Charlie Methven: Global Football Partners have no plans to ‘flip’ Charlton Athletic

seth plum said:

I am waiting for the answer from anybody in this regime to give a clear answer as to ‘why Charlton?’

That is like asking those American billionaire brothers why they have bought Bedford Real. I can not fathom that, but it happened.

Henry Irving said:

https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/sport/charlton-athletic-owners-fully-intent-on-backing-nathan-jones-in-summer-transfer-window/

Bit of a rehash of the OS interview but some additional info, to me at least EG

Jones on 4.5 year contract

Jones was in last two for Spanner job when Edwards was appointed.

No talks with Thomas as yet over new deal.

Aim next season is "big promotion push".

"Ownership group, who were very, very clear that they want to back the manager in his aspirations.”

 Really don't think he'll be here next season. Same goes for Hector

Damned impressive deal to give Jones

Bit risky too seeing we've not had a Manager in 4 years who has lasted a full season

Mendonca In Asdas said:

We are going to have to make some amazing signings to make a push from 16th to top 6 next season.

Of course it is possible, but not easy, just hope Nathan and the Charlton fanbase aren’t let down again.

Not sure I totally agree. With the current squad, if starting the season, I think Jones could get them top ten. However, wholesale changes needed to get us top two and those signings need to be permanent ones who are then good enough for the step up to the Championship. That started with Coventry who @RonnieMoore assures us is already Championship ready.

Henry Irving said:

LargeAddick said:

The Jones 4.5 year contract isn’t new news, he confirmed it himself in an interview at some point.

Fair enough, don't remember that and don't think it was given out when he joined.

It wasn’t stated when he joined but in a later interview, weeks later, he confirmed the length of the contract.

stoneroses19 said:

Mendonca In Asdas said:

We are going to have to make some amazing signings to make a push from 16th to top 6 next season.

Of course it is possible, but not easy, just hope Nathan and the Charlton fanbase aren’t let down again.

Agreed we need a cracking summer of transfer business. 

However, out of interest, what did Oxford (19th to 7th currently) and Lincoln (11th to 6th currently) do last summer to improve there position within one season. Wonder if they both made amazing signings. 

Pompey are another example who improved considerably from last season.  In their case getting the new manager in at the back end of the season to have a look at what he had in the building would have helped I'm sure. I don't think they just made amazing signings, they also did some of their main business early too.

So I suspect It's a variety of ingredients needed for success, and the ownership already have a great leader of the first team in place.

se9addick said:

Good luck “flipping” us now (if that were ever the intention!) - doubt our value has been this low in the modern era. 

I thought that when Southall got found out. Since then ESI has made a decent profit and so did Thomas

No, TS sold us for more than he bought us for but overall made a big, multi £million loss

stoneroses19 said:

Mendonca In Asdas said:

We are going to have to make some amazing signings to make a push from 16th to top 6 next season.

Of course it is possible, but not easy, just hope Nathan and the Charlton fanbase aren’t let down again.

Agreed we need a cracking summer of transfer business. 

However, out of interest, what did Oxford (19th to 7th currently) and Lincoln (11th to 6th currently) do last summer to improve there position within one season. Wonder if they both made amazing signings. 

Portsmouth are another example, just not as drastic as Oxford in terms of league position. 

They had a massive turnover of players and have won promotion as champions after finishing 8th prior and will finish with a minimum of 20 points more than last season. 

It can be done in one transfer window, Portsmouth didn't exactly have the foundations laid out for promotion imo, they've done it with John Mousinho, who hasn't even managed 100 games yet, and is very young in his managerial career. 

Will Norris - free from Burnley - 45 apps
Abu Kamara - loan from Norwich - 45 apps
Conor Shaughnessy - free, Burton - 45 apps
Kusini Yengi, free, 25 apps
Alex Robertson, loan from Man City 25 apps
Christian Saydee, loan from Bournemouth 35 apps

Then there are other players who had an impact but were hindered by injury such as Regan Poole who before injury looked a real coup.

Either way they were smart with their loans and scooped up some pretty decent free agents. Usually this is where we struggle as there's some sort of crisis at Charlton, luckily with Jones already in place this time, hopefully it encourages players to want to sign for us early.

Anyway I've waffled a bit too much to basically say, we need to sign good players which is what we have failed to do for the most part every window

If you believe the other forum, the ownership want an “Ipswich model” type of summer.

I will wait to see it with my own eyes before I believe it. Especially as Ipswich’s accounts showed they spent £8m on players during the 22/23 period.

That’s fair. Got the graph above from Kieran Maguire who is usually pretty on the mark with this kind of thing.

The link you shared has “unknown” transfer fees listed for four players which aren’t included in the transfers in total. Plus any loan fees they might have paid?


https://x.com/kieranmaguire/status/1771322350958518713?s=46&t=ynww82GMl7VKBjthBflU0g

stonemuse said:

Callumcafc said:

If you believe the other forum, the ownership want an “Ipswich model” type of summer.

I will wait to see it with my own eyes before I believe it. Especially as Ipswich’s accounts showed they spent £8m on players during the 22/23 period.

Seems to be differing figures around, below from another site:

2022/23: Transfer Ins

Total: £2,182,400

2022/23: Transfer Outs

Total: £510,400

https://salarysport.com/football/ipswich-town/transfers/

Ouch Forest Green spent up large and got relegated and are about to get relegated again. Their finances must be apocalyptic. I used to work with the current CEO. He went in after the League One relegation. He will be having some sleepless nights.

Is fairly standard business guff from Charlie, highlight was him originally putting the blame on the appleton hire on the ''football staff'' so Andy Scott, before in the next breath reverting to ''We'' as owners made a mistake

as well as defining Appleton's communication skills as '' not his strongest aspect''