If TS doesn't want to lose £8m next year he should invest money in acquiring two saleable assets that appreciate in value.
That way he won't be wasting money, he'll be investing it.
The more wins. The higher gate receipts, Valley pass purchases, TV money, potential Championship promotion.
Buy appreciating assets Peterborough do it Brentford do it
McKirdy more likely to not lose value v Stockton
Buy McKirdy
It isn't actually rocket science.
He tried that with Kirk (failed), Lavelle (failed). It may work with Dobson and Clare but I think both are out of contract end of this season. If McKirdy was a guarantee of success someone would have bought him already.
Kirk hasn't failed yet. We may well sell him for more than we bought him for. Kirk now is much better than Kirk last season. Lavelle was a purchase that hasn't lost value yet either as far as I am aware?
Can’t wait for the window to slam shut. It’s like a very tedious tennis rally between Charlton fans. Hopefully some activity will keep everyone happy and we can all unite towards getting out of this bloody league.
Don’t mention that word on here…………,House of Commoners thread surely 😉.
The House of Commoners thread has been slammed shut!
The problem with the house of Commoners thread, was there were too many joining and posting who hadn't taken their medication. Interesting insight never the less.
For Ben Garner's sake I hope we get a forward in who can cover all 3 forward positions. ( Can score and make assists which should be mandatory for playing in any of the 3 front positions and play off/near to Jayden when possible.
Posh lessen their losses by selling their best players……..imagine the furore if we started doing that
Don't we do that, too (Burstow etc)? It's just that we haven't had any valuable assets to sell in the past few seasons. If we sold players for a healthy profit and re-invested the money into shrewd new signings, I don't think there would be that much furore.
Posh lessen their losses by selling their best players……..imagine the furore if we started doing that
Don't we do that, too (Burstow etc)? It's just that we haven't had any valuable assets to sell in the past few seasons. If we sold players for a healthy profit and re-invested the money into shrewd new signings, I don't think there would be that much furore.
Isn’t he the only one we have sold for a few years ?I think the posh model is to keep them for a few years until they become a high performer in the first team and then sell them. MacAnthony , love him or hate him usually gets good money for his players.
Maybe I’m in the minority, but i actually feel quite positive about the season ahead, and have really enjoyed the football so far this season, granted it couldn’t get much worse.
This league is extremely tight, team morale and togetherness is important and it feels like we have that this year.
Yes we could do with another LB, CB and Striker, but no one should be demanding it.
None of us know the financial ins and outs and ultimately it’s not our money to spend.
I could do with a couple more team members at work to take our service levels up to the next level, but I won’t get that, there are financial constraints that I have to work within.
Posh lessen their losses by selling their best players……..imagine the furore if we started doing that
We have been doing that for the last 50 years!
Make that 60 years, Billy Bonds, Marvin Hinton, Mike Bailey, Lenny Glover off the top of the head 😉 Edit; not forgetting Eddie Firmani of course to Sampdoria 1955.
Maybe I’m in the minority, but i actually feel quite positive about the season ahead, and have really enjoyed the football so far this season, granted it couldn’t get much worse.
This league is extremely tight, team morale and togetherness is important and it feels like we have that this year.
Yes we could do with another LB, CB and Striker, but no one should be demanding it.
None of us know the financial ins and outs and ultimately it’s not our money to spend.
I could do with a couple more team members at work to take our service levels up to the next level, but I won’t get that, there are financial constraints that I have to work within.
I’m confident will be in and around the playoffs.
I am confident we will be significantly better than last year at will be at least challenging for a play off place.
I am not demanding a striker but we have been a striker short since Chuks left 20 months ago. Yes we resigned him but have lost Ronnie, Davison and Washington since.
I can not get my head round the fact we have used up the budget and need to move a player, who's contract we renewed 10 weeks ago, to free up wages.
Since we last increased the number of strikers at the club we have signed 7 central midfielders and lost 3 strikers.
I think it's fair to be frustrated at least. Like I said earlier a couple of 100k is a lot of money, but not relatively to our wage bill it isn't.
Perhaps it’s a case they have enquired about strikers but the ones they think will be an improvement on Stockley, who is doing better than some will give him credit for, or Leaburn, who looks better than I think a lot of us expected, are out of reach. No point signing someone just for the sake of it.
Or perhaps they just want to play their cards very close to their chest for fear of losing a deal by it becoming public knowledge too early.
We’ll find out in a couple of weeks.
If Stockley or Leaburn get injured we are up creek.... we need another striker.
IF. It’s not definitely going to happen so the management team has to balance that risk against what it will cost to sign a striker that will be worth actually adding to the wage bill. And whatever the bed wetting doom mongers will say, Aneke will be available for selection at some point.
Ideally we would be able to sign a decent striker, but this isn’t like January 2019 when we were playing 2 up front and sold Grant to leave us with only Taylor and the injured Vetokele so had to sign Parker because he was all we could get. Right now we have two decent, fit options for one position.
If we just sign someone for the sake of it they might end being unused and unwanted and then, in January, maybe a better option comes on the market but we already spent our budget on the d-list option.
it’s made out like it’s a black and white decision but it’s not.
Stockley will 100% miss games this season due to injury or suspension. Leaburn is far too raw to be first choice when that happens and we simply can't be reliant on Aneke having one of his runs of actually being fit at the time. We need a striker
We need a striker who can play up top on their own and is, at least, better than Leaburn. If players fitting that bill are too expensive, not interested in joining us, or their current club will not sell, what would you like Charlton to do about that?
Now, I don’t know for certain that that is the case, but there’s an assumption by some that the club haven’t even tried to sign a striker but I find that hard to believe. And there’s been nothing official to say they aren’t trying, just perhaps they aren’t confident they can make the deal they want happen.
As fans on here, we’ve only identified 3 players that would fit the bill - Stockton (question marks over how good he really is and Morecambe don’t seem keen to sell), Simpson (now looks like he’s Championship bound), and Wilks (probably out of price range).
You can need something all you want, but if what you need isn’t available then you might have no choice than to make do without it.
Players are always available for a price. Might have to push the boat out but spending an extra £250k now might mean not losing £8m next season (if we are still stuck in this division).
Exactly, Garner has already confirmed that we don't have the budget to bring in another striker while admitting " everyone would like an additional striker". We seem to have recruited well this summer & in the new set up we are creating chances but just not taking them. We are all aware that sandgaard has cut the budget & is cost cutting across the board but it just seems crazy that having assembled an attacking team we are neglecting the final piece of the jigsaw. Whatever anyone thinks of Stockley he can't do it all alone, he needs help & an additional striker who can come on & replace or play as a two up front. Leaburn has done well but he's a boy stepping up into a mans game & needs looking after, it's too much to expect him to turn on a performance week after week. I wonder if we yet again fail to deliver & end up outside the top 6 who sandgaard will blame this time ?
I see latest Tyreece Simpson rumours are that Huddersfield will win the race bit may then loam him to L1. Barnsley and Peterborough linked.but you would think we would look at that if possible.
I actually see that interview by garner as moving us a step closer to signing mkirdy - if u take all the fluff out of the interview it basically says publicly that garner wants to sign him - everything else we already knew about really
What I thought really. My main take away was we haven't got disposable cash in the budget to pay a transfer fee for a player when we have at least two players on the wage bill that the manager doesn't want to be here (Gilbey and JFC... and possibly McGillivray too) and potentially at least another one that had been budgeted not to be here (Kirk). We presumably knew that Garner rates McKirdy based in the tune he got out of him last season. We also knew we need to churn the squad to see more inflow. I'm not sure there's anything new apart from to actually put in black and white that Garner would like to bring McKirdy in if he could.
I see latest Tyreece Simpson rumours are that Huddersfield will win the race bit may then loam him to L1. Barnsley and Peterborough linked.but you would think we would look at that if possible.
I can't see Huddersfield buying a player from one division below them to immediately loan him out again. They don't have the sort of financial resources to do that, they need to improve their current side
I see latest Tyreece Simpson rumours are that Huddersfield will win the race bit may then loam him to L1. Barnsley and Peterborough linked.but you would think we would look at that if possible.
I can't see Huddersfield buying a player from one division below them to immediately loan him out again. They don't have the sort of financial resources to do that, they need to improve their current side
Different level but they signed Kyle Hudlin from Solihull (5th tier) and loaned him to Wimbledon. You'd think Simpson would be a similar signing, a player for the future rather than to immediately improve their first team.
I see latest Tyreece Simpson rumours are that Huddersfield will win the race bit may then loam him to L1. Barnsley and Peterborough linked.but you would think we would look at that if possible.
I can't see Huddersfield buying a player from one division below them to immediately loan him out again. They don't have the sort of financial resources to do that, they need to improve their current side
Different level but they signed Kyle Hudlin from Solihull (5th tier) and loaned him to Wimbledon. You'd think Simpson would be a similar signing, a player for the future rather than to immediately improve their first team.
They did the same when they signed Sorba Thomas from Boreham Wood
Aaron Pierre. Left footed centre back, last contracted to Shrewsbury. Would favour a move back to London
I was effectively trying to bump this.
Has he been linked?
No, not linked anywhere in the press. In an effort to try getting the rumours thread back on track, I looked at lists of free agent left footed centre backs and he was the most obvious choice after Naby Sarr.
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Peterborough still lose around £7-8m a year and have spent most of the last 15 years in L1, we should copy them.
Posh also have not spent most of the last 15 seasons in League 1 and do NOT lose £7-8m per year.
Get your facts right first.....
Top in
Very similar to top outs
Washington, Gale and Toney also cost a fair bit.
This league is extremely tight, team morale and togetherness is important and it feels like we have that this year.
Yes we could do with another LB, CB and Striker, but no one should be demanding it.
Edit; not forgetting Eddie Firmani of course to Sampdoria 1955.
I am not demanding a striker but we have been a striker short since Chuks left 20 months ago. Yes we resigned him but have lost Ronnie, Davison and Washington since.
I can not get my head round the fact we have used up the budget and need to move a player, who's contract we renewed 10 weeks ago, to free up wages.
Since we last increased the number of strikers at the club we have signed 7 central midfielders and lost 3 strikers.
I think it's fair to be frustrated at least. Like I said earlier a couple of 100k is a lot of money, but not relatively to our wage bill it isn't.
Sigh
He went straight out on loan to Harrogate
Has he been linked?