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All could have been so different....

Swisdom
Swisdom Posts: 14,980
We were talking to Danny Drinkwater last summer. His agent was touting him around as they didn't expect him to get much game time in the Premier League and we met with him.

Don't know if we made an offer

This from a reliable source.

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  • CrayAddick
    CrayAddick Posts: 3,915
    He's English and not involved with the network. No chance.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,650
    Vardy a couple of years before that too
    Que sera sera
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,719
    Good job we got Christopher Lepoint instead.
  • Atletico Addick
    Atletico Addick Posts: 5,843
    We'd of took him if he was Belgian..
  • dabos
    dabos Posts: 2,717
    He's no El Hadji Ba
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,460
    edited May 2016
    We would of only Charltonised them... leave them alone!
  • Hovi's Biscuit
    Hovi's Biscuit Posts: 1,717
    Swisdom said:

    We were talking to Danny Drinkwater last summer. His agent was touting him around as they didn't expect him to get much game time in the Premier League and we met with him.

    Don't know if we made an offer

    This from a reliable source.

    Probably heard his wage demands and didn't call his agent back (ie they were more than 2.5K a week)
  • Assuming it is even true, not a chance Drinkwater would have come to us over other clubs with what our owner would have been willing to pay for real british talent.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,517
    Riyad Mahrez was playing in the French 2nd division, our favourite hunting ground.
  • Charltonparklane
    Charltonparklane Posts: 5,786
    He would have made absolutely no difference whatsoever in this squad/side.
    And that's not a slur on Drinkwater

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  • You can say that about lots of players we could of singed but did not.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,329
    It really doesn't matter who we might have signed. Had we bought the whole Leicester squad in the summer we'd still be struggling. To be successful you need committed ownership, skilful management and a positive spirit throughout the club. No amount of good players would bring us success all the time that Duchatelet's poison hangs in the air at Charlton. The regime have turned our club toxic. Until he clears off the only 'what if' game that has any meaning is, what if we'd been bought by someone who loved football and who wanted our club to be successful for genuine footballing reasons rather than as part of some weird visionary experiment.
  • BigRedEvil
    BigRedEvil Posts: 11,131
    Stig said:

    It really doesn't matter who we might have signed. Had we bought the whole Leicester squad in the summer we'd still be struggling. To be successful you need committed ownership, skilful management and a positive spirit throughout the club. No amount of good players would bring us success all the time that Duchatelet's poison hangs in the air at Charlton. The regime have turned our club toxic. Until he clears off the only 'what if' game that has any meaning is, what if we'd been bought by someone who loved football and who wanted our club to be successful for genuine footballing reasons rather than as part of some weird visionary experiment.

    Don't be so negative. It will all turn around next season when Nego and Tucadean return.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,282

    Riyad Mahrez was playing in the French 2nd division, our favourite hunting ground.

    I heard we could have signed him too yet Katrien was sunning herself in Doha.

    True Story...