I am a regular reader of their fans forum. I have a soft spot for Charlton but also a bit of Schadenfreude.
From 2 days ago from the Guardian:
Charlton’s US owners have put the club up for sale just three years after taking over at the Valley. The Championship’s ownership group is understood to have engaged Oakwell Sports Advisory to find what would be the club’s fifth owners in the past six years.
In a sales deck sent to potential investors, which has been seen by the Guardian, Oakwell describes Charlton as “the last remaining football club upside opportunity in London”. Oakwell also claims that Charlton would provide new owners with an opportunity for five to 10 times equity growth through promotion to the Premier League, commercial expansion and investment in women’s football.
Charlton manager Nathan Jones
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Oakwell did the deal that led to the Bournemouth owner, Bill Foley, buying the Prem rugby club Exeter Chiefs this summer, and is helping the Rugby Football League to secure external investment, but has little recent history of completing football transactions.
Charlton’s location in south-east London is a plus, while the Valley is a modern stadium with capacity of 27,000, but the club do not own the ground, which belongs to the hated former owner Roland Duchâtelet.
Having considered looking at alternative sites elsewhere, last year Charlton extended the lease on the Valley until 2040.
Charlton has repeatedly changed hands since the fans succeeded in forcing out Duchâtelet in 2020, when the club had three owners in quick succession. Duchâtelet sold Charlton to East Street Investments for just £1 in January 2020, but the consortium initially led by the former football agent Matt Southall collapsed amid in-fighting and an acrimonious court case, with the club eventually bought by the Danish-American business Thomas Sandgaard later that year.
Then in 2023, Sandgaard sold Charlton to a group of five US investors called Global Football Partners (GFP) led by Gabriel Brener via their UK subsidiary, SE7 Partners.
Under GFP, Charlton returned to the Championship for the first time in five years in 2025 by winning the League One playoff final at Wembley, while the women’s team were promoted to WSL1 last season.
GFP paid around £15m for Charlton three years ago, but having invested in the stadium and training ground and seen Nathan Jones’s side consolidate the club in the Championship, will be looking for several times that figure.
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Charlton do not own their own ground or training ground, they have fairly large debts and their assets will be whatever cash they have and the players, who aren't worth much .
Obvious question if this is such a marvellous business opportunity then why are you selling?
The club has since denied the board are selling claiming they are looking for new investment. So the billionaire owners don't want to put their own money into the club they want some other mug to do the same. Charlton fans have pointed out that in their denial of the story the club statement was a non denial denial. In other words they will sell if the offer is right.
In many ways their board is similar to ours, American owners with deep pockets who are reluctant to invest. I guess the difference is that we have real assets and PL income.
Anyway another dawn another day another set of owners with a 5 year plan that has now mysteriously disappeared.
Who'd be a Charlton fan.
From 2 days ago from the Guardian:
Charlton’s US owners have put the club up for sale just three years after taking over at the Valley. The Championship’s ownership group is understood to have engaged Oakwell Sports Advisory to find what would be the club’s fifth owners in the past six years.
In a sales deck sent to potential investors, which has been seen by the Guardian, Oakwell describes Charlton as “the last remaining football club upside opportunity in London”. Oakwell also claims that Charlton would provide new owners with an opportunity for five to 10 times equity growth through promotion to the Premier League, commercial expansion and investment in women’s football.
Charlton manager Nathan Jones
Nathan Jones: ‘It’s not a forgiving world – people want their pound of flesh’
Read more
Oakwell did the deal that led to the Bournemouth owner, Bill Foley, buying the Prem rugby club Exeter Chiefs this summer, and is helping the Rugby Football League to secure external investment, but has little recent history of completing football transactions.
Charlton’s location in south-east London is a plus, while the Valley is a modern stadium with capacity of 27,000, but the club do not own the ground, which belongs to the hated former owner Roland Duchâtelet.
Having considered looking at alternative sites elsewhere, last year Charlton extended the lease on the Valley until 2040.
Charlton has repeatedly changed hands since the fans succeeded in forcing out Duchâtelet in 2020, when the club had three owners in quick succession. Duchâtelet sold Charlton to East Street Investments for just £1 in January 2020, but the consortium initially led by the former football agent Matt Southall collapsed amid in-fighting and an acrimonious court case, with the club eventually bought by the Danish-American business Thomas Sandgaard later that year.
Then in 2023, Sandgaard sold Charlton to a group of five US investors called Global Football Partners (GFP) led by Gabriel Brener via their UK subsidiary, SE7 Partners.
Under GFP, Charlton returned to the Championship for the first time in five years in 2025 by winning the League One playoff final at Wembley, while the women’s team were promoted to WSL1 last season.
GFP paid around £15m for Charlton three years ago, but having invested in the stadium and training ground and seen Nathan Jones’s side consolidate the club in the Championship, will be looking for several times that figure.
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Charlton do not own their own ground or training ground, they have fairly large debts and their assets will be whatever cash they have and the players, who aren't worth much .
Obvious question if this is such a marvellous business opportunity then why are you selling?
The club has since denied the board are selling claiming they are looking for new investment. So the billionaire owners don't want to put their own money into the club they want some other mug to do the same. Charlton fans have pointed out that in their denial of the story the club statement was a non denial denial. In other words they will sell if the offer is right.
In many ways their board is similar to ours, American owners with deep pockets who are reluctant to invest. I guess the difference is that we have real assets and PL income.
Anyway another dawn another day another set of owners with a 5 year plan that has now mysteriously disappeared.
Who'd be a Charlton fan.
