Summer Window 2026 - Rumours and Discussion (DEADLINE DAY from Page 814)

PeaksAndValleys said:

Think some people are being very harsh on Carey. Agreed he hasn't been amazing first few games, and that was a pretty glaring error on Sat not to slide Miles in. But he's not been awful. Still putting himself about loads, still driving the ball up the pitch pretty regularly. He got a good shot off against West Ham that was well saved. He's still a very important part of the team imo.

Also in terms of progress, he is undoubtedly getting his head up more and passing - hasn't always picked the right option but for a lot of last season he was just running headlong into tackles.  He still brings what he brought last year and he's showing positive signs where we need improvement. 

Jones and his coaches need to be hammering it in to him that he needs to look for a pass to a player in a better position when he has an opposition player on his heels and another right in front of him. I agree he is a good ball carrier and has a goal in him, but too often he is still simply looking to get a shot off when it isn’t the right option.

JustCharlton said:

TC has deleted the snapchat story
The club probably told him off 🤣

Nooooooo!!!! Dont tell him off until the contract is signed 

Yeah I'd have Knibbs over Carey as a workrate monster

I reckon if Carey had poor work rate he would have been hooked from the team by now. 

sam3110 said:

Yeah I'd have Knibbs over Carey as a workrate monster

Absolutely no way 

ns9 said:

wolfgang said:

I will be pleased and relieved if JRS signs, as I think he will strengthen our first XI, and we are unlikely to sign anyone else as good at this late stage of the window.  However, in an ideal world, I would rather we had signed, for a similar amount of money, Jordan Holsgrove, or someone of that ilk, as we will still be left with a paper-thin midfield that will look vulnerable if Chalobah is injured. And that was obviously NJ's strategy for the window, too.

On another matter, why has no report been posted of our u18's 3-1 win over Huddersfield on Saturday?

Given our recent history of dreadful injury records and paper thin squads I think depth is always a big part of the puzzle, however in the position you reference we currently have Coventry, Chalobah, Ouma, Mwamba, Docherty and (if need be) JRC and even Carey who NJ I think ideally wants to play deeper. I’m not sure there’s space for much more realistically, even if one goes out 

Chalobah is notoriously injury prone. if he were not, he would not be with us because he is real class. 

Ouma is a punt.  He be wonderful or may be crap. We will not know until which months after the window closes.

Mwamba we have great hopes for, but has looked lost in his two cameos so far, so may take some months to be worth a place in the team.

Docherty, JRC and Carey are all crap and should be nowhere a Championship side. JRC is onw of the worst players I have ever seen in a Charlton shirt. He finds it hard to break into a slow trot. Maybe our best passer, but that is not enough.

Coventry has played really well this season. So much better without Docherty confusing him. But that is only three games. After three seasons of League One standard play, where he looked solid but unenterprising, I have yet to be convinced he will maintain his new level. 

We need a rugged box-to-box MF in there who can defend when called on. Someone like George Dobson. I know we cannot sign him, because a section of posters throw temper tantrums at the thought of re-signing former players, but someone of that type. Sam Morsy would have been ideal. He left on a free.

sam3110 said:

Yeah I'd have Knibbs over Carey as a workrate monster

Based on what? Carey scored the goals that kept us up last year and works his nuts off.

Unless you've watched loads of Knibbs at Reading in league one and are basing it on a division lower, no one knows really how good Knibbs will be in the champ. 

That would be a shot in the dark to get rid of a guy who's done it already at this level (who has started slowly this year) for a guy who's totally unproven 

wolfgang said:

ns9 said:

wolfgang said:

I will be pleased and relieved if JRS signs, as I think he will strengthen our first XI, and we are unlikely to sign anyone else as good at this late stage of the window.  However, in an ideal world, I would rather we had signed, for a similar amount of money, Jordan Holsgrove, or someone of that ilk, as we will still be left with a paper-thin midfield that will look vulnerable if Chalobah is injured. And that was obviously NJ's strategy for the window, too.

On another matter, why has no report been posted of our u18's 3-1 win over Huddersfield on Saturday?

Given our recent history of dreadful injury records and paper thin squads I think depth is always a big part of the puzzle, however in the position you reference we currently have Coventry, Chalobah, Ouma, Mwamba, Docherty and (if need be) JRC and even Carey who NJ I think ideally wants to play deeper. I’m not sure there’s space for much more realistically, even if one goes out 

Chalobah is notoriously injury prone. if he were not, he would not be with us because he is real class. 

Ouma is a punt.  He be wonderful or may be crap. We will not know until which months after the window closes.

Mwamba we have great hopes for, but has looked lost in his two cameos so far, so may take some months to be worth a place in the team.

Docherty, JRC and Carey are all crap and should be nowhere a Championship side. JRC is onw of the worst players I have ever seen in a Charlton shirt. He finds it hard to break into a slow trot. Maybe our best passer, but that is not enough.

Coventry has played really well this season. So much better without Docherty confusing him. But that is only three games. After three seasons of League One standard play, where he looked solid but unenterprising, I have yet to be convinced he will maintain his new level. 

We need a rugged box-to-box MF in there who can defend when called on. Someone like George Dobson. I know we cannot sign him, because a section of posters throw temper tantrums at the thought of re-signing former players, but someone of that type. Sam Morsy would have been ideal. He left on a free.

Are you competing with Golfie for the pessimistic fan of the year award 🤣

wolfgang said:

ns9 said:

wolfgang said:

I will be pleased and relieved if JRS signs, as I think he will strengthen our first XI, and we are unlikely to sign anyone else as good at this late stage of the window.  However, in an ideal world, I would rather we had signed, for a similar amount of money, Jordan Holsgrove, or someone of that ilk, as we will still be left with a paper-thin midfield that will look vulnerable if Chalobah is injured. And that was obviously NJ's strategy for the window, too.

On another matter, why has no report been posted of our u18's 3-1 win over Huddersfield on Saturday?

Given our recent history of dreadful injury records and paper thin squads I think depth is always a big part of the puzzle, however in the position you reference we currently have Coventry, Chalobah, Ouma, Mwamba, Docherty and (if need be) JRC and even Carey who NJ I think ideally wants to play deeper. I’m not sure there’s space for much more realistically, even if one goes out 

Chalobah is notoriously injury prone. if he were not, he would not be with us because he is real class. 

Ouma is a punt.  He be wonderful or may be crap. We will not know until which months after the window closes.

Mwamba we have great hopes for, but has looked lost in his two cameos so far, so may take some months to be worth a place in the team.

Docherty, JRC and Carey are all crap and should be nowhere a Championship side. JRC is onw of the worst players I have ever seen in a Charlton shirt. He finds it hard to break into a slow trot. Maybe our best passer, but that is not enough.

Coventry has played really well this season. So much better without Docherty confusing him. But that is only three games. After three seasons of League One standard play, where he looked solid but unenterprising, I have yet to be convinced he will maintain his new level. 

We need a rugged box-to-box MF in there who can defend when called on. Someone like George Dobson. I know we cannot sign him, because a section of posters throw temper tantrums at the thought of re-signing former players, but someone of that type. Sam Morsy would have been ideal. He left on a free.

Ouma is the player for that box to box midfielder. 

Covered_End_Lad said:

An average of 3.2 total ball recoveries per 90 minutes places Sonny Carey slightly below the positional average for modern attacking midfielders in the EFL Championship. The average at this level is 3.5-4.5 per 90.

Got any stats for how many times he picks his head up per 90? Got to be 0. 

Jones has a very specific set of demands of his players. If Carey wasn’t meeting them he’d be out of the team. He’s worth his place, certainly for now.

Covered_End_Lad said:

An average of 3.2 total ball recoveries per 90 minutes places Sonny Carey slightly below the positional average for modern attacking midfielders in the EFL Championship. The average at this level is 3.5-4.5 per 90.

That’s one stat in a team that we know changed from pressing his to sitting deep later on in the season, and had one of the lowest budgets. We were never likely to press high and aggressively all season long.

Whoever ends up as first choice in that position should press more effectively compared to last season if we’re able to stick to 4-2-3-1 for most of the season.

I don’t think we’ve seen enough of Knibbs in terms of a run of starts to know how he’d compare to Carey. Both are hard working goalscoring attacking midfielders than creative playmakers who can pick a clever pass.

Carey has areas to improve but I wouldn’t write him off doing so. I know one of his games was in the cup but he has a goal and 2 assists so far, it’s not as if he hasn’t contributed. He went left to Grant when Leaburn was in the better position, but in a similar position against Cheltenham he passed to Godden instead of TC and Godden then scored.