Regan Charles-Cook - SPFL player of the month Jan 2022 at Ross County (p3)
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I think he used a pencil and Roland secretly slipped over and rubbed it out when no one was lookingkillerandflash said:
He signed it in invisible ink!AFKABartram said:
“Academy graduate Regan Charles-Cook has signed a one-year extension, as have Ryan Blumberg, Jamie Mascoll and Joshua Umerah, while Mikhail Kennedy has signed a short-term six-month deal.”LargeAddick said:I thought he signed a contract extension recently?
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Who is doing these deals with no one in charge?0
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If he's turned down our deal he's out of contract so can sign for anyone.valleyrobin said:Who is doing these deals with no one in charge?
As to who offered him a year I assume Euell and Avory as he's part of the development squad0 -
Paul the octopusvalleyrobin said:Who is doing these deals with no one in charge?
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As hes under 24 and we offered him a new deal, we should get a development fee for him right?Henry Irving said:
If he's turned down our deal he's out of contract so can sign for anyone.valleyrobin said:Who is doing these deals with no one in charge?
As to who offered him a year I assume Euell and Avory as he's part of the development squad2 -
would we have had to offer him the deal by a certain date or am I making that up?Covered_End_Lad said:
As hes under 24 and we offered him a new deal, we should get a development fee for him right?Henry Irving said:
If he's turned down our deal he's out of contract so can sign for anyone.valleyrobin said:Who is doing these deals with no one in charge?
As to who offered him a year I assume Euell and Avory as he's part of the development squad0 -
I think it's by the 31st May, one month before contracts expirecafcdave123 said:
would we have had to offer him the deal by a certain date or am I making that up?Covered_End_Lad said:
As hes under 24 and we offered him a new deal, we should get a development fee for him right?Henry Irving said:
If he's turned down our deal he's out of contract so can sign for anyone.valleyrobin said:Who is doing these deals with no one in charge?
As to who offered him a year I assume Euell and Avory as he's part of the development squad1 -
Not really impressed me on the few occasions I saw him play - smaller and less dynamic than say Konsa or Aribo, didn’t have the trickery of a Lookman.
Probably be proven wrong when he plays a blinder against us in the future.. but not massively annoyed that he’s looking for opportunities elsewhere.0 -
Dissappointingm however I think he has some serious competition with the players that Fergie will be bringing in once the takeover is done and the new manager announced.
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Lump on him for anytime scorer when we play Gillingham next season.4
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Woking fan at work says that he was class first half of the season, but when he went back for the 2nd spell offered very little.
I agree with the sentiment that at 21 he should have least been loaned out to a league club if he was going to kick on with us, so it's not a great loss. Guaranteed to score against us for Gills though.1 -
On hyphen less at the club.
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Gills have got an armchair. Look at that office!
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The money for the armchair came out of the stationery budget, looking at the cheap pen he's signing the contract withHenry Irving said:Gills have got an armchair. Look at that office!
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Hope now he's got this deal he can give up his part time painting and decorating gig. Obviously, just came straight from a job to sign.Henry Irving said:Gills have got an armchair. Look at that office!
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Good luck to lad. Only saw him play a couple of times so can’t really comment on his ability. However, he didn’t break in to the 1st team, so probably a good move all round.0
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Looked very good when I saw him, good luck to him. Reckon he will have a good career.0
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Yep, good luck to him, wish him a long and successful career.0
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I wish him the very best. Good honest footballer, who with the right guidance and a decent manager could settle into a very effective player for somebody.1
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This. Think there's a tremendous amount of ability there. Also think it was a mistake letting him go to non-league in the second half of the year. He felt like an afterthought.Redhenry said:He's a good player, he would have been given a longer contract with a club that's run properly.
I suspect he's a player who will look better the better players he plays with and the higher the level.0 -
This is Gillingham we're talking about. An expensive pen would be gone in five minutes!killerandflash said:
The money for the armchair came out of the stationery budget, looking at the cheap pen he's signing the contract withHenry Irving said:Gills have got an armchair. Look at that office!
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Looks like my mother in law’s front room.Henry Irving said:Gills have got an armchair. Look at that office!
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Got a feeling this one will bite us in the bum in a few years.
But he was way down the pecking order after that long injury and at the age of 21, he needs to kick on at a place where he can become first choice.
It would be unfair to keep him on with no clear path into the starting eleven.4 -
Always impressed me when I saw him play1
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Rated by people who actually work within football for a living, so yes fact!paulie8290 said:
Do you know that for a fact.Redhenry said:He's a good player, he would have been given a longer contract with a club that's run properly.
Truth is he is 21 and has played 1 league game for is I think, his loans have been to the National League.
Aribo, Diijksteel and other young players had broken into the 1st team by now.
I think he was offered a 1 year deal only as a last chance to prove himself, maybe the talent is there but he just isnt applying himself.
We have been pretty good over recent years with our acadmey and when to let players go and IMO I think he will go the way of Azeez and TSS and in 2 years time be in the national league.
But thats just my opinion
There was plenty of interest in him at League One level.3 -
But you said if the club was run better he would have been given a longer contract.Redhenry said:
Rated by people who actually work in football for a living, so yes fact!paulie8290 said:
Do you know that for a fact.Redhenry said:He's a good player, he would have been given a longer contract with a club that's run properly.
Truth is he is 21 and has played 1 league game for is I think, his loans have been to the National League.
Aribo, Diijksteel and other young players had broken into the 1st team by now.
I think he was offered a 1 year deal only as a last chance to prove himself, maybe the talent is there but he just isnt applying himself.
We have been pretty good over recent years with our acadmey and when to let players go and IMO I think he will go the way of Azeez and TSS and in 2 years time be in the national league.
But thats just my opinion
There was plenty of interest in him at League One level.
But players got longer contracts this year, so surely its not a case of how the club being run stopped him(if it was then everyone who signed a new contract would only have got a year) surely its a case that Euell and Avory have decided he is not progressing how they would have liked and wanted to give him 1 more year to prove himself.
As I said he is 21 and has played 1 first team game for us and only gone on loan to the national league.0 -
Henry, I'm not sure if this is what you're saying, are you saying there was interest in getting him in on loan from League One clubs this past season?Redhenry said:
Rated by people who actually work within football for a living, so yes fact!paulie8290 said:
Do you know that for a fact.Redhenry said:He's a good player, he would have been given a longer contract with a club that's run properly.
Truth is he is 21 and has played 1 league game for is I think, his loans have been to the National League.
Aribo, Diijksteel and other young players had broken into the 1st team by now.
I think he was offered a 1 year deal only as a last chance to prove himself, maybe the talent is there but he just isnt applying himself.
We have been pretty good over recent years with our acadmey and when to let players go and IMO I think he will go the way of Azeez and TSS and in 2 years time be in the national league.
But thats just my opinion
There was plenty of interest in him at League One level.0 -
Two years ago he was linked with Liverpool and a return to Arsenal.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/508000/Arsenal-Liverpool-Transfer-News-Charlton-Regan-Charles-Cook1 -
Good article in the Times about Regan ...
Regan Charles-Cook: I had to Google where Ross County were but now it feels like home – I love the calmness
Regan Charles-Cook explains to Douglas Alexander why his slowburn career has caught fire
Douglas Alexander, Scottish Football CorrespondentSunday January 23 2022, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
Charles-Cook has lit up Scotland’s top flight this season with his eight goals so farSTUART WALLACE FOR THE SUNDAY TIMESSomething’s stirring at Ross County. A 3-1 midweek win over Motherwell, despite being reduced to ten men, pulled the Dingwall club clear of the relegation places and some young fans spilled onto the pitch to make memories that will last them a lifetime. It wasn’t remotely a riot at the “Jail End” of Victoria Park, or Global Energy Stadium to give the sponsors their due.
The south stand of the most northerly ground in the Premiership is named thus because the county’s jail and court used to be situated behind it. And there’s a new sheriff in town now. Regan Charles-Cook has lit up the stadium and Scotland’s top flight this season with his goals, eight of them so far, and skill. He scored two against Motherwell and also sparked an own goal in first-half stoppage time. He celebrates by mimicking a cook stirring a pot and the young fans who adore him join in that ritual as well as flying the flag of Grenada, the Caribbean island he’s not been to yet, but has three international caps for.
He takes stick for that contradiction around the place, yet it’s clear that Charles-Cook loves the club as much as it loves him. There will inevitably be interest elsewhere with his contract expiring at the end of this season, but this south London lad has found a home from home in the Highlands that has prompted what he describes, between all the smiles and laughs that light up an empty suite of the stadium on a winter afternoon, as “the strongest” and “favourite” season of his career so far.There have been some tough times, too. Like last season, when he came north during lockdown and therefore couldn’t build off-field relationships with team-mates he treasures. “You couldn’t really bond with the boys, couldn’t really go out anywhere,” the 24-year-old explains. “The only time I’d really see people was on the training pitch, literally, and it was tough. You can FaceTime your family, but when they’re not around you it’s completely different. Last season, I wasn’t playing as much as well. It’s double-difficult when you’re not playing. I am a smiley boy and when you don’t see me smile, there’s a problem.”
The staff behind the scenes at County kept him going and he name-checks several of them in gratitude. “I’d never moved away from home, I’d always been within a certain distance. I must have Googled it first and saw it was over 500 miles (from London) and said, ‘Where is this?’. But since I’ve come here, I’ve never looked back. They have made it so much of a home for me.”
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It was a wrench at first because he left behind a formidable and sporty family unit. Regan’s the smallest, if not the youngest, of six brothers. Evans, his dad, is Jamaican, and Sandra, his mum, is Grenadian. Older brothers Anthony and Reice, the latter a goalkeeper, are also professional footballers, while two of his younger siblings are teenagers training with Sutton United, the English League Two side. James Cook, his uncle, is a former British super-middleweight boxing champion. “In pre-season I’d go down to my uncle’s gym and do boxing training, a whole different type of fitness by the way. Moving your feet, moving your head and body, it’s good on balance as well and focusing when you’re getting really tired; that mental strength to keep going.”
His resilience served him well during his enforced solitude and this season everything has clicked into place perfectly. “London is 100 miles per hour, Inverness is a bit calmer, but once I settled, and it took a while, I enjoyed the calmness. When I go back to London now, I’m like, ‘I need to go back [to the Highlands]’.
Charles-Cook has fared well against the Premiership’s top defenders like Christopher Jullien of CelticIAN MACNICOL/GETTY IMAGES“You definitely build connections off the pitch that you take onto the pitch. The Ross County that we’re really trying to build here is a family club. From the chairman [Roy MacGregor] all the way down they look out for everybody. When you’re able to go out to a Nando’s, those little things pay a massive difference. Instead of being associates, they become friends and then friends become family and you look after each other on and off the pitch. That’s been massively important for me and everybody this season. As you can see, we’ll fight blood, sweat and tears for each other.”
He started playing properly aged six along with Reice for a team in Dulwich, where they were both spotted and signed for Arsenal, when Regan was around ten. He stayed in their youth system for five years, but they wanted a longer look while Charlton and Norwich were offering professional scholarships, so he signed for Charlton, where he played alongside Joe Gomez of Liverpool, Joe Aribo of Rangers and Ademola Lookman of Leicester City. “It’s good to see them shining and you want to be where they are one day,” he says.
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