NAME / CONTRACT EXPIRY DATE
Players with contracts that run to 2015 or beyond (24)
Goalkeepers
Nick Pope 2018
Dillon Phillips 2016
Stephen Henderson 2017 - Signed on free transfer after having been released by West Ham
Right Backs
Chris Solly 2017
Loïc Négo 2017
Centre Backs
Michael Morrison 2016
Harry Lennon 2016
Joe Gomez 2016 - Signed professional contract
André Bikey-Amougou 2016 - Signed on free transfer
Tal Ben Haim - 2015 - Signed on a free transfer from Standard Liege
Left Backs
Rhoys Wiggins 2018
Morgan Fox 2017
Right Midfielders
Lawrie Wilson 2015
Central Midfielders
Johnnie Jackson 2016
Jordan Cousins 2016
Yoni Buyens 2015 - Signed on one year loan from Standard Liege
Franck Moussa 2016 - Signed on a free transfer after contract expired at Coventry City
Left Midfielders
Callum Harriott 2016
Johann Berg Gudmundsson - 2016 - Signed on a free transfer after contract expired at AZ Alkmaar
Strikers
Reza Ghoochannejhad 2016
Simon Church 2015
Piotr Parzyszek 2018 - Announced as having been loaned to STTV but not on CAFC OS
Joe Pigott 2016
Igor Vetokele 2019 - Signed for undisclosed fee from FC Copenhagen
George Tucudean 2017 - Signed for undisclosed fee from Standard Liege
U21 Development Squad (12)
Zak Ansah
Rhys Browne
Kurtis Cumberbatch
Kadell Daniel
Harry Gerard
Tareiq Holmes-Dennis
Oliver Muldoon
Jack Munns
Harry Osborne
Levander Pyke
Tobi Sho-Silva
Terell Thomas
NB I've now adopted the format used by the OS of separating the first team squad from the development squad.
There are also a number of second year scholars. Full details should be in the handbook released for the first home league game.
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How old is Cumberbatch?
We are very weak on the right, if Solly has still got his injury issues. Assuming Kumberbatch is a youngster, we have Wilson / Nego to cover those 2 positions, if Solly is out or rested.
Can Gudmundsson play on the right side? Perhaps Reza will be played there, again, if he is still here, although I don't think that is his best position.
It did but I haven't got the time or energy to go through them all and check.
If someone wants to do it feel free and I'll update You know the rules. When it is on THE OS not any old OS : - )
Does seem odd that CAFC don't announce these things but there you go. Maybe it's not confirmed yet.
RB: Solly, Wilson, Nego
CB: Morrison, TBH, Bikey, Gomez, Lennon
LB: Wiggins, Fox, Lennon
RM: Gudmundsson, Wilson, Moussa
CM: Jackson, Cousins, Buyens, Moussa
LM: Harriott, Moussa, Gudmundsson
FW: Vetokele, Tucudean, Church, Piggott, Reza
I like it! Wood/Lingard/Bahebeck in for Reza/Church and I like it even more. :-)
http://www.stvv.com/nl/nieuws/hotnews/d/detail/piotr-parzyszek-de-nieuwe-nummer-9
Looks confirmed to me.
The club also list Rhys Browne as a development squad player and have called him that in match reports.
Archie Edwards is still a second year but he did mention his pro contract on Twitter.
The Thurrock friendly seems to confirm Terrell Thomas (CB), Levander Pyke (RB) and Mikhail Kennedy (midfielder/striker) were the u18s that we kept on, as well as Muldoon and Osborne.
Still feel we need a playmaker and another striker, but I reckon we will rely on loans for them now, unless RD goes for broke and buys Bahebeck or Wood
let me have a list of the development squad players and I will amend the list to add them all.
It seems to confirm what we've been guessing at for the last few months (Pyke and Thomas signed). Kennedy still not listed, but there was an online article on him and his brother that confirms his status.
cafc.co.uk/team/squad-list/
I think if we were to buy a versatile mid that can pick a threatening forward pass or Wood or Bahebeck we would be sorted, unless Peeters is useless at getting a team to play together. The quality is there just need to get things in motion now. We're in a position where we don't have to utterly rely on one player in a certain position on the pitch to stay fit cause we have back up everywhere.
I'm not normally someone to wish time away, but Brentford couldn't come any sooner.
Every team's fans want "just" one or two more but I can only see one more coming in in this window.
Got to be happy with the squad so far.
Might be for the best if we hold off on any further transfers until January. Though the incoming players (and manager) sound promising, we still don't really know how well they will gel or take to the Championship.
Hopefully Roland will keep this in mind and take stock in January when we can look at further ammunition for a playoff push, or bring in some other players if we do struggle.
Does help to have a full list for people to refer and glad you like it.
No one else seems to like to enough to "like" it and Admin won't "promote" it, not that I'm counting of course ; - )
We have 24 senior players of whom 3 are goalkeepers so one more than a world cup squad.
There are still rumours that Reza will leave which would make it 23. PP is said to be on loan.
12 could reasonably be classed as experienced at Championship level (SH, CS, RW, MM, TBH, AB, CH, JJ, FM, JC, LW, SC)
7 could reasonably be classed as inexperienced at this level but familiar with Charlton (NP, DP, LN, HL, JG, MF, JP)
4 could reasonably be classed as new to the country and this level but experienced abroad (YB, JBG, IV, GT)
So IMHO a solid base of experienced players but with a lot of youngsters and some exciting but so far untested imports.
And the whole transformation executed with just one transfer fee (Vetokele)
Perhaps Reza out and Baheback or someone else comes in?
Plenty of players to make up a decent squad of 18 for the first ten games... and perhaps Duchatelet / Peeters wait a few games until the loan window to make a couple more changes?
Not quite. He agreed with me, not the otherway around : - )
Funnily enough one is from Romania and one from Angola... Now who could have predicted players arriving in Se7 with eastern European and African origins?!
So Vetokele is the product of the SL scouting system in Africa? PMSL as the kids say. Only he grew up in Belgium, played under Bob in Belgium, played for the Belgium U17, U18, U19 and U21 side and was then signed from that well known African country, Denmark.
Tucudean is Romanian but I'm don't think it was very hard for the "network (Liege) scouting set up" to discover him this summer as he was signed to, well knock me down, Standard Liege.
You have to laugh