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Charlton Only - January 2022 Transfer Rumours (Deadline Day p.97)

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  • chev said:
    I don’t know if this is a good or bad move?

    A really good player, but is he a shadow of the player he was after his horrendous injury?
  • J BLOCK said:
    You have Clare and JFC to come back into that CM category next season but wing backs defo need improving.
    Clare won't add any value in midfield. Similar player to Dobson who is much better there. 
    Agreed but Dobson must need a rest. Plays 90 minutes every game.
  • Would be very happy with that. A decent signing who can be integrated this year with a view to us actually doing something next season.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,975
    J BLOCK said:
    J BLOCK said:
    You have Clare and JFC to come back into that CM category next season but wing backs defo need improving.
    Clare won't add any value in midfield. Similar player to Dobson who is much better there. 
    Dont think we've seen enough of him to make that judgement yet. Im going on the basis that he was signed as a CM and thats what he rates himself as his strongest position.
    But we have seen him play this season and he is defensive minded. If we want to challenge next season we need energy and creativity in the middle, we have the defensive player in Dobson. Clare ain't the answer in midfield. 
    So we only have one player for each role?
  • supaclive
    supaclive Posts: 6,514
    Gunther, Matthews, Kirk, Soare, Davison.    Five players who shouldn't be near our squad if we are looking to the future.   Davison doesn't have the pace Grant does, doesn't score goals like Grant did, wasn't shoved out wide like Grant was.   If Leko isn't going to be here long term (and my jury is certainly out on whether he should be) - then this highlights the poorness of our recruitment.

    I'm not sure Browne is the answer.   Chuks has already scored 1 in 2 starts, played a full ninety minutes twice (got booked twice) and is first choice currently.

    Browne needs to be a first choice option and available on a permanent at the end of the season or aren't we just bringing in another short term option, who on paper, and injury record, doesn't look like he's going to massively improve what we already have....

    If we are looking short term, isn't Defoe more valauble to us until the end of the season, than Browne?...
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    Blimey another permanent. That would be great.
  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,278
    CafcSCP said:
    Sage said:
    Pretty sure that’s the last we will see of Davison.

    Hoping for at least another 2, maybe even 3 more to come. That’s just my hope if we can get Kirk and Souaré out. Gunter and Watson will leave in the summer, but a bonus if Gunter leaves sooner. He’s so far down the pecking order that there is no point us keeping him if we can also get him out and off the books.

    Would love us to sign at least one long term permanent player that can really develop and improve with us and actually develop and improve too.

    Interesting final week ahead.
    That’s what we all thought when Grant went to Crawley.
    came back a different player.
    Hopefully the same will happen for Josh.
    Except Grant had been playing out wide here and needed to get back playing centrally, he also wasn’t out of contract, wasn’t 22, and had natural ability and blistering pace.

    I hope he does well so he can get a move in the summer to someone in League Two. This will be the last we see of Davison, I’m pretty sure.

    We need to get out this league and there is no point having someone who will be 5th choice at the most next season, counting towards our squad limit and isn’t good enough to contribute to a promotion out of League One. 
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  • Does anyone know if Cawley has an update on the Marcus Browne deal?
  • Grant had been an England youth international
    Davison was someone released by Peterborough, that we picked up from non league.

    That's not to say that Davison won't have a decent career, but realistically it will be in L2 with perhaps the occasional spell in L1 with a smaller club after promotion
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    Addick_8 said:
    chev said:
    Very upsetting for those preaching the "TS is skint" narrative.
    “Sandgaard is skint”

    Sandgaard:


  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    J BLOCK said:
    J BLOCK said:
    You have Clare and JFC to come back into that CM category next season but wing backs defo need improving.
    Clare won't add any value in midfield. Similar player to Dobson who is much better there. 
    Dont think we've seen enough of him to make that judgement yet. Im going on the basis that he was signed as a CM and thats what he rates himself as his strongest position.
    But we have seen him play this season and he is defensive minded. If we want to challenge next season we need energy and creativity in the middle, we have the defensive player in Dobson. Clare ain't the answer in midfield. 
    So we only have one player for each role?
    Don’t forget, we don’t get injuries and players all keep their form. 11 players for 50 odd games is more than enough. 
  • ElliotCAFC
    ElliotCAFC Posts: 2,552
    Could potentially be a great bit of business if he’s fit. The fact that we could be getting him on a permanent suggests we’re satisfied with his recovery and see it as a sensible investment.  

    Can’t wait to see an exciting right footed winger be pigeonholed into a LWB! 
  • Just watched the YouTube reel of Browne when he was at Oxford.

    I know these videos can be dressed up but he's some player.

    Excited if this one happens.
  • supaclive
    supaclive Posts: 6,514
    supaclive said:
    Gunther, Matthews, Kirk, Soare, Davison.    Five players who shouldn't be near our squad if we are looking to the future.   Davison doesn't have the pace Grant does, doesn't score goals like Grant did, wasn't shoved out wide like Grant was.   If Leko isn't going to be here long term (and my jury is certainly out on whether he should be) - then this highlights the poorness of our recruitment.

    I'm not sure Browne is the answer.   Chuks has already scored 1 in 2 starts, played a full ninety minutes twice (got booked twice) and is first choice currently.

    Browne needs to be a first choice option and available on a permanent at the end of the season or aren't we just bringing in another short term option, who on paper, and injury record, doesn't look like he's going to massively improve what we already have....

    If we are looking short term, isn't Defoe more valauble to us until the end of the season, than Browne?...
    If Browne is on a permanent, then I still look at the above and hope our recruitment strategy is better than the strategy used for Kirk and Soare.... :-)
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,210
    Permanent deal for Browne makes a lot more sense.
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    edited January 2022
    Surprised to hear so many definitive comments about whether Browne is or isn’t what we need. Has anybody really seen enough of him to reach a conclusion? Serious question btw,  I’m not having a dig. 
    I watch the Quest highlights show, but don’t remember seeing him play (although I don’t pay 100% attention to the Championship matches).  
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  • supaclive
    supaclive Posts: 6,514
    Just watched the YouTube reel of Browne when he was at Oxford.

    I know these videos can be dressed up but he's some player.

    Excited if this one happens.
    MARCUS BROWNE AT OXFORD UNITED | GOALS AND ASSISTS - Bing video
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,210
    Permanent deal for Browne makes a lot more sense.
    It is kind of throwing the towel in for play offs but it’s realistic.  If we were in the race I guess we’d sign someone who comes in and hits the ground running, Browne is another long term ready for next season, I think it’s a good move.  
  • J BLOCK
    J BLOCK Posts: 8,309
    J BLOCK said:
    J BLOCK said:
    You have Clare and JFC to come back into that CM category next season but wing backs defo need improving.
    Clare won't add any value in midfield. Similar player to Dobson who is much better there. 
    Dont think we've seen enough of him to make that judgement yet. Im going on the basis that he was signed as a CM and thats what he rates himself as his strongest position.
    But we have seen him play this season and he is defensive minded. If we want to challenge next season we need energy and creativity in the middle, we have the defensive player in Dobson. Clare ain't the answer in midfield. 
    So we only have one player for each role?
    Your original post quotes JFC and Clare coming back into CM and it's wing backs that need improving. Those CM's aren't enough to go up next year. We have no creativity. 
  • arny23394
    arny23394 Posts: 1,180
    With his and our injury history, I’m not sure that a perm is the best idea. Hope he does well but these signings never seem to work out for us. 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    edited January 2022
    arny23394 said:
    With his and our injury history, I’m not sure that a perm is the best idea. Hope he does well but these signings never seem to work out for us. 
    Think that's exactly why this'll work 😉
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Isn't this the type of deal where a loan until the summer with a view to a perm would be the best route? 
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,446
    Surely a 'try before you buy' would be the sensible decision to see how he is after the injury. 

    Rather than taking another risk and ending up with Souare mark 2. 
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    JamesSeed said:
    Surprised to hear so many definitive comments about whether Browne is or isn’t what we need. Has anybody really seen enough of him to reach a conclusion? Serious question btw,  I’m not having a dig. 
    I watch the Quest highlights show, but don’t remember seeing him play (although I don’t pay 100% attention to the Championship matches).  
    I haven’t, so can’t pass comment.  I think the problem stems from the fact we’ve had a lot of poor signings over the last few years.  Even the ones that we thought were potentially going to push us on, haven’t really pulled up trees.  

    At the moment, until we start performing a lot better, I expect more skepticism on the players we’re bringing in
  • DubaiCAFC
    DubaiCAFC Posts: 2,461
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Isn't this the type of deal where a loan until the summer with a view to a perm would be the best route? 
    The player or Boro are prob not interested in that, more they want to free funds and a space up now. I think it is a good deal for Charlton, they are prob picking him up on the cheap now, and build him up for next season. Good age at 24, hungry, point to prove, lots of potential!