Summer Transfer Rumours - Deadline Day p446

charlton_hero

We need players that can hit the ground running, Sess is not what we need right now.

jacob_CAFC

WHAddick said:

MrBurns said:

This squad will take years to sort out

Unfortunately I think I agree..dont want to be but it seems much much work to do

You don't have years in league one as any food players you have will want to make the move up. You think if we are still fucking about in league one next season players like Dobbo, CBT, Leaburn are gonna wanna stay? 

RonnieMoore

Very good interview with Andy Scott.. Clearly looking to go toe to toe with championship clubs for the players we want. 

mendonca

RonnieMoore said:

Very good interview with Andy Scott.. Clearly looking to go toe to toe with championship clubs for the players we want. 

Let's hope it doesn't turn into an excuse.

BigRedEvil

I was kinda looking forward to this Jamaican striker, bit of an unknown compared to the usual journeyman clogger we usually end up with. 

PowellsHeadedGoal

mendonca said:

RonnieMoore said:

Very good interview with Andy Scott.. Clearly looking to go toe to toe with championship clubs for the players we want. 

"Let's hope it doesn't turn into an excuse."

- I think it already has and he's just getting it out there early. Once again it's all talk and no action 

Valley11

I wonder if there’s anything in Sam Nombe being on the bench against Portsmouth?

TheAddicks4Ever

I’m with curbs get a striker in now…before May gets injured - let’s then get all strikers back for later in the years and give the manager a nightmare of who to leave out we’ve never been in this position why is it always the striker position where we have the bare minimum 

TheAddicks4Ever

Valley11 said:

I wonder if there’s anything in Sam Nombe being on the bench against Portsmouth?

Unfortunately I don’t think there is much in this other than just resting him for the first half 

Bilko

I’m worried that playing May upfront by himself will ruin his confidence.

Bailey

Bilko said:

I’m worried that playing May upfront by himself will ruin his confidence.

Or his Hamstrings 

killerandflash

Callumcafc said:

He says we’re talking to players and to clubs, trying to bring in players as soon as possible but we have competition for signatures from clubs in the league above.

The danger is that you end up like Spurs in previous summers, where they've tried to bring in top top players (getting all their fans excited), failed and ended up panic buying average ones for too much money.

Can we really compete against Championship clubs, who can surely offer more money?

AFKABartram

RonnieMoore said:

Very good interview with Andy Scott.. Clearly looking to go toe to toe with championship clubs for the players we want. 

We’ve been through this before with Sandgaard. 

And we don’t get them.

Uboat

Reminds me of when we ‘tried’ to buy Ivan Toney. ‘Oh well, we didn’t get him, but isn’t it good that we tried.’

golfaddick

RonnieMoore said:

Very good interview with Andy Scott.. Clearly looking to go toe to toe with championship clubs for the players we want. 

And come 11pm on Sept 1st we'll get the usual " just couldn't get xxx over the line".

It's great to be ambitious but I'd rather be realistic & bring in players who want to be here.....not wait for some Billy Big Bollox who's spent 2 months waiting for Leicester or Southampton to sign him.  

Athletico Charlton

We wasted a summer with TS chasing Championship quality players. Iirc we signed McGrandles to huge fanfare of "worth £600K, Championship teams wanted him etc and a bunch of last second panic buya to try to make a squad.

Chris_from_Sidcup

Big couple of weeks for this new ownership to try and please an already largely sceptical fan base.

4-5 new recruits are needed, with at least 2-3 of those being needed urgently. Will we get them and go on to have a strong first half of the season, or are we going to mess about and end up like we were under Sandgaard, treading water in mid-table?

charltonbob

mendonca said:

RonnieMoore said:

Very good interview with Andy Scott.. Clearly looking to go toe to toe with championship clubs for the players we want. 

Let's hope it doesn't turn into an excuse.

 As I've said previously, if you're chasing championship quality players & you're competing with championship clubs for these players don't feign surprise when they sign for the championship clubs. We've been through this charade before with sandgaard.

Callumcafc

Bare minimum at this stage is a right back / right wing back and a striker.

It sounds like we're trying to get more than just that through the door, but if the players won't come then those are the two positions I'd expect us to fill in the last couple of days of the window.

ElfsborgAddick

RonnieMoore said:

grumpyaddick said:

cafcfan1990 said:

carly burn said:

DubaiCAFC said:

Redhenry said:

North Lower Neil said:

Redhenry said:

If we are waiting for outgoings, how much we gonna raise from that, 2 bob?

Surely more about getting a couple of wages off the book than transfer fees?

Exactly what i meant, we won't get those wages covered, as for transfer fees, that's lala land...

I don't think we will, who is going to pay Kirk 7k a week. 

 So are the ownership willing to take the hit?

They did their due diligence. They've been around since christmas. They knew the score when they took over. There was a high likelihood that they would struggle to get the unwanted off the books. Due diligence would have told them that.

To make a success of this, they are going to have to take a hit to get where they claim they want this club to be.
If they aren't willing to do that, and are hoping to do this on the cheap they they will go down in the same category of our last few owners.

But that's exactly what they (Scott) did. MacGillivray, Lavelle, DJ and Kirk were all shipped out in Jan. The difference is that they managed all that towards the end of the window, it's probably going to be the same now but unfortunately that doesn't help us at all. 

Sadly, Scott shipped out the deadwood, signed more rotten deadwood to replace them and subsequently, let most of the original deadwood drift back in again.

Brilliant!

But all deals still had to be agreed by TS as he was the owner no matter what Scott and Gallen wanted 

You will ALWAYS defend the club, you give my a*** a headache.
You will ALWAYS say the opposite to the majority.

ElfsborgAddick

RonnieMoore said:

golfaddick said:

It would have been better if the new owners had only paid Sandgaard say £5m and put the other £5m into the club for transfer fees & wages. Instead they paid him c£10m for a loss making club that he himself only paid c£1.5m.....and now dont have any money to strengthen the team. 

The only way they are going to get a return on their money is if we get promoted. This current squad is not good enough for top 6.

And these are guys that are supposedly millionaires who are canny with business decisions. 

These have money don’t worry about that … 600,000 for the Exeter lad 

What salary did they offer? I am sure you know.

ElfsborgAddick

RedChaser said:

bobmunro said:

charltonbob said:

RedChaser s aid:

Redhenry said:

If we are waiting for outgoings, how much we gonna raise from that, 2 bob?

Who did you have in mind  @charltonbob and @bobmunro , I think they’re getting on a bit these days 😉

Oi cheeky bugger   

I thought that initially, then reflected on the fact that he does have a point!

To be fair I’m no spring chicken either and retirement comes highly recommended Bob 😉

Correct on both counts darling.

ElfsborgAddick

sam3110 said:

I hope that means someone is lined up and that someone is Sessegnon or of that quality 

Bringing players back for a second spell.  Our recruitment policy is lacking.

ElfsborgAddick

Callumcafc said:

Really interesting interview with Andy Scott on Charlton TV. He described the current squad situation as “threadbare given the injuries” and “less than ideal”

After the trollop he came out with in January and the subsequent ins/outs I'd take what he says as rubbish.

ElfsborgAddick

blackpool72 said:

AppyAddick said:

carly burn said:

Callumcafc said:

He says we’re talking to players and to clubs, trying to bring in players as soon as possible but we have competition for signatures from clubs in the league above.

Players in the championship no less according to AS.

Henry and Elfs.
Lovely couple xx

Harsh but fair, 

ElfsborgAddick

Bucket hats are a good fit

Callumcafc

ElfsborgAddick said:

Callumcafc said:

Really interesting interview with Andy Scott on Charlton TV. He described the current squad situation as “threadbare given the injuries” and “less than ideal”

After the trollop he came out with in January and the subsequent ins/outs I'd take what he says as rubbish.

Not going to let that window go?

We wanted Edun then, couldn't get him. The alternative (Penney) was unfortunately not very good. We've got Edun now and he looks quality.

For me, that's enough to give him the benefit of the doubt over the January window.

NabySarr

Callumcafc said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

Callumcafc said:

Really interesting interview with Andy Scott on Charlton TV. He described the current squad situation as “threadbare given the injuries” and “less than ideal”

After the trollop he came out with in January and the subsequent ins/outs I'd take what he says as rubbish.

Not going to let that window go?

We wanted Edun then, couldn't get him. The alternative (Penney) was unfortunately not very good. We've got Edun now and he looks quality.

For me, that's enough to give him the benefit of the doubt over the January window.

It’s also quite hard to sign decent players in January when you don’t own the club so are still on Sandgaards budget and we were stuck in mid-table so anyone decent will join a team going for promotion

DubaiCAFC

Following last night, time to show your money lads!

thenewbie

Callumcafc said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

Callumcafc said:

Really interesting interview with Andy Scott on Charlton TV. He described the current squad situation as “threadbare given the injuries” and “less than ideal”

After the trollop he came out with in January and the subsequent ins/outs I'd take what he says as rubbish.

Not going to let that window go?

We wanted Edun then, couldn't get him. The alternative (Penney) was unfortunately not very good. We've got Edun now and he looks quality.

For me, that's enough to give him the benefit of the doubt over the January window.

Can't really agree. His main concern in January was clearing players out, which yes he managed to do then but hasn't really replicated since. In terms of coming in, we had the glorious successes that were Kilkenny, Penney, Bonne and Kane. The only real success was Hector.

Which to be fair is understandable. It's rare for a January window to be a real season changer and of course we don't know how much of that is Scott and how much was Gallen.

But "benefit of the doubt"? No. Not yet. We've got some good players in with the likes of May and Camara but they were fairly obvious high profile targets. We have no idea if he can spot a genuine diamond in the rough, and the financial arrangements (whatever those are) seem to have left us stalling until we manage to get rid.

I'm certainly not saying he's NOT capable (yet) as there's still time and the circumstances aren't the best... but he's still very much unproven (in our current position) for me.