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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 51,477
    Cafc451 said:
    Signing number three soon?.
    Is that Kim Lee Soon the South Korean playmaker ?
  • Cafc451
    Cafc451 Posts: 146
    The ex bolton player we have on trail.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,466
    Cafc451 said:
    The ex bolton player we have on trail.
    On the right path then.
  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,963

  • CB1
    CB1 Posts: 384
    mart77 said:

    Pretty sure this is fake news mate. He has a rich history of just making things up and hoping he gets something right. 
  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,963
    CB1 said:
    mart77 said:

    Pretty sure this is fake news mate. He has a rich history of just making things up and hoping he gets something right. 
    Fair do’s, I saw 15k followers and thought it could be legit for a L1 level account 👍🏼
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,402
    Redrobo said:
    charltonbob said:
    golfaddick said:
    Crispywood said:
    Can we just appreciate in the space of 24hours we may have gone from Gillesphey LCB and TC LWB to Koumetio LCB and Mesik LWB 
    Are these 2 new recruits world beaters then ? No-one has seen them play yet. Yes, they may turn out to be inspired signings like Lloyd Jones and Kayne Ramsay......or they might turn out to be duds like Tanto & Ahadme.

    The proof, as they say, is in the eating. 
    That's what I was thinking, I know nothing about Mesik but did see a video of "the best of" Koumetio & wasn't that impressed, though later somebody did say that there was a video uploaded from his younger days, whether it was that one I don't know. My concern is we are again (so far) signing players that are unproven at championship level & with Jones & Ramsey yet to sign new contracts, it's a slight worry  :#
    You can’t have it both ways. Trust your scouts or buy proven.
    Proven Championship players cost. A lot. Spend on one or two and sign some freebies? V trust your scouts and buy potential, sell for profit and build.


    And what gems have the scouts discovered over the last couple of seasons ?? More duds than gems I'd say. Not knocking the 2 newbies as I'd need to see them in action first, but for every Lloyd Jones there are 2 players who we loaned out last season as they weren't good enough. 
  • Addicksi
    Addicksi Posts: 277
    Chapple seems to be having an influence on our scouting now so fingers crossed for the midfield.
  • bertpalmer
    bertpalmer Posts: 1,824
    Sword65pf said:
    Wonder if we might see Sichenje tried out in midfield?
    i can see him as playing the coventry/coady role
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 53,093
    edited July 1
    gringo said:
    West Ham have today announced 42,000 season tickets sold.
    And there are some on here trying to tell us that we will get bigger attendances this season than W Ham.

    I offered a bet in favour of the Upbeats, but amazingly they declined.

    They would have lost before the season started, most of us knew.

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  • Crispywood
    Crispywood Posts: 2,562
    bertpalmer said:
    Sword65pf said:
    Wonder if we might see Sichenje tried out in midfield?
    i can see him as playing the coventry/coady role
    Probably has the techinque for it but whether he would have the positional awareness IQ and engine is another question. 

    Personally think the back 3 is perfect now and shouldn’t be touching it from now till the season starts.


  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 53,093
    edited July 1
    The majority seem to be pleased with our 2 new signings.

    I’ll be honest in that I’d never heard of either and didn’t know most of our fans watched so many Dundee and Heracles games last season.

    Heres hoping.
  • Steven81
    Steven81 Posts: 1,506
    Covered End said:
    The majority seem to be pleased with our 2 new signings.

    I’ll be honest in that I’d never heard of either and didn’t know most of our fans watched so many Dundee and Hereclese games last season.

    Heres hoping.
    I think because they are at a good age,cheap with a half decent pedigree and could improve but ultimately it's the midfield what makes or breaks this window we have to get in class proven or top pedigree players in this positions which you can't really skimp on as doc and cov aren't going to cut it.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,800
    Covered End said:
    The majority seem to be pleased with our 2 new signings.

    I’ll be honest in that I’d never heard of either and didn’t know most of our fans watched so many Dundee and Heracles games last season.

    Heres hoping.
    Personally I have a bit more faith in the club as a whole over the last few years, and given the progress we’ve made under Jones, I feel more inclined to be pleased with who we’ve been bringing in on that basis, but I know nothing about either so would never categorically say ‘great signing’ etc 

    and of course we now know that we came unstuck with some of the additions of last season, so we haven’t got it completely right.  

    I like the physicality of both signings so far. 

    It certainly makes a change from the days of signing Terrell Thomas, Ryan Inniss and those 3 loanees we brought in on deadline day a couple of years ago, the Man City duo and the Luton lad.  I can’t even remember their names now they were that forgettable 
  • Pavoren007
    Pavoren007 Posts: 2,655
    Sichenje was acknowledged as an early capture which would have otherwise been landed this summer, so that is three athletic/no nonsense CBs in to bolster Jones, Bell and Ramsay. That’ll be the 6 I reckon, Gough as the 7th back up, all else out perm or loan (Mitchell). 

    Wing backs and B2B mid have to be next priorities surely. 
  • AberystwythAddick
    AberystwythAddick Posts: 2,005
    Given last seasons recruiting disaster I’m going to wait until we’ve played a few games to judge any of these players. 
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 10,551
    Gough is one of the really interesting ones. Keep around because he can play CB/CDM and in an inevitable injury crisis that's handy to have or get him a really good League 1 loan for the season? 
  • ns9
    ns9 Posts: 113
    MarcusH26 said:
    Gough is one of the really interesting ones. Keep around because he can play CB/CDM and in an inevitable injury crisis that's handy to have or get him a really good League 1 loan for the season? 
    Gough was absolutely excellent when he played last season, didn’t put a foot wrong. I would be tempted to keep him for the inevitable scenario you’ve mentioned
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 51,477
    ns9 said:
    MarcusH26 said:
    Gough is one of the really interesting ones. Keep around because he can play CB/CDM and in an inevitable injury crisis that's handy to have or get him a really good League 1 loan for the season? 
    Gough was absolutely excellent when he played last season, didn’t put a foot wrong. I would be tempted to keep him for the inevitable scenario you’ve mentioned
    I’m not saying it couldn’t happen that we get an injury crisis but I think with the players we now have we’d be incredibly unlucky. On that basis I’d prefer Gough out in league one to get games and experience rather than have him kicking his heels at Sparrows. 
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,744
    MarcusH26 said:
    Gough is one of the really interesting ones. Keep around because he can play CB/CDM and in an inevitable injury crisis that's handy to have or get him a really good League 1 loan for the season? 
    Possibly a bit of both - get him half a season on loan to bring him on and from January he can start to fight for a squad place. Or alternatively he stays until January and then maybe a loan out depending on how we're doing.

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  • Pavoren007
    Pavoren007 Posts: 2,655
    AberystwythAddick said:
    Given last seasons recruiting disaster I’m going to wait until we’ve played a few games to judge any of these players. 
    Bell, Kelman, Clarke, Bree, Coady, Dykes, Carey and Knibbs were all ok imho. Knibbs was injury hit but that lad has an eye for goal and fully fit all season I reckon will hit 6-8 which is a big tick at this level. 

    Appreciate some were way off the mark too but don’t think the overall incomings were disastrous last year. We’re going to get hits and misses. When clubs accumulate c15 hits they are the ones that ordinarily charge into the promotion push. May take us another season or two but think we are making progress.
  • NabySarr
    NabySarr Posts: 6,217
    AberystwythAddick said:
    RC_CAFC said:
    AberystwythAddick said:
    Given last seasons recruiting disaster I’m going to wait until we’ve played a few games to judge any of these players. 
    We stayed up. It wasn't a disaster.
    Two of are most expensive signings of the last 10 years were loaned back to league one. That is a disaster. 
    We also signed 2 players on a free that were probably in our top 3 players of the season. It can’t have been that bad if we managed to stay up 
  • stoneroses19
    stoneroses19 Posts: 7,743
    edited July 2
    AberystwythAddick said:
    RC_CAFC said:
    AberystwythAddick said:
    Given last seasons recruiting disaster I’m going to wait until we’ve played a few games to judge any of these players. 
    We stayed up. It wasn't a disaster.
    Two of are most expensive signings of the last 10 years were loaned back to league one. That is a disaster. 
    Disaster would have been the majority of incoming players being awful and us being relegated. That didn’t happen. Because two players didn’t work out last season doesn’t mean we had a “recruiting disaster”. We were new to the championship and some signings didn’t work out, it happens. 
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,284
    AberystwythAddick said:
    Given last seasons recruiting disaster I’m going to wait until we’ve played a few games to judge any of these players. 
    No. You need to judge them now. And with extreme prejudice. Thats the Charlton way
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 39,191
    Covered End said:
    The majority seem to be pleased with our 2 new signings.

    I’ll be honest in that I’d never heard of either and didn’t know most of our fans watched so many Dundee and Heracles games last season.

    Heres hoping.
    Neither strike me as walking straight into the starting 11 ahead of Edwards and Bell, two of our better players. We arguably needed better depth in those positions over two immediate first choices.

    Jones has a good record with defensive signings though so I’m hopeful. They’re young enough to improve and may need time to settle in.

    The midfield and right wing back signings will be the most interesting for me, I hope that’s where the bulk of the budget is going. Get those right and it could really improve us.
  • Ruffdiamond
    Ruffdiamond Posts: 83
    The recruitment will be a disaster if they don’t address the midfield problem .

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