Only niggle is that he signed for Birmingham....a Midlands club. If he had gone to Huddersfield then fair play but just leaves a bad taste on the mouth. I know Huddersfield maybe needed to offer more, but effectively they offered more than we paid for him & after he put in a transfer request there was only going to be 1 outcome. What would happened if Brum hadnt have stepped in ??
Looking at the map, Birmingham is still a fair distance from Doncaster, especially as their training ground is to the south of Birmingham, easily 2 hours each way. Surely he won't be commuting that journey every day, which begs the question of how much time he'll spend with his family anyway...
Gary O'Neill, the Wolves manager, he lives in Locksbottom. Whilst playing for Bolton and on the coaching staff at Liverpool he did the commute.
He based himself locally in Bromley for the vast majority of his career.
Only niggle is that he signed for Birmingham....a Midlands club. If he had gone to Huddersfield then fair play but just leaves a bad taste on the mouth. I know Huddersfield maybe needed to offer more, but effectively they offered more than we paid for him & after he put in a transfer request there was only going to be 1 outcome. What would happened if Brum hadnt have stepped in ??
Looking at the map, Birmingham is still a fair distance from Doncaster, especially as their training ground is to the south of Birmingham, easily 2 hours each way. Surely he won't be commuting that journey every day, which begs the question of how much time he'll spend with his family anyway...
Gary O'Neill, the Wolves manager, he lives in Locksbottom. Whilst playing for Bolton and on the coaching staff at Liverpool he did the commute.
He based himself locally in Bromley for the vast majority of his career.
I bet he either had a flat up there or stayed in hotels a lot of the time though. So away from his family either way.
You know who else had a 20-goal (all comps) season for us, at a younger age than May? Jayden Stockley. He stayed for the next season. Anyone remember how that went?
Lyle Taylor
Bradley Wright-Phillips
Darren Bent
Andy Hunt
Clive Mendonca
David Whyte
Derek Hales
Mike Flanagan Arthur Horsfield
Surprisingly I saw them all play. Favorite of course was Killer but King Arthur not far behind.
Let’s hope a bit of that money can just give Dobbo what he wants because I had come to terms with having neither next year so if this helps secure one of them along with a couple of strikers then I’ll be happy.
Really classy touch on the video. The guy loved playing for Charlton but family should always come first.
Think you’ve got to be a cynical cold hearted git not to appreciate that video. He always gave 100% and pretty much saved us last season, so I hope he gets a great reception when he plays against us three times next season.
Look at it this way; betting on him to score against us next season is like printing money.
…..the only thing that is a bit odd is that he said several times how being at Charlton was home after travelling the country and that he was settled. Ah well. That’s life.
Only niggle is that he signed for Birmingham....a Midlands club. If he had gone to Huddersfield then fair play but just leaves a bad taste on the mouth. I know Huddersfield maybe needed to offer more, but effectively they offered more than we paid for him & after he put in a transfer request there was only going to be 1 outcome. What would happened if Brum hadnt have stepped in ??
Looking at the map, Birmingham is still a fair distance from Doncaster, especially as their training ground is to the south of Birmingham, easily 2 hours each way. Surely he won't be commuting that journey every day, which begs the question of how much time he'll spend with his family anyway...
Gary O'Neill, the Wolves manager, he lives in Locksbottom. Whilst playing for Bolton and on the coaching staff at Liverpool he did the commute.
He based himself locally in Bromley for the vast majority of his career.
I bet he either had a flat up there or stayed in hotels a lot of the time though. So away from his family either way.
No, I spoke to him once on the train back from Victoria when he was playing for Bolton. I also saw him get off at Euston wearing his Liverpool stuff around 6.15am.
Don’t want him to go but If Jones wants to go a different route
and cash in, we must trust him.
I have been crying out for us to have a plan/strategy for years rather than he is a good player, or his stats are good approach we
have had in the past without a thought of how they fit into a style of play, I
cant now moan when it now seems we are working recruitment around how we want
to play.
I think as unpopular or wrong this decision seems it may be
for the greater good of the project.
Thanks for keeping us up. I won’t wish you all the best as it’s the blues & after they threw bricks at our kids coaches they can get to feck. However, I do hope your family are happy.
Really sad to see him go, but like a number of us have said, family has to come first. We are looking at moving our children to an arra with better schools, I work for a global biopharm company and Alfie worked for a football club. It's all.relative. with a young family I hate business travel taking me away from my family for a few days, let alone week in week out. He's a true gentleman who we had the pleasure of having play for us and I wish him all the very best. I want to say thank you for his effort and his goals last term, and now it's time to close this chapter either Alfie, and embrace our next one as he embraces his.
Charlton have been genuinely bad at finding a striker who can do the business for us. Kermogant, Taylor and now May all knew how to put the ball in the net, and for differing reasons moved on, to leave us with a gaping hole, which in the case of the first two took years to fill. Then there is the price. I don't know how many times Charlton are 'interested' in a player and we read on here that the parent club won't sell until they have a replacement signed up. At the Valley, we seem to drop our knickers for the first club that waves a couple of fivers at us, and then see who is available on a free. And that is why this sale for me puts a big question mark in front of our management team talk of 'ambitions'. If we were genuinely building a squad to battle for promotion, even knowing that Alfie had been offered a much higher wage and wanted to go, we would have told him to sit still while we lok foa an offer that suits us, and line up some replacements of a higher calibre. That neither seems to have happened and we've just accepted a low ball figure for last years leading leagu 1 goalscorer, from a potential promotion rival, says a lot about how serious we are, and for the moment, looks pretty uninspiring.
I'll be happy to be proved wrong if we pick up some decent attacking options (our current strike force of Leaburn, Kanu and Aneke is really not anyone's idea of a promotion line up) and happily eat humble pie, but lokked at today, this is a dumb ass move at every level, and says to everyone else that our best players are available for buttons.
Genuinely gutted and £775K just doesn't seem enough. We have already spent £290K of it and have raised more money in transfers than we have spent in the two transfer windows these guys have owned us so far so I don't expect us to spend the rest of it. Good luck Alfie.
Don’t want him to go but If Jones wants to go a different route
and cash in, we must trust him.
I have been crying out for us to have a plan/strategy for years rather than he is a good player, or his stats are good approach we
have had in the past without a thought of how they fit into a style of play, I
cant now moan when it now seems we are working recruitment around how we want
to play.
I think as unpopular or wrong this decision seems it may be
for the greater good of the project.
Then they should come out and say that then. I’ve got no problem with Alfie May, but the video that should have been put out was a Jones video stating that he’s prepared to make tough calls to make the team better etc. Maybe we’ll eventually get that, maybe not.
But the absolute shite about moving up north (plausible Huddersfield, laughable Birmingham) being the primary factor is just insulting. After all, we know he thought he’d still be here when they made him flog season tickets just a few short months ago… everything’s fallen apart for the May’s since then?
Genuinely gutted and £775K just doesn't seem enough. We have already spent £290K of it and have raised more money in transfers than we have spent in the two transfer windows these guys have owned us so far so I don't expect us to spend the rest of it. Good luck Alfie.
Couldn’t agree more, he was a wanted man by two clubs that seemingly have money to spend. We didn’t have to sell and potentially 2 more years on contract. Surely we could’ve achieved £1M upfront plus add-ons quite easily I would’ve thought.
Cynic in me doesn't buy the family stuff that much, maybe i'm being harsh - good luck Alfie, class player and worked his bollocks off
It feels a bit strange in that if it's that important Huddersfield made a lot more sense than Birmingham. But ah well.
Real shame he's gone, good player and seemed a very nice guy. Wish him luck.
If we signed more players that did very well for a year and left for a profit we'd be in a better place.
Not if Huddersfield didn’t match our valuation it didn’t. Not saying that’s the case but who knows. Even so if Brum were offering a couple of k extra per week I’m sure the extra travelling each day will be worth it.
As said the other day, it doesn't matter how much truth there is, people will only ever believe what THEY want to believe.
Good luck to him, shame he has to move on and would be happier having him around but can't argue with the reasons (unless you think he's lying because he owes so much to Jones and the board of course)
He seemed genuine to me in the video and on the basis given for him going you can’t blame the guy. Happy family and more money for him and a decent profit for the club. Goodluck Alfie I hope you keep banging them in ! Apart from against us ofcourse 😜
Cynic in me doesn't buy the family stuff that much, maybe i'm being harsh - good luck Alfie, class player and worked his bollocks off
It feels a bit strange in that if it's that important Huddersfield made a lot more sense than Birmingham. But ah well.
Real shame he's gone, good player and seemed a very nice guy. Wish him luck.
If we signed more players that did very well for a year and left for a profit we'd be in a better place.
Not if Huddersfield didn’t match our valuation it didn’t. Not saying that’s the case but who knows. Even so if Brum were offering a couple of k extra per week I’m sure the extra travelling each day will be worth it.
Indeed but that's the point I'm making, if it's about money fine, but the 'my family's the important thing' is slightly contradictory with then not taking the option that moved closest to them.
As I say, good luck to him and hope he does well (to a degree I guess given they're in the same league!), just agreed with cafcsinger on being slightly cynical over his reasoning in the video.
Thanks Alfie for helping make last season bearable at times. I'm glad you were a Charlton player even if it was for only a year. It's important to get your kids as good a secondary school as possible. I hope the move to BCFC brings you and your family everything you are looking for. Good luck and when you come to the Valley next season please leave your scoring boots accidentally on purpose back at home in Yorkshire.
Letting Dobson go was reasonable but now letting May go is ripping out any spine the team had. Convinces me that the owners happy enough for us to be a 3rd div (league1) team.
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Closure let's move on but won't forget that he wore the shirt as we would want all our players to.
Really classy touch on the video. The guy loved playing for Charlton but family should always come first.
He always gave 100% and pretty much saved us last season, so I hope he gets a great reception when he plays against us three times next season.
Look at it this way; betting on him to score against us next season is like printing money.
No, I spoke to him once on the train back from Victoria when he was playing for Bolton. I also saw him get off at Euston wearing his Liverpool stuff around 6.15am.
Thanks Alfie for the message.
I won’t wish you all the best as it’s the blues & after they threw bricks at our kids coaches they can get to feck.
However, I do hope your family are happy.
We have already spent £290K of it and have raised more money in transfers than we have spent in the two transfer windows these guys have owned us so far so I don't expect us to spend the rest of it.
Good luck Alfie.
if we don’t go up it’s Starmer that’s to blame.
Real shame he's gone, good player and seemed a very nice guy. Wish him luck.
If we signed more players that did very well for a year and left for a profit we'd be in a better place.
But the absolute shite about moving up north (plausible Huddersfield, laughable Birmingham) being the primary factor is just insulting. After all, we know he thought he’d still be here when they made him flog season tickets just a few short months ago… everything’s fallen apart for the May’s since then?
Good luck to him, shame he has to move on and would be happier having him around but can't argue with the reasons (unless you think he's lying because he owes so much to Jones and the board of course)
As I say, good luck to him and hope he does well (to a degree I guess given they're in the same league!), just agreed with cafcsinger on being slightly cynical over his reasoning in the video.
77 miles from Birmingham to Doncaster
Good luck Alfie, NJ better had got this right.
It's important to get your kids as good a secondary school as possible. I hope the move to BCFC brings you and your family everything you are looking for.
Good luck and when you come to the Valley next season please leave your scoring boots accidentally on purpose back at home in Yorkshire.
Convinces me that the owners happy enough for us to be a 3rd div (league1) team.