Charlton snap up Everton's Conor McAleny on (8 week) loan

kafka · September 2015

Better than Vetokele though wasn't he.

Athletico Charlton · September 2015

Thought he looked ok.

killerandflash · September 2015

McAleny didn't look like the answers to out left wing problems for one minute, his natural game is to gravitate to the centre, there was acres of space on the left hand side and nobody there

Holdkneebomb · September 2015

I like the look of him. Will help JBG to have another creative option on the pitch

Garrymanilow · September 2015

The Red Robin said:
Wow. Are we writing him off already? This must be a new record.

You know what's sad? It really isn't

charlton_carl · September 2015

Thought technically he looked ok, needed to understand when our players would make their one run off the ball but that will come with training with the squad for more than a day

cafctom · September 2015

Looks more of a natural, pacy type player than Cousins does and thought he looked OK. Looks like he has a bit of pace and drive about him which could come in handy.

Start him against Blackburn and put Cousins inside instead of Ba for crying out loud.

Rob · September 2015

I thought he looked pretty lively when he came on.

cafcsinger · September 2015

Lively? Plus point? Sorry have some bollox to say he looked awful when he came on, couldn't trap a bag of cement and 3 shots when should have passed. Now i not writing him off because i've heard good things about him and he came at a time when the whole team were dreadful. We shall see.

killerandflash · September 2015

cafctom said:
Looks more of a natural, pacy type player than Cousins does and thought he looked OK. Looks like he has a bit of pace and drive about him which could come in handy.

Start him against Blackburn and put Cousins inside instead of Ba for crying out loud.

McAleny didn't look like he wanted to be on the wing either,

mrbligh · September 2015

So he's a striker were going to play on the left wing. Classic charlton move, that'll get the best out of him

kinveachyaddick · September 2015

Stewart said:
His shots reminded me of Simon Church.

Thought exactly the same. Very disappointing . What is it with professional footballers and their inability to strike the ball cleanly and powerfully...

Scoham · September 2015

mrbligh said:
So he's a striker were going to play on the left wing. Classic charlton move, that'll get the best out of him

Didn't look like a striker to me. More like a JBG type player, but right footed and looks to cut in from the left.

Would rather see a left footed winger as we had with Bulot last season but he should be more comfortable on the left than Cousins.

Addick Addict · September 2015

Thought he was bright, has an excellent first touch and looked to get on the ball at every opportunity. Yes he did scuff a couple of shots and it might be he can't strike a ball cleanly.

But at least they were on target. Ba showed him how to put your foot through the ball - and blasted it 10 yards over in the process. Big Mak demonstrated the art of hitting the ball with the outside of the boot - nowhere near the target again.

So please let's just give the boy a chance. And ten minutes doesn't constitute a "chance". 99 minutes is a chance - and that's exactly the amount of time the likes of Watt had. How many meaningful shots did he have?

Sillybilly · September 2015

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se9addick · September 2015

Anyone know if he's available for Wednesday?

Henry Irving · October 2015

Just remembered another highlight of the day.

Connor picking the ball up thinking it had gone out but it hadn't.

Might have been funny if we'd been 3 up.

Valiantphil · October 2015

MCAleny and Reza are the new names on Walkers crisp packets.

Both blowing aimlessly across the pitch and easily dislodged with a slight nudge.

Off_it · October 2015

Henry Irving said:
Just remembered another highlight of the day.

Connor picking the ball up thinking it had gone out but it hadn't.

Might have been funny if we'd been 3 up.

Jeeesus, I'd actually managed to block that out of my memory, but you've just brought it back.

I mean, not only does he appear not to be good enough to get into our team when a) we've had plenty of injuries and b) we are shit; but he then comes on and picks the ball up when its still in play.

Speechless.

moleo88 · October 2015

Don't rate him at all, looks okay with the ball in ineffective areas but is useless when it comes to the final shot/pass.

se9addick · October 2015

Can't believe he's 23

LawrieAbrahams · October 2015

We got a penalty like that once. Notts County player in the box thought he heard the whistle and picked the ball up.

andynelson · October 2015

I thought he was an improvement on Moussa.

Dazzler21 · October 2015

Henry Irving said:
Just remembered another highlight of the day.

Connor picking the ball up thinking it had gone out but it hadn't.

Might have been funny if we'd been 3 up.

Yep he also skipped through their defence and got a shot away that was just caught by Button.

charliewright1 · October 2015

Wasn't particularly excited when he signed and to be perfectly honest I think some of the "good up and coming" youngsters would/could have done as well if not better. It also really doesn't help joining a team/club that is in a bit of shit at the moment!!
I wish the lad well but he will be no great loss when he returns to Everton. He has definitely had the chances to make a name for himself here, unfortunately for us (and him) it just never worked out.

Jensenwasclass · October 2015

Send him back soon as possible!

Southbank · October 2015

andynelson said:
I thought he was an improvement on Moussa.

Yes he was,tragic isn't it

Addictforlife · October 2015

We really needed a natural winger on loan. Why other than a couple of loans do we get bad loan players who don't really make much difference to our team?