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Chuks (p.61 - Released)
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We'd save 6 months wages so be able to spend it on other players 😉😉😉😉Callumcafc said:
What would be the benefit in paying up his contract six months early?Valiantphil said:My guess is a brief cameo against Wycombe and a post match farewell to the fans.20 -
Classic Charlton Life theorem right there and the fella , forgotten who it was, was adamant about it 😂Henry Irving said:
We'd save 6 months wages so be able to spend it on other players 😉😉😉😉Callumcafc said:
What would be the benefit in paying up his contract six months early?Valiantphil said:My guess is a brief cameo against Wycombe and a post match farewell to the fans.5 -
I always felt that his departure to Birmingham resulted in a bit of a mixed reaction from fans.ElfsborgAddick said:I'd love to hear an honest answer from Gallen as to who was responsible and involved in Aneke's return.
Aneke coming back was a f***** joke.
The biggest frustration from us was that we didnt try to sign someone to replace him up front. - January came round and the Sandgaard potentially thought: "We'll get him back to please the fans" - Not realising that, that wasnt exactly what we wanted / meant
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Callumcafc said:
What would be the benefit in paying up his contract six months early?Valiantphil said:My guess is a brief cameo against Wycombe and a post match farewell to the fans.
The benefit🤔
Someone else can use Chuks couch ✅
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You know Chuks is a (part time) property investor right?soapboxsam said:Callumcafc said:
What would be the benefit in paying up his contract six months early?Valiantphil said:My guess is a brief cameo against Wycombe and a post match farewell to the fans.
The benefit🤔
Someone else can use Chuks couch ✅0 -
That might be a sensible conclusion. If an out of contract player finishes the season injured, don't we have to continue to provide rehabilitation?JustFloydRoad said:
I am starting to think we may not see him in a Charlton shirt again.ross1 said:According to NJ, hope to have him back over Christmas0 -
Ferryman said:
That might be a sensible conclusion. If an out of contract player finishes the season injured, don't we have to continue to provide rehabilitation?JustFloydRoad said:
I am starting to think we may not see him in a Charlton shirt again.ross1 said:According to NJ, hope to have him back over Christmas
If that was the case then both Lewis Page and Cory Gibbs would still be using a couch in the medical room.
Apparently they would leave a towel on their favourite one; Bauer knew that trick ! Chuks bless him, has his own name plaque on his couch.
Chuks Aneke was here: Jan 2021-June 2025.
A crying shame as he would've been a Championship player without the medical issues which has blighted his career.
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I would say we do it as a good will gesture (even if we don't have to).Ferryman said:
That might be a sensible conclusion. If an out of contract player finishes the season injured, don't we have to continue to provide rehabilitation?JustFloydRoad said:
I am starting to think we may not see him in a Charlton shirt again.ross1 said:According to NJ, hope to have him back over Christmas0 -
But I would make an exception in this case, as we've clearly already invested lots of time and money on his rehabilitation over the years.JustFloydRoad said:
I would say we do it as a good will gesture (even if we don't have to).Ferryman said:
That might be a sensible conclusion. If an out of contract player finishes the season injured, don't we have to continue to provide rehabilitation?JustFloydRoad said:
I am starting to think we may not see him in a Charlton shirt again.ross1 said:According to NJ, hope to have him back over Christmas0 -
Good luck to him if he has done this and thought of the future.JustFloydRoad said:
You know Chuks is a (part time) property investor right?soapboxsam said:Callumcafc said:
What would be the benefit in paying up his contract six months early?Valiantphil said:My guess is a brief cameo against Wycombe and a post match farewell to the fans.
The benefit🤔
Someone else can use Chuks couch ✅2 - Sponsored links:
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He's had plenty of time on his hands for viewingsElfsborgAddick said:
Good luck to him if he has done this and thought of the future.JustFloydRoad said:
You know Chuks is a (part time) property investor right?soapboxsam said:Callumcafc said:
What would be the benefit in paying up his contract six months early?Valiantphil said:My guess is a brief cameo against Wycombe and a post match farewell to the fans.
The benefit🤔
Someone else can use Chuks couch ✅5 -
Loved that smell...ShootersHillGuru said:
No. It’s because they stopped using White Horse linement.Gisappointed said:I compare Chuks to a similarly talented forward, Paul Mortimer. Both blighted by mainly muscle injuries, I wonder if it is something relatively simple like lack of proper hydration?0 -
As an aside, a cheaper alternative to Deep Heat etc., used by quite a few GAA players I know is a thing called Uddermint (for use on dairy cattle).SporadicAddick said:
Loved that smell...ShootersHillGuru said:
No. It’s because they stopped using White Horse linement.Gisappointed said:I compare Chuks to a similarly talented forward, Paul Mortimer. Both blighted by mainly muscle injuries, I wonder if it is something relatively simple like lack of proper hydration?
I have to admit to liking the smell.
The really handy thing is that it comes in much larger sizes (more cheaply), it could be a game changer in Chuks' ongoing (by which I mean endless) recuperation.0 -
😏JustFloydRoad said:
You know Chuks is a (full time) property investor right?soapboxsam said:Callumcafc said:
What would be the benefit in paying up his contract six months early?Valiantphil said:My guess is a brief cameo against Wycombe and a post match farewell to the fans.
The benefit🤔
Someone else can use Chuks couch ✅0 -
I don’t know enough about club finances to know what the benefit is but there obviously is one, given how often clubs do it. Isn’t it partly a tax thing?Callumcafc said:
What would be the benefit in paying up his contract six months early?Valiantphil said:My guess is a brief cameo against Wycombe and a post match farewell to the fans.
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It would normally be pay up a lump sum less than the total of the monthly salary outstanding.JaShea99 said:
I don’t know enough about club finances to know what the benefit is but there obviously is one, given how often clubs do it. Isn’t it partly a tax thing?Callumcafc said:
What would be the benefit in paying up his contract six months early?Valiantphil said:My guess is a brief cameo against Wycombe and a post match farewell to the fans.Allows a player to move on and the total cost to be a marginal saving.But in the days of FFP (or equivalent) less likely to be a thing I’d suggest and certainly not beneficial with just a few months only left.Better to use the player in the last few months with less worry on long term impact to him (cynical I know).1 -
Chucks role now must be to toughen up leaburn and gas in training and teach them how to scare and bully defenders1
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I hope Chuks gets a game soon. NJ might be getting him ready for the Wycombe match.4
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Thought that was why Nathan made Hylton a Player/Coach (to teach the forwards how to sh** house)Todds_right_hook said:Chucks role now must be to toughen up leaburn and gas in training and teach them how to scare and bully defenders0 -
Not entirely true. It was Martin Sandgaard who brought him back, he was the main target in the January window that year and a deal was agreed in principle at the beginning of December in 2021. To say no one knew about it until the deal was done though is not true, I got told about Chuks hopefully coming back in the November of 2021. I have messages with members on here regarding Chuks returning in late 2021. The deal wasn’t complete until the middle of January as there was a lot of negotiations around the length of contract. I don’t think Chuks is earning as much as some people think or are suggesting. The length was down to the salary being spread out. It was also down to the fact the Sandgaard’s did not want to be left with him out of contract again so soon, an 18 month contract did not suit either party. It probably should’ve been 2.5 years, but as explained the salary being spread across the length of contract was more the deciding factor. With how humble and gentle he is, I’d be surprised if discussions and light fun was made of his salary among the players, he was on good money at Birmingham anyway, but no one will ever know and you can never say with any real certainty.ElfsborgAddick said:9goalswentpastperry said:
It was Sandgaard's lad. No one had a clue and suddenly Chuks is being wheeled back out on a three and a half year deal. I was told this by one of the backroom staff at the time. I couldn't believe we had given out that contract but it made more sense when I learned who was behind it.ElfsborgAddick said:I'd love to hear an honest answer from Gallen as to who was responsible and involved in Aneke's return.
Aneke coming back was a f***** joke.
I was also told Chuks couldn't believe it either and was chuckling away when he was telling the players the dough he was on.
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Thanks.
If anybody can further this it would be interesting.
I am not as harsh on him as others, he’s clearly struggled with injury and it’s impacted his mental health too. He is human, despite being a different specimen in some ways. He’s so strong and powerful that I’ve always wondered whether his body knows how to cope but that’s his build and it helps his game so you wouldn’t change it. I think he’s extremely talented and we are undoubtedly a far stronger and better team when he’s in it, unfortunately, as we know he’s not been in it anywhere near as much as anyone would’ve liked.55 - Sponsored links:
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Good post from @Sage who has more insight than most of us.I do still think the almost total silence from the club on the nature of his injuries, this one especially, is ultimately unhelpful to him. It encourages the cyncism we see in this thread - and for sure the management of other clubs will have a pretty good idea generally of his injuries.1
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Hylton is good at shit house, chicks is good at bullying defenders. Has and leaburn need to do that moreJustFloydRoad said:
Thought that was why Nathan made Hylton a Player/Coach (to teach the forwards how to sh** house)Todds_right_hook said:Chucks role now must be to toughen up leaburn and gas in training and teach them how to scare and bully defenders2 -
How so?PragueAddick said:Good post from @Sage who has more insight than most of us.I do still think the almost total silence from the club on the nature of his injuries, this one especially, is ultimately unhelpful to him. It encourages the cyncism we see in this thread - and for sure the management of other clubs will have a pretty good idea generally of his injuries.0 -
They all talk to each other. Charlie Methven claims to have a line to just about every club. He led us to believe that he knew we had a bad rexors with injuries , even though Dr Will played that down in his - rather inscrutable - chat with CAST members.FishCostaFortune said:
How so?PragueAddick said:Good post from @Sage who has more insight than most of us.I do still think the almost total silence from the club on the nature of his injuries, this one especially, is ultimately unhelpful to him. It encourages the cyncism we see in this thread - and for sure the management of other clubs will have a pretty good idea generally of his injuries.1 -
He should be an expert on structure damageJustFloydRoad said:
You know Chuks is a (part time) property investor right?soapboxsam said:Callumcafc said:
What would be the benefit in paying up his contract six months early?Valiantphil said:My guess is a brief cameo against Wycombe and a post match farewell to the fans.
The benefit🤔
Someone else can use Chuks couch ✅3 -
His current absence is because of a groin injury that he received in training. The club reported this when it happened in mid-October.PragueAddick said:Good post from @Sage who has more insight than most of us.I do still think the almost total silence from the club on the nature of his injuries, this one especially, is ultimately unhelpful to him. It encourages the cyncism we see in this thread - and for sure the management of other clubs will have a pretty good idea generally of his injuries.0 -
I genuinely missed that they specified “groin”, in that case. My recollection is that NJ reported both Chuks and LJ as having “minor” issues which were otherwise unspecified. In LJ’s case the nature of the injury was revealed on here by a Lifer who had been freely informed by the player.killerjerrylee said:
His current absence is because of a groin injury that he received in training. The club reported this when it happened in mid-October.PragueAddick said:Good post from @Sage who has more insight than most of us.I do still think the almost total silence from the club on the nature of his injuries, this one especially, is ultimately unhelpful to him. It encourages the cyncism we see in this thread - and for sure the management of other clubs will have a pretty good idea generally of his injuries.
I just went to the OS and searched “Chuks”. There is no article on him since Feb this year. There are updates of his hamstring injury from Oct 23. I must admit that I dont much read the OS nowadays, assuming people here will re-post important updates from it, but I do follow Chuks threads here and genuinely this is the first time I’ve read that its a groin issue. But it’s probably just me.0 -
https://www.charltonafc.com/news/jones-its-really-big-weekPragueAddick said:
I genuinely missed that they specified “groin”, in that case. My recollection is that NJ reported both Chuks and LJ as having “minor” issues which were otherwise unspecified. In LJ’s case the nature of the injury was revealed on here by a Lifer who had been freely informed by the player.killerjerrylee said:
His current absence is because of a groin injury that he received in training. The club reported this when it happened in mid-October.PragueAddick said:Good post from @Sage who has more insight than most of us.I do still think the almost total silence from the club on the nature of his injuries, this one especially, is ultimately unhelpful to him. It encourages the cyncism we see in this thread - and for sure the management of other clubs will have a pretty good idea generally of his injuries.
I just went to the OS and searched “Chuks”. There is no article on him since Feb this year. There are updates of his hamstring injury from Oct 23. I must admit that I dont much read the OS nowadays, assuming people here will re-post important updates from it, but I do follow Chuks threads here and genuinely this is the first time I’ve read that its a groin issue. But it’s probably just me.
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A "minor thing" back in October .......... fast forward two months ........FishCostaFortune said:
https://www.charltonafc.com/news/jones-its-really-big-weekPragueAddick said:
I genuinely missed that they specified “groin”, in that case. My recollection is that NJ reported both Chuks and LJ as having “minor” issues which were otherwise unspecified. In LJ’s case the nature of the injury was revealed on here by a Lifer who had been freely informed by the player.killerjerrylee said:
His current absence is because of a groin injury that he received in training. The club reported this when it happened in mid-October.PragueAddick said:Good post from @Sage who has more insight than most of us.I do still think the almost total silence from the club on the nature of his injuries, this one especially, is ultimately unhelpful to him. It encourages the cyncism we see in this thread - and for sure the management of other clubs will have a pretty good idea generally of his injuries.
I just went to the OS and searched “Chuks”. There is no article on him since Feb this year. There are updates of his hamstring injury from Oct 23. I must admit that I dont much read the OS nowadays, assuming people here will re-post important updates from it, but I do follow Chuks threads here and genuinely this is the first time I’ve read that its a groin issue. But it’s probably just me.3 -
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