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Solly March - rumoured to be signing

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
    edited October 17
    We’re outside the transfer window and we’re bringing in a player to cover a position we have lost an option in.

    I can’t in any world see how this is a negative thing. It literally makes us stronger than doing nothing at all.
    Well apart from the side we dont know ghe specifics of any deal, if he is on 1 or 2 years theres a good chance we will be paying someone to sit in our physio room
    I mean the reporting says ‘short term contract’.

    What would you do in this situation, outside the transfer window, when we have a long term injury to another player to cover?
    Jadon Sancho is still without a club.

    Shithousing aside TBF when ypu put it like that you make a good point.
  • We’re outside the transfer window and we’re bringing in a player to cover a position we have lost an option in.

    I can’t in any world see how this is a negative thing. It literally makes us stronger than doing nothing at all.
    Well apart from the side we dont know ghe specifics of any deal, if he is on 1 or 2 years theres a good chance we will be paying someone to sit in our physio room
    I mean the reporting says ‘short term contract’.

    What would you do in this situation, outside the transfer window, when we have a long term injury to another player to cover?
    Jadon Sancho is still without a club.
    Considering Oxford recruit better than us, I assume that’s the team he will be going to. 
  • We’re outside the transfer window and we’re bringing in a player to cover a position we have lost an option in.

    I can’t in any world see how this is a negative thing. It literally makes us stronger than doing nothing at all.
    Well apart from the side we dont know ghe specifics of any deal, if he is on 1 or 2 years theres a good chance we will be paying someone to sit in our physio room
    I mean the reporting says ‘short term contract’.

    What would you do in this situation, outside the transfer window, when we have a long term injury to another player to cover?
    Jadon Sancho is still without a club.
    Considering Oxford recruit better than us, I assume that’s the team he will be going to. 
    I heard he is going to Preston
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,869
    March will probably be out injured until April knowing our luck 
    He May
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,494
    Perhaps he's part of the family that owns Banca March - the Spanish Private Bank, is bringing in extra investment and joining the board of Global Football Partners?
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 11,326
    One thing's for sure , Solly March isn't someone who's workrate you'd ever question. Could also probably do a job at Wingback too if needed. 
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 6,660
    Yes 24 games in 3.5 years, just what we need
    Shhhh! Don’t state facts - it doesn’t go down well 
  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,633
    Short term contract, if he comes in, plays some games, improves the squad, then great. If it doesn’t work out, not really lost anything. Frothing at the mouth about it, strange. 
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 1,713
    edited October 17
    "Beware the ides of March"
    (Craig Shakespear)
    But its October!
  • BigRedEvil
    BigRedEvil Posts: 11,370
    Think he could be useful. Nkeng obviously isn't fancied to be ready yet (bit weird to sign him imo) and Alli hasn't done much in his cameos to date.

    But that said I don't understand how he can be registered before January

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  • wmcf123 said:
    Yes 24 games in 3.5 years, just what we need
    Shhhh! Don’t state facts - it doesn’t go down well 
    Tbf of its pay as you play its a good deal like Wickham
  • We’re outside the transfer window and we’re bringing in a player to cover a position we have lost an option in.

    I can’t in any world see how this is a negative thing. It literally makes us stronger than doing nothing at all.
    💯% this
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,549
    Very good player set back by dodgy knees 
    Absolutely perfect for us
    Why oh why do they persist with players with an injury history.
    This.

    Especially when we have an exciting youngster in Nkeng who we signed especially to play on the wing. 

    But nah.....let's play an injured old timer instead. 
    Because we have one of the lowest budgets in the league and it's either injury prone quality or untested lower league quality.
    Well at least try the untested youngster before discarding him & signing yet another injury prone player. 

    Would that be the young winger who is currently out injured?
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 24,493
    Redrobo said:
    Very good player set back by dodgy knees 
    Absolutely perfect for us
    Why oh why do they persist with players with an injury history.
    This.

    Especially when we have an exciting youngster in Nkeng who we signed especially to play on the wing. 

    But nah.....let's play an injured old timer instead. 
    Because we have one of the lowest budgets in the league and it's either injury prone quality or untested lower league quality.
    Well at least try the untested youngster before discarding him & signing yet another injury prone player. 

    Would that be the young winger who is currently out injured?
    Unless somethings happened since Tuesday then Nkeng isn’t injured 
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 24,643
    "Beware the ides of March"
    (Craig Shakespear)

    "Beware the ills of March"
    (Will-i-am Soapbox)
  • fenaddick said:
    fenaddick said:
    Very good player set back by dodgy knees 
    Absolutely perfect for us
    Why oh why do they persist with players with an injury history.
    Because that's the only type we can afford given our budget?
    That cannot be the case, surely.
    Without dismissing your post, it has to be ridiculous to entertain somebody with his recent track record.
    Behind all this I'd question our scouting network.
    At this stage in the season who is realistically still without a club but might have the technical ability we need? If they didn't have injury issues they wouldn't be a free agent
    On that basis look at the squad and rotate, surely being versatile still exists.
    Isn't that what we're already doing by playing Grant and TC at RW, Grant as a 10 etc.?

    Okay, so carry on and not bring in this guy.
    As @golfaddick quite rightly posted, perhaps Nkeng can be brought in, it seems that he plays in the position March has not been able to for the past two seasons.
    We have everything to gain by seeing what Nkeng can do even if it is before he was considered ready by our backroom staff.
    NJ sees these players every day in training, he’s a qualified coach who’s managed hundreds of professional football games. He’s extremely successful as well, especially working with a limited budgets like we have. Yet, our fans demand to see a youngster dropped into the first team to see what he could do. Just seems a bizarre demand based on nothing more than a hunch, when professionals have made a decision on evidence we are not open to. If NJ was useless and we were rock bottom I’d understand it but he’s not and we are not.
  • Very good player set back by dodgy knees 
    Absolutely perfect for us
    Why oh why do they persist with players with an injury history.
    Because that's the only type we can afford given our budget?
    It’s pretty obvious really, we’re are skint so our only choices are crocks and players who disappear in the international break. But it doesn’t seem obvious to some. Some fans seem to think we’re choosing these players rather than talented, young fit players, the ones that cost millions.
    We are not skint, the owners have put the brakes on the spending.

    Yeah, we’re skint then.
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 14,779
    wmcf123 said:
    Yes 24 games in 3.5 years, just what we need
    Shhhh! Don’t state facts - it doesn’t go down well 
    What do people expect at this point of the season ? 
  • DennisBooth
    DennisBooth Posts: 425
    From Rich Cawley 

    #cafc look set to offer a short-term contract to former Brighton winger Solly March.

    The 32-year-old has been without a club since leaving Brighton at the end of last season.

    March is a player that Nathan Jones knows very well, worked with him when he was part of the coaching staff at the South Coast club
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 9,245
    this seems like good news to me - my guess is we've got a termination clause we are activating on ouma

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  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 15,448
    edited October 17
    I haven't read past the first few posts. Can I guess that the 5 pages have gone like this:

    'Good player, recent injury history'
    'Typical Charlton something something injured players when will we learn?'
    'He was good before maybe his injury history will clear up'
    'This is a bad signing he'll get injured and take up wage space'
    'It's a short term signing and it's better than having nothing at all with Apter out'
    Repeat.

    I guess I'd be interested to see the cross-section of people who don't want this signing but are also absolutely desperate for Chalobah to come back because we're nothing without him. March was nearly picked up by a Premier League club in the summer, the question will be whether he plays enough to merit him being here. Chalobah has been key in us turning draws into wins so far, if March can do that once or twice it'll be great. Alternatively he might Roussillon himself about the place and leave in January. We'll see.
  • Hartleypete
    Hartleypete Posts: 4,883
    Does Jones only sign injured players that he has worked with previously, unbelievable.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 31,593
    We’re outside the transfer window and we’re bringing in a player to cover a position we have lost an option in.

    I can’t in any world see how this is a negative thing. It literally makes us stronger than doing nothing at all.
    💯% this
    Unless he scores an OG.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 24,643
    I haven't read past the first few posts. Can I guess that the 5 pages have gone like this:

    'Good player, recent injury history'
    'Typical Charlton something something injured players when will we learn?'
    'He was good before maybe his injury history will clear up'
    'This is a bad signing he'll get injured and take up wage space'
    'It's a short term signing and it's better than having nothing at all with Apter out'
    Repeat.

    I guess I'd be interested to see the cross-section of people who don't want this signing but are also absolutely desperate for Chalobah to come back because we're nothing without him. March was nearly picked up by a Premier League club in the summer, the question will be whether he plays enough to merit him being here. Chalobah has been key in us turning wins into draws so far, if March can do that once or twice it'll be great. Alternatively he might Roussillon himself about the place and leave in January. We'll see.


    Garry, you obviously don't mean this 🤔
  • Beckboy
    Beckboy Posts: 2,017
    Whats Sollys mum June have to say about all this 😬
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 39,690
    DOUCHER said:
    this seems like good news to me - my guess is we've got a termination clause we are activating on ouma
    Cawley's article says it's Apter who's being deregistered.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 15,448
    I haven't read past the first few posts. Can I guess that the 5 pages have gone like this:

    'Good player, recent injury history'
    'Typical Charlton something something injured players when will we learn?'
    'He was good before maybe his injury history will clear up'
    'This is a bad signing he'll get injured and take up wage space'
    'It's a short term signing and it's better than having nothing at all with Apter out'
    Repeat.

    I guess I'd be interested to see the cross-section of people who don't want this signing but are also absolutely desperate for Chalobah to come back because we're nothing without him. March was nearly picked up by a Premier League club in the summer, the question will be whether he plays enough to merit him being here. Chalobah has been key in us turning wins into draws so far, if March can do that once or twice it'll be great. Alternatively he might Roussillon himself about the place and leave in January. We'll see.


    Garry, you obviously don't mean this 🤔
    Charlton muscle memory at this point I think
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 28,286
    Will play less than five games 
  • MrOneLung said:
    Will play less than five games 
    More than apter and Nkeng combined then 
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 31,631
    fenaddick said:
    fenaddick said:
    Very good player set back by dodgy knees 
    Absolutely perfect for us
    Why oh why do they persist with players with an injury history.
    Because that's the only type we can afford given our budget?
    That cannot be the case, surely.
    Without dismissing your post, it has to be ridiculous to entertain somebody with his recent track record.
    Behind all this I'd question our scouting network.
    At this stage in the season who is realistically still without a club but might have the technical ability we need? If they didn't have injury issues they wouldn't be a free agent
    On that basis look at the squad and rotate, surely being versatile still exists.
    Isn't that what we're already doing by playing Grant and TC at RW, Grant as a 10 etc.?

    Okay, so carry on and not bring in this guy.
    As @golfaddick quite rightly posted, perhaps Nkeng can be brought in, it seems that he plays in the position March has not been able to for the past two seasons.
    We have everything to gain by seeing what Nkeng can do even if it is before he was considered ready by our backroom staff.
    NJ sees these players every day in training, he’s a qualified coach who’s managed hundreds of professional football games. He’s extremely successful as well, especially working with a limited budgets like we have. Yet, our fans demand to see a youngster dropped into the first team to see what he could do. Just seems a bizarre demand based on nothing more than a hunch, when professionals have made a decision on evidence we are not open to. If NJ was useless and we were rock bottom I’d understand it but he’s not and we are not.
    Whilst not disagreeing with the above I find it disappointing that, IF he comes in we would have brought in two players with a recent poor injury record.
    I still maintain we could have found others to come in.
    As for Nkeng, why not try him out? You don't know till he gets on the pitch.
    All about opinions and we'll see what the future brings.