Maybe it's time to give the lad a 2nd chance, I'm sure we've all had them in the past, some people maybe more. Both Bonne and Holden have addressed the 'tweet' so for me, if its good enough for Holden it's good enough for me! He has a 6 month contract he knows he has to play well and score if he wants it extended. He's here as a striker which with exception of Leaburn we currently don't have, Chucks is permanently injured and Stockley is out of form. I think he'll do well if Fraser continues playing well as a 10. Let's get behind him, hope he scores a hat full and gets us up the table. Now where is Endu and Kane?
My disappointment at this signing has absolutely nothing to do with his comments when he left us. It is solely to do with the fact that I think he is a depressingly bad footballer. I hope he’s improved and rams that comment back up my proverbial.
Maybe he's "a depressingly bad footballer" but he's shown here before and at Ipswich that he's usually in the right place at the right time to convert the expected average from the number of chances he gets.
And if scores goals, he will have done the job he was brought in to do.
Not really interested in what he says on social media, I just think he’s a poor, poor striker. How anyone can think our recruitment is anything other than an utter joke is beyond me.
He very obviously is not a "poor poor striker".
Latest league one performances by striker options for Charlton:
Washington has a marginally better goals to games ratio, but not by much, and it seems unlikely he is an option. Stockley has around 1 in 10. Aneke, is unlikely to score again in the foreseeable future.
He may be an average average striker. But he is better than any other options we have.
Not really interested in what he says on social media, I just think he’s a poor, poor striker. How anyone can think our recruitment is anything other than an utter joke is beyond me.
I do agree that we shouldn't keep going back to former players. But I'm not sure what we have to lose with Bonne. On our budget and given that there are so few proven and available strikers out there, who do we propose signing in the middle of the season instead?
It's a six months contract. If he's a success then he signs a new one. If he isn't then we've lost I would estimate £75k but we made over £1m profit on him. We paid £300K for Aneke and on a three and a half year contract too. Forget the goals per minutes because that is irrelevant when a player is so limited in terms of appearances. Bonne scored 11 goals in just over a year whereas Aneke has 21 goals over a period of three years.
Neither may, ultimately, turn out to be the answer. But we can afford to gamble with Bonne when the mid season alternatives are virtually non existent without possibly making the same mistake that we did this time last year.
Not really interested in what he says on social media, I just think he’s a poor, poor striker. How anyone can think our recruitment is anything other than an utter joke is beyond me.
He very obviously is not a "poor poor striker".
Latest league one performances by striker options for Charlton:
Washington has a marginally better goals to games ratio, but not by much, and it seems unlikely he is an option. Stockley has around 1 in 10. Aneke, is unlikely to score again in the foreseeable future.
He may be an average average striker. But he is better than any other options we have.
Sorry, just don't rate him.
I quite liked Washington, but he was getting more wasteful the longer he went on; Stockley hasn't been the same since his injury and Chuks? If he had a decent level of fitness he'd be playing a lot higher up the league than he does now. We've been very lucky that Leaburn Jr has come through, wasn't that long ago he was behind Kanu,
Not really interested in what he says on social media, I just think he’s a poor, poor striker. How anyone can think our recruitment is anything other than an utter joke is beyond me.
He very obviously is not a "poor poor striker".
Latest league one performances by striker options for Charlton:
Washington has a marginally better goals to games ratio, but not by much, and it seems unlikely he is an option. Stockley has around 1 in 10. Aneke, is unlikely to score again in the foreseeable future.
He may be an average average striker. But he is better than any other options we have.
Sorry, just don't rate him.
I quite liked Washington, but he was getting more wasteful the longer he went on; Stockley hasn't been the same since his injury and Chuks? If he had a decent level of fitness he'd be playing a lot higher up the league than he does now. We've been very lucky that Leaburn Jr has come through, wasn't that long ago he was behind Kanu,
So he is not a poor striker by any comparative scale. He is likely to be the best striker we have.
I do agree that we shouldn't keep going back to former players. But I'm not sure what we have to lose with Bonne. On our budget and given that there are so few proven and available strikers out there, who do we propose signing in the middle of the season instead?
It's a six months contract. If he's a success then he signs a new one. If he isn't then we've lost I would estimate £75k but we made over £1m profit on him. We paid £300K for Aneke and on a three and a half year contract too. Forget the goals per minutes because that is irrelevant when a player is so limited in terms of appearances. Bonne scored 11 goals in just over a year whereas Aneke has 21 goals over a period of three years.
Neither may, ultimately, turn out to be the answer. But we can afford to gamble with Bonne when the mid season alternatives are virtually non existent without possibly making the same mistake that we did this time last year.
Well put, it's low risk, high reward.
He gets in behind, which is something we desperately lack, and he can score goals, and our forwards aren't the most prolific.
I found him deeply, deeply frustrating when he was here. I was underwhelmed when we had him lined up in the summer. But he makes the squad deeper, and it's a six month contract.
We can argue if he's better than Stockley or more reliable than Chuks or whatever, but he's far, far, far more proven than Danial Kanu. And right until today, Kanu was the only "poacher" style constantly run in behind striker in our squad. So on that alone it seems like a no brainer, but if this also means Kanu goes out on loan, then that's even better.
Not really interested in what he says on social media, I just think he’s a poor, poor striker. How anyone can think our recruitment is anything other than an utter joke is beyond me.
He very obviously is not a "poor poor striker".
Latest league one performances by striker options for Charlton:
Washington has a marginally better goals to games ratio, but not by much, and it seems unlikely he is an option. Stockley has around 1 in 10. Aneke, is unlikely to score again in the foreseeable future.
He may be an average average striker. But he is better than any other options we have.
Sorry, just don't rate him.
I quite liked Washington, but he was getting more wasteful the longer he went on; Stockley hasn't been the same since his injury and Chuks? If he had a decent level of fitness he'd be playing a lot higher up the league than he does now. We've been very lucky that Leaburn Jr has come through, wasn't that long ago he was behind Kanu,
This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. It's not just luck that Miles has come through, it's been really good development. He was clearly a part of the first team squad from the start of pre season. This was no fluke, people at the club saw something in him and thought he was ready to make the step up.
Many doubted this. I was chief amongst them. I thought a year of him playing out wide and getting used to the pace and physicality of senior football would be good for him. Maybe a second half loan. But I didn't think he had the touch and tactical awareness to play up front on his own.
I was dead wrong.
And thank God I was.
But he didn't come out of nowhere, and he didn't fluke his way into the first team on a run of good performances. He has been developed to be where he is. And yes, we needed another striker in the summer. And now, it'd be ideal if we could move Stockley on and get a more complete forward in. Both this, and the fact that the club got it right with Miles, can be true at the same time.
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And if scores goals, he will have done the job he was brought in to do.
Latest league one performances by striker options for Charlton:
Bonne; 46 appearances, 12 goals.
Washington: 38 appearances, 11 goals
Stockley: 29 appearances 3 goals.
Washington has a marginally better goals to games ratio, but not by much, and it seems unlikely he is an option. Stockley has around 1 in 10. Aneke, is unlikely to score again in the foreseeable future.
He may be an average average striker. But he is better than any other options we have.
And to be fair he is right. We can be a right bunch of c**ts sometimes.
Not that he said that.
end of season ..
It's a six months contract. If he's a success then he signs a new one. If he isn't then we've lost I would estimate £75k but we made over £1m profit on him. We paid £300K for Aneke and on a three and a half year contract too. Forget the goals per minutes because that is irrelevant when a player is so limited in terms of appearances. Bonne scored 11 goals in just over a year whereas Aneke has 21 goals over a period of three years.
Neither may, ultimately, turn out to be the answer. But we can afford to gamble with Bonne when the mid season alternatives are virtually non existent without possibly making the same mistake that we did this time last year.
I quite liked Washington, but he was getting more wasteful the longer he went on; Stockley hasn't been the same since his injury and Chuks? If he had a decent level of fitness he'd be playing a lot higher up the league than he does now. We've been very lucky that Leaburn Jr has come through, wasn't that long ago he was behind Kanu,
As in "cheers mate" 🙄 when the bloke next to you at the bar has just knocked over your pint.
He gets in behind, which is something we desperately lack, and he can score goals, and our forwards aren't the most prolific.
I found him deeply, deeply frustrating when he was here. I was underwhelmed when we had him lined up in the summer. But he makes the squad deeper, and it's a six month contract.
We can argue if he's better than Stockley or more reliable than Chuks or whatever, but he's far, far, far more proven than Danial Kanu. And right until today, Kanu was the only "poacher" style constantly run in behind striker in our squad. So on that alone it seems like a no brainer, but if this also means Kanu goes out on loan, then that's even better.
I used to despair at the number of times he was caught offside.🫤
Many doubted this. I was chief amongst them. I thought a year of him playing out wide and getting used to the pace and physicality of senior football would be good for him. Maybe a second half loan. But I didn't think he had the touch and tactical awareness to play up front on his own.
I was dead wrong.
And thank God I was.
But he didn't come out of nowhere, and he didn't fluke his way into the first team on a run of good performances. He has been developed to be where he is. And yes, we needed another striker in the summer. And now, it'd be ideal if we could move Stockley on and get a more complete forward in. Both this, and the fact that the club got it right with Miles, can be true at the same time.