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  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,275
    £850K.
    Or to put it another way, 0.425% of the money Burnley have just got on promotion. Well dome KM, great negotiation there.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    covered end junior said:

    Would be disappointing if we don't manage to keep hold of Pope.

    Don't panic Colin will be on to reassure us Brussell and Head banger will have it covered.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,044
    Sage said:

    Valley11 said:

    Le Fondre's record at this level is very good. He knows Slade (nice to have a manager who actually knows what these type of players can do!) and probably has a base this way from his Reading days.
    Could be our SWP of this League 1 season.

    Strangely, League One is the only level Le Fondre hasn't played at. By all accounts has done well in the Premier League, Championship and in League Two scoring goals for fun. Would be a great signing in League One however, probably get 25 if we played to his strengths.
    Surely he played in division 3 for Rotherham.
  • Nug
    Nug Posts: 4,623
    That'd be a shame, not much to shout about last season but that double save Pope made, v Derby I think, was unbelievable and great reaction from the crowd. Liked him and reckon he'll turn into an excellent keeper but £850,000 towards new players.....oh wait!
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 11,986
    That is depressing. You'd expect JBG, Cousins and maybe Watt to naff off. But you'd kind of think we could and should hang on to a young relatively inexperienced keeper who would be number one next year.
    Mid table or worse next season I fear.
  • Blucher
    Blucher Posts: 4,135
    Very disappointing if this comes to pass.

    So much for "realising the full value of our young players" - let alone trying to challenge next season in League 1. Hasn't it occurred to RD and KM that, if Popey continued in August where he left off last season, we could end up doing significantly better, both on the field and in terms of any eventual transfer fee ?

    Unfortunately, his past dealings illustrate that Duchatelet has always taken a very short term view.

    Several more outgoings to follow in short order. Doubtless, in each case, we'll be fed the usual platitudes about "not being able to stand in the player's way" etc, etc.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,269
    Maybe doesn't rate him as highly as someone he has his eye on
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,420
    J BLOCK said:

    cafc-west said:

    As the window doesn't officially open until 1st July and the Euros are on - wouldn't expect too much to happen until after 10th July. Guess talks might go on 'behind the scenes' but not much will leak out.

    Like it affects the standard or players we're going for ...
    You've got a point, has the fa trophy final been played yet? ;)
  • GreenWithEnvy
    GreenWithEnvy Posts: 1,841
    Clem_Snide said:

    Boo!!!!! This isn't going to persuade me to renew my ST!! This would be depressing should it go through. We need to form a strong spine starting with Pope in goal. Oh hang on the owner doesn't care about the football team.
  • Addickted2U
    Addickted2U Posts: 3,080
    covered end junior said:

    Would be disappointing strange if we don't manage to keep hold of Pope under this feckless regime

    Had to fix that :wink:
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  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    Fix reluctantly accepted.

    I feel this is the start of a closed season degenerative spine issue that I hope a quick injection of new blood and bone marrow acquired by Messrs Slade and Head can arrest.
  • c4fcdenmark
    c4fcdenmark Posts: 2,041
    If Pope can enable LE Fondre to join us then we have a serious league one striker. Pair him with TWW and we might even score more than we concede.
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,548
    Rather lose Cousins than Pope. He will be worth a lot more than 850k in 3 years time.
  • HandG
    HandG Posts: 2,134
    Athletico Charlton said:

    £850K.
    Or to put it another way, 0.425% of the money Burnley have just got on promotion. Well dome KM, great negotiation there.

    Regardless of our board, we are a League One club now and lots of players will inevitably be leaving. I don't think £850k is bad money for a goalkeeper who couldn't be trusted before his spell at the end of the season assuming they throw in a few add ons. What kind of up front fee would people have expected?

    I dislike the regime as much as the next man but some of the stuff on this board over the last few days (and I'm not specifically referring to your point Athletico) has been ridiculous. Katrien breathed in the wrong direction, Russell blinked twice before he answered that question etc etc. Get a grip people.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    Pope was one of our few success stories last year.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    Didn't take long before Slade started wielding the axe...lol

    If true I am pretty pleased with the deal. Pope had a good couple of seasons with Bury in the lower leagues but I didn't think he was anything special last season & certainly not in the class of Deano, Elliott or Randolph - the taker 2 playing regularly in the Prem.
  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,278
    ElfsborgAddick said:

    Sage said:

    Valley11 said:

    Le Fondre's record at this level is very good. He knows Slade (nice to have a manager who actually knows what these type of players can do!) and probably has a base this way from his Reading days.
    Could be our SWP of this League 1 season.

    Strangely, League One is the only level Le Fondre hasn't played at. By all accounts has done well in the Premier League, Championship and in League Two scoring goals for fun. Would be a great signing in League One however, probably get 25 if we played to his strengths.
    Surely he played in division 3 for Rotherham.
    Nope, moved in 2011 from League Two to the Championship.
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 11,986
    golfaddick said:

    Didn't take long before Slade started wielding the axe...lol

    If true I am pretty pleased with the deal. Pope had a good couple of seasons with Bury in the lower leagues but I didn't think he was anything special last season & certainly not in the class of Deano, Elliott or Randolph - the taker 2 playing regularly in the Prem.

    Those lower leagues we're now in you mean?
  • Bostonaddick
    Bostonaddick Posts: 814
    850k for a backup goalie from the championship? Nobody is going to offer much higher than that.
  • cafc_harry
    cafc_harry Posts: 3,360
    golfaddick said:

    Didn't take long before Slade started wielding the axe...lol

    If true I am pretty pleased with the deal. Pope had a good couple of seasons with Bury in the lower leagues but I didn't think he was anything special last season & certainly not in the class of Deano, Elliott or Randolph - the taker 2 playing regularly in the Prem.

    Pardon? You are aware he's signing for a premier league team. This season he was better than I remember Elliott being, and Randolph for that matter.
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  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    HandG said:

    Athletico Charlton said:

    £850K.
    Or to put it another way, 0.425% of the money Burnley have just got on promotion. Well dome KM, great negotiation there.

    Regardless of our board, we are a League One club now and lots of players will inevitably be leaving. I don't think £850k is bad money for a goalkeeper who couldn't be trusted before his spell at the end of the season assuming they throw in a few add ons. What kind of up front fee would people have expected?

    I dislike the regime as much as the next man but some of the stuff on this board over the last few days (and I'm not specifically referring to your point Athletico) has been ridiculous. Katrien breathed in the wrong direction, Russell blinked twice before he answered that question etc etc. Get a grip people.
    Very salient points, and you're right, if clubs from higher up the pyramid come in for players, any board is going to struggle to keep hold of them. The pay increase will be massive, and we have a relatively young squad, many of whom will feel now is their time to kick on instead of taking a step backward. All this is before you take into account the reputation this board seems to have amongst the playing staff (going on Sponsor's Dinner chat).

    I still feel 850k is low, but I also appreciate that footballers are an inflated and ridiculous economy. Pope is a good, bright, young, athletic English goalkeeper, of whom there aren't too many around just at the moment. At 24, he's still very young for a keeper. The way he gets the ball and immediately looks to distribute is as impressive as I've seen in a young keeper for some time. Feel like there's just a little bit of the Edwin Van Der Sar about him (not of the same class, obviously).

    I remember on Twitter that when news of the first Burnley offer broke someone commented (maybe Cawley) that Charlton would really like to hold on to Pope. Unfortunately, in our situation, every player is going to have a price.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,044
    Any player leaving should hardly be surprising.

    A team getting relegated inevitably leads to an exodus, coupled with the distinct possibility our players are f***** off with everything that has gone on in the past 2 years.

    Aside from all this, the Belgians are going to want to cut back some of their losses. Very short sighted as if they could retain the nucleus of the team then we'd have a better chance of going up.

    Retaining our players I don't think ever came into the pea sized once we went down.
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,055
    Disappointing if we lose Pope. Would like to have seen him carry on where he left off last season and be our No.1 for a few years yet.

    Hendo made the comment that he was being frozen out as "they" saw "Pope as the future"

    How quickly the future becomes the past...if this is all true!
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,884
    I thought we wasn't going to let players leave on the cheap? We should be looking at a million minimum
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited June 2016
    It might just be me, but I think £850k for Pope is a good price. I wasn't expecting it to be more than £500k.
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    Only to be expected, don't blame the lad, if I worked for bosses like them and another company offered me better money and the chance of working with high performers I'd be off. Just glad he's not going to the mhanky mob in the east end of Glasgow
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    The fact that players we actually like and are a valuable asset leaving should be no surprise to anyone, hopefully we can offload the mistakes that this stupid regime bought as well.

    No wonder Slade will be able to spend money when we have flogged any decent players we had first.
  • daveydanger
    daveydanger Posts: 1,338
    cfgs said:

    The fact that players we actually like and are a valuable asset leaving should be no surprise to anyone, hopefully we can offload the mistakes that this stupid regime bought as well.

    Well Naby Sarr looks like a loan deal, so it seems not.

  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    daveydanger said:

    cfgs said:

    The fact that players we actually like and are a valuable asset leaving should be no surprise to anyone, hopefully we can offload the mistakes that this stupid regime bought as well.

    Well Naby Sarr looks like a loan deal, so it seems not.

    Thing is this lot need to learn from Polish Pete etc, if we think they are poor other teams will not want to waste the money on them we have, so get rid rather than loan.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    Am I missing something? That tweet about the offer for Pope being accepted looks like one of those accounts that makes up rumours.

    1,950 followers and it's called "FL92Transfer". The FL has 72 clubs not 92.

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