Charlton are reportedly watching Sutton winger Roarie Deacon. Wandsworth born Deacon is 25-years-old, and was with Arsenal as a youngster, before switching to Sunderland, but he failed to make a first team appearance for either of the Premier League duo. He dropped down the divisions, and appeared for Stevenage and Crawley, before joining Sutton in the summer.
Deacon played a starring role in Sutton's 6-3 win over Dartford in the First Round of the FA Cup. He is pacy, two-footed, and is also attracting interest from Championship clubs.
Christ people give the bloke a chance. Imagine if everyone ever wrote off players signed from non-league. Look at Gregory at Millwall now for one example. Vardy for god sake. Yes I hope that's not the peak of our January signings but I'm not complaining.
And we have been known to Charltonise a few players in our time too. Andy Gray is one that springs to mind. Having a big name does not equate to a big performer.
Charlton are reportedly watching Sutton winger Roarie Deacon. Wandsworth born Deacon is 25-years-old, and was with Arsenal as a youngster, before switching to Sunderland, but he failed to make a first team appearance for either of the Premier League duo. He dropped down the divisions, and appeared for Stevenage and Crawley, before joining Sutton in the summer.
Deacon played a starring role in Sutton's 6-3 win over Dartford in the First Round of the FA Cup. He is pacy, two-footed, and is also attracting interest from Championship clubs.
Charlton are reportedly watching Sutton winger Roarie Deacon. Wandsworth born Deacon is 25-years-old, and was with Arsenal as a youngster, before switching to Sunderland, but he failed to make a first team appearance for either of the Premier League duo. He dropped down the divisions, and appeared for Stevenage and Crawley, before joining Sutton in the summer.
Deacon played a starring role in Sutton's 6-3 win over Dartford in the First Round of the FA Cup. He is pacy, two-footed, and is also attracting interest from Championship clubs.
Charlton are reportedly watching Sutton winger Roarie Deacon. Wandsworth born Deacon is 25-years-old, and was with Arsenal as a youngster, before switching to Sunderland, but he failed to make a first team appearance for either of the Premier League duo. He dropped down the divisions, and appeared for Stevenage and Crawley, before joining Sutton in the summer.
Deacon played a starring role in Sutton's 6-3 win over Dartford in the First Round of the FA Cup. He is pacy, two-footed, and is also attracting interest from Championship clubs.
Replacement for Lookman
Back up for Holmes more likely.
Or simply an educated punt on a young player with a decent pedigree for the development squad.
And we have been known to Charltonise a few players in our time too. Andy Gray is one that springs to mind. Having a big name does not equate to a big performer.
Andy gray was a seasoned pro who had finally found his club in Burnley and Pardew thought he'd bang in the same amount of goals without playing to his strengths.
Charlton are reportedly watching Sutton winger Roarie Deacon. Wandsworth born Deacon is 25-years-old, and was with Arsenal as a youngster, before switching to Sunderland, but he failed to make a first team appearance for either of the Premier League duo. He dropped down the divisions, and appeared for Stevenage and Crawley, before joining Sutton in the summer.
Deacon played a starring role in Sutton's 6-3 win over Dartford in the First Round of the FA Cup. He is pacy, two-footed, and is also attracting interest from Championship clubs.
Replacement for Lookman
Back up for Holmes more likely.
Or simply an educated punt on a young player with a decent pedigree for the development squad.
At 25? No I don't think that's development squad material.
Christ people give the bloke a chance. Imagine if everyone ever wrote off players signed from non-league. Look at Gregory at Millwall now for one example. Vardy for god sake. Yes I hope that's not the peak of our January signings but I'm not complaining.
You're right but would you say that signing untested players like this will improve your chances of promotion?
Christ people give the bloke a chance. Imagine if everyone ever wrote off players signed from non-league. Look at Gregory at Millwall now for one example. Vardy for god sake. Yes I hope that's not the peak of our January signings but I'm not complaining.
You're right but would you say that signing untested players like this will improve your chances of promotion?
To me it looks like a cheap option
That assumes that every possible signing is going to be like this, which is fallacious. If every player we're linked with is a lower league/non-league wunderkind then we can worry about it, but taking a chance on one lower league player with decent pedigree/potential seems worth it to me.
And we have been known to Charltonise a few players in our time too. Andy Gray is one that springs to mind. Having a big name does not equate to a big performer.
Andy gray was a seasoned pro who had finally found his club in Burnley and Pardew thought he'd bang in the same amount of goals without playing to his strengths.
He was also on a run of 1 goal in 17 games before we signed him.
And we have been known to Charltonise a few players in our time too. Andy Gray is one that springs to mind. Having a big name does not equate to a big performer.
Andy gray was a seasoned pro who had finally found his club in Burnley and Pardew thought he'd bang in the same amount of goals without playing to his strengths.
He was also on a run of 1 goal in 17 games before we signed him.
IIRC Andy Gray had some major personal issues when he joined us - his wife was very ill.
He was also a penalty specialist. Hadn't he scored 80% of his goals that season from the spot? We didn't win as many penalties as Burnley so his goal rate suffered.
And we have been known to Charltonise a few players in our time too. Andy Gray is one that springs to mind. Having a big name does not equate to a big performer.
Andy gray was a seasoned pro who had finally found his club in Burnley and Pardew thought he'd bang in the same amount of goals without playing to his strengths.
He was also on a run of 1 goal in 17 games before we signed him.
IIRC Andy Gray had some major personal issues when he joined us - his wife was very ill.
He was also a penalty specialist. Hadn't he scored 80% of his goals that season from the spot? We didn't win as many penalties as Burnley so his goal rate suffered.
It looks like Lookman will go to Everton if they can agree a loan back to us. Everton arent very keen on that. Source Liverpool Echo.
good move for him, not a top 4 club and may well get a chance under Koeman.
Hmm, Koeman was actually widely disliked at Southampton for the way he dealt with the Academy players. He rarely throws young players in, wasn't aware of a number of talented youngsters and apparently took a liking to belittling Matt Targett when he did play in the first team. He's not shown much inclination towards the youngsters at Everton either.
It looks like Lookman will go to Everton if they can agree a loan back to us. Everton arent very keen on that. Source Liverpool Echo.
good move for him, not a top 4 club and may well get a chance under Koeman.
Hmm, Koeman was actually widely disliked at Southampton for the way he dealt with the Academy players. He rarely throws young players in, wasn't aware of a number of talented youngsters and apparently took a liking to belittling Matt Targett when he did play in the first team. He's not shown much inclination towards the youngsters at Everton either.
Really, I just assumed being at Soton he played a lot of youngsters but not really looked into to much.
If Koeman doesn't like giving younger payers a chance then Lookman who is rumoured to be of serious interest to Everton, might just want to think very carefully about his immediate future.............. then again everybody has their price .
Christ people give the bloke a chance. Imagine if everyone ever wrote off players signed from non-league. Look at Gregory at Millwall now for one example. Vardy for god sake. Yes I hope that's not the peak of our January signings but I'm not complaining.
.....don't forget Steve Morison as well.
We've also got what looks to be like another diamond in the rough, in Harry Smith.
There are players out there that can make the transition. Finding them and then putting faith in them is the hard part.
Both Morison and Gregory had their detractors after first signing and going through a barren spell.
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Charlton are reportedly watching Sutton winger Roarie Deacon.
Wandsworth born Deacon is 25-years-old, and was with Arsenal as a youngster, before switching to Sunderland, but he failed to make a first team appearance for either of the Premier League duo.
He dropped down the divisions, and appeared for Stevenage and Crawley, before joining Sutton in the summer.
Deacon played a starring role in Sutton's 6-3 win over Dartford in the First Round of the FA Cup.
He is pacy, two-footed, and is also attracting interest from Championship clubs.
It will be Stuart Fleetwood next.
To me it looks like a cheap option
Would much rather keep him but that would have been very difficult at this level and the lack of stability.
I wonder if keeping Lookman, if only on loan, was one of KRs conditions for joining?
Has potential but very much in the Andrew Crofts mould so doubt he's high up on the list of priorities.
He was also a penalty specialist. Hadn't he scored 80% of his goals that season from the spot? We didn't win as many penalties as Burnley so his goal rate suffered.
We've also got what looks to be like another diamond in the rough, in Harry Smith.
There are players out there that can make the transition. Finding them and then putting faith in them is the hard part.
Both Morison and Gregory had their detractors after first signing and going through a barren spell.