Leave the offer on the table and go look elsewhere in the meantime. If JCH is willing to wait to the summer in the belief he can get more elsewhere then let him. There’s no point us burning the bridge though in case we decide we can’t find an alternative and want to go back later in the window.
Gutting news about JCH, if we had him today we would have scored more undoubtedly as we were missing a poacher and physical presence at times.
Let's see what we now do with that money.
Imagine CBT is definitely gone by the sounds of things. Will miss him certainly, but the main man is May and we need to think of how to best utilise him
2nd bid was 300k apparently and they’re likely to go again, think we can probably get 400k which wouldn’t be awful business if the change to a back 3 is permanent then CBT is a square peg in a round hole
If we sold CBT for.anything close to £250K then the £500K for an older JCH looks way over the top to me.
Jch got 28 (twenty-eight) goals last season, CBT has 8 so far. I think people are judging transfers using Alfie May as a barometer... we had cheltenhams trousers down
Did Bristol Rovers offer 15K a week (or anywhere even remotely close to that?) when he accepted personal terms with them on deadline day in the summer then? I would majorly doubt it. So why the change in 4 months? He hasn't exactly set the world alight in the preceeding months to justify wanting so much more all of a sudden has he.
He obviously just doesn't want to come here IMO so is massively inflating his wage demands to put us off - maybe him or his agent has been quietly tapped up by another club somewhere to hold on til the summer or something dodgy like that, otherwise I don't know why he doesn't just flat out admit he has no interest in coming so all parties can move on and stop wasting each others time - its all very suspect to me.
Did Bristol Rovers offer 15K a week (or anywhere even remotely close to that?) when he accepted personal terms with them on deadline day in the summer then? I would majorly doubt it. So why the change in 4 months? He hasn't exactly set the world alight in the preceeding months to justify wanting so much more all of a sudden has he.
He obviously just doesn't want to come here IMO so is massively inflating his wage demands to put us off - maybe him or his agent has been quietly tapped up by another club somewhere to hold on til the summer or something dodgy like that, otherwise I don't know why he doesn't just flat out admit he has no interest in coming so all parties can move on and stop wasting each others time - its all very suspect to me.
Who’s to say he hasn’t been told by a club that they’ll give him £10k a week and £150k signing on fee in the summer.
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As it was better than what he'd get anywhere else?
Let's see what we now do with that money.
Imagine CBT is definitely gone by the sounds of things. Will miss him certainly, but the main man is May and we need to think of how to best utilise him
Today showed in spades how much CBT adds to our teams, especially that first half.
https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/michael-appleton-confirms-charlton-have-rebuffed-approach-from-fellow-league-one-side-for-corey-blackett-taylor/
I'd also bin the JCH deal, like I said earlier this week. If we had done that we might have had another striker to play today.
https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/charlton-deal-for-peterboroughs-jonson-clarke-harris-looking-unlikely-due-to-personal-terms-both-bosses-have-their-say/
Move on, we need strength but also mobility and energy. Humphrys would suit us.
He obviously just doesn't want to come here IMO so is massively inflating his wage demands to put us off - maybe him or his agent has been quietly tapped up by another club somewhere to hold on til the summer or something dodgy like that, otherwise I don't know why he doesn't just flat out admit he has no interest in coming so all parties can move on and stop wasting each others time - its all very suspect to me.