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The 'If only we hadn't sold.........' Thread

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  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Not really sold but still think Defoe has been our worst loss in modern times.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Lennie Lawrence

    Mooney

  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 15
    If we hadnt sold Rob Lee, we wouldnt have bought Johnny Robinson, a tru legend!
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,273
    Derek Hales. How difficult is it to find a striker with a guarantee, and we tossed him away.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,515
    Was shocked when Claus Jensen was sold. Found out about it on good old ceefax, was certainly a 'say whaaaaat!' moment.
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,933
    Andy Reid.. He was a huge loss in our recent times
  • C_Jensens_Love_Child
    C_Jensens_Love_Child Posts: 1,598
    It's a tough one between Reidy & Parker, I'll say Reidy purely because if he stayed we'd have mad the playoffs at least as his attiude is spot on. I believe we would have made Europe if we kept Parker but only if his head stayed focused and his performances stayed the same, that would not have been a given.
  • Lazy_eye_metaphor
    Lazy_eye_metaphor Posts: 1,960
    Absurdistan said:

    Not really sold but still think Defoe has been our worst loss in modern times.

    This 100%
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,393
    Mike Bailey, Billy Bonds
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,747
    Reckon Darren Bent... Had we kept him in the Championship we may have bounced straight back

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  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,320
    Yann for me

    Gotta love the Colin Pates gag on page 1, or was that serious?

    Or if we are playing that game....Ralph Milne
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,230
    Alan Simonson - gutted when left. It's not been the same since.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    Charlton hate the January window.

    Whatever you gotta say about Murphy, he was a really good player.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    ForeverAddickted said:

    Reckon Darren Bent... Had we kept him in the Championship we may have bounced straight back

    16m says otherwise. Spurs proved to be mugs.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,745
    Andy Reid...........still rankles with me as he was & still has not been not replaced. BTW - if anyone says he is fat or lazy then look at the PFA Championship team..........and he has scored more goals than any of our forwards.

    Parker - we had to as he'd thrown a strop & didn't want to play
    Bowyer - like Poyet just too good for the team or even the division.
  • chester_conrad
    chester_conrad Posts: 738
    edited April 2014
    Leon Clarke.
  • mrbligh
    mrbligh Posts: 3,056
    Neil redfearn
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,985
    redlanered said:

    DeeBee said:

    Odd to me that so many people seem sad about losing Jenko, obviously he was a good player but I feel Solly replaced him just fine

    Agreed. Actually there's a good case for an alternative thread around 'astute sales', where we used the money wisely (and had to sell somebody, realistically). Danny Mills would fit that category - we managed well without him, bought Dean Kiely, and pushed on...
    Sadly Mark Kinsella would also fall into that category, I was gutted when he was sold, but did little at Villa and was clearly on the way down
    Ross said:

    Chris Iwelumo

    Agreed, he's a proven Championship level striker, and a much more reliable option than the hopeless Gray, the ineffective Varney or useless (for us) McLeod.

    In a similar vein, the sale of Paddy McCarthy was daft, it left us hopelessly short at CB, and while he's hardly a superstar he's a steady defender at Championship level as shown by the number of games he played for Palace.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,219
    ForeverAddickted said:

    Reckon Darren Bent... Had we kept him in the Championship we may have bounced straight back

    But if we hadn't sold Bent we couldn't have afforded Luke Varney, Paddy McCarthy, Yassin Moutaouakil, Dean Sinclair, Izale McLeod, Nicky Weaver and Therry Racon.




    Oh.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,985
    Garrymanilow said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    Reckon Darren Bent... Had we kept him in the Championship we may have bounced straight back

    But if we hadn't sold Bent we couldn't have afforded Luke Varney, Paddy McCarthy, Yassin Moutaouakil, Dean Sinclair, Izale McLeod, Nicky Weaver and Therry Racon.




    Oh.
    There's no way Bent would have stayed with us, even if we could have afforded to keep him. Remember the way he upped sticks at Sunderland and forced a move to Villa, that worked out well didn't it...

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  • Charlton and on
    Charlton and on Posts: 975
    killerandflash said:

    redlanered said:

    DeeBee said:

    Odd to me that so many people seem sad about losing Jenko, obviously he was a good player but I feel Solly replaced him just fine

    Agreed. Actually there's a good case for an alternative thread around 'astute sales', where we used the money wisely (and had to sell somebody, realistically). Danny Mills would fit that category - we managed well without him, bought Dean Kiely, and pushed on...
    Sadly Mark Kinsella would also fall into that category, I was gutted when he was sold, but did little at Villa and was clearly on the way down
    Ross said:

    Chris Iwelumo

    Agreed, he's a proven Championship level striker, and a much more reliable option than the hopeless Gray, the ineffective Varney or useless (for us) McLeod.

    In a similar vein, the sale of Paddy McCarthy was daft, it left us hopelessly short at CB, and while he's hardly a superstar he's a steady defender at Championship level as shown by the number of games he played for Palace.
    To think we once sold our "has beens" to Villa
  • bertpalmer
    bertpalmer Posts: 1,776
    harry cripps
  • The Prince-e-Paul
    The Prince-e-Paul Posts: 6,694
    Absurdistan said:

    Not really sold but still think Defoe has been our worst loss in modern times.

    Bah he'd have soon got Charltonised if he'd made the first team. No doubt he'd have made Church look like Ibrahimovic!
  • chester_conrad
    chester_conrad Posts: 738
    Poyet.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,906
    .. To TJ and Jimenez
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,906
    Andy Reid.

    Not only didn't replace him, he was also only one with team spirit and only player that turned up when Luke Young organised a morale boosting day to try and lift the gloom around the club.
  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,532
    edited April 2014
    I think you can go back and pin point the beginning of the decline of Charlton when we failed to make the Mike Small loan deal permanent.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Has to be Reid no one else comes close
  • Steve_cafc
    Steve_cafc Posts: 32
    Paul Walsh and Paul Elliott
  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772
    killerandflash said:

    Garrymanilow said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    Reckon Darren Bent... Had we kept him in the Championship we may have bounced straight back

    But if we hadn't sold Bent we couldn't have afforded Luke Varney, Paddy McCarthy, Yassin Moutaouakil, Dean Sinclair, Izale McLeod, Nicky Weaver and Therry Racon.




    Oh.
    There's no way Bent would have stayed with us, even if we could have afforded to keep him. Remember the way he upped sticks at Sunderland and forced a move to Villa, that worked out well didn't it...
    Not sure that is true. Allegedly the Sunderland manager was slightly upset with him due to his alleged recreational activities.

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