Lyle Taylor - August 2025 signed for Chelmsford City (p295)

Cafc43v3r

Fumbluff said:

@Scoham Agree with not even thinking of trying to sign him but disagree that he proved people wrong, he had one season on the subs bench, then one season in the reserves then got dumped. 

I think he would look at it that that one contract did prove people wrong, before he left Wimbledon every club he played for released him because they didn't think he was good enough. He probably made more money in 3 years than some of those decision-makers made in their life time.

SporadicAddick

Scoham said:

Gribbo said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Gribbo said:

......how many players in the top flight, all over the world, know they're gonna be leaving at the end of the season, but still turn out for their side fir thr closing couple if games?

It ain't like what Tayor did is standard practice is it

He’s a footballer, they do and say what we see as dumb things that are more dumber than the rest of us do because their dumb things get reported. The only thing we should care about is whether he could score the goals that can get us promoted. One goal from him, which we know he would have scored, in those final games before he left would have kept us up but getting relegated that season wasn’t down to him alone.

No it's not. If you follow the thread I'm replying to, the convo is more about whether or not he was wrong to walkout as he did.

If I was to answer the question as to whether we should get him back, I'd personally probably say yes

I don’t want him back after what he did. I also doubt he’d be the same player with the hunger no longer there. He got his big move and pay rise, and proven people wrong too.

Need to avoid signing players just coming here for a job.

Proven people right...not good enough for big school.

NabySarr

Gribbo said:

......how many players in the top flight, all over the world, know they're gonna be leaving at the end of the season, but still turn out for their side fir thr closing couple if games?

It ain't like what Tayor did is standard practice is it

I think Ryan Fraser did the same to Bournemouth that season and they got relegated, but that’s the only high profile one I can think of 

southamptonaddick

NabySarr said:

Gribbo said:

......how many players in the top flight, all over the world, know they're gonna be leaving at the end of the season, but still turn out for their side fir thr closing couple if games?

It ain't like what Tayor did is standard practice is it

I think Ryan Fraser did the same to Bournemouth that season and they got relegated, but that’s the only high profile one I can think of 

And Eddie Howe made him train with the under 21s cause he only wanted players that were committed and has now booted him out of Newcastle.
So it shows what he thought of him. 

Addick_8

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Rob7Lee said:

I think he'll play on.

Whilst 3 years on 15-20k seems a hell of a lot (which it is), it's not going to mean he can live the high life for the rest of his days. At best for those three years is £1.1-£1.4m in your pocket, and he'll have spent a proportion already.

He'll get a 12 month gig at Championship or more likely league one on £150k+ a year, he'll take that and kick the can down the road.

But prior to that he was probably on around £250k per year for a few years so unless he was being stupid with that theres no reason to think he didnt already have a substantial amount salted away before he went to Forest.

Invested sensibly he shouldn't have to "work" again unless he wants to.

It's such a comfort to know that the narcissistic entitled prick won't be destitute.

Probably not even that much really. I doubt he was earning 5k a week at the likes of Falkirk, Scunthorpe and AFC Wimbledon.

I've no doubt he's not exactly struggling but at the age of 33, would his career earnings really be enough to never have to work again?

Say he has a couple of million in the bank.

Buy a couple of houses and rent them out for 3k a month each.  

Have 500k for spending money.

Tax. Upkeep of the houses. And the agency fees, as he won’t want the hassle of fixing things himself. 

If he had £3m in the bank he could get a high interest account quite easily.
6.5% interest with a 1% charge 

stick £2m in there, take a £10k a month “salary” and never touch your investment and it will grow slightly.  There will be times you spend more than £10k a month but before long you’d run out of unnecessary shit to buy

And still have £1m to piss about with

you can see why he took the move as he’s set for life. He could go and live un Montserrat and live like a deity.  

can’t see him being a pundit as he dislikes the game 

Lyle Taylor is full of contradictions.
I have heard him say he doesn't like football or watch it often but he would be a forthright pundit !

Arrogant and selfish to Charlton fans but a guy who when at Wimbledon, sorted out a senior pro who took umbrage to an academy player who had skilled him up.
The academy player's mum told me the story and loved the man.

Hero to Zero at Charlton but he has raised thousands for charity and when he sponsored a Charlton Woman's match at Oakwood a few years back we had a long chat about his parents roots and the life of a pro footballer. Interesting character but I felt he had insecurities below the surface. Like most footballers they seek the contract to upgrade their lives.

Lyle Taylor should've ended up in our hall of fame not our hall of shame.

Spot on…after the way he let us down so badly it’s easy to forget how great he was to the lady and her family who was in the hospice with cancer. 

There was good in him but he massively made a bad decision which let our club and fans down and unfortunately that undone all the good he had done in both terms of scoring goals and going out of his way to support fans in need etc. 

We need to move on, he’s not coming back here and we have bigger problems than Lyle Taylor! 

 "undone all the good he had done in both terms of scoring goals ". 


His goals were not cancelled/disallowed and there was no points deduction in the games he played therefore this statement is not true. Therefore he he made positive contribution in that season.
You are disappointed about his behaviour, so was I. But get over it. Its his career move of his life, many people would make the same decision in other walks of life for increasing their salary 400~~%.

I don't think many would make the same choice - in fact, hundreds of footballers who were also out of contract didn't.

Just play the the last few games, or at the very least those you're contracted for, and then get the same contract anyway.

Not if he broke his leg in our remaining games.

Have never been upset with Taylor for his decision.

Make sure you don't moan about being in League 1 then as he is one of the main reasons why we are where we are.
Blows my mind how anyone can think it's ok what he did.
If Taylor plays (& does what most footballers did and honoured their contract) - we stay up.

But he didn't 

Yes, I know.. hence my post?

alburyaddick

What got us relegated was the 10 or more games he missed after being injured playing for Montserrat 
He shouldn’t have gone and we shouldn’t have let him go 
and In answer to the inevitable poster who says you can’t stop players playing international football - of course you can / there are loads of examples and if we had stopped him playing for a country which has fewer inhabitants than the capacity of the covered end we wouldn’t have got relegated which has cost us millions 

Making_all_the_noise

Leaving aside that he’s a total **** who I never want to see wearing the shirt again…there’s nothing to suggest he’d be the player he was for us three years ago. Even then he lacked pace. He’s now relatively old, physically inferior and mentally less committed as he’s on his way down and doesn’t even like football that much. I’d happily leave him to be another club’s problem. The days of Lyle Taylor being remotely relevant are over. 

SoundAsa£

Making_all_the_noise said:

Leaving aside that he’s a total **** who I never want to see wearing the shirt again…there’s nothing to suggest he’d be the player he was for us three years ago. Even then he lacked pace. He’s now relatively old, physically inferior and mentally less committed as he’s on his way down and doesn’t even like football that much. I’d happily leave him to be another club’s problem. The days of Lyle Taylor being remotely relevant are over. 

Lacked pace……really, that’s the first time I’ve heard anyone say that! 🤔

Making_all_the_noise

Really? A strong player, used his body well but certainly not fast. The pace came from Grant but I certainly never saw any significant pace from Taylor. 

ForeverAddickted

Never thought Taylor was slow... I do remember him saying in an interview that he wished he had Grant's pace - But he wasn't a slouch... If anything his goals proved pace is overrated if you have a Football brain

Cafc43v3r

SporadicAddick said:

Scoham said:

Gribbo said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Gribbo said:

......how many players in the top flight, all over the world, know they're gonna be leaving at the end of the season, but still turn out for their side fir thr closing couple if games?

It ain't like what Tayor did is standard practice is it

He’s a footballer, they do and say what we see as dumb things that are more dumber than the rest of us do because their dumb things get reported. The only thing we should care about is whether he could score the goals that can get us promoted. One goal from him, which we know he would have scored, in those final games before he left would have kept us up but getting relegated that season wasn’t down to him alone.

No it's not. If you follow the thread I'm replying to, the convo is more about whether or not he was wrong to walkout as he did.

If I was to answer the question as to whether we should get him back, I'd personally probably say yes

I don’t want him back after what he did. I also doubt he’d be the same player with the hunger no longer there. He got his big move and pay rise, and proven people wrong too.

Need to avoid signing players just coming here for a job.

Proven people right...not good enough for big school.

Made about 4 million quid out of it though.  Which is more than most of us could even dream about making in a life time.  If your not "most of us" hats off.

Callumcafc

https://twitter.com/5livesport/status/1688982354579103745?s=46&t=ynww82GMl7VKBjthBflU0g

Weegie Addick

Selfish snake. 

sam3110

Took him 3 minutes to say what he could have said in 3 seconds

"I am a c**t and acted like one"

ForeverAddickted

He's a brave lad just stepping out his front door of a morning

Weegie Addick

He certainly does not want to meet me down a dark alley. You can take the girl out of Glasgow…

Gary Poole

On the face of it that all seems reasonable from what Taylor says. However he is not giving the full story. He was under contract at the time so really was obliged to play. He also had conducted his career by letting contracts run down and moving on without a fee to increase his own wages signing on fee and taking the risk of an injury at the wrong time. Add to that the fact that he injured himself playing in an international on a possibly sub standard pitch and all the evidence still points to him being a c*nt

soapboxsam

"I was selfish"  

bertpalmer

Callumcafc said:

https://twitter.com/5livesport/status/1688982354579103745?s=46&t=ynww82GMl7VKBjthBflU0g

get him signed up

Raith_C_Chattonell

Pathetic.

arny23394

soapboxsam said:

"I was selfish"  

Lyle said ACL ? He wasn't out long enough to be an ACL knee injury 🤷🏻‍♂️

LCL

AppyAddick

He boils my piss... 

North Lower Neil

I'd had an injury, then a rest since March to get fit, then broke my contract....

He can pretend it was a case of extending his contract because of Covid etc all he wants, but he was still under contract for the first 3 games.  As he admits, Bowyer said come on, one extra win could keep us up, and so it proved.

Should have played and then got the exact same move anyway.

palarsehater

hes a prick but still one of the highlights watching him play for us in the last few years as there havent been many

mendonca

- His face shows that he is lying when talking about the pain he was in "being rolled on and off"...look at how much of an exaggerated face he pulls.

- "Deconditioned through not training or playing". Isn't this normal while injured? You were fulfilling your international dreams playing with people of a non league standard.

- Such a shame Bowyer couldn't give Taylor the Dyer/J Williams treatment.

soapboxsam

Taylor is out of work as he got expelled from big school. Interesting that he is training in a facility in Crewe with two other players who are out of contract as well.

He is talking the talk as he has always done.
I Find it hard to believe that a League 1 club wouldn't offer him a one year contract at 33.
Not Charlton as that bridge has been burnt.

paulsturgess

mendonca said:

- His face shows that he is lying when talking about the pain he was in "being rolled on and off"...look at how much of an exaggerated face he pulls.

- "Deconditioned through not training or playing". Isn't this normal while injured? You were fulfilling your international dreams playing with people of a non league standard.

- Such a shame Bowyer couldn't give Taylor the Dyer/J Williams treatment.

I think the deconditioned comment was with regard to the covid Off period , then coming back at higher risk of injury because of that “deconditioning period” than he would have been if they’d been played out in March and April as planned at which point he was “conditioned” (albeit apparently struggling with injury)

mendonca

soapboxsam said:

Taylor is out of work as he got expelled from big school. Interesting that he is training in a facility in Crewe with two other players who are out of contract as well.

He is talking the talk as he has always done.
I Find it hard to believe that a League 1 club wouldn't offer him a one year contract at 33.
Not Charlton as that bridge has been burnt.

Maybe the word is out that his ego, need for attention, lack of football recently (bit like why he didn't play for us) is all going against him now.

Marriott110

The man is shameless, says nothing on the whole saga whilst under contract at Forest, soon as he has a few weeks with no money coming in for doing FA he's back on radio trying to justify his actions

you let the club down for yourself citing an injury you got because of an insistence to play on pitches in stadiums that is essentially is a stand in a park




Just fuck off Lyle 

mendonca

Hahaha, was that the International stadium he incurred his ligament injury? Yes, let's not mention any bit of this, or being seen on crutches at Ebbsfleet.