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Rumours Rumours - Summer 2021 edition (Deadline Day from p814)

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  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 10,773

  • Jorge Grant
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Jorge Grant
    That would be very nice :-) 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    Jorge Grant
    You’d like us to sign him or have heard something?
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    edited June 2021
    Brilliant news. Let’s hope we can agree the contracts.

    Presume that is Chucks, Amos, Pearce, Mathews and JFC.
  • J BLOCK
    J BLOCK Posts: 8,309
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  • Cafc_lifer
    Cafc_lifer Posts: 74
    Good news but it doesn't really mean anything until they've signed. I'm sure if any of them said they didn't want to stay they'd have been on the released list. 
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  • MattF said:
    For one brief perverse moment I imagined Nigel ending that sentence with " but they can't" and blowing a raspberry.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    Going against the grain, but personally I was hoping most, if not all of them would move on.

    I know that’s a tin hat statement, I just don’t have much love for any of them.

    I respect Pearce, proper pro, proper leader, but I think we need better, even as a back up.

    I know I’m in the minority with JFC, but I’ve never been overly impressed with him, regardless of the injury.  In a hypothetical situation, had he not got injured, I wasn’t really feeling him at the centre of midfield being the main focal point as he had seemed to become 

    Aneke, well, he’s got talent, but for me, the two years have been very stop start.  I just don’t look at him and think Lyle Taylor, Yann Kermorgant, Bradley Wright Philips, Andy Hunt or Clive Mendonca

    Amos is the only maybe for me.  

    The other 2, definitely not fussed.

    Of the 6, I expect Pearce, JFC, Amos & Watson to stay.  Not sure about Aneke & Matthews.  
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,210
    MattF said:
    This is only positive, there would surely be a subtle hint if players were off.  And the fact he wants the squad in place before pre season is excellent.
  • Watson stays whether we like it or not!
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    So until these sign or not we can't move on others maybe. Not exactly the best situation for Thomas. 

    I would,  if it were me, just move on where I could and gradually remove offers if they don't start to sign. 
    Not at all, Adkins makes it clear there’s a lot going on around recruitment. If any of these players leave it just means we need to sign more players. Whatever they do we still need several signings.
  • Weak statements coming out of the club from this Adkins interview…we are not being ruthless enough with the players we want to resign - letting them see if they can get a better offer ! Weak strategy while other potential talent out there slips by - remember this was the team that failed to get promotion 🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏼

    https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/charlton-athletic-boss-nigel-adkins-all-our-out-of-contract-players-want-to-stay/
  • J BLOCK
    J BLOCK Posts: 8,309
    Expected more by now to be honest. Not hollow sound bites.

    If they wanted to sign, they would have done. 
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,587
    edited June 2021
    Thomas may have pricked agents ears up with talk of Europe etc and now might be setting his stall out early that although he is ambitious we are not going to be taken for a ride. 
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,000
    edited June 2021
    Weak statements coming out of the club from this Adkins interview…we are not being ruthless enough with the players we want to resign - letting them see if they can get a better offer ! Weak strategy while other potential talent out there slips by - remember this was the team that failed to get promotion 🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏼

    https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/charlton-athletic-boss-nigel-adkins-all-our-out-of-contract-players-want-to-stay/
    Out of curiosity, how exactly do you propose we'd stop them listening to other offers exactly?
  • FAVADDICK
    FAVADDICK Posts: 584
    The clubs being used again by certain players. Then you get this rubbish that they want to all stay !!! NO!! they want to play us off and fall back on us if no one else wants them, there just trying to keep us sweet. Just get rid of them and start again with players that actually want to be here !!!
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  • SamE7
    SamE7 Posts: 276
    Weak statements coming out of the club from this Adkins interview…we are not being ruthless enough with the players we want to resign - letting them see if they can get a better offer ! Weak strategy while other potential talent out there slips by - remember this was the team that failed to get promotion 🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏼

    https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/charlton-athletic-boss-nigel-adkins-all-our-out-of-contract-players-want-to-stay/
    Yeah, you're right - why not offer them all £12k a week with higher goal, assist and win bonuses to match what a Championship club might offer them
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,210
    J BLOCK said:
    Expected more by now to be honest. Not hollow sound bites.

    If they wanted to sign, they would have done. 
    Disagree, their agent will be saying don’t sign until last minute in case a massive offer comes in somewhere else which is what the article hints at.  Seems normal course of business to me, they have their offer, it’s there for them, they’ll sign if and when.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    Of course the majority are probably going to want more than what they're on.

    Who doesnt want a payrise each year?

    Its just up to Sandgaard whether they deserve it or not

    Watson and Matthews at the very least will probably want more as they signed under a Salary Cap
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    It’s practically mid June and nothing has happened, it’s time to press the panic button.

    The next two minutes could be crucial.

     
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,897
    I think the key thing here is that this is the way transfer business / transfer windows happen now, particularly with so many players out of contract. It's a game of brinkmanship and if we don't play that game, we are going to end up paying over the odds. Relax, watch the Euros' and leave the worrying to those at the club who can actually do anything about it.  
  • thenewbie said:
    Weak statements coming out of the club from this Adkins interview…we are not being ruthless enough with the players we want to resign - letting them see if they can get a better offer ! Weak strategy while other potential talent out there slips by - remember this was the team that failed to get promotion 🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏼

    https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/charlton-athletic-boss-nigel-adkins-all-our-out-of-contract-players-want-to-stay/
    Out of curiosity, how exactly do you propose we'd stop them listening to other offers exactly?
    Give them a week’s deadline to sign the contract offer - and move on and get better players in 
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,000
    edited June 2021
    FAVADDICK said:
    The clubs being used again by certain players. Then you get this rubbish that they want to all stay !!! NO!! they want to play us off and fall back on us if no one else wants them, there just trying to keep us sweet. Just get rid of them and start again with players that actually want to be here !!!
    Yes because this is happening at Charlton and only Charlton in all of the league. No other team has any out of contract players who are trying to get a good offer from another team. Definitely not. No sir.

    Meanwhile we have players like Stockley so desperate and passionate to play at Charlton that he decided to go on holiday before worrying about the contract.

    A healthy dose of perspective is needed by some people.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    “Yes boss, of course I want to stay but my agent says that the offer is far too low”  The cynic in me leads me to believe that the wanting to stay is just camouflage in case they are forced to stay because nothing better comes along. If they wanted to stay they would have signed.
  • FAVADDICK
    FAVADDICK Posts: 584
    thenewbie said:
    FAVADDICK said:
    The clubs being used again by certain players. Then you get this rubbish that they want to all stay !!! NO!! they want to play us off and fall back on us if no one else wants them, there just trying to keep us sweet. Just get rid of them and start again with players that actually want to be here !!!
    Yes because this is happening at Charlton and only Charlton in all of the league. No other team has any out of contract players who are trying to get a good offer from another team. Definitely not. No sir.
    So how long do you allow them to string us along before then dropping us. It has been what 4 or 5 weeks since the end of the season players know way before this what there being offered or what other teams will be in for them. Like I said this is just words we need action and fast its 3 weeks before the start of pre season and we need to be ready to go, not hope this players might sign when it suits them.
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