The club can confirm the following U23s players have left the club following the expiration of their contracts with Charlton.
- Kareem Isiaka
- Sam Keefe
- Taylor Maloney
- Wilberforce Ocran
- Abraham Odoh
- Toby Stevenson
- Kenneth Yao
The club can also confirm that David Davis’ loan spell with Charlton has ended following the expiration of the deal and Matt Smith has now returned to his parent club Manchester City.
The club has taken up one-year options on Charles Clayden, Ben Dempsey, Nathan Harness, Jay Mingi, Joseph Osaghae, Johl Powell, Luca Vega and James Vennings, while Wassim Aouchria and Armando Junior Quitirna have signed new one-year contracts with a one-year option.
Meanwhile the following players have all signed pro contracts:
- Richard Afrane-Kesey
- Kasim Aidoo
- Freddie Barton
- Billy French
- Nathan Harvey
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Wonder if that was because he chose not to stay or whether we werent impressed with his ability in training
Be surprising if Bowyer was happy to risk losing another player in case of any injuries if it was the latter
Glad too that Wassim has been kept for another year after his injury, then again I remember us doing that with Kennedy and Ben Davison when they were in similar situations
Supprised Vennings only got a year, probably more of a reflection of the current circumstances than his future though.
Every one of those "kids" must have thought when they signed a professional contract, that's me made it and the fame and riches will follow. Now they find themselves at the age of 19/20/21 or whatever effectively unemployed and having to start out again with the enormous disappointment they must be feeling weighing them down.
Hopefully most will find another club but with the way things are at the moment, that's probably not at all certain. And certainly if they do get another club, it won't be on a wage that is going to change their life. In fact, I wonder how many will just drift out of the game all together.
Good luck to them all.
And many of the others.
Ben Dempsey is an interesting one, unspectacular but very consistent.
Whether these players will re-sign - I highly suspect we'll try to retain Matthews while exercising options on Williams and Amos, at the least - is to my mind far more significant news, given our current financial mystery.
That said, can't really complain about the released/retained list thus far. Could be a couple of good players in there.
Freddie Barton has a lot of hype so looking forward to seeing a bit more of him and I really like the look of Johl Powell. He always impresses me when I get to watch the lads (rare lately obviously)
Also glad we have another year of Wassim Aouchria. He was looking good until he buggered his knee up. Could be a rough diamond
https://www.cafc.co.uk/news/view/5eec895d8daae/out-of-contract-players-extend-deals-until-end-of-201920-season
He came on in the Blackburn game that I saw and he looked absolutely lost. (Mind you, a lot of our team did that day!) Physically, he was quite slight and would get knocked off the ball in the Premier League easily.
He must be miles away from a spot in the City first team apart from maybe a brief subs appearance.