Alex Gilbey - Re-signed for MK Dons (p37)

Lucky escape for you Alex

AddickUpNorth said:

ForeverAddickted said:

Mendonca In Asdas said:

If we can’t sign players.....

Hopefully the EFL will reject the sale of any players as well then...

Cant asset strip the club if they cant sell the likes of Dillon Phillips or Alfie Doughty

I’ve liked this more in hope than expectation because I’m really starting to believe that the EFL care little for CAFC at the moment. In fact, part of me thinks that us folding would be a blessed relief for the bods at the EFL because we’re a nuisance to them as it stands.

We should be manor from heaven. The SW thing will be forgotten in no time and they have a perfect opportunity to show some strength over the ownership tests. They also stand an extremely good chance of not losing us from the league which will show how much they care about clubs and their importance to the community.

MattF said:

Really pissed off about this, would much rather have not known this was more or less a done deal until the plug was pulled by the EFL. But most annoyed that on the playing side we're putting together a strong league one team which has been shit on from a great height.

 You can thank ESI and Farnell for the media blab. Desperate times for those slimy p****ks

Maccn05 said:

Garrymanilow said:

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Garrymanilow said:

fat man on a moped said:

Garrymanilow said:

It's certainly a very confusing time to be a Charlton fan. This Gilbey signing looks like exactly the kind of deal you would want to get over the line, seeing as he was player of the year for a L1 side. We'd be happy with that in the Championship. I wouldn't be massively surprised though if money was being offered and deals being worked out by an ownership that can't actually sign players though; let's not forget that Southall carried out a whole performance of signing Maddison despite knowing full well it wasn't going to happen. It could also be that in order to deflect some fan anger they're chucking the entirety of our saved budget at one eye-catching signing. Get the fans off their backs and then don't actually invest in a full squad. Or it could be that these owners are just legit and we've been wrong this whole time. It's very Charlton that that third one's the least likely of all these possible realities.

Just a thought but might that have actually been possible as the cost would have been covered by not having to pay Leko and Gallagher's wages?

haven't checked the timings so could be rubbish......

My understanding of the registration embargo was that we were allowed to replace players who left with players of equivalent cost, hence all our signings being loans replacing loans and Bowyer saying we were reliant on favours, presumably to fit within that wage structure. The talk around Maddison was of a £2m+ fee permanent signing, which was not possible for us. It was all bullshit

Would love to know who exactly knew the embargo was in place at that time. Was it just Southall (and Amis)? Or did Nimer, Gallen and Bowyer also know, but kept quiet because Southall convinced them it was better to keep it to themselves (spun them another lie in other words)? 

It's Darragh MacAnthony I've always been interested in on that one. Him and Southall are supposedly mates, and he posted a picture of them meeting up, apparently to discuss signing Toney initially. Once the news about the embargo came out then either MacAnthony will have realised he was played for a fool and had his time wasted, or he will have been in on this bit of silliness with Southall which is a prime dick move. Not like MacAnthony to stay quiet about anything at all either so I'm really intrigued to know what really happened there.

Darragh did an excellent interview on the Maddison situation on his YouTube channel really honest and blunt, was a must watch basically said we made a good offer but MM wanted crazy money for somebody who never played outside of L1 - was right too as he did nothing for Hull

I did see that interview, and as you said it was very interesting hearing about Maddison's ridiculous approach to the transfer. The thing is though, none of that really mattered anyway; Maddison could have asked for a billion quid a minute and we could have said yes, or he could have asked for a tenner a week, the outcome would have been the same; no matter how much money he wanted, Peterborough wanted or we were willing to pay, the deal wasn't happening and everyone's time was being wasted because we were under a secret embargo. I've never heard MacAnthony comment on that aspect of it. MacAnthony seemed pretty pissed off at Maddison for wasting his time and risking him getting nothing if he ran his contract down, so I would have expected that he'd be equally annoyed that time was wasted in protracted negotiations when he could have potentially been dealing with someone else. It's all very odd

So who has fronted the money for that? Can’t imagine Elliott has a few hundred k laying around, Nimer is apparently skint and Barclay and Varney aren’t in the picture yet. 

To sign for three years, he must have had some assurances about the clubs future