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Nathaniel Chalobah signs a one year deal

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  • The fact that we're still signing Burke like players, great but rarely fit, means we're still struggling to compete in this league with recruitment, and that's solely down to budget. That's fine, it's where we are, just hope we find some of these magical extra investors soon or NJ will have to do most of the heavy lifting again this season.
  • jose
    jose Posts: 1,695
    Squad number?
    Anybody know?
  • Southbank
    Southbank Posts: 5,794
    thenewbie said:
    So he's the new Conor Coady, a defensive midfielder, whereas we are still missing a George Dobson or Scott Parker replacement. Is that fair?
    Thats how I see it too.
    Iniesta
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 14,765
    jose said:
    Squad number?
    Anybody know?

  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 28,024
    He made his debut on 15 October 2018 as a substitute for Harry Winks in the first minute of stoppage time in England's 3–2 win away to Spain in the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League A, with the competitive status of the fixture tying him to England permanently from then on.[52] As he came on in added time for his only England cap, Chalobah officially has an England career of zero minutes, but in actual time he played for 6 minutes and 54 seconds. This is one second more than Martin Kelly, who holds the record for shortest England career in actual time played.[53]
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,816
    So he's the new Conor Coady, a defensive midfielder, whereas we are still missing a George Dobson or Scott Parker replacement. Is that fair?
    Coady with legs. 

    Bags of experience & looked miles better than our existing DM's in the PSF. Just need to keep him fit & he'll be great addition. 
    Coady, to be fair,  has a very good injury record. We incorrectly thought he was over the hill before he joined us, whereas with Chalobah, it's his injury record which is the serious worry.
  • JFo
    JFo Posts: 28
    edited August 7
    I think another unmentioned plus about Chalobah, is that he could be a fantastic influence on Mwamba, who can learn a lot from Chalobah’s talent and experience.
    Mwamba could be very special, and Chalobah can help him accelerate his development.
  • Welcome to Charlton, a great club when fit.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 7,553
    Gribbo said:
    At least we know if he'll be singing when he's winning and when he gets knocked down, he'll get up again
    This one deserves more LOLs because its so bad  :D  
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 24,172
    Southbank said:
    Excellent signing. He won't have to play 90 minutes every game. Imagine he will swap minutes with Coventry so hopefully we can keep him reasonably fit.
    So we'll race out the gate at the start of games with him pulling the strings and going 1-0 up in 3 minutes, protecting that until he needs subbing to protect him, bringing on Coventry where we then concede 2?
    Yes, Conor Coventry is a small child with a water pistol. Any minutes he spends on the pitch for us are minutes spent losing games because he is rubbish and bad

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  • Get Holsgrove or the like in and NC will be a bonus ball of gold standard.
    Excited I am
  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,621
    If he says fit I am sure he will help Charlton, but looking at his recent records its a big if.

    Dont think this is the Big signing Nathan was talking about yesterday.
  • Sword65pf
    Sword65pf Posts: 2,267
    Get Holsgrove or the like in and NC will be a bonus ball of gold standard.
    Excited I am
    Thanks for the the words of wisdom mr yoda😜
  • fenlandaddick
    fenlandaddick Posts: 2,228
    Liked the look of him vs Chelmsford, seems like a good solid signing and a nice chap too.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 28,417
    We’re absolutely minted. 
  • Sword65pf
    Sword65pf Posts: 2,267
    We’re absolutely minted. 
    Powder dry!!!
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,628
    I remember when he first went on loan from Chelsea to Watford. The blues insisted that Watford paid all of his wages which were reputed to be 30 grand a week. He was that highly rated. 
  • Gribbo said:
    At least we know if he'll be singing when he's winning and when he gets knocked down, he'll get up again
    This one deserves more LOLs because its so bad  :D  
    PWK (Posting without knowledge)

    Are we getting our Chumbawambas and Shalamars mixed up?

    (The Second Time Around", "A Night to Remember", and "Make That Move".)
  • 2121
    2121 Posts: 1,684
    Fantastic!  Welcome aboard nate! 
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 24,643
    Leuth said:
    Southbank said:
    Excellent signing. He won't have to play 90 minutes every game. Imagine he will swap minutes with Coventry so hopefully we can keep him reasonably fit.
    So we'll race out the gate at the start of games with him pulling the strings and going 1-0 up in 3 minutes, protecting that until he needs subbing to protect him, bringing on Coventry where we then concede 2?
    Yes, Conor Coventry is a small child with a water pistol. Any minutes he spends on the pitch for us are minutes spent losing games because he is rubbish and bad
    I knew you would come around eventually 

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  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 3,564
    So another injury prone player, who's minutes will have to be managed. How many of the old and lame do we need. 
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,944
    Welcome Nathaniel (but when was the last time we signed a player and said 'great signing IF he stays fit' and he actually stayed fit?)
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 5,054
    If there's any greater indicator of how progressively more deranged football fans get over the close season it's talking about a midfielder who was part of the squad that survived that season and going from 'we should sign an improvement on that player' to 'we are guaranteed to get relegated if he plays'. I was thinking about some of our best results last season; Blackburn, Coventry, Birmingham and Hull at home, Ipswich, Boro and Leicester away, Conor Coventry started all but two of those and played in all except the Hull game. He's a decent player who we need more competition for and there will be games where he's more or less suited depending on who we play. He's not some bargain bin Matt Smith we picked up in desperation. Football fans are getting so much weirder every year about their own players
    Coincidence  ;)
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,878
    Not unexpected .. welcome Nat (excuse the abbreviation) and PLEASE stay injury free for a LONG time
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 24,118
    edited August 7
    Potentially the worst player to get an England cap this millennium - but that's still quite an impressive accolade for a Charlton player 

    Weird way of looking at it !

    Nathaniel Chalobah has 40 England U21 caps and of course there's jeopardy with this signing but at long last the penny has dropped with CAFC and a 1 year  contract makes sense for a player who is a championship proven player IF he can stay fit.
  • Watameire
    Watameire Posts: 141
    I hope this doesn’t stop us signing a proper box to box midfielder and shipping Coventry out 
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 11,125
    Welcome Nathaniel! Hope you’ll find a home at the club.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 14,765
    Talal said:
    Welcome Nathaniel (but when was the last time we signed a player and said 'great signing IF he stays fit' and he actually stayed fit?)
    Well obviously with Reece B-. But before that when we got in Dan Potts and he played loads of.. Er Pan Camara put his injury issues behind... Todd Kane...Ryan Inniss...Chuks Aneke...Pape Souare...Jonny Williams and Adam Matthews never missed a d-...OK, fine, maybe we're not good at taking injury-prone players and getting them fit again but look at it another way: what about all the perfectly healthy players we've signed and crippled for life? No-one ever gives us credit for that!
  • ButtleJR
    ButtleJR Posts: 1,747
    edited August 7
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