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  • Crispywood
    Crispywood Posts: 1,964
    I see that Dundee announced a wing back signing from Australia today - perhaps covering for an impending exit…
    He’s a right wingback Ferry plays on the left unfortunately. Also doesn’t say on the announcement post that he’s capable as playing both wingback positions but can as a cb 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 35,774
    Word on the grapevine up here is that there have been a few offers for Carey and it's possible he'll leave this summer
    Yep. Sell our top goalscorer 🤷‍♂️. 

    Round & round we go. 


  • RonnieMoore
    RonnieMoore Posts: 5,068
    Word on the grapevine up here is that there have been a few offers for Carey and it's possible he'll leave this summer
    Yep. Sell our top goalscorer 🤷‍♂️. 

    Round & round we go. 


    That’s completely untrue .. we only had one offer for any of our players from Jan and that was Coventry 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 66,131
    Word on the grapevine up here is that there have been a few offers for Carey and it's possible he'll leave this summer
    Yep. Sell our top goalscorer 🤷‍♂️. 

    Round & round we go. 


    Last time we sold our top goalscorer after finishing on 53 points we got promoted the following summer… 
  • TomCAFC
    TomCAFC Posts: 65
    Be mad to sell Carey. Pace, aggression and an eye for goal. Without those attributes we’d be watching a team of Conor Coventrys politely jogging about play ultra safe sideways passes. I’d build a team around Carey. 
  • AberystwythAddick
    AberystwythAddick Posts: 1,507
    TomCAFC said:
    Be mad to sell Carey. Pace, aggression and an eye for goal. Without those attributes we’d be watching a team of Conor Coventrys politely jogging about play ultra safe sideways passes. I’d build a team around Carey. 
    Build a team around him is a bit of a stretch. Definitely capable and f being part of a good mid table Champ team but not the main player 
  • Bailey
    Bailey Posts: 3,836
    Here we go, three more pages about nothing, yes yes Carey is going, no he aint. Siv, I presume 'up here' is Norfolk ? And it's news to me that the Wells on Sea/Gorleston, Etc etc has a grapevine. 
  • J BLOCK
    J BLOCK Posts: 8,462
    TomCAFC said:
    Be mad to sell Carey. Pace, aggression and an eye for goal. Without those attributes we’d be watching a team of Conor Coventrys politely jogging about play ultra safe sideways passes. I’d build a team around Carey. 
    Pace 😂
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 14,387
    edited 6:52PM
    I like the use of we're in that particularly and yes I am perfectly capable of over analysing anything

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  • robroy
    robroy Posts: 4,684
    Omar having a dig

  • up_the_valley
    up_the_valley Posts: 4,562
    edited 7:37PM
    stonemuse said:
    Interesting tweet from Kayne:

    Season had its challenges, but the fight never stopped. Proud of the resilience from the boys and the way we stuck together through it all. There’s a lot to build on, and we’re coming back stronger next season. Appreciate all the support from the fans — it never goes unnoticed ❤️
    He's staying then.  Unless it's a cryptic message. Pleased for him to stay. Still young and let's not forget the amount of game/promotion changing challenges he made. Without him we wouldn't be in the Championship. A dip in form doesn't make you a bad player any more than those challenges should send him to the World Cup. 
  • NabySarr
    NabySarr Posts: 5,539
    stonemuse said:
    Interesting tweet from Kayne:

    Season had its challenges, but the fight never stopped. Proud of the resilience from the boys and the way we stuck together through it all. There’s a lot to build on, and we’re coming back stronger next season. Appreciate all the support from the fans — it never goes unnoticed ❤️
    He's staying then.  Unless it's a cryptic message. Pleased for him to stay. Still young and let's not forget the amount of game/promotion changing challenges he made. Without him we wouldn't be in the Championship. A dip in form doesn't make you a bad player.
    I don’t think it means anything either way. From his POV he’s got a contract here next season so will play for us next season as it stands. I still think him leaving is the more likely outcome of this summer 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 71,798
    I see that Dundee announced a wing back signing from Australia today - perhaps covering for an impending exit…
    Crocodile Dundee?
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 86,116
    stonemuse said:
    Interesting tweet from Kayne:

    Season had its challenges, but the fight never stopped. Proud of the resilience from the boys and the way we stuck together through it all. There’s a lot to build on, and we’re coming back stronger next season. Appreciate all the support from the fans — it never goes unnoticed ❤️
    He's staying then.  Unless it's a cryptic message. Pleased for him to stay. Still young and let's not forget the amount of game/promotion changing challenges he made. Without him we wouldn't be in the Championship. A dip in form doesn't make you a bad player any more than those challenges should send him to the World Cup. 
    WIOTOS

    Come on, you knew it was coming sooner or later

  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 66,131
    I see that Dundee announced a wing back signing from Australia today - perhaps covering for an impending exit…
    He’s a right wingback Ferry plays on the left unfortunately. Also doesn’t say on the announcement post that he’s capable as playing both wingback positions but can as a cb 
    The bloke who played right wing back for Dundee Utd in their last match is either footed. They may plan to have him move over to the left and this bloke to play on the right. : -)
  • Crispywood
    Crispywood Posts: 1,964
    I see that Dundee announced a wing back signing from Australia today - perhaps covering for an impending exit…
    He’s a right wingback Ferry plays on the left unfortunately. Also doesn’t say on the announcement post that he’s capable as playing both wingback positions but can as a cb 
    The bloke who played right wing back for Dundee Utd in their last match is either footed. They may plan to have him move over to the left and this bloke to play on the right. : -)
    Now that’s the type of dedication we need for these summer rumours 
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 11,059
    I know the Charlton life scouting network only goes as far as former players so how about Karlan Grant?

    positives - experienced in the championship with some premier league experience. 

    Negatives - I would get wound up with people calling him KAG despite him dropping the Ahearn part a long time ago!!
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,800
    I know the Charlton life scouting network only goes as far as former players so how about Karlan Grant?

    positives - experienced in the championship with some premier league experience. 

    Negatives - I would get wound up with people calling him KAG despite him dropping the Ahearn part a long time ago!!
    Positives: I believe he's brought the Ahearne part back
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 86,116
    I know the Charlton life scouting network only goes as far as former players so how about Karlan Grant?

    positives - experienced in the championship with some premier league experience. 

    Negatives - I would get wound up with people calling him KAG despite him dropping the Ahearn part a long time ago!!
    Still only, I was surprised to read, 28.

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  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 23,044
    Had a surgery in February, last couple of times I've seen him he seems to have lost a step of pace too, not sure if that's what we need
  • wolfgang
    wolfgang Posts: 739
    cafc_se7 said:
    Leuth said:
    cafc_se7 said:
    I can’t believe some of these comments on Carey. You lot must live in dreamland if you think we easily get somebody else in who’s better. Particularly for “3 million”.
    The usual Charlton fallacy I see, better the devil you know. If someone offers 3-4m for Carey, snap their hand off 
    I’d be amazed if we get that much. 1.5m max. He has been complete value for money! 
    If only 1.5m, I would keep him.
  • wolfgang
    wolfgang Posts: 739
    NabySarr said:
    Year 3 of begging the club signs Marc Leonard 
    Unfortunately think we’ve missed our chance there. Not sure we ever had one tbh as would have been up against Birmingham, Hearts and now Sheffield United, Hearts and probably more 
    No chance. Hearts even want him twice.
  • wolfgang
    wolfgang Posts: 739
    BigDiddy said:

    ... we have to clear out quite a few more before we get to Carey, IMO.


    I agree, and think that is exactly what we will do.
  • PeaksAndValleys
    PeaksAndValleys Posts: 203
    NabySarr said:
    Carey took 92 shots this season, the most at the club by some distance (TC second with 63). 

    So yes he scored a decent number of goals but our entire team was built around setting him up for strikes (sitting on the edge of the box at corners etc.).

    He’s a good player and offers something no one else at the club does, but I’d be disappointed if he was our #1 shot taker next season too.


    Outputs (goals scored) were high (top 9%) because the inputs (shots taken) were high (top 6%).



    If our style of play evolves next season, as we all hope it should, I’d think Carey will see a significant decrease in number of shots he takes across the full season. 

    That would mean that 8 goals this season is a very good return and he’s unlikely to match that again going forward. 

    If he wants to be part of that evolution he’ll need to contribute more than just goals - he’ll need to become a more effective creator and link between defence and attack.

    I can obviously see the argument for keeping him but also see the argument for “cashing in” if the offer is large enough.
    I really think people are overestimating how much this is going to change. The evolution will just be back towards the kind of team we were the back end of last season and early part of this season. A more effective team and one that creates more chances yes, but we aren’t going to fundamentally change how we play and start passing through teams. The Carey role is not going to change much, Jones has always wanted energetic attacking midfielders that can press and score goals, that isn’t going to change. If we lost Carey, we’d use Knibbs in the same way and recruit a similar replacement 
    Agreed. Also don't think it follows that any progress in terms of style would mean fewer goals from Carey. Probably does mean fewer shots, but mainly the long range speculative and often blocked shots he takes because we have no ability to break a team down or create. No reason to think he wouldn't still be popping off high qualify shots from the edge of the area, which is where almost all of his goals came from, or crashing the box which is what NJ always asks of his 10
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 33,726
    SDAddick said:
    I know the Charlton life scouting network only goes as far as former players so how about Karlan Grant?

    positives - experienced in the championship with some premier league experience. 

    Negatives - I would get wound up with people calling him KAG despite him dropping the Ahearn part a long time ago!!
    Positives: I believe he's brought the Ahearne part back
    On Soccer Saturday last weekend it was indeed Ahearn-Grant when he scored.
  • Crispywood
    Crispywood Posts: 1,964
    I know the Charlton life scouting network only goes as far as former players so how about Karlan Grant?

    positives - experienced in the championship with some premier league experience. 

    Negatives - I would get wound up with people calling him KAG despite him dropping the Ahearn part a long time ago!!
    Not sure if he’d pass Jones no pricks test