The latest instalment of Peter Varney's conversations with Richard Cawley on his Substack page cover Duchatelet and his guitar playing successor. Needless to say, Varney has little time for either of them.
I have asked Richard Cawley if these interviews can be aggregated in some way as they give a fascinating 'behind the scenes' look at Charlton's recent travails.
Varney doesn't suffer fools gladly and I felt the rough edge of his tongue when I put friendship with an Addick before good judgement. Nevertheless, he is a very shrewd and experienced individual and a genuine Addick.
Rick Everitt and Varney worked closely together on the excellent Rickshaw project among others and Varney uses Everitt as corroboration at one point in his remarks. Nevertheless, it has been alleged that they had the occasional vigorous exchange of views when working together.
Duchatelet seems to have formed the view with Varney was a 'bad' person and refused to engage with him in relation to attempts to buy the club from serious bidders. The barmy Belgian's excessive valuations of the stadium and the training ground also discouraged prospective buyers.
Apparently Duchatelet took exception to a £25k consultancy fee Varney had received from Jiminez for some hard work on his behalf. Varney initially got nothing, but Her Indoors rightly insisted that he should be paid for his labours.
As for Sandgaard, Varney makes it clear what he thinks of his lack of realism.
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