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Happy Retirement Yann

paulie8290
paulie8290 Posts: 23,345
in General Charlton
Yann Kermorgant has retired from football 


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  • Covered_End_Lad
    Covered_End_Lad Posts: 5,728
    Fave player of the modern era. Still love him.
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,064
    Farewell sweet prince and thanks for the many, many brilliant performances.
  • jdsd42
    jdsd42 Posts: 1,498
    Joy to watch ... gave all 
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    Really enjoyed watching him play.
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,457
    32 in 82 starts for us is pretty handy, 27 in 45 starts for Bournemouth after leaving us was sensational. Possibly the single biggest error of the RD era letting him go
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,617
    guy's a legend, don't say that about many players. Thanks for the memories Yann.
  • SouthWest_Addicks
    SouthWest_Addicks Posts: 6,307
    edited April 2020
    Charlton legend and was the jewel in the crown that should have taken us back to the top flight.

    I’m not old enough to remember the pre Mendonca era, but I can imagine it was similar to his arrival, after so many years of watching rubbish player arrive and depart he was a breath of fresh air.

    Can remember his cameo debut against Chesterfield and being instantly convinced he was class. After 4 years of journeymen footballers he arrived and showed class and was a born winner. Don’t think he lost an aerial battle during that 2011/12 season.

    The worst decision in Charlton modern history was giving him away. Will always be welcomed back to The Valley. All the best Yann.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,169
    What a fucling great player.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,471
    paulie8290 said:
    Yann Kermorgant has retired from football 


    Some great goals - what a player. 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,811
    Best player to pull on the Charlton shirt since 2007.

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  • tricky
    tricky Posts: 1,291
    Does this mean I have to give up the dream of him one day coming back to play for us again?
  • Valley27000
    Valley27000 Posts: 3,417
    Legend.
  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,265
    Exceptional footballer and talisman for the team under Chris Powell.
    Showed what a huge mistake it was to let him go, when he helped Bournemouth win promotion to the PL.
    Wonder if he will go in to management....

  • EricBanterna
    EricBanterna Posts: 1,740

    The man always gave his all and oozed class in everything he did. 

    Was a top professional and a class act. 


  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    A French article on his retirement:

    https://pontivy.maville.com/sport/detail_-football.-yann-kermorgant-la-fin-d-une-carriere-riche-en-rebondissements_fil-4077466_actu.Htm
  • DoctorCharlton
    DoctorCharlton Posts: 2,463
    One of the best all round strikers I’ve seen at CAFC. 
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,237
    My favourite player for a long, long time
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,953
    edited April 2020
    I often think about the partnership I would have loved to see up front from all the strikers I saw at Charlton......

    Kermorgant and Mendonca would have been something else.

    Or replace Mendonca with Bent and you have the perfect balance of pace and the dropping deep of Kermorgant 
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,692
    I wondered what Katrien Meire thought when Yann returned to the Valley in 2016 with Reading, scored two, created one and had a worldie disallowed in their 3 - 4 victory over us.  He never celebrated because he was class.  We could  should  have had another three years from him. There again I don't suppose she even noticed - the daft cow. 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,025
    One of my all time favourites ... thanks for everything Yann 

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  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,634
    sweet memories merci  baucoup Yann
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,217
    Thanks Yann. Best of luck in whatever you do. 
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,604
    One of the greatest to pull on the shirt. Wish him a long and happy retirement, and success in whatever he does. Always welcome in SE7. 

  • paulsturgess
    paulsturgess Posts: 3,835
    Amazing player, best header of the ball in my 27 years going, and an incredible all round player, one of only a handful in that era who you can say even playing in a mediocre team genuinely turned up excited just to watch that single individual in his own right, with incredible blend of skill, fight, flair and intelligence (a bit like Lyle now). And genuine love of charlton! 

    Bona fide legend, love the man, one of my all time faves.
  • Fortune 82nd Minute
    Fortune 82nd Minute Posts: 8,369


    One of my favourite players over the whole time I have supported the club. And will never forget the goal he scored against Hartlepool in the last game of the 2011/12 Championship winning season.

    Knew Roland Duchatelet was a wrong 'un the moment he forced both Powell and Kermorgant out of the club. If only the silly **** hadn't of been so stupid, who knows how many more times we might have seen a picture like this.

    Enjoy the rest of your life Yann.







  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,205
    What. A. Man. Big leap. Big Heart. Big goals. A Cut-Price-Cantona and my favourite player of the 21st Century, possibly all time. Will never forgive those Belgian twerps for taking him away from me prematurely.

    Lots of man love to you Yann, if you're reading this I hope retirement makes you as happy as you made me.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,684
    Echo what everyone else has said. Just watching those clips again makes me mad knowing we literally gave him away when there was no need to.....and to then (try) to replace him with Pete the pole.

    Best player since the Premiership days.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,973
    What a player, as others have said our best of the last few years.

    Glad for him he got out in a way, probably had a much better time of it at Bournemouth in particular than as.part of our mess.

    Still hurts though, lettering him go and wasting more money on Polish Pete than we got for Yann.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,420
    Fair play... Fantastic career. 
  • boggzy
    boggzy Posts: 3,596
    Legend.

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