Kind of glad he's not ended up at Huddersfield, with a Manager who already knows how to utilise him - All the best Alfie, but I need to apologise, as hope you do crap there
Seems to be the consensus. Jones backing himself here. Promotion or it’s failure. That was the case even with May.
There is no replacement in the squad. Leaburn and Aneke can’t stay fit, and even if they could, neither of them are getting 25+ goals - I doubt they could even do that between them. Kanu is a raw talent who probably isn’t ready for a promotion contending team.
Even if you say “OK, if we get goals across the rest of the team, we only need 15 from any replacement.” - is that even happening? Can Leaburn do that? Are there goals in our midfield?
Goalscorers are hard to find. We had the best one outside of The Championship and we’ve let him go to a promotion rival.
What happens if Jones is sacked by January? It’s not an impossible scenario with this ownership group.
I don’t think promotion is a realistic aim for this club now.
Yet. It all hinges on the transfer business now. Get in two decent strikers that do what Jones wants, get in another CB and one or two quality midfielders and it will take a lot of the sting out of this.
Relax guys, we won’t struggle to score enough goals between the rest of the players in order to win promotion. You win 23 games 1-0 that’s 69 points, then draw 23 games 0-0 totals 92 points. I reckon we have enough players left without Alfie May to get those 23 goals…lemon squeezy. That should do it.
So not only are we getting rid of our top scorer and POTY, we also have no replacement(s) in the door, so now when we go looking for a striker every other club is going to bump up their asking price.
Seems to be the consensus. Jones backing himself here. Promotion or it’s failure. That was the case even with May.
There is no replacement in the squad. Leaburn and Aneke can’t stay fit, and even if they could, neither of them are getting 25+ goals - I doubt they could even do that between them. Kanu is a raw talent who probably isn’t ready for a promotion contending team.
Even if you say “OK, if we get goals across the rest of the team, we only need 15 from any replacement.” - is that even happening? Can Leaburn do that? Are there goals in our midfield?
Goalscorers are hard to find. We had the best one outside of The Championship and we’ve let him go to a promotion rival.
What happens if Jones is sacked by January? It’s not an impossible scenario with this ownership group.
I don’t think promotion is a realistic aim for this club now.
If Leaburn stays fit I think he can get 20 (he got 12 as an 18 year old playing his first season of men’s football), but that should be a bonus rather than something we rely on with his fitness record
If Leaburn does not sign a new contract he will be sold before the end of the window. (This is my view, I am not ITK).
We should have a buy back clause in Mays sale. If they are promoted they probably won't want him, he will be a year older and given recent history, Jones will probably have been sacked.
So not only are we getting rid of our top scorer and POTY, we also have no replacement(s) in the door, so now when we go looking for a striker every other club is going to bump up their asking price.
What a shit show.
How do you know we don’t have agreements in place for a striker or two?
Seems to be the consensus. Jones backing himself here. Promotion or it’s failure. That was the case even with May.
There is no replacement in the squad. Leaburn and Aneke can’t stay fit, and even if they could, neither of them are getting 25+ goals - I doubt they could even do that between them. Kanu is a raw talent who probably isn’t ready for a promotion contending team.
Even if you say “OK, if we get goals across the rest of the team, we only need 15 from any replacement.” - is that even happening? Can Leaburn do that? Are there goals in our midfield?
Goalscorers are hard to find. We had the best one outside of The Championship and we’ve let him go to a promotion rival.
What happens if Jones is sacked by January? It’s not an impossible scenario with this ownership group.
I don’t think promotion is a realistic aim for this club now.
If Leaburn stays fit I think he can get 20 (he got 12 as an 18 year old playing his first season of men’s football), but that should be a bonus rather than something we rely on with his fitness record
If Leaburn does not sign a new contract he will be sold before the end of the window. (This is my view, I am not ITK)
Not sure, January is much more likely once he’s proven his fitness
So not only are we getting rid of our top scorer and POTY, we also have no replacement(s) in the door, so now when we go looking for a striker every other club is going to bump up their asking price.
What a shit show.
How do you know we don’t have agreements in place for a striker or two?
Bringing in Lukaku after his performances have impressed us at the Euros
So not only are we getting rid of our top scorer and POTY, we also have no replacement(s) in the door, so now when we go looking for a striker every other club is going to bump up their asking price.
What a shit show.
How do you know we don’t have agreements in place for a striker or two?
Given that there's been absolutely zero rumours recently, nothing from Cawley and nothing from Swisdom or any other ITK's closer to the club than most, i'm kind of assuming we haven't. Of course i'd love to be wrong though and we announce 2 striker signings this week.
So not only are we getting rid of our top scorer and POTY, we also have no replacement(s) in the door, so now when we go looking for a striker every other club is going to bump up their asking price.
What a shit show.
How do you know we don’t have agreements in place for a striker or two?
Seems to be the consensus. Jones backing himself here. Promotion or it’s failure. That was the case even with May.
There is no replacement in the squad. Leaburn and Aneke can’t stay fit, and even if they could, neither of them are getting 25+ goals - I doubt they could even do that between them. Kanu is a raw talent who probably isn’t ready for a promotion contending team.
Even if you say “OK, if we get goals across the rest of the team, we only need 15 from any replacement.” - is that even happening? Can Leaburn do that? Are there goals in our midfield?
Goalscorers are hard to find. We had the best one outside of The Championship and we’ve let him go to a promotion rival.
What happens if Jones is sacked by January? It’s not an impossible scenario with this ownership group.
I don’t think promotion is a realistic aim for this club now.
If Leaburn stays fit I think he can get 20 (he got 12 as an 18 year old playing his first season of men’s football), but that should be a bonus rather than something we rely on with his fitness record
If Leaburn does not sign a new contract he will be sold before the end of the window. (This is my view, I am not ITK)
Not sure, January is much more likely once he’s proven his fitness
In Jan he could sign a pre contract with an overseas club leaving us with nothing. We know German clubs were interested in the past. I don't see the SMT or Board taking that risk.
Seems to be the consensus. Jones backing himself here. Promotion or it’s failure. That was the case even with May.
There is no replacement in the squad. Leaburn and Aneke can’t stay fit, and even if they could, neither of them are getting 25+ goals - I doubt they could even do that between them. Kanu is a raw talent who probably isn’t ready for a promotion contending team.
Even if you say “OK, if we get goals across the rest of the team, we only need 15 from any replacement.” - is that even happening? Can Leaburn do that? Are there goals in our midfield?
Goalscorers are hard to find. We had the best one outside of The Championship and we’ve let him go to a promotion rival.
What happens if Jones is sacked by January? It’s not an impossible scenario with this ownership group.
I don’t think promotion is a realistic aim for this club now.
If Leaburn stays fit I think he can get 20 (he got 12 as an 18 year old playing his first season of men’s football), but that should be a bonus rather than something we rely on with his fitness record
If Leaburn does not sign a new contract he will be sold before the end of the window. (This is my view, I am not ITK)
Not sure, January is much more likely once he’s proven his fitness
In Jan he could sign a pre contract with an overseas club leaving us with nothing. We know German clubs were interested in the past. I don't see the SMT or Board taking that risk.
If we have sold May before his replacement is confirmed, it is a huge worry. We don't want to hear at end of window that we tried to sign other stockers but they all chose championship sides instead.
Someone on the Huddersfield site reckons Birmingham have offered May 20k a week.
Can’t see that in a million years, surely no more than 10k.
No chance, he’ll be getting more than at Charlton and it will be the most lucrative contract of his career but it’s not going to be anything like £20k.
Well that's that, pretty bitter at the moment so I'll avoid talking about who calls the shots too much.
I'll just say, I am happy it's someone like May who is gonna earn well in what will probably be his last big contract. He put an absolute shift in for us, and we would be getting ready for League 2 without him this season. Top man as well as player.
Birmingham are lucky to have him, and will no doubt in my mind finish above us now, although I expected that before they signed May.
Nice one Charlton/Jones, good start to the season before it's even started. I hope you have a serious plan in place, cause that's one of the worst decisions in our modern history.
Someone on the Huddersfield site reckons Birmingham have offered May 20k a week.
Can’t see that in a million years, surely no more than 10k.
Not a chance, you could lure a decent Championship forward to you with promises of £20k a week. Morgan Whittaker is on less than £9k and he got 19 Championship goals last season.
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And very likely to set up a meaningful incoming move.
Fair play to him though, came into the game late and has now got himself a 3 year deal on a very decent salary.
You win 23 games 1-0 that’s 69 points, then draw 23 games 0-0 totals 92 points. I reckon we have enough players left without Alfie May to get those 23 goals…lemon squeezy.
That should do it.
What a shit show.
If Leaburn does not sign a new contract he will be sold before the end of the window. (This is my view, I am not ITK).
We should have a buy back clause in Mays sale. If they are promoted they probably won't want him, he will be a year older and given recent history, Jones will probably have been sacked.
In Jan he could sign a pre contract with an overseas club leaving us with nothing. We know German clubs were interested in the past. I don't see the SMT or Board taking that risk.
im still going to wait and see who comes in before I moan though. 17 open play goals will be hard to replace!!
I'll just say, I am happy it's someone like May who is gonna earn well in what will probably be his last big contract. He put an absolute shift in for us, and we would be getting ready for League 2 without him this season. Top man as well as player.
Birmingham are lucky to have him, and will no doubt in my mind finish above us now, although I expected that before they signed May.
Nice one Charlton/Jones, good start to the season before it's even started. I hope you have a serious plan in place, cause that's one of the worst decisions in our modern history.
Willing to back whatever they're planning this summer if we end up with a good squad. But since last year all I've seen is backwards and sideways.
We have to go up this year. None of this 'well 9th is better than last year' nonsense.
CBT, then Dobson, now this. Hmm.