I've gone on about a left back so will make this the last time. We cannot push for promotion with one recognised LB. We cannot push for promotion if Stockley gets injured. Sorry to sound like a negative nelly and I really hope I am wrong but the balance of our squad seems all over the place. I will support of course but just have a bad feeling about this manager and this team. Is that allowed on here or not?
It's fair to think that but I think you are vastly overestimating other teams relative to us. I doubt there's many squads/teams in the whole league that are perfectly balanced and have quality in depth.
Yes a few injuries could screw us over, but that's not just us. Any team in the league is a few injuries away from disaster.
Apart from Ipswich. Not sure what their defensive options are like but they seem to have 3 attacking players for every position. Perhaps they'll be going with an Ossie Ardiles style 3-2-5 formation.
In my opinion... Great window. Strong team. Spent well over £1,000,000 signing young, talented, motivated players on long term contracts. Also signed players with links to CAFC (Lee, Arter, Leko & Clare) and signed natural leaders and players of the season (Lavelle Kirk & MacG). I also think the temperament of the players we've brought in has been well thought through.
Whats not to like? Yes, we might be a LB or a ST short, but I reckon we might dip into the free transfer market to plug whatever minute holes there might be.
Finally, a sensible window, not one where our sole target is to bring In 'bodies.'
Wow we spent a million. I will go Charlton and support the team as Always but I'm not expecting us to be anywhere near the play-offs. I think this is a below average squad. I hope I am wrong I honestly do. Playing some youngsters through the season will keep me interested and then mount a challenge next season. I'm not in a rush for promotion like others
I agree re. not rushing - however would you not agree this window is a step in the right direction though, a solid base on which to build?
Yes I'd agree we are building. I've no problem with that. But this squad compared to Sheff Wd, Sunderland,Ipswich even Oxford, we won't be challenging
We're so much stronger than we were a couple of weeks ago. Yeah I would've liked a left back & that's still a concern, just gotta hope purrington stays fit.
The striker situation is less of a worry for me now. Washington or Leko coild play in a front 2 with Stockley, but If Stockley gets injured, Washington can take the striker role & revert back to a 433 as we now have so many attacking midfield & wing options.
Overall very happy with this window & excited to see where we go from here
I would add, I don’t think any of us should feel let down by the business done. Yes TS made some outlandish statements about blowing the league away but he never promised crazy spending. We’ve paid actual transfer fees for several players and, if the rumoured fees are correct, it could tott up to over £1 million. I don’t care what anyone says - that’s a stament of intent. We have haven’t spent that kind of money for seasons and seasons.
None of us know for sure if there was a last minute increase in budget or not but, even if there was, I see that as a positive because it shows that there’s a willingness to learn and adapt. It means the intent was always there, and perhaps it was just over optimism on what was needed to be spent to get what we need rather than penny pinching.
We may or may not get promoted this season. We may or may not have got this transfer window right in the end. But we are clearly now a million miles from being allowed to die the slow painful death under Roland.
All I want from an owner is to run the club as a football club, run it sensibly but not solely to try and make money, and to aspire to take the club to bigger and better things while adhering to that ideal of preserving its future. I do believe the things TS has done this window, even if it hasn’t been perfect, demonstrate he’s trying to be that kind of good owner. We should be very happy to have that.
Adkins did say he was happy with Gunter at left-back. Not everything is a ploy to get fees down. I'll go out on a limb and say it's a lot more easier to just take the manager at his word.
I've gone on about a left back so will make this the last time. We cannot push for promotion with one recognised LB. We cannot push for promotion if Stockley gets injured. Sorry to sound like a negative nelly and I really hope I am wrong but the balance of our squad seems all over the place. I will support of course but just have a bad feeling about this manager and this team. Is that allowed on here or not?
Of course it’s allowed, no one has told you to stop posting, they are simply disagreeing with you.
From what Adkins said we'll look to get a keeper in on an emergency loan if and when we need to. I'd like to think we're also looking at free agent left backs as Callum mentioned above. Then i think we're pretty set.
We'll surely also see Schwartz leave and probably the likes of Dempsey and Vennings get National league loans.
Adkins did say he was happy with Gunter at left-back. Not everything is a ploy to get fees down. In fact, I'll go out on a limb and say it's a lot easier to just take the manager at his word.
He did say that yes but if Adkins found a guy in bed with his wife, he'd still find a positive in the situation. I can't believe he's honestly that happy that we don't have another natural senior left back.
Plus of course if Matthews gets injured then Gunter will be needed at RB, so it's a bit dangerous to only have 3 players for 2 positions in a 46 game season.
Adkins did say he was happy with Gunter at left-back. Not everything is a ploy to get fees down. In fact, I'll go out on a limb and say it's a lot easier to just take the manager at his word.
He did say that yes but if Adkins found a guy in bed with his wife, he'd still find a positive in the situation. I can't believe he's honestly that happy that we don't have another natural senior left back.
Plus of course if Matthews gets injured then Gunter will be needed at RB, so it's a bit dangerous to only have 3 players for 2 positions in a 46 game season.
Clare can play RB. I think he's also mentioned that in an interview.
If we were going to sign a LB, we likely would have signed one.
However - Arter was very good at Fulham. Not so good at Forest.
Leko was good at Charlton not so good at Birmingham.
A left back and a striker please and we'll compete for promotion. Without them we are a Stockley injury and Purrington breakdown from struggling against the best in this division.
Crewe and Crawley dispatched. Harder tests to come. The quality of actual signings has been good - not a Matt Smith in sight.
I would add, I don’t think any of us should feel let down by the business done. Yes TS made some outlandish statements about blowing the league away but he never promised crazy spending. We’ve paid actual transfer fees for several players and, if the rumoured fees are correct, it could tott up to over £1 million. I don’t care what anyone says - that’s a stament of intent. We have haven’t spent that kind of money for seasons and seasons.
None of us know for sure if there was a last minute increase in budget or not but, even if there was, I see that as a positive because it shows that there’s a willingness to learn and adapt. It means the intent was always there, and perhaps it was just over optimism on what was needed to be spent to get what we need rather than penny pinching.
We may or may not get promoted this season. We may or may not have got this transfer window right in the end. But we are clearly now a million miles from being allowed to die the slow painful death under Roland.
All I want from an owner is to run the club as a football club, run it sensibly but not solely to try and make money, and to aspire to take the club to bigger and better things while adhering to that ideal of preserving its future. I do believe the things TS has done this window, even if it hasn’t been perfect, demonstrate he’s trying to be that kind of good owner. We should be very happy to have that.
I think if Purrington will be fine for the majority of the season we'll be ok without another left back.
Biggest concern is if Stockley gets injured, but if we bought a back up they'd be a shit journeyman nobody wants (like Bogle was). I think we have enough goals in our squad now to weather a few games without him. But, we're just going to have to keep our fingers crossed on that one.
Decent window overall - squad looks infinitely better than a month ago. Let's just get a good run going after a tricky start.
So initial reactions, of the three today (Arter, Lavelle, Leko), what one are you most pleased about?
Arter should be the best of the lot but the big positive of this window has been finally signing players to long-term deals, so Lavelle. Hopefully it reduces the chance of rebuilding every summer.
In my opinion... Great window. Strong team. Spent well over £1,000,000 signing young, talented, motivated players on long term contracts. Also signed players with links to CAFC (Lee, Arter, Leko & Clare) and signed natural leaders and players of the season (Lavelle Kirk & MacG). I also think the temperament of the players we've brought in has been well thought through.
Whats not to like? Yes, we might be a LB or a ST short, but I reckon we might dip into the free transfer market to plug whatever minute holes there might be.
Finally, a sensible window, not one where our sole target is to bring In 'bodies.'
Wow we spent a million. I will go Charlton and support the team as Always but I'm not expecting us to be anywhere near the play-offs. I think this is a below average squad. I hope I am wrong I honestly do. Playing some youngsters through the season will keep me interested and then mount a challenge next season. I'm not in a rush for promotion like others
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See this is completely unnecessary. The bloke is not being unduly negative or slagging anyone yet being called a cock for have a view contrary to the main.
Many of us who aren't hailing this as a great transfer window/ have concerns about how objective the Roddy jr signing is or how seemingly last minute the recruitment strategy are mocked as having sand in our privates or being unhappy or angry at the world.
All a bit unnecessary and turns the forum into an echo chamber and dont see need to pour scorn on fellow Charlton fans who have different opinions on current squad.
Dont think it is leftfield or overly negative to say that not having a fit left back at the club at this stage is concerning.
Hopefully it'll click and we will be up there competing in top six and we'll all be happy and whilst probably many of us are less concerned than 24 hours ago I dont think we've necessarily got depth of squad to guarantee top 6 challenge and a lot riding on Stockley performing for 40 plus games.
It's healthy surely to have different views and civily debate them without the personal snide digs.
Ended up being quite a decent window Seven out of ten I'd say. I would have given a higher Mark had we replaced Aneke and got a left back. But overall not to bad.
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The striker situation is less of a worry for me now. Washington or Leko coild play in a front 2 with Stockley, but If Stockley gets injured, Washington can take the striker role & revert back to a 433 as we now have so many attacking midfield & wing options.
Overall very happy with this window & excited to see where we go from here
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of preserving its future. I do believe the things TS has done this window, even if it hasn’t been perfect, demonstrate he’s trying to be that kind of good owner. We should be very happy to have that.
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Is that allowed on here or not?
We'll surely also see Schwartz leave and probably the likes of Dempsey and Vennings get National league loans.
Plus of course if Matthews gets injured then Gunter will be needed at RB, so it's a bit dangerous to only have 3 players for 2 positions in a 46 game season.
If we were going to sign a LB, we likely would have signed one.
However - Arter was very good at Fulham. Not so good at Forest.
Leko was good at Charlton not so good at Birmingham.
A left back and a striker please and we'll compete for promotion. Without them we are a Stockley injury and Purrington breakdown from struggling against the best in this division.
Crewe and Crawley dispatched. Harder tests to come. The quality of actual signings has been good - not a Matt Smith in sight.
Biggest concern is if Stockley gets injured, but if we bought a back up they'd be a shit journeyman nobody wants (like Bogle was). I think we have enough goals in our squad now to weather a few games without him. But, we're just going to have to keep our fingers crossed on that one.
Decent window overall - squad looks infinitely better than a month ago. Let's just get a good run going after a tricky start.
Many of us who aren't hailing this as a great transfer window/ have concerns about how objective the Roddy jr signing is or how seemingly last minute the recruitment strategy are mocked as having sand in our privates or being unhappy or angry at the world.
All a bit unnecessary and turns the forum into an echo chamber and dont see need to pour scorn on fellow Charlton fans who have different opinions on current squad.
Dont think it is leftfield or overly negative to say that not having a fit left back at the club at this stage is concerning.
Hopefully it'll click and we will be up there competing in top six and we'll all be happy and whilst probably many of us are less concerned than 24 hours ago I dont think we've necessarily got depth of squad to guarantee top 6 challenge and a lot riding on Stockley performing for 40 plus games.
It's healthy surely to have different views and civily debate them without the personal snide digs.
Seven out of ten I'd say.
I would have given a higher Mark had we replaced Aneke and got a left back.
But overall not to bad.
We have however brought in some real quality in this window and a few that should be good enough at this level to be in and around it.
Quite honestly I think we'll be the start slow but scrape into the playoffs type team as we gel.
I am a bit disappointed we didn't find a left back, even on loan but all in all I think we've been shrewd.
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