Shareholder of another league club here at Glasto when I told them I was a CAFC fan he told me we are currently negotiating for their GK and CH. Both have had lots of Championship and some Prem league experience. Very good standard. Can’t say more because I show my face on the button and don’t want to blow cover as the shareholder I refer to knows me through business…
Hoping this information wasn’t relayed at 4am by a sweaty bloke with big pupils looking for some chewing gum and a hug
lol, no yesterday lunchtime and it was after a meal in a hospitality area restaurant. The CH can also play wing back and full back comfortably - high assist rate and whoever mentioned £17m in wages is near on money with what I was told yesterday too. Very very slightly under and this is not transfer fees, wage bill only.
Are you sure you weren't at Glyndebourne rather than Glastonbury
lol, you have no idea nowadays, the interstage area between pyramid and Woodsies is a who’s who gallery of celebs and sports people. I started typing this 30 mins ago but got side tracked chatting to Aimme Lou Wood about filming experiences on White Lotus. 😂😂
Famewo, Tanto and Galbraith next week would be nice
Galbraith isn't happening.
Not doubting you at all, do you know why its not happening and where he is going?
What he really means is he hasn’t got a clue if Galbraith will sign, but he’s worded it like he’s some insider messiah — meanwhile the rest of us haven’t a clue either between us, and we know it.
Famewo, Tanto and Galbraith next week would be nice
Galbraith isn't happening.
Not doubting you at all, do you know why its not happening and where he is going?
What he really means is he hasn’t got a clue if Galbraith will sign, but he’s worded it like he’s some insider messiah — meanwhile the rest of us haven’t a clue either between us, and we know it.
Perhaps he knows we are signing someone else instead in Galbraiths position.
Famewo, Tanto and Galbraith next week would be nice
Galbraith isn't happening.
Not doubting you at all, do you know why its not happening and where he is going?
What he really means is he hasn’t got a clue if Galbraith will sign, but he’s worded it like he’s some insider messiah — meanwhile the rest of us haven’t a clue either between us, and we know it.
Perhaps he knows we are signing someone else instead.
I’m pretty confident if it isn’t Galbraith, we’ll be signing someone else — just like everyone else is.
Shareholder of another league club here at Glasto when I told them I was a CAFC fan he told me we are currently negotiating for their GK and CH. Both have had lots of Championship and some Prem league experience. Very good standard. Can’t say more because I show my face on the button and don’t want to blow cover as the shareholder I refer to knows me through business…
Hoping this information wasn’t relayed at 4am by a sweaty bloke with big pupils looking for some chewing gum and a hug
lol, no yesterday lunchtime and it was after a meal in a hospitality area restaurant. The CH can also play wing back and full back comfortably - high assist rate and whoever mentioned £17m in wages is near on money with what I was told yesterday too. Very very slightly under and this is not transfer fees, wage bill only.
Keep those beers flowing and do pop back later to tell us more. 😉
Anyone worried about Aloafe's finishing, maybe he will be the nuisance alongside the clinical striker. I loved Pringle and he hardly ever looked like scoring but Hunt scored lots alongside him in 99-00.
Derry Murkin — apparently that’s the name dropped on me today by some random German. Clearly, my Charlton towel’s attracting all sorts of loonies.
Born in Colchester
Too late. Signed on a perm for Utrecht a month ago.
A murkin is a pubic wig. Murkins were worn by prostitutes after shaving their mons pubis, and are used as decorative items or erotic devices by both men and women.
Famewo, Tanto and Galbraith next week would be nice
Galbraith isn't happening.
Based on...?
He hates Charlton remember.
Ahhhh yes....the vileness.....how could I forget...
He doesn’t hate Charlton, the rumours (which are rumours) is that he said that Charlton are not a championship club, which given we have been between the Championship/League One during his career is a fair comment. The vileness part is what was added on but their (Leyton Orient) fans.
Well Mr Silly Galbraith- Charlton ARE literally a Championship club and historically are far more so than Clapton Orient. Vile as that makes me to state it but those are the facts .
Probably no surprise to most but bounced the tanto info off somebody else who is normally up on stuff and he told me it’s very likely a number of other signings will also be announced next week
Truly sticking your head into the lion's mouth here on CharltonLife if no signings happen in the next week
Not for the first time 🤷♂️im virtually certain on tanto so will take the flack if that doesn’t happen - not taking any flack if nothing revealed next week - there are lots of deals already done by lots of clubs that haven’t been announced yet
That’s just the point.
Lots of deals done and not announced.
I know of one dutch player signed for a foreign club at least beginning of this month Still not announced at the moment.
I can’t get excited about Famewo. Granted he was very early on in his career during his time here, and we were a poor team whilst he was part of it, but I keep thinking back to that Lincoln away game (we lost 2-1 late on). His attempts at keeping the ball on the pitch were something else. Out of the back 3 that started at Wembley, I’m not saying they couldn’t be improved upon, but that version of Famewo replacing any of them doesn’t instill me with much hope
let’s hope he’s really improved, otherwise he’s just beefing up the numbers
Famewo, Tanto and Galbraith next week would be nice
Galbraith isn't happening.
Not doubting you at all, do you know why its not happening and where he is going?
What he really means is he hasn’t got a clue if Galbraith will sign, but he’s worded it like he’s some insider messiah — meanwhile the rest of us haven’t a clue either between us, and we know it.
Perhaps he knows we are signing someone else instead.
I’m pretty confident if it isn’t Galbraith, we’ll be signing someone else — just like everyone else is.
Anyone worried about Aloafe's finishing, maybe he will be the nuisance alongside the clinical striker. I loved Pringle and he hardly ever looked like scoring but Hunt scored lots alongside him in 99-00.
No! In two consecutive seasons he hit the target with 48% (league 2) & 44% (league 1) of his total shots. In every level he’s played he’s been threatening 50%
Of those shots that hit the target (in the last two years) he scored with 58% (league 2) and 44% (league 1).
For comparison, TC scored with 26% and Godden scored with 48% of their shots on target last season. There is also the added factor of every player improved individually under NJ.
Caveat - can this trend continue in the Championship? If so, this is a very clever bit of business.
Shareholder of another league club here at Glasto when I told them I was a CAFC fan he told me we are currently negotiating for their GK and CH. Both have had lots of Championship and some Prem league experience. Very good standard. Can’t say more because I show my face on the button and don’t want to blow cover as the shareholder I refer to knows me through business…
Hoping this information wasn’t relayed at 4am by a sweaty bloke with big pupils looking for some chewing gum and a hug
lol, no yesterday lunchtime and it was after a meal in a hospitality area restaurant. The CH can also play wing back and full back comfortably - high assist rate and whoever mentioned £17m in wages is near on money with what I was told yesterday too. Very very slightly under and this is not transfer fees, wage bill only.
Not saying you didn't hear this, but I would be very surprised if true. Our current wage bill is approximately 8 million, that's over a double in increase of wages in one season, and would put us on par with Hull, and just behind the likes of West Brom.
That seems completely unrealistic. It would be much more realistic to be hovering around the 10-12 million annual squad wages in our first season back. Unless we are completely changing our clubs infrastructure and paying double the wages to each player we sign compared to our current players.
You forget that a lot of the current players will get a wage increase on our promotion, assuming they had competent agents.
They will get an increase, but it won't be that much, won't be double wages increase, put it that way.
If we use 17 million as a base yearly salary across a 25 man squad, that would be 19k per player, per week.
We can't go from saying how expensive wages are (thinking Small for 10k is too much & saying we can't disrupt the squads wages), to believing we would have this kinda of drastic turnaround in a single window. So far all of our strongest links have been league 1 players.
West Broms wage bill is 19 million, and they've been a Prem/championship side for as long as I can remember. I would take what Pav heard (not having a dig at Pav, I believe he was told that) with a pinch of salt or you'll be likely setting yourself up for disappointment.
I'd love us to chuck the money at it but we need a bit of realism here.
I do take it with a pinch of salt just as I do with practically all figures bandied around on here, yours included. I can't recall anyone saying 10k was too much for Small, if that indeed was what we were offering, but many were saying perhaps NJ didn't think he was worth that or more and that our budget could be better spent elsewhere.
I don't know what our transfer budget is or our wages budget, no one on here really does, but I'm sure NJ is happy with it and that we will be competitive in this league. As he's said numerous times we are not here just to make up the numbers and they are aiming higher than that. If so then we will have to spend to achieve that. Maybe not the numbers quoted today but maybe more than us fans anticipated.
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Would be a real statement to in effect double the wage budget
Whether that is in the £15m range (the poster said under £17m) I don't know but I don't think it is out of the question.
I am dubious, without doubting @Pavoren007 was told this, how a shareholder in another club knows what our budget is.
Keep those beers flowing and do pop back later to tell us more. 😉
A murkin is a pubic wig. Murkins were worn by prostitutes after shaving their mons pubis, and are used as decorative items or erotic devices by both men and women.
We don't want that sort of person in our club.
I know of one dutch player signed for a foreign club at least beginning of this month Still not announced at the moment.
let’s hope he’s really improved, otherwise he’s just beefing up the numbers
Viva le douche
There is also the added factor of every player improved individually under NJ.
I don't know what our transfer budget is or our wages budget, no one on here really does, but I'm sure NJ is happy with it and that we will be competitive in this league. As he's said numerous times we are not here just to make up the numbers and they are aiming higher than that. If so then we will have to spend to achieve that. Maybe not the numbers quoted today but maybe more than us fans anticipated.