The question we should be asking is why has a player such as Godden not been picked up before. He was almost playing on our doorstep, does the scouting system not stretch as far as Ebbsfleet ? Stevenage should not have been his first step up, he surely would have jumped at the chance to join us. Good luck Tony, think that you have missed a great chance to become a hero at CAFC, another player with a touch of Clive Mendonca and Derek Hales is going to be hard to find.
The only way Charlton will prosper & be successful is when Duchatelet sells to decent owners with ambition & is finally gone from the club. The shortness of the squad is the same story every season.
The only possibility appears to be a punt on a premiership loan of a promising but unproven young player. Sometimes it can work out like DaSilva, but it is a gamble. At least Robinson, will be able to say with hand on heart that there will be space in the team & they will get game time. Not a good situation this far into the season & this close to the transfer window closing.
IF we spend 300k on a striker (we need more than a striker) what is the total estimated cash spend this summer? Leave wages and signing on out of it for example, especially because of the wage reduction. Reeves was free for a start. How much actual money spent so far?
Looking at the squad as it is at the moment the depth of the squad is missing some experienced players to backup the first team if we have any injuries to main players. We need to replace Tex and Watt at the minimum prior to the transfer window closing.
Still believe we need a winger, a striker and possibly another centre midfielder.
Kashi is not going to play 46 games, Forster-Caskey is likely to get injured, Jackson should be used as last resort and for experience, I don't feel Crofts is good enough. Obviously this is me being greedy, I don't think we will get another one in.
A striker (possibly 2) and a winger are serious priorities now.
Haha why does he have found memories, he was shit, we were shit - job done.
But he isn't shit and that's the problem.
In there is a real footballer one that on his day is a joy to watch
For me the biggest disappointment is that those days are few and far between.
In other words I'd rather watch someone with the skill he posses than a big lump that holds it up but couldn't go past a London bus.
I keep hearing this, but when has he showed there's a footballer in there? All he's done for us is hold the ball by the corner flag and he's lived on that ever since. He's done nothing in a Charlton shirt for me to think 'there's a player in there'
That's not true, when he first come he was unplayable and the reason we ended up staying up comfortably the year Luzon took over.
I still think he played too deep and was not a team player.
However, if the story is true of him singing "we want Roland out" on the training ground then he's not all bad!
Just bite the bullet, have the courage to sell Konza, spend some of it on a good striker with the ability to get the goals to get us out of this league and loan in a centre back to replace Konza in the squad. We cannot keep going in to every season with a glaring deficiency in the squad and expect anything other than mid-table mediocrity at best.
The Lookman sale and the departures over the past month should ensure we have released sufficent funds to bring a goalscorer/s in.
However, the high earners have been released, Lookman has been sold for the dough, so it would be a surprise if Konsa is not sold if a club comes in with decent money.
The term I am looking for is asset stripping.
Just f*** off Duchatelet and may your next poo be a hedgehog. The same applies to squirrel face as well.
The window is still open and before we jump up and down we need to wait and see what happens. The omens are not good but it's still perfectly possible we might get in a striker that can make a difference. If it's true the budget is 300k then we won't be going up. Being out of the top six in January might be the nudge Roland needs to sell up. Silver linings and all that.
£300k isn't an insignificant amount at this level.
Its not huge either but a lot of other league 1 clubs would like to be able to spend that.
PS remember KR was only allowed 5% of the Lookman money so dont expect the much trailed sale of Konsa to boost Robbo's funds.
I've got no idea how players are valued these days and I guess after we spent a reported £600k on Ajose last season and have had to try and move him on again, suggests KR will have to work within smaller means, but 300k seems too little imo for a striker
I could've swore 300k were the amounts we used to hear for the like of Chris Malkin 20 years ago.
I know we're League one and a lot of clubs don't have money in the lower leagues, but we're going to have to have a hell of a scouting network and that 300k will have to work very hard
I was hoping we were looking at 750k to spend potentially
But then as Airman points out, this is all about minimising losses
£300k isn't an insignificant amount at this level.
Its not huge either but a lot of other league 1 clubs would like to be able to spend that.
PS remember KR was only allowed 5% of the Lookman money so dont expect the much trailed sale of Konsa to boost Robbo's funds.
Agree it isn't insignificant but clubs will say "you got 9m for Lookman so we want more" and rightly so imo. They will also know we're desperate for a striker and so will also bump up the price. I don't expect us to sign a proven goalscorer and would imagine it'll be another loan or an unknown from Europe somewhere.
Does anyone know the figure that was spent in the L1 winning season? Appreciate some were frees but I imagine the spending was a lot higher than this and possibly last put together.
£300k isn't an insignificant amount at this level.
Its not huge either but a lot of other league 1 clubs would like to be able to spend that.
PS remember KR was only allowed 5% of the Lookman money so dont expect the much trailed sale of Konsa to boost Robbo's funds.
Agree it isn't insignificant but clubs will say "you got 9m for Lookman so we want more" and rightly so imo. They will also know we're desperate for a striker and so will also bump up the price. I don't expect us to sign a proven goalscorer and would imagine it'll be another loan or an unknown from Europe somewhere.
Does anyone know the figure that was spent in the L1 winning season? Appreciate some were frees but I imagine the spending was a lot higher than this and possibly last put together.
Powell has said he spent under £1m, which was funded by the Jenkinson fee. Meanwhile, Roland made more than ten times that on Lookman and won't use it for the squad.
Konsa's fee will be earmarked to go towards this season's operating loss.
Well I suppose that's better than having the loans and interest payments going up every year.
Based on how people on here wet their pants complaining about the loans and the interest I would have thought they would be delighted that they are keeping them down.
Konsa's fee will be earmarked to go towards this season's operating loss.
Well I suppose that's better than having the loans and interest payments going up every year.
Based on how people on here wet their pants complaining about the loans and the interest I would have thought they would be delighted that they are keeping them down.
The loan is inflated by £18.6m, plus interest, which Duchatelet never put into the club. What is the justification for that?
I can't see any reasonable basis for the club to be charged interest on what the owner paid to acquire the assets or why the purchase price should be owed by the business to the owner. That value should be in the assets that are held.
But the point is that Robinson won't be getting the fee when Konsa is sold any more than he got the fee for Lookman et al.
Konsa's fee will be earmarked to go towards this season's operating loss.
Well I suppose that's better than having the loans and interest payments going up every year.
Based on how people on here wet their pants complaining about the loans and the interest I would have thought they would be delighted that they are keeping them down.
yep I am happy to admit that I physically 'wet my pants' over the growing debt we owe to a disinterested overseas owner who wakes from his slumber every time the youth system turns up a player worth a few quid.
Mind you thats all down to the twice yearly time teamesque trench dug by our glorious leader and branded as phase 4b as he invests further in the training ground (that seems to coincide with a bad news week), onroute to fulfilling our dream of watching premiership stars of the future.
Yes I wet my pants, god bless Roland, viva le network.
All seems a bit daft to buy, beg or borrow a striker when we already have TWO of our own that could do a decent job......Igor & Ajose. Now, what numpty would loan them out when we only have 2 experienced strikers in Mag & Novak.
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And I wonder if the injury to Mavididi might have put some of the big clubs off Charlton as a destination for their youngsters?
Leave wages and signing on out of it for example, especially because of the wage reduction. Reeves was free for a start.
How much actual money spent so far?
Kashi is not going to play 46 games, Forster-Caskey is likely to get injured, Jackson should be used as last resort and for experience, I don't feel Crofts is good enough. Obviously this is me being greedy, I don't think we will get another one in.
A striker (possibly 2) and a winger are serious priorities now.
However, if the story is true of him singing "we want Roland out" on the training ground then he's not all bad!
However, the high earners have been released, Lookman has been sold for the dough, so it would be a surprise if Konsa is not sold if a club comes in with decent money.
The term I am looking for is asset stripping.
Just f*** off Duchatelet and may your next poo be a hedgehog. The same applies to squirrel face as well.
Its not huge either but a lot of other league 1 clubs would like to be able to spend that.
PS remember KR was only allowed 5% of the Lookman money so dont expect the much trailed sale of Konsa to boost Robbo's funds.
but then again it is KM negotiating?
I could've swore 300k were the amounts we used to hear for the like of Chris Malkin 20 years ago.
I know we're League one and a lot of clubs don't have money in the lower leagues, but we're going to have to have a hell of a scouting network and that 300k will have to work very hard
I was hoping we were looking at 750k to spend potentially
But then as Airman points out, this is all about minimising losses
Does anyone know the figure that was spent in the L1 winning season? Appreciate some were frees but I imagine the spending was a lot higher than this and possibly last put together.
KR says he's gone but where? Has the deal been signed off, medical done etc?
Based on how people on here wet their pants complaining about the loans and the interest I would have thought they would be delighted that they are keeping them down.
I can't see any reasonable basis for the club to be charged interest on what the owner paid to acquire the assets or why the purchase price should be owed by the business to the owner. That value should be in the assets that are held.
But the point is that Robinson won't be getting the fee when Konsa is sold any more than he got the fee for Lookman et al.
Mind you thats all down to the twice yearly time teamesque trench dug by our glorious leader and branded as phase 4b as he invests further in the training ground (that seems to coincide with a bad news week), onroute to fulfilling our dream of watching premiership stars of the future.
Yes I wet my pants, god bless Roland, viva le network.