I would imagine our turnover next season will be on a par with many in the Championship. Whilst they have more years there than us most teams will have lost their full allocation each year so are right on FFP (£13m pa losses) and they will be carrying expensive players they don't really want. As such, whilst we can't compete with the likes of parachute payments clubs (X4) or freak high sponsorship clubs (like Wrexham) we should be able to compete for new players with most others, particularly if Gomez was to sell and we got that sell on. That depends of course on whether our owners want to keep running up the losses.
Looks like Lincolns head scout has left to replace Chapple at Luton. Good appointment by Luton that.
Talking of Lincoln, Roughan being linked with Bolton, O'Connor with Huddersfield and Erhahon to Swansea. Would have liked to see Roughan and Erhahon at Charlton.
Ed. Plus Wickens to Watford seems a rumour there too.
Roughan is young and a good prospect plus he likes a diagonal punt so would be good competition at left center back in a three. O’Connor is the typical excellent at league one but is probably too slow to be a starter in the championship. Erhahon seems to be generating the most championship interest. Very tidy on the ball, athletic but his lack of goals/assists given he is a box to box midfield is a bit of a red flag
If it is a transfer rumours thread why are we spending it slagging off the team captain?
People are perfectly entitled to their opinions. It is however entirely a matter of choice to share such opinion with others. At which point those “others” are perfectly entitled to challenge such opinion. If you are so precious you can’t handle your opinion being challenged …….then don’t post it.
As it happens I don’t share the negative views on Docherty but then I appear to have a different perspective of the role he and others were asked to play under the NJ game plan. If you haven’t understood the approach I could perhaps unkindly ask some to focus on the post games words used by NJ in the Wembley dressing room.
Any number of players exercised an open mind to sacrifice their natural game in support of team disciplines. As a starting point NJ looks firstly at what players contribute out of rather than in possession. In Hull terms the difference between a Grant McCann who played Docherty and Leroy Rosenior who didn’t.
How many have exclaimed they don’t understand what Anderson brings?
You will not be alone in not liking approach but a) that’s football b) circa 40k recently enjoyed the fruits.
I also take a different view of any player one year into a 3yr contract, who has captained probably the smallest senior squad in living memory to achieve promotion from League 1, specifically delivering to said contract. In my world people who deliver to contract deserve respect. I take the view he’s earned the right to retest his skills in the Championship.
I have no reason to pre judge his anticipated performance for 2025/2026.
In preparing for our first Championship campaign for 6 years I am mindful of 2019 recruitment which saw us acquire just 2 proven Championship performers who barely played.
Docherty is one of 3 of the current 10 senior functioning outfield players (and thus the entire squad) who has any vestige of serious Championship experience and he is the one some want to jettison? As listed 86% of the squad have zero Championship credibility. Yet a dozen or more have earned the right to test their game.
In respect of actual transfer rumours I live in hope we do target 5 Championship grown ups for the spine of the team sufficient to lift the competitive standards of the match day squad, where funds might also stretch to adding creativity and maybe an emerging talent or two from elsewhere.
Loan with an option to buy would be ideal. Reckon he would start for us.
Very tidy player but going to be about 5 clubs interested in him. Rumoured to be on 10k a week at Birmingham so definitely not out of reach but if other clubs start offering big loan fees as well not sure we would be able to get him
That's the issue, although, it may help us that Birmingham probably don't see us a threat to their league position? They might prefer to send him to a team that won't be challenging top6 in their eyes.
Loan with an option to buy would be ideal. Reckon he would start for us.
Who’s place would you see him taking? Not saying he wouldn’t start for us.
For me Docherty, hypothetically.
Docherty is a league1 quality player imo. I am expecting us to upgrade on him.
I think Jones should be club captain and Docherty shouldn't be starting. Might sound harsh but it just worries me how little he played for Hull and he's never really done it at this level.
Sorry to any Doc fans but I'd like to see us sign two new mids to play with Cov.
Wow, three seasons in the Championship and over 90 league games but "he's never done it at this level"?
We should, if we can, upgrade on Doc but the same can be said for every player in the side. You could argue he dropped down a level for a reason but to pretend he never did it is just nonsense.
Shall I now make a list of all the Charlton players that were awful but played a number of championship games?
When I say he didn't do it, I mean he didn't thrive in this league. If he did, he would have been kept by Hull. He couldn't even stand out in League1 if we are being honest.
We need better to progress, harsh but true.
More nonsense. You've gone from "never done it" to "didn't thrive"
He was kept by Hull, for three seasons, and then like most players at one time or another he moved on to be the captain of a promotion winning team in league one but that isn't enough somehow.
We do need better players to progress but that is no reason to dismiss the contributions that Doc and many others have made.
I just don't get this whole either/or justification. Someone can like both Chinese and Indian food. You don't have to run down one to like the other.
We can praise a player AND want better replacements
We don't have to write off a player, and in this case our captain who did contribute greatly, just to justify bringing in someone better, younger, fitter, more suited.
Ok. I believe a player isn't good, you believe otherwise.
I believe he was a passenger in the championship, you believe he was championship quality.
Moving on.
And your evidence for him being a "passenger" is?
Again, why make stuff up just to justify replacing him.
I'm not making anything up, it's a fucking opinion. Jesus Christ. I don't think he's very good. I am basing this off of watching every game this season, and seeing him fail to control a game.
24/25: League 1, 40 apps, 4 goals 2 assists. 23/24: 15 Champ apps, bit part player 22/23: 1940 minutes of Champ football 21/22: 40 champ apps, 1 goal, 2842 mins, 71 mins average per game 20/21: Very good league 1 numbers, 5 goals, 5 assist, 44 appearances 19/20: Scottish prem, 6 apps, bit part player 18/19: League 1, 7 goals, 8 assists, good season
The common theme is, he does decent/good in league1, and struggles to make the step up. I saw plenty of Hull fans say it was the right move to let him go. Similar to how plenty of our fans will tell another club Chuks and Tennai will do a job.
I didn't watch him all those last 6 years, so I can only go from what I've read, and then watched with my own eyes, which is that he wasn't great in league1 for us, so I am doubtful he will make the step up, as he has previous history of failing.
Is this satisfactory and no longer making stuff up?
Out of interest, what makes you think he struggled to make the step up? He played 90 games in 3 seasons for Hull.
For me if he struggled to make the step up, then he'd have been found out in year one and made probably 20 appearances before being loaned out. But he wasn't.
Loan with an option to buy would be ideal. Reckon he would start for us.
Very tidy player but going to be about 5 clubs interested in him. Rumoured to be on 10k a week at Birmingham so definitely not out of reach but if other clubs start offering big loan fees as well not sure we would be able to get him
That's the issue, although, it may help us that Birmingham probably don't see us a threat to their league position? They might prefer to send him to a team that won't be challenging top6 in their eyes.
Loan with an option to buy would be ideal. Reckon he would start for us.
Who’s place would you see him taking? Not saying he wouldn’t start for us.
For me Docherty, hypothetically.
Docherty is a league1 quality player imo. I am expecting us to upgrade on him.
I think Jones should be club captain and Docherty shouldn't be starting. Might sound harsh but it just worries me how little he played for Hull and he's never really done it at this level.
Sorry to any Doc fans but I'd like to see us sign two new mids to play with Cov.
I agree- Doc is not good enough.
You need to provide a PhD level of analysis for a statement like that or Henry will be right on your case.
Am I right that the window opened yesterday, 1st June and closes 10 June before reopening again later in the summer?
If so, how many do people think we bring in during this first period...?
I'm going to go for 3.
Also, should I be worried we are 24 hours or so in, but not yet signed anyone? 😉
One if we are lucky.. That said, last time Chapple was in charge of recruitment we had a fair few in early doors,
It was clear that we needed major surgery not a couple of sticking plasters after the Dagenham defeat. Phil Chapple, Powell and Dyer started to use their extensive network to prepare for the summer window as we had a mid league 1 squad. Once the window was open a list of targets had been identified and it felt that things happened fairly quickly with a big exodus and the new squad entering the building.
The X factor player and catalyst for our 100+ season was Yann Kermorgant who was the last to join cafc after the window shut and the season had started because he had been released by Leicester after his failed 'panenka' and opprobrium from the fans after losing out in the play-offs.
Just for our younger CL members like @Foxycafc who was possibly still in nappies back then, Chris Powell had been Pearson's assistant at Leicester and felt that the Mercurial 29 year old French man could be a major asset to a team that had already started the season in good shape.
Recruitment is never an exact science but that was one gamble that paid off.
I think we can be certain NJ will want to improve the starting 11.
I don’t see Ramsay and Jones losing their places, and Edwards and Coventry are also unlikely to.
We 100% need a couple of strikers and Leaburn to get fit to give TC and Godden proper competition. That’s then up to those 4-6 strikers to win and keep their what’s likely to be 2 places in the team.
I think Mannion, Gillesphey, Docherty and Berry are the obvious regular starters we’ll look to upgrade on. That’s not to dismiss their efforts in getting us promoted or write them off making a positive impact next season, it’s close to a 50+ game season when you add in at least 2 cup games, they’ll all play their part.
All this assumes none of the main starting 11 leave, but knowing NJ will be ruthless and some players will attract bids I wouldn’t rule out 1 or 2 moving on.
Gilly was POTY since January , Berry a championship player , Mannion is also good enough to be number 1 in the championship and Doc will be captain cause of his experience in championship
So who do you see being replaced in the starting 11, presumably only TC and Small?
I’m confident we won’t see all of those four as regulars next season. Jones is aiming higher than 21st.
Mannion Gilly and Doc you will see play most games Berry will most likey play around 30 games like this season ..
But who do you see being replaced as a regular?
The one area we need to improve is creativity especially in the championship .. still think we can improve on Campbell and Small who have all the skills and pace and get into so many good positions but fail to supply that killer ball .. consistently , Campbell was a major concern in the last 4/6 weeks when he got found out and had no plan B to his game …
Loan with an option to buy would be ideal. Reckon he would start for us.
Very tidy player but going to be about 5 clubs interested in him. Rumoured to be on 10k a week at Birmingham so definitely not out of reach but if other clubs start offering big loan fees as well not sure we would be able to get him
That's the issue, although, it may help us that Birmingham probably don't see us a threat to their league position? They might prefer to send him to a team that won't be challenging top6 in their eyes.
Loan with an option to buy would be ideal. Reckon he would start for us.
Who’s place would you see him taking? Not saying he wouldn’t start for us.
For me Docherty, hypothetically.
Docherty is a league1 quality player imo. I am expecting us to upgrade on him.
I think Jones should be club captain and Docherty shouldn't be starting. Might sound harsh but it just worries me how little he played for Hull and he's never really done it at this level.
Sorry to any Doc fans but I'd like to see us sign two new mids to play with Cov.
I agree- Doc is not good enough.
You need to provide a PhD level of analysis for a statement like that or Henry will be right on your case.
Not what I said at all.
Actually, what I said was that that we should upgrade on Doc if we can.
But I also said we don't have to make nonsense statements like "passenger" or "never cut it" about his time at Hull to justify that view.
I just hope Liverpool sell Joe Gomez for a big fee
That ship may have sailed: I'm beginning to feel that Joe Gomez will be released by Liverpool when he is around 32 in 4 years time and spend his last couple of playing years back at CAFC for a modest wage despite his legs being a tad slower and hopefully in the Championship. He will have better offers but a chance to spend more time seeing his parents. He will keep his lovely grated house in Cheshire where his wife and son are settled and he will be allowed to fly back and forth at times as they decide not to relocate to a Medway town !
Unfortunately we will never benefit from the sell on clause which would've been bigger than the 3.5 million which Liverpool boasted about that they paid up front to get him if Joe had been sold at his peak fitness and England days.
If it is a transfer rumours thread why are we spending it slagging off the team captain?
People are perfectly entitled to their opinions. It is however entirely a matter of choice to share such opinion with others. At which point those “others” are perfectly entitled to challenge such opinion. If you are so precious you can’t handle your opinion being challenged …….then don’t post it.
As it happens I don’t share the negative views on Docherty but then I appear to have a different perspective of the role he and others were asked to play under the NJ game plan. If you haven’t understood the approach I could perhaps unkindly ask some to focus on the post games words used by NJ in the Wembley dressing room.
Any number of players exercised an open mind to sacrifice their natural game in support of team disciplines. As a starting point NJ looks firstly at what players contribute out of rather than in possession. In Hull terms the difference between a Grant McCann who played Docherty and Leroy Rosenior who didn’t.
How many have exclaimed they don’t understand what Anderson brings?
You will not be alone in not liking approach but a) that’s football b) circa 40k recently enjoyed the fruits.
I also take a different view of any player one year into a 3yr contract, who has captained probably the smallest senior squad in living memory to achieve promotion from League 1, specifically delivering to said contract. In my world people who deliver to contract deserve respect. I take the view he’s earned the right to retest his skills in the Championship.
I have no reason to pre judge his anticipated performance for 2025/2026.
In preparing for our first Championship campaign for 6 years I am mindful of 2019 recruitment which saw us acquire just 2 proven Championship performers who barely played.
Docherty is one of 3 of the current 10 senior functioning outfield players (and thus the entire squad) who has any vestige of serious Championship experience and he is the one some want to jettison? As listed 86% of the squad have zero Championship credibility. Yet a dozen or more have earned the right to test their game.
In respect of actual transfer rumours I live in hope we do target 5 Championship grown ups for the spine of the team sufficient to lift the competitive standards of the match day squad, where funds might also stretch to adding creativity and maybe an emerging talent or two from elsewhere.
Am I right that the window opened yesterday, 1st June and closes 10 June before reopening again later in the summer?
If so, how many do people think we bring in during this first period...?
I'm going to go for 3.
Also, should I be worried we are 24 hours or so in, but not yet signed anyone? 😉
One if we are lucky.. That said, last time Chapple was in charge of recruitment we had a fair few in early doors,
It was clear that we needed major surgery not a couple of sticking plasters after the Dagenham defeat. Phil Chapple, Powell and Dyer started to use their extensive network to prepare for the summer window as we had a mid league 1 squad. Once the window was open a list of targets had been identified and it felt that things happened fairly quickly with a big exodus and the new squad entering the building.
The X factor player and catalyst for our 100+ season was Yann Kermorgant who was the last to join cafc after the window shut and the season had started because he had been released by Leicester after his failed 'panenka' and opprobrium from the fans after losing out in the play-offs.
Just for our younger CL members like @Foxycafc who was possibly still in nappies back then, Chris Powell had been Pearson's assistant at Leicester and felt that the Mercurial 29 year old French man could be a major asset to a team that had already started the season in good shape.
Recruitment is never an exact science but that was one gamble that paid off.
I’ll play devils advocate here as Parky played a big part in identifying the players we signed during that summer. Don’t forget Chappell was already at club before SCP came in, don’t get me wrong Yann and probably a couple of others were defo SCP signings but Parky played a part before he was sacked. This I know first hand 😊
He’s not a massive fan of it but Jones may need to use the loan market this time round. I’m all for developing our own but if we are able to get players of the quality of JRS and Gallagher, paying a % of their wages, that could be the difference between staying up and going down.
As we are a pressing out of possession side for large periods of matches then Docherty carried out his remit. IF we ever change to having the greater possession of the ball which is unlikely in the Championship at least in our 1st season back then an upgrade on our Captain will probably occur over time but he cuts down plenty of angles with his terrier like style.
When you keep 25 clean sheets over a season it's not just the defence that achieve that milestone it's the midfielders like the Doch and Coventry who cover vast acres over the duration of a match. Plus TC and Godden who try to defend from the front when we are without the ball.
To have a Championship creative midfielder would be great but they don't come cheap and for CAFC they would also need to be as fit as a butcher's dog when we don't have the ball.
Any transfer rumours for this creative midfielder with a great engine that we have a chance of getting from a top eight club in League 1 who didn't get promoted but could step up 🤔
As we are a pressing out of possession side for large periods of matches then Docherty carried out his remit. IF we ever change to having the greater possession of the ball which is unlikely in the Championship at least in our 1st season back then an upgrade on our Captain will probably occur over time but he cuts down plenty of angles with his terrier like style.
When you keep 25 clean sheets over a season it's not just the defence that achieve that milestone it's the midfielders like the Doch and Coventry who cover vast acres over the duration of a match. Plus TC and Godden who try to defend from the front when we are without the ball.
To have a Championship creative midfielder would be great but they don't come cheap and for CAFC they would also need to be as fit as a butcher's dog when we don't have the ball.
Any transfer rumours for this creative midfielder with a great engine that we have a chance of getting from a top eight club in League 1 who didn't get promoted but could step up 🤔
I don’t think anyone who suggested Docherty might lose his place said he needs replacing with a creative playmaker or a completely different type of midfielder.
Anyone we sign will fit the style so a hard working CM who presses well is the bare minimum we’d see in any new signings for that position.
For me it’s not a huge stretch to imagine we might sign a CM who does all that but is perhaps quicker or more physical, or has an even bigger engine.
His place isn’t guaranteed all season long just because he’s the captain and has Championship experience. If it was that simple May with his goal record and good work rate wouldn’t have been sold.
As we are a pressing out of possession side for large periods of matches then Docherty carried out his remit. IF we ever change to having the greater possession of the ball which is unlikely in the Championship at least in our 1st season back then an upgrade on our Captain will probably occur over time but he cuts down plenty of angles with his terrier like style.
When you keep 25 clean sheets over a season it's not just the defence that achieve that milestone it's the midfielders like the Doch and Coventry who cover vast acres over the duration of a match. Plus TC and Godden who try to defend from the front when we are without the ball.
To have a Championship creative midfielder would be great but they don't come cheap and for CAFC they would also need to be as fit as a butcher's dog when we don't have the ball.
Any transfer rumours for this creative midfielder with a great engine that we have a chance of getting from a top eight club in League 1 who didn't get promoted but could step up 🤔
Would we go back in for Aaron Collins? Feel like we were after him before he signed for Bolton - think he'd be a great addition
Would Davis Keillor-Dunn be realistic as a target for that AM role or do people reckon Barnsley will want too much? Would be a bit of a statement signing.
As we are a pressing out of possession side for large periods of matches then Docherty carried out his remit. IF we ever change to having the greater possession of the ball which is unlikely in the Championship at least in our 1st season back then an upgrade on our Captain will probably occur over time but he cuts down plenty of angles with his terrier like style.
When you keep 25 clean sheets over a season it's not just the defence that achieve that milestone it's the midfielders like the Doch and Coventry who cover vast acres over the duration of a match. Plus TC and Godden who try to defend from the front when we are without the ball.
To have a Championship creative midfielder would be great but they don't come cheap and for CAFC they would also need to be as fit as a butcher's dog when we don't have the ball.
Any transfer rumours for this creative midfielder with a great engine that we have a chance of getting from a top eight club in League 1 who didn't get promoted but could step up 🤔
Would we go back in for Aaron Collins? Feel like we were after him before he signed for Bolton - think he'd be a great addition
That could be a good shout despite 28 year old Welsh Collins is a forward rather than a midfielder with a good passing range but I assume you know that. Cost Bolton 750k from Bristol Rovers on a 3 +1/2 year contract on 1/2/24 and he scored 19 goals last season. How many millions will he cost now as under contract to the summer of '27' ? POTY at many clubs he has played for and is that versatile forward who can play wide and central during a match.
Capable across the front line, with a natural ability to link the play as well as score goals, the 2022/23 campaign saw Jaden progress to the Under-18s squad.
Capable across the front line, with a natural ability to link the play as well as score goals, the 2022/23 campaign saw Jaden progress to the Under-18s squad.
We are chuffed to have ex-England & Liverpool legend Emile Heskey coming to join us for our Microsoft UK Partner Football Championship on 2nd June at Charlton Athletic & to play a game for the team that fundraises the most, as well as to give his time for photo etc, exciting!
Capable across the front line, with a natural ability to link the play as well as score goals, the 2022/23 campaign saw Jaden progress to the Under-18s squad.
We are chuffed to have ex-England & Liverpool legend Emile Heskey coming to join us for our Microsoft UK Partner Football Championship on 2nd June at Charlton Athletic & to play a game for the team that fundraises the most, as well as to give his time for photo etc, exciting!
Would Davis Keillor-Dunn be realistic as a target for that AM role or do people reckon Barnsley will want too much? Would be a bit of a statement signing.
I really hope so. I think any team outside the top 10 in Championship should be after him, brilliant player
Capable across the front line, with a natural ability to link the play as well as score goals, the 2022/23 campaign saw Jaden progress to the Under-18s squad.
Good DNA like one of our own, James Seed. 😀 Will be interesting to see if he's can develop into a Championship player or emulate his dad at the top level. Scored the winner in the FA youth final against Leeds and will go out on loan to a higher rated league 1 team like Bolton now he is 19 where he will get game time yet still use the brilliant facilities at City on certain days.
Man city loanee's and CAFC have been problematic over recent years 😱
As we are a pressing out of possession side for large periods of matches then Docherty carried out his remit. IF we ever change to having the greater possession of the ball which is unlikely in the Championship at least in our 1st season back then an upgrade on our Captain will probably occur over time but he cuts down plenty of angles with his terrier like style.
When you keep 25 clean sheets over a season it's not just the defence that achieve that milestone it's the midfielders like the Doch and Coventry who cover vast acres over the duration of a match. Plus TC and Godden who try to defend from the front when we are without the ball.
To have a Championship creative midfielder would be great but they don't come cheap and for CAFC they would also need to be as fit as a butcher's dog when we don't have the ball.
Any transfer rumours for this creative midfielder with a great engine that we have a chance of getting from a top eight club in League 1 who didn't get promoted but could step up 🤔
Would we go back in for Aaron Collins? Feel like we were after him before he signed for Bolton - think he'd be a great addition
Doubt Jones would want Collins contributes to absolutely nothing off the ball, great technical player but won’t do the hard work out of possession. Considering the lack of the ball we’re going to have in the championship and the quality of other teams we’re going to have to outwork teams.
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As such, whilst we can't compete with the likes of parachute payments clubs (X4) or freak high sponsorship clubs (like Wrexham) we should be able to compete for new players with most others, particularly if Gomez was to sell and we got that sell on.
That depends of course on whether our owners want to keep running up the losses.
Talking of Lincoln, Roughan being linked with Bolton, O'Connor with Huddersfield and Erhahon to Swansea. Would have liked to see Roughan and Erhahon at Charlton.
Ed. Plus Wickens to Watford seems a rumour there too.
People are perfectly entitled to their opinions. It is however entirely a matter of choice to share such opinion with others. At which point those “others” are perfectly entitled to challenge such opinion. If you are so precious you can’t handle your opinion being challenged …….then don’t post it.
As it happens I don’t share the negative views on Docherty but then I appear to have a different perspective of the role he and others were asked to play under the NJ game plan. If you haven’t understood the approach I could perhaps unkindly ask some to focus on the post games words used by NJ in the Wembley dressing room.
How many have exclaimed they don’t understand what Anderson brings?
You will not be alone in not liking approach but a) that’s football b) circa 40k recently enjoyed the fruits.
I also take a different view of any player one year into a 3yr contract, who has captained probably the smallest senior squad in living memory to achieve promotion from League 1, specifically delivering to said contract. In my world people who deliver to contract deserve respect. I take the view he’s earned the right to retest his skills in the Championship.
I have no reason to pre judge his anticipated performance for 2025/2026.
In preparing for our first Championship campaign for 6 years I am mindful of 2019 recruitment which saw us acquire just 2 proven Championship performers who barely played.
Docherty is one of 3 of the current 10 senior functioning outfield players (and thus the entire squad) who has any vestige of serious Championship experience and he is the one some want to jettison? As listed 86% of the squad have zero Championship credibility. Yet a dozen or more have earned the right to test their game.
In respect of actual transfer rumours I live in hope we do target 5 Championship grown ups for the spine of the team sufficient to lift the competitive standards of the match day squad, where funds might also stretch to adding creativity and maybe an emerging talent or two from elsewhere.
Just my opinion.
For me if he struggled to make the step up, then he'd have been found out in year one and made probably 20 appearances before being loaned out. But he wasn't.
It was clear that we needed major surgery not a couple of sticking plasters after the Dagenham defeat.
Phil Chapple, Powell and Dyer started to use their extensive network to prepare for the summer window as we had a mid league 1 squad.
Once the window was open a list of targets had been identified and it felt that things happened fairly quickly with a big exodus and the new squad entering the building.
The X factor player and catalyst for our 100+ season was Yann Kermorgant who was the last to join cafc after the window shut and the season had started because he had been released by Leicester after his failed 'panenka' and opprobrium from the fans after losing out in the play-offs.
Just for our younger CL members like @Foxycafc who was possibly still in nappies back then, Chris Powell had been Pearson's assistant at Leicester and felt that the Mercurial 29 year old French man could be a major asset to a team that had already started the season in good shape.
Recruitment is never an exact science but that was one gamble that paid off.
Actually, what I said was that that we should upgrade on Doc if we can.
But I also said we don't have to make nonsense statements like "passenger" or "never cut it" about his time at Hull to justify that view.
https://southlondonsportcharlton.substack.com/p/so-many-reasons-for-nathan-jones
That ship may have sailed:
I'm beginning to feel that Joe Gomez will be released by Liverpool when he is around 32 in 4 years time and spend his last couple of playing years back at CAFC for a modest wage despite his legs being a tad slower and hopefully in the Championship. He will have better offers but a chance to spend more time seeing his parents.
He will keep his lovely grated house in Cheshire where his wife and son are settled and he will be allowed to fly back and forth at times as they decide not to relocate to a Medway town !
Unfortunately we will never benefit from the sell on clause which would've been bigger than the 3.5 million which Liverpool boasted about that they paid up front to get him if Joe had been sold at his peak fitness and England days.
When you keep 25 clean sheets over a season it's not just the defence that achieve that milestone it's the midfielders like the Doch and Coventry who cover vast acres over the duration of a match. Plus TC and Godden who try to defend from the front when we are without the ball.
To have a Championship creative midfielder would be great but they don't come cheap and for CAFC they would also need to be as fit as a butcher's dog when we don't have the ball.
Any transfer rumours for this creative midfielder with a great engine that we have a chance of getting from a top eight club in League 1 who didn't get promoted but could step up 🤔
Anyone we sign will fit the style so a hard working CM who presses well is the bare minimum we’d see in any new signings for that position.
For me it’s not a huge stretch to imagine we might sign a CM who does all that but is perhaps quicker or more physical, or has an even bigger engine.
His place isn’t guaranteed all season long just because he’s the captain and has Championship experience. If it was that simple May with his goal record and good work rate wouldn’t have been sold.
Would we go back in for Aaron Collins? Feel like we were after him before he signed for Bolton - think he'd be a great addition
What position does Jaden play
That could be a good shout despite 28 year old Welsh Collins is a forward rather than a midfielder with a good passing range but I assume you know that.
Cost Bolton 750k from Bristol Rovers on a 3 +1/2 year contract on 1/2/24 and he scored 19 goals last season.
How many millions will he cost now as under contract to the summer of '27' ?
POTY at many clubs he has played for and is that versatile forward who can play wide and central during a match.
We are chuffed to have ex-England & Liverpool legend Emile Heskey coming to join us for our Microsoft UK Partner Football Championship on 2nd June at Charlton Athletic & to play a game for the team that fundraises the most, as well as to give his time for photo etc, exciting!
:-)
Good DNA like one of our own, James Seed. 😀
Will be interesting to see if he's can develop into a Championship player or emulate his dad at the top level.
Scored the winner in the FA youth final against Leeds and will go out on loan to a higher rated league 1 team like Bolton now he is 19 where he will get game time yet still use the brilliant facilities at City on certain days.
Man city loanee's and CAFC have been problematic over recent years 😱