Charlton will need to secure promotion to the Championship to retain any hope of securing Ahmed Kashi on a new contract.
The midfielder’s deal is up at the end of this season and the South London Press understands that Addicks hierarchy know that they stand no chance of negotiating a fresh terms if they are still in League One.
Kashi spent 18 months sidelined with an Achilles problem but resumed pre-season training in the summer and has been a first-team regular – forging a strong understanding with Jake Forster-Caskey.
The French-born ballwinner has one cap for Algeria and winning further international recognition is a major goal, made harder while playing in the third tier in England.
Charlton paid a small fee for Kashi in 2015 to snap him up from Metz and he was a strong performer in the opening months of the Championship season before being ruled out due to injury.
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Besides, we could sell them for all the money in the world and a nominal amount will be re invested.
Just hope Kashi is enjoying his time here, continues his form, and if we do go up, he wants to stay.
Can't see us keeping him. He was too good in the Championship too.
our best players will be gone ..
anyone with any cash who was genuinely interested in buying the club will probably walk away ..
many fans who have given Ro&Kat the benefit of the doubt this season will revert to alternative Saturday entertainment or restart protests ..
and I for one will not be prepared to undertake another season of many expensive weekends away watching another bunch of imported players probably under another management team go through the trials and tribulations of this division .. one can have just too much of forever rolling along the M62 and other assorted MWays to far away places with strange sounding names to watch 3rd tier stuff
Kashi is not nearly as good a player as many Lifers imagine. The bald facts are there in the SLP: we "paid a small fee" for him. Note the 'small'. He has "one cap for Algeria". Note the 'one'. For Algeria. At the age of 28.
He's been out injured for most of the time. Of the few games he has played, I have watched every one at The Valley. Kashi is a very ordinary defensive midfielder in a very lowly division. He receives the ball in a deep position and carries it sideways. He doesn't send killer passes to the striker, and I've never seen him cross the half-way line.
If Kashi wants to go, it doesn't matter. We can do far better.