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Roland Duchâtelet’s family club collection: Sint-Truiden and Standard de Liège in Belgium; Ujpest in Hungary; Carl Zeiss Jena in Germany; Charlton Athletic in England and Alcorcon in Spain.
ONE OF the most interesting aspects of Roland Duchatelet’s takeover is the Belgian’s relationship with a number of other clubs on the continent. Duchatelet is linked with five clubs other than the Addicks, most notably Standard Liege who currently sit first in the Belgian top flight. In addition to Standard, Dutchatelet also has an interest in Sint-Truidense in Belgium’s second tier, Ujipest in the Hungary, Alcorcon in the Spanish Segunda Division and Carl Zeiss Jena in the German Regionalliga. This is reminiscent of the ownership structure of Watford’s Pozzo family who also control Udinese and Granada in Italy and Spain respectively which last season saw a number of loan players join the Hornets from other teams in the Pozzo empire. This time last year Watford’s loan policy made headlines as they reached double figures in terms of the number of players on loan from their sister clubs. Whilst they were within the rules (the limit of five loans per match day squad and a maximum of two from another club did not apply to loans from overseas, which the Football League records as transfers ) it was a situation criticised
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