”
Please click for moreThe scalpel was again taken to Charlton’s senior management board today with the announcement that CEO Charlie Methven has stepped down and will leave the club.
In a carefully worded statement Methven thanks a load of people including Gavin Carter, Paul Elliot and Nathan Jones but not Jim Rodwell, who I imagine is currently typing into AI his leaving letter.
Please click for moreThe ghost of Christmas past.
Charlton CEO Charlie Methven has been on the sherry after a 5-0 win and has broken his silence.
Rich Cawley has all the soundbites.
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I don’t want to take any heat off Nathan Jones, because he needs to own where we are after ten months of his management, yet it is important to remind ourselves how we got here.
When is the last time we heard from any of the above? I can tell you. Hardly a peep since they all got themselves snazzy new job titles in June.
Please click for moreIt really is what happens on the pitch that matters, and that has been garbage for many seasons now for which many are culpable.
Charlie Methven should be given some credit for regularly opening up with the ongoing progress of the football club. He talks a good game.
Please click for moreThe club today made some changes to the board for the upcoming season.
Both Charlie Methven and Gavin Carter become board members, joining Jim Rodwell, who continues to be chair and former player Paul Elliott, who takes the role of Vice Chairman as well as CFO Ed Warrick.
Please click for moreA bit of a turn up that. Bolton just didn’t show up and Oxford were worthy winners.
That means that we keep both Peterborough and Bolton as well Barnsley and welcome Birmingham City, Huddersfield Town, Rotherham, Stockport, Wrexham and Mansfield. Crawley and Crewe meet at Wembley tomorrow to decide our last remaining opponent for next season.
Please click for moreSome words from the self-appointed senior management team tonight. Zero unaccountability in there and zero signs of planning for failure, which Scott, Methven and Rodwell must becoming accustomed too.
Yet, they will still take their pay as the bloated management team work out what to do next, no doubt leaving it to Andy Scott to bring the promises and the affirming words.
Please click for morePlenty of rumours circulating today that Michael Appleton had been relieved of his head coach duties in SE7, yet Louis Mendez hunted out a denial from the club this evening, and he is expected to carry out a pre-game press conference tomorrow.
More than anyone Andy Scott, Jim Rodwell and Charlie Methven (he is much more involved than the club would like us think) are praying for their handpicked head coach to pick up a win and stem a horrendous run of form and results that is propelling us into a relegation dog-fight.
Please click for moreThere has been a few times Paul Elliott’s name has been mentioned as a potential investor or associate in one of the seemingly endless ownership changes at Charlton. He has never taken the bait until recently, and in this interview with The Guardian, it is reassuring to hear as to why he has decided to act.
Please click for moreA classy move by old Etonian Charles Harry Finlayson Methven and ex-defensive clogger and career CEO Jim Rodwell.
Tells you all need to know about the men we now have to put our trust in selecting the next Charlton Athletic manager to join the circus.
Please click for moreRumours started surfacing an hour or so ago and have been confirmed now by both Rich Cawley and Louis Mendez that Dean Holden and other backroom coaching staff have been sacked.
Holden managed the club for just 30 league games, and just 5 this season.
Please click for moreLeft wing back, centre-half, creative midfielder, winger, striker, striker.
Oh, sorry, I was dreaming of one of those cheesy memes announcing a new signing on the Charlton social media outlets. Then I woke up.
Instead on Charlton’s X page today they had Alan Curbishley rallying fans to attend The Valley on Tuesday. On CATV on Saturday afternoon Curbs was sending out a rallying cry for a strike partner for Alfie May.
Please click for moreAndy Scott is the latest member of the new Charlton Athletic Senior Management Team (SMT). Scott was always expected to return once SE7 Partners took control of the club. He joined Messrs. Rodwell, Warrick and Holden in December parachuted in to take a look under the bonnet whilst Thomas Sandgaard considered his options.
Scott’s main responsibility was to support the transfer activity in January. I reckon that was graded a D at best, but there were a lot of cooks in the kitchen and Sandgaard was very much the man behind the curtain with both hands firmly on the budget.
Please click for moreI am not sure this will happen regularly but I agree with Charlie Methven’s assertion that a “fairly broad base shareholding group” could be an advantage to the club.
In recent times we have had a whole coterie of egotistical individuals unwilling and unable to work with other people thinking they knew best with disastrous consequences.
Please click for more“Global Football Partners (GFP) is delighted to confirm its purchase of Charlton Athletic Football Club and Charlton Athletic Women’s Football Club, following the EFL and the FA’s approval of the respective deals.” (more)
And there you have it. After months of uncertainty the new owners promise “to bring uncertainty to an end through actions rather than words or grand promises and put in place a vastly experienced Senior Management Team.”
Please click for more“Charlton Athletic can confirm that a deal has been agreed for SE7 Partners to purchase the football club.
A share purchase agreement (SPA) has been signed by the club’s current owner Thomas Sandgaard and SE7 Partners. The club and SE7 Partners will work with the EFL to meet its requirements before approval for the takeover is granted.” (more)
Please click for moreI have been closing my eyes and hoping for the best in relation to the takeover. Dave has been far more on top of it, but it sounds as if we are very close to a set of new owners after Rich Cawley announced this afternoon that Joshua Friedman and Thomas Sandgaard have agreed to a price and signed a SPA (Sale and Purchase Agreement).
The price is reported to be £12m, but Cawley also mentions that Sandgaard is continuing his talks with other parties, which appears very irregular, but that just about sums Sandgaard up as he seeks I am sure a last minute better offer.
Please click for moreDean Holden’s agent has been busy, and I don’t blame him.
Holden has said all the right things since being installed as the temporary manager of Charlton just before Christmas. His mates have all disappeared, but it does sound like he wants to grasp the opportunity to manage the club and stay.
It is a turnaround job, but possibly both parties have found someone to believe in, and belief has been in short supply in SE7 for some while.
Please click for moreThomas Sandgaard said today that the sale of the football club to Charlie Methven and his consortium is off.
Sandgaard’s reasoning is that there were “some very specific terms that were very clear at the end of January and coming into February that they didn’t comply with.”
Methven’s group say that a price was always agreed at £8.5million for a 90 per cent stake in the football club and that a deposit (£850,000) was paid and banks funded. It is not thought that the EFL had yet given it’s approval.
In a nest of liars, who to believe?
Please click for moreCharlie Methven was seen at last night’s game at Oxford, probably wearing one of those half and half scarves.
This after it came to light yesterday thanks to investigative work by Rick and Dave, that Methven and his ‘group’ have signed a deal to purchase the club, not the real estate assets, from Thomas Sandgaard.
Please click for moreDec 20
Where to begin….
As they say, there is a lot to unpack here.
Charlton owner Thomas Sandgaard today appointed four “experienced professionals in senior roles at the club.” (more)
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