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Rumours Rumours - Summer 2021 edition (Deadline Day from p814)

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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Be great if Nick Pope got transferred and we got something out of it.
  • RedRobin
    RedRobin Posts: 1,377
    MattF said:
    I'd say at least one more is done
    Is this just an assumption? 
  • SpicedAddick
    SpicedAddick Posts: 737
    addick1956 said:
    objectivecafc said:
    Lots of rumours about Baah going to Donny on loan. Given the amount of chat on here he wouldn't be coming to league 1, I expect to see some serious shitfits later!
    He has now been declared a one game 2 goal player. Guess which club boosted his career. Yes ! Us.
    Another player that Bowyer can claim came here and we improved him.
  • Redhenry
    Redhenry Posts: 5,359
    edited August 2021
    This is what makes it so difficult making perm signings in league one. They have to have the potential to play in the Champ. I'm guessing and hoping this is why it's not been easy.
  • Clarky
    Clarky Posts: 582
    Dazzler21 said:
    RaplhMilne said:
    We Are starting to drift with the bookies now, out from 12/1 to 14/1. There opinion on us is obviously negative. 
    They don't have an opinion, it's who people are getting on that change their odds.
    Very true, and I expect there has been a few doom and gloomers from here betting against us that have changed the odds. Absolutely, stunned at some of the comments I have been reading, some people are so  ungrateful and want everything now despite what has been going on for years.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    edited August 2021
    Redhenry said:
    This is what makes it so difficult making perm signings in league one. They have to have the potential to play in the Champ. I'm guessing and hoping this is why it's not been easy.
    I would assume some of the thought process is around looking at what happened when Bowyer got promoted, big(ish) investment got us promoted, next to no NEW signings and covid hits, we're then relegated which would have cost us a lot of money.

    We need to make sure if we are promoted we survive the first season back at Champ level at least. I just hope we do get promoted by whatever means. 
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,802
    Redhenry said:
    This is what makes it so difficult making perm signings in league one. They have to have the potential to play in the Champ. I'm guessing and hoping this is why it's not been easy.
    Think it's been made worse by the new work permit rules, Championship clubs could go and buy decent players from the EU with no issues, now the work permit rules effectively prohibit them from doing that, so will be shopping in League 1, where a club like us would have been a big fish in the pond, now we're not.
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,273
    edited August 2021
    Of course we all wanted more and better players by now.  We are football supporters, the same is true of every club in the land. 

    I expect that we are chasing those tricky ones whom are really too good for L1 so will leave it to the last moment.  If so, we may just get them done at the last knockings of the window and we continue to hold our nerve.  No point getting excited/worried until the window closes and we can then asses how strong the squad is.
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,650
    redbuttle said:
    Where are the bloody rumours?
    In Ipswich!
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  • redbuttle
    redbuttle Posts: 1,979
    Mendonca In Asdas said:
    redbuttle said:
    Where are the bloody rumours?
    In Ipswich!
    No rumours there, just facts.
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,906
    As always Grapevine is spot on. As an idea should we have 2 x Rumours threads. One for the negative folks and a 2nd for the positive folks. That would cut down on the constant rows lol
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    AndyG said:
    As always Grapevine is spot on. As an idea should we have 2 x Rumours threads. One for the negative folks and a 2nd for the positive folks. That would cut down on the constant rows lol
    You just know the negative lot would want to creep on the positive one to infect us with their negativity. :lol:

  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,899
    i'm doing all i can - i pass on every rumour or fact i can - rarely get thanked for it, normally get abused for it 
  • SID
    SID Posts: 260
    KBslittlesis said:
    This thread is indeed an insight into the modern football fan.

    Instant.

    Instant results, instant glory, instant satisfaction………instant.

    I’m with Grapevine. Why do you bother? You all seem so miserable. You all seem so sure it’s all shit on a stick.

    Maybe it’s because I’m away from it these days. But all I see is my club being slowly rebuilt after years of neglect. Rebuilt from the ground up. Not just the squad but everywhere.

    Yes they made promises. What did you expect them to say ffs? You once believed in the tooth fairy & Santa Claus too right. We’re grown ups. We can tell when people are telling us what they would like to achieve but know it’s unlikely to happen. Jesus my bosses did this to me all my working life.

    We are starting to have our Charlton back & that feels good.

    Now can we please have some rumours 🤷‍♀️
    But they didn’t need to make promises they couldn’t deliver. We’ve been lied to for the last decade so why make it so much harder for themselves with unrealistic targets.
    If TS had said from the outset that there wasn’t much money to invest in the squad but the club has been saved I’m sure 99% of people on this forum would’ve not only accepted it but would’ve been grateful for what he’d done. I can’t help think that the negativity going around right now was self inflicted by over egging what was going to happen this season. 
  • charente addick
    charente addick Posts: 3,808
    Grapevine49 said:
    I’m sorry to interrupt these moments of innovative, compelling footballing and financial clarity but as I rarely comment on here about footballing issues anymore if you don’t mind a distraction I do have a question or two. 

    Do you actually enjoy football? Do you actually enjoy supporting Charlton Athletic Football Club? Why exactly do you need to do this to yourselves? 

    I ask because reading through most of nearly 650 pages of this thread I am tempted to suggest the need for a collective « intervention ».

    I mean Transfer Rumours eh? There’s a misnomer. 

    You know it is like when your mate taps you up for £10 again so he can buy a round, when you know he has just blown £50 at the bookies…..again …or in the old days when mid pint he would rush over screaming for coin as the fruit machine was just about to pay out….just like last week ……and the week before or

    Maybe it is more like the mate who for the ninth week running has had just one or two drinks more than he could handle to take him from the level of pointless monosyllabic dialogue to becoming completely incoherent or

    Maybe it is more like the other mate who once chose to shack up with « his » third girlfriend in six months who appeared to be just as tarty as the last two. Why do people keep shopping for life partners in the same places with the expectation « this one » will be different?

    Anyway sorry to interrupt just thought I’d ask because I grew up loving the game of football, enjoying the physical activity, the fresh air, the developing of skills, the social interaction, the common interest across society, interacting with mates and family enjoying and/or commiserating the shared experience. 

    It was great. It was fun. There was good heathy competition. It was good family time, There were moments of success and celebration but with the reality try as you might you (and they) could not get it right every time.

    Anyway as I say I just thought I would ask because I was beginning to wonder whether Football Clubs and Football Club message boards should carry government health warnings.

    Carry on….just 20 sleeps to go.
    Bit pithy for you Grapevine!
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    DOUCHER said:
    i'm doing all i can - i pass on every rumour or fact i can - rarely get thanked for it, normally get abused for it 
    Any chance of a round up of your incomings that are still potentially happening?
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,899
    charente addick said:
    Grapevine49 said:
    I’m sorry to interrupt these moments of innovative, compelling footballing and financial clarity but as I rarely comment on here about footballing issues anymore if you don’t mind a distraction I do have a question or two. 

    Do you actually enjoy football? Do you actually enjoy supporting Charlton Athletic Football Club? Why exactly do you need to do this to yourselves? 

    I ask because reading through most of nearly 650 pages of this thread I am tempted to suggest the need for a collective « intervention ».

    I mean Transfer Rumours eh? There’s a misnomer. 

    You know it is like when your mate taps you up for £10 again so he can buy a round, when you know he has just blown £50 at the bookies…..again …or in the old days when mid pint he would rush over screaming for coin as the fruit machine was just about to pay out….just like last week ……and the week before or

    Maybe it is more like the mate who for the ninth week running has had just one or two drinks more than he could handle to take him from the level of pointless monosyllabic dialogue to becoming completely incoherent or

    Maybe it is more like the other mate who once chose to shack up with « his » third girlfriend in six months who appeared to be just as tarty as the last two. Why do people keep shopping for life partners in the same places with the expectation « this one » will be different?

    Anyway sorry to interrupt just thought I’d ask because I grew up loving the game of football, enjoying the physical activity, the fresh air, the developing of skills, the social interaction, the common interest across society, interacting with mates and family enjoying and/or commiserating the shared experience. 

    It was great. It was fun. There was good heathy competition. It was good family time, There were moments of success and celebration but with the reality try as you might you (and they) could not get it right every time.

    Anyway as I say I just thought I would ask because I was beginning to wonder whether Football Clubs and Football Club message boards should carry government health warnings.

    Carry on….just 20 sleeps to go.
    Bit pithy for you Grapevine!
    still could be more concise - needs to work on it 
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  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,105
    Grapevine49 said:
    I’m sorry to interrupt these moments of innovative, compelling footballing and financial clarity but as I rarely comment on here about footballing issues anymore if you don’t mind a distraction I do have a question or two. 

    Do you actually enjoy football? Do you actually enjoy supporting Charlton Athletic Football Club? Why exactly do you need to do this to yourselves? 

    I ask because reading through most of nearly 650 pages of this thread I am tempted to suggest the need for a collective « intervention ».

    I mean Transfer Rumours eh? There’s a misnomer. 

    You know it is like when your mate taps you up for £10 again so he can buy a round, when you know he has just blown £50 at the bookies…..again …or in the old days when mid pint he would rush over screaming for coin as the fruit machine was just about to pay out….just like last week ……and the week before or

    Maybe it is more like the mate who for the ninth week running has had just one or two drinks more than he could handle to take him from the level of pointless monosyllabic dialogue to becoming completely incoherent or

    Maybe it is more like the other mate who once chose to shack up with « his » third girlfriend in six months who appeared to be just as tarty as the last two. Why do people keep shopping for life partners in the same places with the expectation « this one » will be different?

    Anyway sorry to interrupt just thought I’d ask because I grew up loving the game of football, enjoying the physical activity, the fresh air, the developing of skills, the social interaction, the common interest across society, interacting with mates and family enjoying and/or commiserating the shared experience. 

    It was great. It was fun. There was good heathy competition. It was good family time, There were moments of success and celebration but with the reality try as you might you (and they) could not get it right every time.

    Anyway as I say I just thought I would ask because I was beginning to wonder whether Football Clubs and Football Club message boards should carry government health warnings.

    Carry on….just 20 sleeps to go.
    As always … ⚫️On 👍
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    edited August 2021
    DOUCHER said:
    Dazzler21 said:
    DOUCHER said:
    i'm doing all i can - i pass on every rumour or fact i can - rarely get thanked for it, normally get abused for it 
    Any chance of a round up of your incomings that are still potentially happening?
    just for u dazzler - kirk still happening, henderson nr 2 keeper, and harness out on loan - new black player training with team  
    Good times. As I have always said, I appreciate any insider info. You, Covered End Lad, Cafc43v3r and Dubai have often posted stuff that's come to fruition so I hold you lot a bit higher than others... 

    Like Colin's stuff I tolerate, but don't necessarily believe - I haven't slagged him off once for posting his "rumours".  
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    _MrDick said:
    Grapevine49 said:
    I’m sorry to interrupt these moments of innovative, compelling footballing and financial clarity but as I rarely comment on here about footballing issues anymore if you don’t mind a distraction I do have a question or two. 

    Do you actually enjoy football? Do you actually enjoy supporting Charlton Athletic Football Club? Why exactly do you need to do this to yourselves? 

    I ask because reading through most of nearly 650 pages of this thread I am tempted to suggest the need for a collective « intervention ».

    I mean Transfer Rumours eh? There’s a misnomer. 

    You know it is like when your mate taps you up for £10 again so he can buy a round, when you know he has just blown £50 at the bookies…..again …or in the old days when mid pint he would rush over screaming for coin as the fruit machine was just about to pay out….just like last week ……and the week before or

    Maybe it is more like the mate who for the ninth week running has had just one or two drinks more than he could handle to take him from the level of pointless monosyllabic dialogue to becoming completely incoherent or

    Maybe it is more like the other mate who once chose to shack up with « his » third girlfriend in six months who appeared to be just as tarty as the last two. Why do people keep shopping for life partners in the same places with the expectation « this one » will be different?

    Anyway sorry to interrupt just thought I’d ask because I grew up loving the game of football, enjoying the physical activity, the fresh air, the developing of skills, the social interaction, the common interest across society, interacting with mates and family enjoying and/or commiserating the shared experience. 

    It was great. It was fun. There was good heathy competition. It was good family time, There were moments of success and celebration but with the reality try as you might you (and they) could not get it right every time.

    Anyway as I say I just thought I would ask because I was beginning to wonder whether Football Clubs and Football Club message boards should carry government health warnings.

    Carry on….just 20 sleeps to go.
    As always … ⚫️On 👍
    Like a bowling ball landing on your thumb?
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,105
    It’s Thursday. Just been to the newsagents and bought the Kentish Times, Kentish Independent and Mercury. Sorry lads n lasses, no rumours or signings this week 
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,906
    Dazzler21 said:
    AndyG said:
    As always Grapevine is spot on. As an idea should we have 2 x Rumours threads. One for the negative folks and a 2nd for the positive folks. That would cut down on the constant rows lol
    You just know the negative lot would want to creep on the positive one to infect us with their negativity. :lol:

    Then admin should bring a card system in. 1st offence is a yellow, 2nd is a red and 7 day ban lol
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,665
    DOUCHER said:
    Dazzler21 said:
    DOUCHER said:
    i'm doing all i can - i pass on every rumour or fact i can - rarely get thanked for it, normally get abused for it 
    Any chance of a round up of your incomings that are still potentially happening?
    just for u dazzler - kirk still happening, henderson nr 2 keeper, and harness out on loan - new black player training with team  
    Appreciate it 
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,890
    DOUCHER said:
    i'm doing all i can - i pass on every rumour or fact i can - rarely get thanked for it, normally get abused for it 
    'tis the price of being a True Supporter I guess.  ;)
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Dazzler21 said:
    AndyG said:
    As always Grapevine is spot on. As an idea should we have 2 x Rumours threads. One for the negative folks and a 2nd for the positive folks. That would cut down on the constant rows lol
    You just know the negative lot would want to creep on the positive one to infect us with their negativity. :lol:


    And vice versa to be fair. It's like people who go and post on a thread to moan why that thread exists  :D
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,605
    SID said:
    KBslittlesis said:
    This thread is indeed an insight into the modern football fan.

    Instant.

    Instant results, instant glory, instant satisfaction………instant.

    I’m with Grapevine. Why do you bother? You all seem so miserable. You all seem so sure it’s all shit on a stick.

    Maybe it’s because I’m away from it these days. But all I see is my club being slowly rebuilt after years of neglect. Rebuilt from the ground up. Not just the squad but everywhere.

    Yes they made promises. What did you expect them to say ffs? You once believed in the tooth fairy & Santa Claus too right. We’re grown ups. We can tell when people are telling us what they would like to achieve but know it’s unlikely to happen. Jesus my bosses did this to me all my working life.

    We are starting to have our Charlton back & that feels good.

    Now can we please have some rumours 🤷‍♀️
    But they didn’t need to make promises they couldn’t deliver. We’ve been lied to for the last decade so why make it so much harder for themselves with unrealistic targets.
    If TS had said from the outset that there wasn’t much money to invest in the squad but the club has been saved I’m sure 99% of people on this forum would’ve not only accepted it but would’ve been grateful for what he’d done. I can’t help think that the negativity going around right now was self inflicted by over egging what was going to happen this season. 
    So you tell your parents, ‘why did you go & tell me there was a Father Christmas? You set me up for a lifetime of misery you lying buggers’?

    No of course you didn’t (at least I hope you didn’t).

    I took it with the message that was intended. HOPE!

    The negativity is yours. Don’t go blaming others. You have a choice.
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