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  • I thought we were level 2
  • colin1961 said:

    colin1961 said:

    Agreed BR7 ... there comes a time when you have to give youth a chance or what's the point of wasting 12 mill in approving the academy
    Tarriq Dennis and Grant to me are first team players

    Sorry, what cost 12 million??
    The re building of the training ground and Acadamy to get us back to level 1
    Only when Greenwich Council give the necessary planning permission.
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  • What is roger Johnson up to?, I'd happily sign him for a year

    Was presenting bbc breakfast this morning.
  • colin1961 said:

    No 3 mate when we went into Div 1

    i used to think people were just being harsh to you colin, but honestly, what planet are you living on?
  • dickplumb said:

    You are so intransigent in your beliefs Colin that I can't take your views seriously. Put away the rose tinted specs. Surely even you can see our squad is woefully short of numbers and quality. I really thought that this would be the Season that RD strengthened our squad, but it is weaker so far than last season. I still do not understand what RDs plans are for us. With the lack of spending it certainly isn't getting us into the Premier League.

    It's too soon to say that though isn't it. We make three more quality permanent signings and a couple of astute prem loans and all of a sudden the squad will look competitive.

    I don't ever see us running with a squad of two in each position again. It's not sustainable and a reason why some clubs are skint. Freeing up wages by having a flexible and at least partly adaptive squad with a strong academy is I think how RD sees it.

    Let's at least wait until the season starts and see where the squad is then.
    Yes I will wait to the end of the transfer window before I decide how strong our squad is. But I hope for the best but if I am being realistic i can't see too much changing.

  • The squad right now clearly is understrength, but so what? A lot can change quickly. The Bulot thing falling through/dragging out (still could be either so far as I know) has got people worried but we're not totally screwed just yet. There's still more than enough time to bring more people through and until we actually know who those people are the rest is just speculation.

    Could sign two or three proven Championship players over the next week for all we actually know. We could sign some no-names from the obscurest league in Europe, or even no-one at all. We don't know. And until we do, why get worked up and worried?
  • dickplumb said:

    dickplumb said:

    You are so intransigent in your beliefs Colin that I can't take your views seriously. Put away the rose tinted specs. Surely even you can see our squad is woefully short of numbers and quality. I really thought that this would be the Season that RD strengthened our squad, but it is weaker so far than last season. I still do not understand what RDs plans are for us. With the lack of spending it certainly isn't getting us into the Premier League.

    It's too soon to say that though isn't it. We make three more quality permanent signings and a couple of astute prem loans and all of a sudden the squad will look competitive.

    I don't ever see us running with a squad of two in each position again. It's not sustainable and a reason why some clubs are skint. Freeing up wages by having a flexible and at least partly adaptive squad with a strong academy is I think how RD sees it.

    Let's at least wait until the season starts and see where the squad is then.
    Yes I will wait to the end of the transfer window before I decide how strong our squad is. But I hope for the best but if I am being realistic i can't see too much changing.

    Fair enough. I agree that the squad as it stands is not competitive and if we don't address that then we are in a relegation fight but I don't believe that the club doesn't also realise that.

    I am confident that those "three" more permanents will stiffen us up and I do see Charlton now as an attractive place for premiership clubs to put their loans.

    If by kick off we still haven't got at least three in then I too will be concerned.

  • thenewbie said:

    The squad right now clearly is understrength, but so what? A lot can change quickly. The Bulot thing falling through/dragging out (still could be either so far as I know) has got people worried but we're not totally screwed just yet. There's still more than enough time to bring more people through and until we actually know who those people are the rest is just speculation.

    Could sign two or three proven Championship players over the next week for all we actually know. We could sign some no-names from the obscurest league in Europe, or even no-one at all. We don't know. And until we do, why get worked up and worried?

    Welcome to Charlton Life @thenewbie :innocent:
  • Aha, yes indeed. I will be honest, I am totally aware why people aren't happy with the state of play re: transfers, it is quite disappointing and the squad is weak. I agree with that. But I DO take issue with people assuming that the Powers That Be don't share the assessment and intend to address the situation. Things do go wrong sometimes, perhaps this is one of them. But whatever ****-ups there have been, they weren't necessarily on our end - RD no doubt would have made sure the Bulot thing went through but the new bid came in AFTER we and Bulot assumed it was a done deal and it's Liege's new owners who are playing silly sods, not Roly (in this case.)
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  • The People say that Paul Anderson has rejected our offer of a two year deal.
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  • Wednesday have signed Alex Lopez from Celta Vigo.

    Genuinely never even heard of him.
    Genuinely never even heard of them.
  • Another European nobody with a name we can't pronounce. When will this crazy eurosocialist madness end?
  • this thread has become very boooooooring, someone let me know when we have a genuine rumour
  • edited July 2015

    The People say that Paul Anderson has rejected our offer of a two year deal.

    Well as he's just been released by Ipswich I can understand why he might reject the first few offers he gets as he's widely considered to be a decent champion player.

    What is a little concerning is that I am beginning to get the impression that our offers for wages seem to be perhaps a bit unrealistic for Championship players to accept. I doubt Johnson and Eagles were offered much in January but needed to be playing. Getting in any championship players in seems a very tall order for us.

    We' ll see.



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