Summer Window 2026 - Rumours and Discussion

Starinnaddick · June 26

We are told that NJ does not like loans preferring to develop our own young players. However, last season showed that astute loans can payoff and if the budget has been cut as alleged NJ is going to have to utilise the loan market unless some of the younger players are ready to step up which I doubt although I have high hopes for Keenan Gough and Fullah.

fenaddick · June 26

MarcusH26 said:

Midfield is going to be the key - think you probably need at least 2 midfielders in the building , one holder to compete with Coventry and then an upgrade on Doc with a bit more quality on the ball. I'm not sure JRC will be here either.

Where do people ultimately see Fullah fitting in with Knibbs now back fit? Obviously he's got huge potential but do we look at a top end of League 1 loan for him and just get a season of senior football playing every week into him?

All depends on who else comes in but can see us playing two 10s at times and Carey playing as an 8. In both circumstances Fullah is then the back up 10

jose · June 26

Pelling1993 said:

We are not in a position to stockpile young players on the hope they become good enough. For that reason i'd 100% sell Karoy and as others have said, put a hefty sell-on fee in there.

You are probably right, but with one caveat.
We also stockpile a lot of expensive and dud signings.

ShootersHillGuru · June 26

Pelling1993 said:

We are not in a position to stockpile young players on the hope they become good enough. For that reason i'd 100% sell Karoy and as others have said, put a hefty sell-on fee in there.

Hefty sell on means a reduced “actual” fee. Karoy is currently surplus to requirements so a decent up front fee could be better business than not much up front and a Hail Mary sell on.

Bailey · June 26

I like both Tyreece and Karoy and in Karoy's case, I think he, alongside Fuller, Kanu and Mbick have every chance of making it, but players need to be moved on, Ahadme, Olaofe, Alex Mitchell and maybe Nathan Asiimwe and Rob Apter, would in my opinion, have a question mark over their futures here and quality upgrades need to be brought in. If Lyndon Dykes re-signs, then we have nine forwards, eight midfield players and I believe that most on here would declare that our forwards and midfield are not up to standard, something has to give, so if offers are made then I expect that consideration will be given to accepting those offers.

jose · June 26

MarcusH26 said:

Midfield is going to be the key - think you probably need at least 2 midfielders in the building , one holder to compete with Coventry and then an upgrade on Doc with a bit more quality on the ball. I'm not sure JRC will be here either.

Where do people ultimately see Fullah fitting in with Knibbs now back fit? Obviously he's got huge potential but do we look at a top end of League 1 loan for him and just get a season of senior football playing every week into him?

I would definitely keep Fullah with us. A permanent first team squadder, either starting or being a substitute.
Appearing at Championship level doesn’t seem to have phased him, so maybe playing at a lower level might make him develop poor habits, and make him think this pro footballer lark is easy.

Athletico Charlton · June 26

Would prefer to keep Karoy and loan him for the season. We would get all his wages covered and give him a chance to really push on. He has the physical attributes and the desire to be the best he can be.
Feel selling him will get us maybe £3-400K at best and that won't make any impact on our budget if we are serious about staying up.

lolwray · June 26

No room for sentiment re Karoy .A move would benefit all parties I say.If he goes I'd wish him well..he's a good athletes and a good character but we need better

SouthLincsAddick · June 26

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Sheffield United have just sold winger Andre Brooks for around £9m. They’ve been interested in TC previously, wouldn’t be surprised if he’s still on their list

Hopefully

Ah yes, the great idea of a team that struggles to create any chances selling their only player that creates chances from open play. Thankfully Nathan Jones isn’t that stupid and will be desperately trying to persuade TC to commit his future here, hopefully he manages too

If Sheffield United have just received 9 million for their player and we get an offer of say 2 million for Campbell is believe we should take it.
No need to get your nickers in a twist because someone has a different opinion.

And it’s my opinion that it would be stupid to want him to leave. Not sure why any Charlton fan would want a young player with potential to leave the club?

If he doesn’t sign a new contract then fair enough we will need to sell. Though £2m would be a poor deal if that’s the case

I doubt we would get anywhere near that.

I think we definitely would get that. If we’re getting no where near £2m then I’d just keep him even if he’s leaves on a free. Not worth losing him unless it’s a decent fee

So you would rather let a player go for nothing rather than receive some money. I hope you don't own a business.

So would you sell Lloyd Jones as well? He’s entering the last year of his contract. Football clubs aren’t the same as businesses.

Would you have sold Aribo and Bauer at the start of the 2018/19 season too?

If we aren’t getting decent bids for Jones, TC and Ramsay then we might as well keep them because getting relegated will cost a lot more than those small bids. Not sure if he’s too old yet but we might even get some money for TC next summer anyway

What has this got to do with the comment I replied to? Which was talking about the sale of one player, Campbell.

You said so you’d rather let a player go for nothing than get a fee for him? And commented that you hope I don’t own a business

Football isn’t a normal business. There are plenty of examples where keeping the player is worth more than a small transfer fee. As I said if we can’t get a good fee then there is no point selling, we need to stay up and a small transfer fee isn’t going to help as much as TC is. If it was only £2m you aren’t replacing him with that

Campbell is no Ryan Giggs.
3 goals and 2 assists last season is not good enough. We can get better.

Limiting Campbell’s contribution to just goals and assists is a huge lack of understanding of what he brings to the team

If you want to buy a player that does what Campbell does, and also has better end product, you’d need £10m. Andre Brooks (the player that started this conversation) is a similar player to Campbell, 6 goals and 2 assists last season and the same age and he’s just gone for that kind of money. Campbell actually starts over him for Jamaica

Campbell has incredibly rare physical attributes that teams will pay a lot of money for. He’d also be very difficult to replace, let alone upgrade on. If we keep developing him and he starts to return even slightly better numbers, he’s a £10m player if we have him on a decent contract. Fans wanting him to leave are very badly wrong. We need him on a new contract and £2m would be a very poor bit of business. We should be pushing the boat out hugely to keep him, because as that Brooks deal shows, he can be worth a lot of money if we can improve his numbers even slightly

Well said sir!

YannTheMann · June 26

In the least doom and gloom way possible, it is pretty notable that the only real significant rumours we've seen are academy player heading out the door. I don't think the perception would be at all negative if the fan perception was we were close to bringing in targets, just difficult trying to figure out what's happening at the moment. That being said it's very early in the window and I've got no doubts the recruitment team are working hard, we live in hope that we start seeing positive movement to help bring the Charlton buzz back soon and start trying to imagine how we'll lineup and play next season

Rothko · June 26

This is last summers business, with the exception of Carey, all the signings happened after July 1st

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–26_Charlton_Athletic_F.C._season#Transfers_in

shirty5 · June 26

Starinnaddick said:

We are told that NJ does not like loans preferring to develop our own young players. However, last season showed that astute loans can payoff and if the budget has been cut as alleged NJ is going to have to utilise the loan market unless some of the younger players are ready to step up which I doubt although I have high hopes for Keenan Gough and Fullah.

Would rather have 5 loans in for the season if they are better than what you currently have and it improves your chances of staying up/moving up the league table.

follett · June 26

YannTheMann said:

In the least doom and gloom way possible, it is pretty notable that the only real significant rumours we've seen are academy player heading out the door. I don't think the perception would be at all negative if the fan perception was we were close to bringing in targets, just difficult trying to figure out what's happening at the moment. That being said it's very early in the window and I've got no doubts the recruitment team are working hard, we live in hope that we start seeing positive movement to help bring the Charlton buzz back soon and start trying to imagine how we'll lineup and play next season

Wouldn’t worry about it. Since Methven left, rumours haven’t really been getting out. If we are off to Slovenia and still haven’t seen much movement I’ll be disappointed

WSS · June 26

I see Anderson very similar to Bradley Pritchard.

Nice guy, hard working, never fault effort but just not quite good enough. That being said, I expect Anderson to have a longer career in league football than Bradley did after he left us.

shine166 · June 26

There's only so many players you can keep 'just incase', but unless we improve the squad, the 'just incase' will be us returning to league 1.

WSS · June 26

Where does Justin Case play?

DennisBooth · June 26

WSS said:

I see Anderson very similar to Bradley Pritchard.

Nice guy, hard working, never fault effort but just not quite good enough. That being said, I expect Anderson to have a longer career in league football than Bradley did after he left us.

Wasn’t Pritchard older than Anderson?

25 when he joined, 28 when he left.

eastterrace6168 · June 26

WSS said:

Where does Justin Case play?

Outside the box...

Covered_End_Lad · June 26

Terry Taylor has signed for Stevenage

covered_end_junior · June 26

Stevenage FC Move For Terry Taylor - Stevenage FC

superdulvertonred · June 26

Good signing for them sure he will do well there

NabySarr · June 26

shirty5 said:

Starinnaddick said:

We are told that NJ does not like loans preferring to develop our own young players. However, last season showed that astute loans can payoff and if the budget has been cut as alleged NJ is going to have to utilise the loan market unless some of the younger players are ready to step up which I doubt although I have high hopes for Keenan Gough and Fullah.

Would rather have 5 loans in for the season if they are better than what you currently have and it improves your chances of staying up/moving up the league table.

You don’t want to be reliant on loan players. I think having a couple is fine, but 5 is too many as then next season you are needing at least 5 new players again and it’s very difficult to keep being that successful with the loan market so eventually you’ll fail. Just look at orient in our play off season vs last season

I think Jones’ attitude to loan players is a good one. He’s not totally against them, but prefers developing our own players with loans there if we need them to top up the squad with a couple of quality players or fill a gap in January

RonnieMoore · June 26

Sam Smith joining Derby ??

golfaddick · June 26

Rothko said:

This is last summers business, with the exception of Carey, all the signings happened after July 1st

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–26_Charlton_Athletic_F.C._season#Transfers_in

We only knew what division we'd be in on May 25th last year. That was around 4 weeks later than this season.

So if you are using that as a benchmark we are behind last season.

We've had all May & June this season

golfaddick · June 26

covered_end_junior said:

Stevenage FC Move For Terry Taylor - Stevenage FC

Wrong thread.

He is no longer our player 😄

thenewbie · June 26

Covered_End_Lad said:

Terry Taylor has signed for Stevenage

Glad he's got a move, seems to be one of those players who never really settled in one way or another.

eastterrace6168 · June 26

Anyone got an idea what's happened to Terry Taylor...🤔

ShootersHillGuru · June 26

thenewbie said:

Covered_End_Lad said:

Terry Taylor has signed for Stevenage

Glad he's got a move, seems to be one of those players who never really settled in one way or another.

Probably one of our strangest signings and it a high bar.

ForeverAddickted · June 26

eastterrace6168 said:

Anyone got an idea what's happened to Terry Taylor...🤔

Dunno, but he's gonna feel like a new signing for someone

MarcusH26 · June 26

RonnieMoore said:

Sam Smith joining Derby ??

Source???? I can't see anything on this on any of the major sites or local journos for either side

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