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Charlton owner tells fans: 'we are stuck together'

Controversial Charlton owner Roland Duchatelet has told fans of the SE7 club: 'we are stuck together': Duchatelet statement. After the club's Wembley play off triumph, there were hopes that a long awaited takeover of the club might be completed, but the unpopular Belgian claims that it is stuck on the question of former directors' loans, although at least one of them has a different version of events.

Contract negotiations with manager Lee Bowyer, who has attracted interest from other Championship clubs, are yet to be completed. However, Duchatelet has made it clear that the sagacious supremo will have to stay in the Championship on a bare bones budget, a far from easy task given the number of clubs that have parachute payments and benefactor owners.

Charlton fanzine editor Rick Everitt has denounced Duchatelet's latest statement: Rick Everitt puts him straight

The Voice of the Valley editor has stated on Twitter, 'It is categorically untrue and a barefaced lie that the owner of Ebbsfleet was interested in buying Charlton, that Peter Varney, myself and Derek Chappell ever put him forward to do so.'

The Ramsgate-based fan continues, 'Interested party in 2015/16 was not Middle Eastern and Duchatelet does not and never has known who it was, because he refused to sign an NDA to meet them in Brussels. What any this has to do with 2019 I have no idea!'

Everitt notes, 'Duchatelet blames former CAFC directors with a total of £2.65m in interest-free loans only repayable in PL but has refused a £45m offer for the club and asked for £72m plus the ex-directors’ loans in League One six months ago.'

Former Charlton director David White commented, 'I don’t understand it. I have had one conversation recently asking if I would be happy to discuss my loan and I said yes. That is all. I haven’t discussed anything else, been offered anything or agreed anything.'

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