Summer Window 2026 - Rumours and Discussion

Braziliance

Someone who doesn't understand football offered George Dobson a poor contract with not much of an extension. 

Luckily, slowly but surely most of the people who haven't got a scooby doo have left. Nathan Jones would have loved Dobson to stay and Dobson wanted to stay as well.

Also a bit harsh to judge him on a performance against Coventry of all teams, and only one incident, he still got motm for Wrexham



Make no mistake, if he joined back he walks into our midfield and would be one of our better players overrall. I'd genuinely need a change of underwear if he joined back as he's still class and fills a void we still need. Someone who gets about a bit and can actually ping a pass.

RonnieMoore

Charlton in Dundee derby scouting mission as two stars on summer transfer radar

The English Championship side have been keeping tabs on United's Will Ferry and Dundee's Luke Graham. The Addicks’ head of recruitment Phil Chapple took in United’s impressive 3-0 win over their city rivals. Dundee United’s Will Ferry netted two goals in a man-of-the-match performance

RonnieMoore

Chelmsford have informed striker Lyle Taylor he is free to leave the club.

MarcusH26

Wasn't Will Ferry mentioned as a target a while back? Maybe when he was at Cheltenham?

charlton_hero

up_the_valley said:

fenaddick said:

Huge caveat as it's FLW

🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨

FLW understands that Charlton Athletic and Leyton Orient are among the EFL clubs that are keen on Lewes winger Devonte West, who has landed a trial at Hull City 🔴⚪️

Full story in the comments 👇🔗#CAFC #LOFC #HCAFC #NTFC pic.twitter.com/3K92TtwYVo

— Football League World (@FootballLeagueW) April 28, 2026

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/charlton-athletic-leyton-orient-join-hull-city-in-race-to-sign-powerful-lewes-devonte-west/

Oh no, Orient set to become this window's Preston North End.

What a vile thing to joke about.

CafcSteve

RonnieMoore said:

Charlton in Dundee derby scouting mission as two stars on summer transfer radar

The English Championship side have been keeping tabs on United's Will Ferry and Dundee's Luke Graham. The Addicks’ head of recruitment Phil Chapple took in United’s impressive 3-0 win over their city rivals. Dundee United’s Will Ferry netted two goals in a man-of-the-match performance

Standard Ronnie not posting the source and trying to pass it off as his own.

Where was this posted?

RonnieMoore

CafcSteve said:

RonnieMoore said:

Charlton in Dundee derby scouting mission as two stars on summer transfer radar

The English Championship side have been keeping tabs on United's Will Ferry and Dundee's Luke Graham. The Addicks’ head of recruitment Phil Chapple took in United’s impressive 3-0 win over their city rivals. Dundee United’s Will Ferry netted two goals in a man-of-the-match performance

Standard Ronnie not posting the source and trying to pass it off as his own.

Where was this posted?

Daily Record 

CafcSteve

RonnieMoore said:

CafcSteve said:

RonnieMoore said:

Charlton in Dundee derby scouting mission as two stars on summer transfer radar

The English Championship side have been keeping tabs on United's Will Ferry and Dundee's Luke Graham. The Addicks’ head of recruitment Phil Chapple took in United’s impressive 3-0 win over their city rivals. Dundee United’s Will Ferry netted two goals in a man-of-the-match performance

Standard Ronnie not posting the source and trying to pass it off as his own.

Where was this posted?

Daily Record 

Cheers Ronnie.

Beats Football League World! 

NabySarr

MarcusH26 said:

Wasn't Will Ferry mentioned as a target a while back? Maybe when he was at Cheltenham?

Think he was mentioned in January when we had no left wing back fit 

Crispywood

Addicksi said:

fenaddick said:

John_Fitzpatrick1 said:

My list of who I think we may target / who I want us to target. 

BRK we should be going all in for! Not to worried about his injury. Was a shoulder issue and he opted to have surgery which kept him out for second half of the season. 

• Josh Neufville - Bradford fee - RWB
• James Bree - Free agent - RWB
• Brian De Keersmacker - Oxford Fee - CM
• Will Lankshear - Spurs Loan - ST (maybe)
• Lorent Tolaj - Plymouth Fee - ST
• Ethan Pye - Stockport Fee - LCB
• Ben Wilmot - Stoke free agent - RCB

Derby and Millwall supposedly looking at Tolaj too. We’re picking apart your list!

Plymouth want Mitchell so maybe that may help. It's going to be the offer that he prefers if he leaves. 

Would just need to find the 3M on top of Mitchell to afford Tolaj

Addicksi

Crispywood said:

Addicksi said:

fenaddick said:

John_Fitzpatrick1 said:

My list of who I think we may target / who I want us to target. 

BRK we should be going all in for! Not to worried about his injury. Was a shoulder issue and he opted to have surgery which kept him out for second half of the season. 

• Josh Neufville - Bradford fee - RWB
• James Bree - Free agent - RWB
• Brian De Keersmacker - Oxford Fee - CM
• Will Lankshear - Spurs Loan - ST (maybe)
• Lorent Tolaj - Plymouth Fee - ST
• Ethan Pye - Stockport Fee - LCB
• Ben Wilmot - Stoke free agent - RCB

Derby and Millwall supposedly looking at Tolaj too. We’re picking apart your list!

Plymouth want Mitchell so maybe that may help. It's going to be the offer that he prefers if he leaves. 

Would just need to find the 3M on top of Mitchell to afford Tolaj

Certainly a good wedge of cash on top. 

MarcusH26

And Luke Graham is a left footed CB who's name has also come up before. Pompey had 2 bids rejected in Jan

EpsomAddick

RonnieMoore said:

Charlton in Dundee derby scouting mission as two stars on summer transfer radar

The English Championship side have been keeping tabs on United's Will Ferry and Dundee's Luke Graham. The Addicks’ head of recruitment Phil Chapple took in United’s impressive 3-0 win over their city rivals. Dundee United’s Will Ferry netted two goals in a man-of-the-match performance

Great name for a boat

Chunes

Ruffdiamond said:

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soapboxsam said:

Blucher said:

AddicksAddict said:

fenaddick said:

doronron said:

bolloxbolder said:

Just a quickie on Coventry. We won't get much of a fee as a hefty percentage goes to the Hammers.

Same as Alex Mitchell, Millwall have a  20% sell on clause 

West Ham's is supposedly 50% which is significantly more

150% more. 

Presumably Millwall's sell-on is 20% of any profit on what we paid (£200,000 ?), whereas West Ham's is a straight 50%, as Coventry was on a free.

Amazing how player's can be praised like Conor Coventry was during last season and the first half of this season but then suddenly being spoken of in the past tense and going from Mr Consistency to losing his place.
No wonder so many footballers are insecure because of the highs and lows of their careers.

I suppose for Coventry specifically his consistency was one of his best features though - he was rarely a match winning player on his own but you know exactly what you are getting. He's got quite a limited role but he did it very well.
As soon as he started losing consistency he becomes someone who has a limited role that he wasn't even doing that well and Coady coming in to basically "out Coventry" him was fantastic for the team but a blow to Coventry himself.

Genuinely not sure where all the background to all this is coming from.

I thought Conor Cov was carrying a knock and having been playing week in week out got a much needed breather and recovery when Coady signed? Nothing has changed in Cov’s game or his consistency from what I have seen. He has either been directed to sweep in front of the back three with short passing or hit the wing or big man - mainly the big man which can look good, bad or indifferent depending how effective the player out top is playing. 

Cov’s stats on passing are the highest performing in our squad this season at close to 80% -

1. Conor Coventry · 78.9% ; 2. Macaulay Gillesphey · 72.6% ; 3. Lloyd Jones · 75.7% ; 4. Amari'i Bell · 75.5% ; 5. Kayne Ramsay · 75.5%.

Interestingly all of our highest passing players are at the back which helps explain why so few goals were scored as more often than not you would hope a b2b midfielder or CAM would hold the top spot.

Anyway, do not think he is going anywhere and will have benefitted from his first season back in the Championship since his spell at Rotherham.

But he can’t make a forward pass 

It would be surprising if he didn't have a high completion % given how simple most of his passing is. 

crookester

RonnieMoore said:

Charlton in Dundee derby scouting mission as two stars on summer transfer radar

The English Championship side have been keeping tabs on United's Will Ferry and Dundee's Luke Graham. The Addicks’ head of recruitment Phil Chapple took in United’s impressive 3-0 win over their city rivals. Dundee United’s Will Ferry netted two goals in a man-of-the-match performance

Ferry is an attacking left wing back who Jones "may" know from his time at Southampton (looks like he may have been on-loan at the time though). Definitely sounds plausible.

Addickinedi

Luke Graham is young player of the year in Scotland and both Rangers and Celtic have been after him. Don't see him moving south with their interest likely to result in bids.

Callumcafc

Here you go, not hard to link the actual article

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/charlton-athletic-dundee-scouting-transfer-37089284

Charlton in Dundee derby scouting mission as two stars on summer transfer radar

The English Championship side have been keeping tabs on United's Will Ferry and Dundee's Luke Graham

Charlton Athletic ran the rule over Will Ferry and Luke Graham in the Dundee derby.

The Addicks’ head of recruitment Phil Chapple took in United’s impressive 3-0 win over their city rivals. Dundee United’s Will Ferry netted two goals in a man-of-the-match performance.

The English Championship side has had the former Southampton player on their radar all season. Ferry is entering the final year of his contract and interest is heating up.

Ferry, 25, was the subject of a failed bid from Vancouver Whitecaps last summer.

United have kicked off a player trading model.

They sold Nikolaj Moller for big money to Sandefjord in the winter window.

They also have several of their players attracting interest going into the summer.

Charlton Athletic is also amongst a string of English Championship clubs that have an interest in Dundee’s Graham.

The central defender was the subject of a club record £1.5million bid from Portsmouth in the last window.

Dundee turned that down and since then Rangers, several other English and European clubs have scouted the Scotland under-21 cap.

Graham is also going into the final year of his contract at Dundee.

The Dark Blues have made it clear that the 22-year-old will only be sold if it suits the club and the player.

It remains to be seen if the pair have done enough for Charlton to firm up their interest with bids.

The pair will likely continue to be watched over the final four games of the season.

Braziliance

That Will Ferry has an absurdly high/consistent rating on sofascore in the Scottish Prem. 

Never heard of him but he's the 3rd highest rated player in the whole league. 



That heat map would make Nathan Jones knock one out I reckon. Looks to have insane work rates. 

valleynick66

Can we nickname him ‘Woolwich’ if we sign him? 😉😆

(Lets hope he’s not only able to offer a one footed (boat) service)

shirty5

RonnieMoore said:

Charlton in Dundee derby scouting mission as two stars on summer transfer radar

The English Championship side have been keeping tabs on United's Will Ferry and Dundee's Luke Graham. The Addicks’ head of recruitment Phil Chapple took in United’s impressive 3-0 win over their city rivals. Dundee United’s Will Ferry netted two goals in a man-of-the-match performance

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/charlton-athletic-dundee-scouting-transfer-37089284.amp

Addicksi

Nice rumour that. I'd be happy with Ferry and Graham seems highly rated. 

Crispywood

There’s your LCB and LWB sorted. Actively known that Portsmouth wanted Graham and Blackburn want Ferry so good opportunity to see how we can compete with other championship sides 

Bod

As we all know Josh Edwards came from the Scottish Championship so I'm more than happy for us to be scouting in Scotland, clearly there is some affordable talent to found north of the border.

Athletico Charlton

I hoped we would go for Graham last summer, looks very promising. 

Callumcafc

First YouTube scouting assignment of a long summer

Luke Graham (LCB):

https://youtu.be/rSguKt5e9PY

bolloxbolder

Wow, he looks the part in those clips. Hope we can get him. Perhaps Josh and Doc can have a wee word.

Henry Irving

EpsomAddick said:

RonnieMoore said:

Charlton in Dundee derby scouting mission as two stars on summer transfer radar

The English Championship side have been keeping tabs on United's Will Ferry and Dundee's Luke Graham. The Addicks’ head of recruitment Phil Chapple took in United’s impressive 3-0 win over their city rivals. Dundee United’s Will Ferry netted two goals in a man-of-the-match performance

Great name for a boat

There was a Woolwich Ferry boat named the Will Crooks (after a local MP) in the 60s.

MarcusH26

Was another Dundee defender a couple of years back Josh Mulligan who we were very heavily linked with. Ended up at Hibs in the end. 

ForeverAddickted

I seem to remember Ferry and Graham being mentioned in January

Am definitely surprised though we've not signed more players from Scotland already given Edwards' success

But then I also think that Jones wanted players he knew, didn't need to take much of a risk on, and has previously worked with last year, simply to help secure Championship Football. Now we've done that, we'll hopefully be a bit more daring with our signings.

MarcusH26

Cheers Callum for the clips! A 6ft 4 left footed CB that can play out like Graham looks absolutely ideal for what we need. Just hope he's someone we don't get gazumped by the Old Firm for.