Summer Window 2026 - Rumours and Discussion

Pelling1993

AberystwythAddick said:

Re TC someone like MK Dons wouldn’t surprise me as a destination, they’ve got some very rich owners now

No one would get on his back there, mainly as there isn't any in the ground to do so.

EugenesAxe

Laddick01 said:

Let’s start random rumours to throw Nixon off.

I’ve heard Lloyd Jones won’t be joining West Ham this window. A deal was close between the two clubs but Jones doesn’t want to join due to a phobia of bubbles. 

I heard he has agoraphobia and The Taxpayers stadium atmosphere would likely trigger it.

Garrymanilow

TheNotoriousBWP said:

Garrymanilow said:

Abdul Abdulmalik, a player who has never played above non-league level, is apparently better than TC, one of the key players in a Championship side. People are just saying whatever now then are they?

Jamie Vardy, Sorba Thomas, Ian Wright, Chris Smalling, Stuart Pearce, Les Ferdinand, Michail Antonio, Ollie Watkins, Jared Bowen, all started off in non league, got signed up by a pro team and have gone onto have brilliant careers. 

You can put non league level down as much as you want but there are plenty of cases where players have been signed directly from there and gone onto be really successful, and all of those were better than TC when signed by these pro teams by a country mile.

The fact you have to go back to the 1980s for some of these says it all about how rare it is for non-league players to make it at a high level. Even then though, it's not really relevant to what we're talking about; I have no issue with players stepping up from National League level, what I do specifically think is laughable is you asserting that Abdulmalik, who has had one good season under his belt at that level aged 23 is a better player than TC, who by the age of 22 - he is younger than Abdulmalik - has already played 146 EFL games, and has been a key part of a L1 Playoff winning squad and now a Championship squad. TC was already playing 2 levels higher than Abdulmalik ever has when he was 18. They're close in age, maybe Abdulmalik will go on to achieve more, who knows, but right now it's just ridiculous to say Abdulmalik is the better player.

Berkshire1970

I see a fair amount of rumours and transfer activity this week & still no right winger. Goals for Charlton are going to be hard to come by & I can only put it down to lack of funds. I expect loans to come in over the next few days. Uninspiring transfer window. 

Todds_right_hook

Berkshire1970 said:

I see a fair amount of rumours and transfer activity this week & still no right winger. Goals for Charlton are going to be hard to come by & I can only put it down to lack of funds. I expect loans to come in over the next few days. Uninspiring transfer window. 

Easy to criticise when you don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes

admittedly, I do not know what is going on behind the scenes but I’m not being critical 

wolfgang

Berkshire1970 said:

I see a fair amount of rumours and transfer activity this week & still no right winger. Goals for Charlton are going to be hard to come by & I can only put it down to lack of funds. I expect loans to come in over the next few days. Uninspiring transfer window. 

I am a moaner, as some may have noticed, but I would call it a good window. If Campbell and Jones re-sign (I have no faith in Ramsay doing so) and we sign a competent right-sided player, then a very good window.

Berkshire1970

wolfgang said:

Berkshire1970 said:

I see a fair amount of rumours and transfer activity this week & still no right winger. Goals for Charlton are going to be hard to come by & I can only put it down to lack of funds. I expect loans to come in over the next few days. Uninspiring transfer window. 

I am a moaner, as some may have noticed, but I would call it a good window. If Campbell and Jones re-sign (I have no faith in Ramsay doing so) and we sign a competent right-sided player, then a very good window.

I don’t see Campbell signing is a positive. I don’t know how suddenly Campbell is a championship winger all of a sudden. I would cash in & purchase a right winger. We are going to be fighting for our lives to stay in this division 

eastterrace6168

Campbell signing and extension must be regarded as a positive..

DDOUBLEE

Do some of you actually enjoy football? Just moan, moan, moan constantly.

golfaddick

eastterrace6168 said:

Campbell signing and extension must be regarded as a positive..

Only if we play him on the left. He has done nothing on the right to show that he will either...

1) put a cross in for our loan striker to attack

2) cut onto his left & shoot. 

I can see us trying to shoehorn him into the team by starting him on the right & like last Sat have to switch him with Grant or Alli after 30 mins.

As @Berkshire1970 said above.....I'd rather take £3m now & use that money on a proper Right winger.