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Summer 2025 Charlton Athletic Transfer Rumours

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  • Sounds like a weird lie to be fair. I don't think he would make that up for no reason.

    That's now the 2nd player we have been quite publicly linked with that we didn't up our bid for. 

    I know people will say "sounds like the club aren't letting themselves be mugged off" etc but these players cost money. For the sake of 300-500k twice to lose out on a desired target, it just isn't worth it, unless you can find someone of better quality for cheaper. 

    It's ok to say we are on a tight budget, which if 5-10m is true, that makes it the very lower end of champ. It might be that our budget heavily leaned towards Goalkeeper and a forward as those are two positions we definitely needed a player.

    Just don't get why it seems we have this view now of "looks like we didn't want to pay then rather than we couldn't" when most signs point towards us just having a low but competitive championship budget. We are going to miss out on players if that's the case, and that is part of football.
  • Is he any good?
    Very mixed opinions online from Luton fans when he left Luton.

    So he's probably alright but not amazing.
  • Not particularly excited about this one. It adds depth to the squad, which is useful, but I worry Bell might be on a downward trajectory based on last season’s performances. That said, a change of environment and reuniting with the manager who previously got the best out of him could help spark a revival.

    Let’s just hope the Luton recruitment phase is behind us now.

    Kudos RedRobo, bang on the money!

  • Scoham said:
    Rich Cawley and Louis Mendez both mentioned the word bell at the start of their latest podcast out this morning 👀
    That was fun @LouisMend, can you make it a regular podcast feature?
  • Scoham said:
    Tanto announced tomorrow, new away kit Thursday, can we get another signing on Friday?
    I got lucky here - now prove me wrong and sign 2 or 3 today!
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  • No Famewo then?
    Think you can cross that one off the list now. Probably a bit of a complicated one now it's come out Norwich are still owed his original transfer fee.
  • MarcusH26 said:
    No Famewo then?
    Think you can cross that one off the list now. Probably a bit of a complicated one now it's come out Norwich are still owed his original transfer fee.
    Think you're right about crossing him off but his Norwich fee is totally irrelevant to us, that's between Norwich and Sheff Wed
  • thenewbie said:
    DOUCHER said:
    we managed to get to the number required for tanto which i believe was higher than mothersille so suggests we didn't rate him as highly 
    Exactly. I said before that we seem to be pretty clear on what we are willing to spend on any given player. If Posh or whoever can't/won't do that deal we move on.

    Just to add to this. Mothersille and Tanto offer different profiles, so I don’t think it was a case of choosing one over the other. Tanto's signing had been in the works for some time. That makes me fairly confident we’ll still see another winger or forward come in. Cawley hinted at the same in his latest podcast.


  • edited July 4
    Ding Dong Dell...
    We've got Amari'i bell...🙄
  • fenaddick said:
    MarcusH26 said:
    No Famewo then?
    Think you can cross that one off the list now. Probably a bit of a complicated one now it's come out Norwich are still owed his original transfer fee.
    Think you're right about crossing him off but his Norwich fee is totally irrelevant to us, that's between Norwich and Sheff Wed
    Yeah fair point , I guess now he's officially out of contract it's no one else's business bar Sheffield Wednesday to sort it. 
  • Not particularly excited about this one. It adds depth to the squad, which is useful, but I worry Bell might be on a downward trajectory based on last season’s performances. That said, a change of environment and reuniting with the manager who previously got the best out of him could help spark a revival.

    Let’s just hope the Luton recruitment phase is behind us now.

    Kudos RedRobo, bang on the money!

    He only cover …. It’s a squad game we need back up players as well as first team ones 

  • MarcusH26 said:
    fenaddick said:
    MarcusH26 said:
    No Famewo then?
    Think you can cross that one off the list now. Probably a bit of a complicated one now it's come out Norwich are still owed his original transfer fee.
    Think you're right about crossing him off but his Norwich fee is totally irrelevant to us, that's between Norwich and Sheff Wed
    Yeah fair point , I guess now he's officially out of contract it's no one else's business bar Sheffield Wednesday to sort it. 
    It could be tricky if Wednesday have not finished paying for him does that mean he still belongs to Norwich ??
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  • MarcusH26 said:
    fenaddick said:
    MarcusH26 said:
    No Famewo then?
    Think you can cross that one off the list now. Probably a bit of a complicated one now it's come out Norwich are still owed his original transfer fee.
    Think you're right about crossing him off but his Norwich fee is totally irrelevant to us, that's between Norwich and Sheff Wed
    Yeah fair point , I guess now he's officially out of contract it's no one else's business bar Sheffield Wednesday to sort it. 
    It could be tricky if Wednesday have not finished paying for him does that mean he still belongs to Norwich ??
    No, just means Sheffield Wednesday are in debt. Famewo is a free agent not owned by anyone and can move wherever he likes
  • MarcusH26 said:
    fenaddick said:
    MarcusH26 said:
    No Famewo then?
    Think you can cross that one off the list now. Probably a bit of a complicated one now it's come out Norwich are still owed his original transfer fee.
    Think you're right about crossing him off but his Norwich fee is totally irrelevant to us, that's between Norwich and Sheff Wed
    Yeah fair point , I guess now he's officially out of contract it's no one else's business bar Sheffield Wednesday to sort it. 
    It could be tricky if Wednesday have not finished paying for him does that mean he still belongs to Norwich ??
    No. He’s out of contract. A free agent. Any financial dispute over payments between the two clubs is nothing to do with the player.
  • Not particularly excited about this one. It adds depth to the squad, which is useful, but I worry Bell might be on a downward trajectory based on last season’s performances. That said, a change of environment and reuniting with the manager who previously got the best out of him could help spark a revival.

    Let’s just hope the Luton recruitment phase is behind us now.

    Kudos RedRobo, bang on the money!

    He only cover …. It’s a squad game we need back up players as well as first team ones 


    ButtleJR said:
    Jones describes him as a left sided centre half. 
    i can't see that he has come in as cover - a 31 year old, recently in the prem, will be on the upper end of our wage bracket. I've no idea how quick he is but he looks a bit like Usain bolt to me so on that basis i reckon he'll go straight into Gillesphey's spot.  
  • Charlie Barker joining Rotherham from Crawley… he done well re-building his career 
    His dad played 140 times for them too. 
  • Sounds like a weird lie to be fair. I don't think he would make that up for no reason.

    That's now the 2nd player we have been quite publicly linked with that we didn't up our bid for. 

    I know people will say "sounds like the club aren't letting themselves be mugged off" etc but these players cost money. For the sake of 300-500k twice to lose out on a desired target, it just isn't worth it, unless you can find someone of better quality for cheaper. 

    It's ok to say we are on a tight budget, which if 5-10m is true, that makes it the very lower end of champ. It might be that our budget heavily leaned towards Goalkeeper and a forward as those are two positions we definitely needed a player.

    Just don't get why it seems we have this view now of "looks like we didn't want to pay then rather than we couldn't" when most signs point towards us just having a low but competitive championship budget. We are going to miss out on players if that's the case, and that is part of football.
    That's the point though - if they're asking too much the money is better spent on someone else we think is as good but who isn't overpriced.

    Or if we're going to spend that much, we'd expect to do better.

    Setting a limit for what a player is worth and not going above it is sensible, otherwise you end up paying £4m for Will Grigg.
    1.5-2 million for Galbraith though isn't too much money and neither is Mothersille for roughly 1 million. The only scenario in which you can say they are overpriced is if you aren't splashing the cash. Cause then you have to factor budget and where you are willing to invest that budget. 

    The Will Grigg transfer for 4 million is becoming a bit of a false dilemma. Of course not every player does well you pay cash for, there are loads of other examples where clubs 'overpay' and it works out successfully.

    We are talking on missing out on desired targets for hundreds of thousands here, if the reports are true, not millions. 

    I genuinely don't really mind we are missing out on targets cause that is football, and it isn't my money to spend. I just don't see why we can't just look at it for what it is. It's a shame we are missing out, but clubs aren't trying to mug us off, they're trying to make themselves sustainable and the fees being quoted for these players are very reasonable transfer fees. 
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