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I think it’s simple id classify a RW as someone who works best off the right and a LW as someone who works best off the left none of our wingers besides Apter look comfortable on the right.FirenzeAddick said:Trying to bracket players into RW or LW is a bit of a falsehood in the modern game. Which is why Jones calls them 'one on one' attackers.For example, if you want a winger to invert on the left and come inside to play off the striker or cut in and shoot.... TC is your man. But if you want someone to beat their man on the outside and whip in a cross from the left, then he isn't and that's where someone like Alli might be better suited.Having several options allows us to switch up our tactical approach and be less one dimensional, as well as rotating and changing the pace of a game.TC and Grant didn't have a great time out on the right against Cheltenham, but that's a very limited sample size and w know we are addressing that area of the pitch.Whether they’re right or left footed is irrelevant obviously changes how they attack but the idea is they’re playing to their strengths and best ability on their best side. Mills for example is right footed but he’s better off the right than the left0 -
Jones said the winger will be later in the window .. he knows the player he wantsBerkshire1970 said:I see a fair amount of rumours and transfer activity this week & still no right winger. Goals for Charlton are going to be hard to come by & I can only put it down to lack of funds. I expect loans to come in over the next few days. Uninspiring transfer window.5 -
We should still be expecting a decent outlay on at least one player. Carter told us we'd be spending more this summer than last.3
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With bigger wages and signing on fees I doubt we’re that far short of last summers outlay already. Enough in reserve I suspect for the right player.J BLOCK said:We should still be expecting a decent outlay on at least one player. Carter told us we'd be spending more this summer than last.7 -
We've gone from nearly league 2 to staying up last season in the championship in 2.5 seasons, if you can't find pleasure in that then kindly fuck off and support Bayern Munich or someone who just wins every week and bulldozes every side Infront of themsillav nitram said:
Well, supporting Charlton is far from a pleasurable experience!DDOUBLEE said:Do some of you actually enjoy football? Just moan, moan, moan constantly.14 -
No he didn't he said the overall outlay will roughly be the same. We've spent less on fees and more on wages so far. I wouldn't be surprised if the squad had a small "avoid relegation" bonus too for last seasonJ BLOCK said:We should still be expecting a decent outlay on at least one player. Carter told us we'd be spending more this summer than last.2 -
Aggressive positivity Vs Apathetic negativity, who will win???3
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Berkshire1970 said:
Last week and the week before. I said we had the best manager in the league who’s achieved miracles. What about that?TheHerminator said:
I'm genuinely not sure I've ever seen you post anything positiveBerkshire1970 said:I see a fair amount of rumours and transfer activity this week & still no right winger. Goals for Charlton are going to be hard to come by & I can only put it down to lack of funds. I expect loans to come in over the next few days. Uninspiring transfer window.
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Don’t worry, because the moaners are not in charge, our most successful manager in years is. In fact their doom mongering and ill informed opinions on this forum has zero influence on anything connected to the club. Phew!DDOUBLEE said:Do some of you actually enjoy football? Just moan, moan, moan constantly.0 -
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YannTheMann said:Id love to be wrong but just can't see us bringing in Holsgrove at all, feels like he fancies a bigger move than us from what press are reporting
It always sounded a long shot when you hear the player doesn't fancy Charlton. (True or false ?)
Also if Holsgrove has other options, then that old cliche 'A bigger club' does ring true, with slim chance of this move ever coming to fruition for CAFC;
Which is a shame but we will get knock backs.
This is why we have tried the left field route of Kenyan internationals, Nairobi Timmy and Butere Collins,(last window) Millwall Danny, Dundee Billy, Luton Alli, Slovak Ivan and the return of the prodigal Son, Karlan.
We may still be surprised but only If others drop out for Estoril Jordan.
If we add Camp Freddie and Professor Simon Peach we have a team to do the Italian Job.
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Wolves are apparently on the verge of signing Jordan James for £10m from Rennes.soapboxsam said:YannTheMann said:Id love to be wrong but just can't see us bringing in Holsgrove at all, feels like he fancies a bigger move than us from what press are reporting
It always sounded a long shot when you hear the player doesn't fancy Charlton. (True or false ?)
Also if Holsgrove has other options, then that old cliche 'A bigger club' does ring true, with slim chance of this move ever coming to fruition for CAFC;
Which is a shame but we will get knock backs.
This is why we have tried the left field route of Kenyan internationals, Nairobi Timmy and Butere Collins,(last window) Millwall Danny, Dundee Billy, Luton Alli, Slovak Ivan and the return of the prodigal Son, Karlan.
We may still be surprised but only If others drop out for Estoril Jordan.
If we add Camp Freddie and Professor Simon Peach we have a team to do the Italian Job.Don’t know if this officially means they’re out the race for Holsgrove because these clubs just seem to have ridiculous money to throw around for anyone and everyone, but thought it was worth mentioning as you said about others dropping out for him!0 -
TheNotoriousBWP said:
Wolves are apparently on the verge of signing Jordan James for £10m from Rennes.soapboxsam said:YannTheMann said:Id love to be wrong but just can't see us bringing in Holsgrove at all, feels like he fancies a bigger move than us from what press are reporting
It always sounded a long shot when you hear the player doesn't fancy Charlton. (True or false ?)
Also if Holsgrove has other options, then that old cliche 'A bigger club' does ring true, with slim chance of this move ever coming to fruition for CAFC;
Which is a shame but we will get knock backs.
This is why we have tried the left field route of Kenyan internationals, Nairobi Timmy and Butere Collins,(last window) Millwall Danny, Dundee Billy, Luton Alli, Slovak Ivan and the return of the prodigal Son, Karlan.
We may still be surprised but only If others drop out for Estoril Jordan.
If we add Camp Freddie and Professor Simon Peach we have a team to do the Italian Job.Don’t know if this officially means they’re out the race for Holsgrove because these clubs just seem to have ridiculous money to throw around for anyone and everyone, but thought it was worth mentioning as you said about others dropping out for him!
I did have Wolves as one of the clubs interested and until I checked just now I thought his Dad Paul Holsgrove played for Wolves but Stoke, Millwall, Reading etc but not the Wanderers.
Paul was playing for Hibernian when Jordan was born In Scotland hence why JH can play for the Jocks.
Edit: It was Grandad John Holsgrove who played for Wolves 180 times.0 -
Apter... we already have 2 right wingers.NabySarr said:
He put a couple of good balls in from the right in pre-season. You are right he’s much better on the left thoughgolfaddick said:
Only if we play him on the left. He has done nothing on the right to show that he will either...eastterrace6168 said:Campbell signing and extension must be regarded as a positive..
1) put a cross in for our loan striker to attack
2) cut onto his left & shoot.
I can see us trying to shoehorn him into the team by starting him on the right & like last Sat have to switch him with Grant or Alli after 30 mins.
As @Berkshire1970 said above.....I'd rather take £3m now & use that money on a proper Right winger.
Alli has played on the right a fair bit in his career. So I think we can have a new right winger and Alli on the right, Grant and TC on the left
No reason why we can’t keep TC and also sign a new right winger. £3m won’t get you much anyway, which is why we are probably looking at the loan market for the winger position anyway0 -
TheNotoriousBWP said:
Wolves are apparently on the verge of signing Jordan James for £10m from Rennes.soapboxsam said:YannTheMann said:Id love to be wrong but just can't see us bringing in Holsgrove at all, feels like he fancies a bigger move than us from what press are reporting
It always sounded a long shot when you hear the player doesn't fancy Charlton. (True or false ?)
Also if Holsgrove has other options, then that old cliche 'A bigger club' does ring true, with slim chance of this move ever coming to fruition for CAFC;
Which is a shame but we will get knock backs.
This is why we have tried the left field route of Kenyan internationals, Nairobi Timmy and Butere Collins,(last window) Millwall Danny, Dundee Billy, Luton Alli, Slovak Ivan and the return of the prodigal Son, Karlan.
We may still be surprised but only If others drop out for Estoril Jordan.
If we add Camp Freddie and Professor Simon Peach we have a team to do the Italian Job.Don’t know if this officially means they’re out the race for Holsgrove because these clubs just seem to have ridiculous money to throw around for anyone and everyone, but thought it was worth mentioning as you said about others dropping out for him!
Maybe the "he's not really interested in "insert club" is just his agent trying to up fees, then clubs are losing interest and dropping out?0 -
TC is better than Apter though. If we can keep TC I’d rather do that and lose ApterSteveACS said:
Apter... we already have 2 right wingers.NabySarr said:
He put a couple of good balls in from the right in pre-season. You are right he’s much better on the left thoughgolfaddick said:
Only if we play him on the left. He has done nothing on the right to show that he will either...eastterrace6168 said:Campbell signing and extension must be regarded as a positive..
1) put a cross in for our loan striker to attack
2) cut onto his left & shoot.
I can see us trying to shoehorn him into the team by starting him on the right & like last Sat have to switch him with Grant or Alli after 30 mins.
As @Berkshire1970 said above.....I'd rather take £3m now & use that money on a proper Right winger.
Alli has played on the right a fair bit in his career. So I think we can have a new right winger and Alli on the right, Grant and TC on the left
No reason why we can’t keep TC and also sign a new right winger. £3m won’t get you much anyway, which is why we are probably looking at the loan market for the winger position anyway6 -
No chance IMOShootersHillGuru said:
With bigger wages and signing on fees I doubt we’re that far short of last summers outlay already. Enough in reserve I suspect for the right player.J BLOCK said:We should still be expecting a decent outlay on at least one player. Carter told us we'd be spending more this summer than last.1 -
When people talk budget it’s usually in reference to wage budget. That is where all the quotes around where we were placed last season in terms of budget were referencingJ BLOCK said:We should still be expecting a decent outlay on at least one player. Carter told us we'd be spending more this summer than last.
Our wage budget will have gone up quite a bit, we’ve signed more experienced players this summer and we’re going to have a bigger squad so we’re paying more players this summer
If you want to get really technical, the overall spend this summer will be much higher than last, because this summer we are probably paying an installment on all those transfer fees from last summer, plus the first payments on the fees from this summer and an increased wage bill. So they are definitely paying more money this summer than they did last summer overall1 -
I would hope for a new Goalkeeper or Cent forward. We are so poor in them area's but doubt it's going to happen.1
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Last season we spent 8.9M upfront with a reported 11.5M in overall transfer fees.J BLOCK said:We should still be expecting a decent outlay on at least one player. Carter told us we'd be spending more this summer than last.
if We assume we’re covering the other 2.5M in last year fees this summer + 1.8M Sichenje +2M so far that’s already 6.3M this summer.That would leave only 2.6M which you can say has gone towards the increased wage bill and potentially other behind the scenes improvements as well so we’ve actually invested more than what we would assume5 -
Irankunda going to Sporting. Could Watford look at TC as a potential replacement?0
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They only sign players from udineseCallumcafc said:Irankunda going to Sporting. Could Watford look at TC as a potential replacement?6 -
Could very well be, mate. We know exactly how agents are these days!EugenesAxe said:TheNotoriousBWP said:
Wolves are apparently on the verge of signing Jordan James for £10m from Rennes.soapboxsam said:YannTheMann said:Id love to be wrong but just can't see us bringing in Holsgrove at all, feels like he fancies a bigger move than us from what press are reporting
It always sounded a long shot when you hear the player doesn't fancy Charlton. (True or false ?)
Also if Holsgrove has other options, then that old cliche 'A bigger club' does ring true, with slim chance of this move ever coming to fruition for CAFC;
Which is a shame but we will get knock backs.
This is why we have tried the left field route of Kenyan internationals, Nairobi Timmy and Butere Collins,(last window) Millwall Danny, Dundee Billy, Luton Alli, Slovak Ivan and the return of the prodigal Son, Karlan.
We may still be surprised but only If others drop out for Estoril Jordan.
If we add Camp Freddie and Professor Simon Peach we have a team to do the Italian Job.Don’t know if this officially means they’re out the race for Holsgrove because these clubs just seem to have ridiculous money to throw around for anyone and everyone, but thought it was worth mentioning as you said about others dropping out for him!
Maybe the "he's not really interested in "insert club" is just his agent trying to up fees, then clubs are losing interest and dropping out?Don’t know if this is Cawley’s thinking as well though as he’s seemed under the impression pretty much from the start that we very likely wouldn’t get him and recently said that’ll be our midfield transfers done now after signing Ouma 🤔0 -
A lot now comes down to who goes out, both from a squad space perspective and also because any money coming in may change our own plans.Crispywood said:
Last season we spent 8.9M upfront with a reported 11.5M in overall transfer fees.J BLOCK said:We should still be expecting a decent outlay on at least one player. Carter told us we'd be spending more this summer than last.
if We assume we’re covering the other 2.5M in last year fees this summer + 1.8M Sichenje +2M so far that’s already 6.3M this summer.That would leave only 2.6M which you can say has gone towards the increased wage bill and potentially other behind the scenes improvements as well so we’ve actually invested more than what we would assume
If Kaminski goes, he won't bring in a lot of money but we will need a new senior keeper, if Campbell leaves he should go for enough to source a decent replacement. If all we manage to do is sell off a couple of fringe players and loan a few out, then most likely we are looking at maybe the odd loanee or two in.
I dont think we've finished our business yet but I do think we are now playing a waiting game.0 -
Be interesting to see where he does end up, or nowhere.TheNotoriousBWP said:
Could very well be, mate. We know exactly how agents are these days!EugenesAxe said:TheNotoriousBWP said:
Wolves are apparently on the verge of signing Jordan James for £10m from Rennes.soapboxsam said:YannTheMann said:Id love to be wrong but just can't see us bringing in Holsgrove at all, feels like he fancies a bigger move than us from what press are reporting
It always sounded a long shot when you hear the player doesn't fancy Charlton. (True or false ?)
Also if Holsgrove has other options, then that old cliche 'A bigger club' does ring true, with slim chance of this move ever coming to fruition for CAFC;
Which is a shame but we will get knock backs.
This is why we have tried the left field route of Kenyan internationals, Nairobi Timmy and Butere Collins,(last window) Millwall Danny, Dundee Billy, Luton Alli, Slovak Ivan and the return of the prodigal Son, Karlan.
We may still be surprised but only If others drop out for Estoril Jordan.
If we add Camp Freddie and Professor Simon Peach we have a team to do the Italian Job.Don’t know if this officially means they’re out the race for Holsgrove because these clubs just seem to have ridiculous money to throw around for anyone and everyone, but thought it was worth mentioning as you said about others dropping out for him!
Maybe the "he's not really interested in "insert club" is just his agent trying to up fees, then clubs are losing interest and dropping out?Don’t know if this is Cawley’s thinking as well though as he’s seemed under the impression pretty much from the start that we very likely wouldn’t get him and recently said that’ll be our midfield transfers done now after signing Ouma 🤔1 -
Why have you assumed that we have paid all fees from this year upfront, but split last year's? Appreciate this is fag packet maths, but the logic isn't consistent.Crispywood said:
Last season we spent 8.9M upfront with a reported 11.5M in overall transfer fees.J BLOCK said:We should still be expecting a decent outlay on at least one player. Carter told us we'd be spending more this summer than last.
if We assume we’re covering the other 2.5M in last year fees this summer + 1.8M Sichenje +2M so far that’s already 6.3M this summer.That would leave only 2.6M which you can say has gone towards the increased wage bill and potentially other behind the scenes improvements as well so we’ve actually invested more than what we would assume0 -
I may have misunderstood but are we in for Holsgrove's grandad John now?4
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Wrexham have bid £8m for a young Norwegian centre back.0
