Everyone getting their knickers in a twist over the loanees comment. It wasn’t said within the context of saying the current loans aren’t good enough - Appleton himself went on to say those “great loans are match winners and we could already have some in the squad” or words to that affect.
I saw the comment as a call to the loanees to step up and be match winners. To care more than just being a body in the squad for the experience.
30 years of supporting Charlton and we can all name the great loans in that time - Bartlett, Song, Carson, Cullen, Bielik, Gallagher , Dasilva. Coquelin for that brief spell . Liam Millar was good and we’ve had some other decent goalkeepers. Camara looks the best bet to be very good of this crop , but evidently only if we can get him on the pitch.
In all my time following us Jorge Costa has been the best loan.
He didn't feel like a loan particularly after reading his Instagram message after our relegation a couple of years ago.He described us as one of the two clubs in his heart.
Carson, Costa and Gallagher probably the best 3 loans we have ever had.
Carson is a decent shout but for everything he brought to the team for me Jorge Costa ( absolute quality, leadership, organisational ability, dirty underhand tactics, as hard as rock) is the best loan we've ever had.
Jeppson had only been sent to London by his company to improve his English.
"When I arrived I went to Charlton to watch them play Blackpool because I wanted to see Stanley Matthews play," Jeppson recalled from his home in Rome last week. "But one of the directors, I think it was, knew that I was coming over and Jimmy Seed persuaded me to play for Charlton." Because of his amateur status, Jeppson was able to come and go as he pleased. "There was some doubt whether the Football Association would let me play as an amateur, but it was important that they did."
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and JJ of course
oh, and Chris Wilder
"When I arrived I went to Charlton to watch them play Blackpool because I wanted to see Stanley Matthews play," Jeppson recalled from his home in Rome last week. "But one of the directors, I think it was, knew that I was coming over and Jimmy Seed persuaded me to play for Charlton." Because of his amateur status, Jeppson was able to come and go as he pleased. "There was some doubt whether the Football Association would let me play as an amateur, but it was important that they did."
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