One of the strangest signings of all time, and that includes the Roland era. Would love to know how many times he touched the ball during his career at Charlton.
Good luck, Gunslinger, Minister of shooting and Rocket Ronnie
If it was a Tommy influenced signing, hopefully he has learned the expensive way to let the football people make football decisions.
after the first few appearances where he scored a very good goal, had a good goal wrongly ruled offside, hit the post against Swindon, fell over two yards out (I put that down as an exception, not the rule), I thought we had a very good player. It didn’t turn out that way!!
I said at the time (presumably somewhere on this thread) that this has the hallmarks of a 'Network signing' and that we would have been fuming if this was a signing in previous years
I guess the one question is why now? Did we try and offload him for a fee during the window and have no takers? If so why did it take another month and a half to get to the same outcome?
We spent more on Schwartz over the year than we did with Polish Pete.
Hopefully that's TS's ego checked. Hope he lets recruitment get on with things and doesn't get involved again.
Are you making that up?
We spent a fair whack on Polish Pete’s transfer fee and he was on a very long contract. I’d be amazed if Schwartz cost us anywhere near the same amount
Pete's transfer fee was never confirmed no? Even if the full total was 800k, due to him never playing for us I doubt the money paid by us was anywhere close.
Schwartz cost us money in the 100s of thousands too, and wages on top of that would have been a lot higher than Pete was on.
Real shame this didn’t work out. Had the potential to be very good in my opinion but seems as though too many factors had a say in that never being able to materialise.
Hope his well-being is okay - not saying it’s not - as ultimately that’s the main thing, and he can go back home and get back to scoring goals.
We might never know the full story. At least the agony for all sides has now been ended. Perhaps it also clears the way for another striker being signed in January.
We spent more on Schwartz over the year than we did with Polish Pete.
Hopefully that's TS's ego checked. Hope he lets recruitment get on with things and doesn't get involved again.
You are right, he would've been. But TS is not Roland and comparing the two (with their clearly differentiated ambitions for the club) is a false equivalence.
Thomas isn't stupid and I am certain he will have learnt a lot. Ultimately it's his money that's been spent on this signing.
Real shame this didn’t work out. Had the potential to be very good in my opinion but seems as though too many factors had a say in that never being able to materialise.
Hope his well-being is okay - not saying it’s not - as ultimately that’s the main thing, and he can go back home and get back to scoring goals.
Good luck, Ronnie.
Echo this. Best of luck to Ronnie, no doubt he will be snapped up by a Danish league team and score plenty of goals before the end of the season.
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Shame it hasn’t worked out. Wonder how much we wasted on bringing him in.
Also opens up a space in the squad for a free agent 👀
Good luck, Gunslinger, Minister of shooting and Rocket Ronnie
A disappointing experience for all really. Wish him all the best.
after the first few appearances where he scored a very good goal, had a good goal wrongly ruled offside, hit the post against Swindon, fell over two yards out (I put that down as an exception, not the rule), I thought we had a very good player. It didn’t turn out that way!!
We spent more on Schwartz over the year than we did with Polish Pete.
Hopefully that's TS's ego checked. Hope he lets recruitment get on with things and doesn't get involved again.
Hope Sandgaard learnt a lot from this
Schwartz cost us money in the 100s of thousands too, and wages on top of that would have been a lot higher than Pete was on.
Hope his well-being is okay - not saying it’s not - as ultimately that’s the main thing, and he can go back home and get back to scoring goals.
Good luck, Ronnie.
Thomas isn't stupid and I am certain he will have learnt a lot. Ultimately it's his money that's been spent on this signing.