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Former Forest owner interested in Charlton

One day soon all this will be mine?

Former Nottingham Forest owner Fawaz Al-Hasawi was shown round Charlton Athletic's ground at The Valley yesterday by a representative of current owner Roland Duchatelet. The visitor seemed to like what he saw.

Duchatelet has been the subject of fan protests and is keen to sell the club located in South-East London. However, a deal with an Australian consortium has not progressed with rumours about a failure to agree on the price. The Belgian owner has built up debts of about £60m owed by the club to one of his companies.

Al-Hasawi was a controversial owner at Nottingham Forest. He has been involved in a legal battle with the club: Dispute

He was chairman of Forest from 2012 to 2017. There were frequent changes of manager as a formula for success was sought: Time as chairman

He does claim to have learnt from the mistakes he made at Forest and would take a back seat at a new club appointing a chairman and a chief executive and taking a back seat: Learning from mistakes

Richard Cawley of the South London Press has tweeted: 'No public comment from #cafc on Fawaz Al-Hasawi but been told no chance of a deal happening. Blowing a NDA within 24 hours isn't exactly the way to get things off on the right footing.'

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