Was pretty obvious we were going to see the loyalty, rot in reserves comments. Shame. He is a kid with a massive talent. He could break his leg tomorrow. He will now get security for the rest of his life and train amongst the best.
Good luck Diego. I would have done the same.
Hmmm,he could quite easily have done what Shelvey and Jenkinson did though. Sign a new contract so the club that nurtured them,brought them through and gave them their chance get a decent fee for all the time and money they invested. The Prem teams get enough without picking up real talent for next to nothing. He could've signed and if they really wanted him,they would've paid,everyone's happy. May seem very black and white but if Jenks and JJ could do it then pretty sure Poyet could've done. All about the £££.
Nothing like a bit of loyalty is there. One more season wouldn't have hurt him at all, and would have guarenteed him a game each week. It would have also given the club who has taken him through youth and developed him into the player he is today the chance to get a decent fee for him, rather than a "compensation package"
I hope he gets a Premiership team and rots in their reserves
Unbelievable.
As much as I am hugely disappointed to see him go, it is patently obvious that he is too good for us. It may be that he has made a bad decision in the long term and ends up sitting on the bench somwhere, but for a Charlton fan to actively hope that is horrible.
All the best Diego. I'm just sad I never got to see you play.
Richard Cawley @RichCawleySLP · 3m "Diego appreciates that. He has been there long time. Other teams have shown interest - home and abroad. We need to work out best solution."
Am I right in assuming if he goes abroad we get no development fee?
On the pitch I don’t think it’s that big a loss, Cousins is similar and this will aid his development in the middle rather than on the right. The blow for me is that we’ll receive a pittance after we’ve invested years in him. One more token contract would have helped out all parties.
Despite being anti-RD I’m not going to blame the regime either, things can’t be that bad behind the scenes if Morrison’s stayed and we do have money available so Poyet must have had a reasonable offer. It’s one of those things we’ll have to unfortunately accept and move on from.
Hmmm,he could quite easily have done what Shelvey and Jenkinson did though. Sign a new contract so the club that nurtured them,brought them through and gave them their chance get a decent fee for all the time and money they invested. The Prem teams get enough without picking up real talent for next to nothing. He could've signed and if they really wanted him,they would've paid,everyone's happy. May seem very black and white but if Jenks and JJ could do it then pretty sure Poyet could've done. All about the £££.
He could have done but it is pretty rare for a youngster who has signed a pro contract to be in this situation where on a free he can choose pretty much any team he wants whereas he is limited by signing a contract as certain teams may not want to pay the fee. They may be interested but Shelvey and Jenkinson were wanted by probably two of the best teams any youngster could be signed by.
In my opinion the young lad has been misguided here. 19 years old with half a season's experience, earning more than average lad of his age. His old man is well off, so we can forget about the money side of things. It's not like he needs to get them off the council estate.
Personally he should have signed a 2 year deal with us, got 80/100 more games/experience under his belt and then if continued his form, the money and football side of things would have looked after themselves.
Now I fear he will join a premier league side, be on excellent money, but will play a dozen games maximum over the next couple of seasons.
His Career will go two ways from here , Either straight into a Top league. , break into the first team and become a success , or He'll rot away on the Bench before being loaned out to various championship clubs , Am I disappointed he's left , Yes , of course. But honestly , give me the choice between Morrison ( A player who has stated he loves the club) or Diego , Someone who didn't want to be here , it's Morrison everytime. So Diego I wish you every success , but if that fails at least you can fall back on Daddies Money...
Of course I'm disappointed that he's not staying. He was an important part of the team and a real talent we will find hard to replace.
I had expected him to go but the longer it went on without him signing elsewhere the more chance I thought we might have, slim though it always was.
I'm not going to slag him off as greedy or lacking in loyalty as I think those comments smack of sour grapes.
Will wish him good luck in his career and I hope he makes the right choice of club and manager to move to. A big decision for him and his advisors to make.
I am pleased that the Club made the statement on the OS (I didn't say it) first and didn't wait for him to be paraded elsewhere. Glad there are being as pro-active and open as they can be in this type of situation. Just tell the fans what you can as soon as you can.
As one door closes another opens. If we offered him large amounts of wonga all the dosh has now become available to spend as wages or fees on someone else.
Very disappointed, only so much the club can do. Not going to lie, i feel Diego has let us down a little bit. The club spends years nurturing him from a young age, gives him his debut and offers him a better contract, only for Diego to turn it down. Big loss.
I hope his new club sends him back to us on a season long loan. That would be a good move for all concerned IMHO.
Dont think so, The amount of people who have said things on here about his loyalty I would be worried if he came back on loan at the reception he received
I don't blame Diego for the decision at all, I'm just gutted that I won't get to see him play week in, week out for us anymore.
He is one of the very few footballers that I've seen at The Valley who made watching football a joy, the ability he had to find space, pick out passes and mug off the opposition with this at ease was brilliant.
He made people the row in front of me laugh every week with that, I just wanted to see him for a full season.
Good luck Diego, I'm sure wherever you go you'll make the right decision and flourish (Just don't play for Uruguay).
Let's hope they have a couple of players up their sleeves to unveil to quickly bury this news
Wonder if this was decided a few days ago and the signings of Buyens / Igor / Morrison were bits of news to get us in a really good mood before the sucker punch
Was pretty obvious we were going to see the loyalty, rot in reserves comments. Shame. He is a kid with a massive talent. He could break his leg tomorrow. He will now get security for the rest of his life and train amongst the best.
Good luck Diego. I would have done the same.
Hmmm,he could quite easily have done what Shelvey and Jenkinson did though. Sign a new contract so the club that nurtured them,brought them through and gave them their chance get a decent fee for all the time and money they invested. The Prem teams get enough without picking up real talent for next to nothing. He could've signed and if they really wanted him,they would've paid,everyone's happy. May seem very black and white but if Jenks and JJ could do it then pretty sure Poyet could've done. All about the £££.
If you assume that the club he's going to has a budget then is it not obvious that if he earns us, say £2m, in a transfer fee it comes out of his pocket? How many on here have given their former employers thousands of pounds of their own money to say thank you when they leave?
We'll still get a fee for him, and he wasn't offered a new deal a year ago when he would probably have liked the money, nor was he played before RD came in due to some rumored contract pay rise.
In all honesty the club (under different management) blocked his route into the first team, and refused to pay him what he thought he was worth (from what I've seen he was, well, worth it) then with five months until he becomes a free agent he starts to play and then within a matter of weeks of him being able to earn an absolute fortune the club offer him, presumably, significantly less than that to stay at a club that only just avoided the third division.
I think anyone that thinks he owes us anything (other than not lying to us) is being very harsh on him.
I also think that we saw a fraction of the talent he has. I think he could walk into more than half of the Premier League first teams and hold down his place. I don't fine the rumors about Arsenal and Chelsea to be outrageous. I think he could be in their first team within eighteen months.
I would have loved him to stay but I fear it would have shown a massive lack of ambition and/or confidence if he had done. We should have offered him a longer contract twelve months ago. It's a bit like taking your wife for granted and then calling her all the names under the sun when when another bloke comes along and sweeps her off her feet by giving her all the things she's been asking you for.
not quite - at least we got to see him play half a season for the first team, which we never did for Defoe. We alos got over a £1m compo for that Judas and I fear we will be lucky to get anywhere near that this time.
I am gutted with this news & can only think of Captain Manwarring 's voice....."stupid boy". By the sounds of it he hasn't signed up for anyone else and that could be a very risky plan. Most people when changing employer have at least a signed contract before handing in their resignation and it only needs a change of manager/owner/wind direction for things to unravel pretty quickly. Yes he is a good player, but not a great one, and as mentioned earlier, he has only 6 months experience playing in the first team & I very much doubt he will see the first team for his new club for some time.
I believe it is a mistake on his part, but the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. From a personal perspective, I don’t wish him well – players like Jenkinson and Shelvey have still left us at a young age but will get cheers and claps when they visit in the future. It is called starting your career with some class and respect. I don’t tend to boo players, but I will find it hard to supress the odd one if he visits.
Was pretty obvious we were going to see the loyalty, rot in reserves comments. Shame. He is a kid with a massive talent. He could break his leg tomorrow. He will now get security for the rest of his life and train amongst the best.
Good luck Diego. I would have done the same.
Hmmm,he could quite easily have done what Shelvey and Jenkinson did though. Sign a new contract so the club that nurtured them,brought them through and gave them their chance get a decent fee for all the time and money they invested. The Prem teams get enough without picking up real talent for next to nothing. He could've signed and if they really wanted him,they would've paid,everyone's happy. May seem very black and white but if Jenks and JJ could do it then pretty sure Poyet could've done. All about the £££.
So, you have Arsenal and Chelsea knocking at your door for your services and saying "we want to sign you this Summer".
You would say "no" to those teams and tell them to come back in a year's time because you know they aren't going to use you?
And do you think that club will come back in a year's time and say "We don't mind paying £4 million for you now, even though we could have had you on a free last year and we have about 200 youth players on our books to look at anyway who won't cost us anything"?
That's not taking into the account that he could get an injury or be involved in a Charlton side that gets relegated and his profile drops considerably. In that time god knows how many other promising 18-19 year olds will pop up around the country who those clubs can go after instead, rather than the guy who turned them down.
If it was "all about the £££", as you put it - then he would have probably stayed with us considering it sounds like we were doing everything possible to provide him a lucrative deal. His priority is to look after himself, as it should be. His contract with us is finished - it is not his job to look after our balance sheet.
I know contracts in Football are used a bit differently, but the whole point of signing a contract is to adhere to the term and then it is down to you to make your own choice at the end of it if you want to. He owes us nothing.
The man that brought Diego into our first team was pushed out the door by our owner, the man that played football the way Diego liked it replacing him, was pushed out the door. Diego needs security, say it over and over again. We aren't the club for him, and he would have signed for a little longer without our new regime. But we can't mull over that, what is, is. Diego didn't take a liking to RD and that was seen from his twitter activity around the time, he knows what's going in within the club, we don't, as much.
Was pretty obvious we were going to see the loyalty, rot in reserves comments. Shame. He is a kid with a massive talent. He could break his leg tomorrow. He will now get security for the rest of his life and train amongst the best.
Good luck Diego. I would have done the same.
Hmmm,he could quite easily have done what Shelvey and Jenkinson did though. Sign a new contract so the club that nurtured them,brought them through and gave them their chance get a decent fee for all the time and money they invested. The Prem teams get enough without picking up real talent for next to nothing. He could've signed and if they really wanted him,they would've paid,everyone's happy. May seem very black and white but if Jenks and JJ could do it then pretty sure Poyet could've done. All about the £££.
THIS...........and why if Shelvy or Jenkinson ever play against us I will not boo them, unlike Defoe or Spotty Parker.
Sorry, but I really do blame him (not that he will care, I am sure). There would have been absolutely no issue with him signing a contract with, say, a £2m get-out clause - no Premiership or top international club that would have thought him good enough to sign would have worried about what would be a pittance of a fee to them. If he had done that, then I would have applauded him like I would applaud Shelvey or Jenkinson if they ever came back, he chose not to.
Now we get nothing for all the money invested in him. And a club like ours survives on the kind of transfer fees that he could have brought in with absolutely no damage to his career at all.
In a week when a loyal member of the back-office staff had lost her job because the club is desperate to get somewhere closer to balancing the books, then this is an absolute kick in the teeth and just shows how self-serving players can be.
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As much as I am hugely disappointed to see him go, it is patently obvious that he is too good for us. It may be that he has made a bad decision in the long term and ends up sitting on the bench somwhere, but for a Charlton fan to actively hope that is horrible.
All the best Diego. I'm just sad I never got to see you play.
Very disappointing. But if he genuinely wanted to stay he'd have signed a contract months ago
Am I right in assuming if he goes abroad we get no development fee?
Despite being anti-RD I’m not going to blame the regime either, things can’t be that bad behind the scenes if Morrison’s stayed and we do have money available so Poyet must have had a reasonable offer. It’s one of those things we’ll have to unfortunately accept and move on from.
Personally he should have signed a 2 year deal with us, got 80/100 more games/experience under his belt and then if continued his form, the money and football side of things would have looked after themselves.
Now I fear he will join a premier league side, be on excellent money, but will play a dozen games maximum over the next couple of seasons.
I had expected him to go but the longer it went on without him signing elsewhere the more chance I thought we might have, slim though it always was.
I'm not going to slag him off as greedy or lacking in loyalty as I think those comments smack of sour grapes.
Will wish him good luck in his career and I hope he makes the right choice of club and manager to move to. A big decision for him and his advisors to make.
I am pleased that the Club made the statement on the OS (I didn't say it) first and didn't wait for him to be paraded elsewhere. Glad there are being as pro-active and open as they can be in this type of situation. Just tell the fans what you can as soon as you can.
As one door closes another opens. If we offered him large amounts of wonga all the dosh has now become available to spend as wages or fees on someone else.
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He is one of the very few footballers that I've seen at The Valley who made watching football a joy, the ability he had to find space, pick out passes and mug off the opposition with this at ease was brilliant.
He made people the row in front of me laugh every week with that, I just wanted to see him for a full season.
Good luck Diego, I'm sure wherever you go you'll make the right decision and flourish (Just don't play for Uruguay).
Big gamble from Poyet, he may have been better off signing a two year deal here and getting a full season under his belt in the 1st team.
Plenty of young players out there as good as him in what is now a global market.
We'll still get a fee for him, and he wasn't offered a new deal a year ago when he would probably have liked the money, nor was he played before RD came in due to some rumored contract pay rise.
In all honesty the club (under different management) blocked his route into the first team, and refused to pay him what he thought he was worth (from what I've seen he was, well, worth it) then with five months until he becomes a free agent he starts to play and then within a matter of weeks of him being able to earn an absolute fortune the club offer him, presumably, significantly less than that to stay at a club that only just avoided the third division.
I think anyone that thinks he owes us anything (other than not lying to us) is being very harsh on him.
I also think that we saw a fraction of the talent he has. I think he could walk into more than half of the Premier League first teams and hold down his place. I don't fine the rumors about Arsenal and Chelsea to be outrageous. I think he could be in their first team within eighteen months.
I would have loved him to stay but I fear it would have shown a massive lack of ambition and/or confidence if he had done. We should have offered him a longer contract twelve months ago. It's a bit like taking your wife for granted and then calling her all the names under the sun when when another bloke comes along and sweeps her off her feet by giving her all the things she's been asking you for.
I am gutted with this news & can only think of Captain Manwarring 's voice....."stupid boy". By the sounds of it he hasn't signed up for anyone else and that could be a very risky plan. Most people when changing employer have at least a signed contract before handing in their resignation and it only needs a change of manager/owner/wind direction for things to unravel pretty quickly. Yes he is a good player, but not a great one, and as mentioned earlier, he has only 6 months experience playing in the first team & I very much doubt he will see the first team for his new club for some time.
You would say "no" to those teams and tell them to come back in a year's time because you know they aren't going to use you?
And do you think that club will come back in a year's time and say "We don't mind paying £4 million for you now, even though we could have had you on a free last year and we have about 200 youth players on our books to look at anyway who won't cost us anything"?
That's not taking into the account that he could get an injury or be involved in a Charlton side that gets relegated and his profile drops considerably. In that time god knows how many other promising 18-19 year olds will pop up around the country who those clubs can go after instead, rather than the guy who turned them down.
If it was "all about the £££", as you put it - then he would have probably stayed with us considering it sounds like we were doing everything possible to provide him a lucrative deal. His priority is to look after himself, as it should be. His contract with us is finished - it is not his job to look after our balance sheet.
I know contracts in Football are used a bit differently, but the whole point of signing a contract is to adhere to the term and then it is down to you to make your own choice at the end of it if you want to. He owes us nothing.
Now we get nothing for all the money invested in him. And a club like ours survives on the kind of transfer fees that he could have brought in with absolutely no damage to his career at all.
In a week when a loyal member of the back-office staff had lost her job because the club is desperate to get somewhere closer to balancing the books, then this is an absolute kick in the teeth and just shows how self-serving players can be.
Great player - no class at all, end of. Move on.