Apr 28
Relax everyone. You can hit your beds tonight safe in the knowledge that guitar man is still at the Charlton Athletic wheel.
Rich Cawley as always with his finger on the button describing a “roadblock” in the way of Marc Spiegel completing the takeover of the club. Not a bump, or a traffic jam, but a block.
Please click for moreLots of takeover talk this week. I have been applying my enthusiasm to things closer to home and those I can control recently, but the Evening Standard printed an article today saying that co-founder of Rubicon Global (which sounds a lot more grand than it really is) Marc Spiegel expects to complete the takeover of Charlton from Thomas Sandgaard on Friday.
We are past the allocated exclusivity period which was the Dane’s cue to banish the last lot, but possibly Spiegel will gain control of the club for what is thought to be £11.6m.
Another murky day of mystery, intrigue and disruption at Charlton.
It appears club staff have been told of the appointment of Peter Storrie as the new CEO. Storrie had a less than storied career at West Ham, Southend, Notts County and Portsmouth.
Once arrested for corruption alongside Harry Redknapp, and later cleared, he was also exculpated of tax invasion due to the sale of Addicks’ legend Amdy Faye. He took Pompey into administration and left citing personal abuse from supporters who blamed him for the club’s demise.
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