Ivorian starlet Bi Cyriac Gohi has confirmed to skysports.com that he will be joining Charlton in January.
The 18-year-old actually signed a deal last year with The Addicks as part of the agreement Charlton have with ASEC Mimosas and their highly-rated youth academy.
Charlton are now set to exercise their option on the talented striker who has been hitting the back of the net on a regular basis for his club this year.
Gohi is now looking forward to his big move to England.
"I am going to Charlton in January, to start my career there," he told skysports.com
"I can play in the Championship and I believe I can score there."
Gohi is looking to emulate fellow countryman Didier Drogba's success in England.
"Drogba is the best striker in the Premier League, so I want to be the best striker in the Championship," he said.
"I always dream about emulating my heroes, like scoring in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium."
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If he comes to us he might have to change that dream to scoring a consolation at Gigg Lane .....................................
lol, unfortunately you may be right
a stat came up the other day in a game he played for Forest his goalkeeper teammate ran more than him in the game - he's finished.
Golfie, you don't often make me laugh ....... but you summed it up in one there! LOL
BBC said last season we had 5 players from ASEC, he was meant to be one, but was still listed as one of their players on the ASEC website.
Surely he won't be able to get a work permit yet, like the other players we signed from them? Wonder where those quotes came from?
I thought he had already gone to Nantes or another French club to get a EU work permit. Meant to be the pick of the bunch.
Pardew will love that.
We had a couple with Fredrikstad in Norway, but they're now in France with Cherbourg, in the French equivalent of League One.
We've got one in France with Angers SCO (Championship level), and another in France with Lorient (top division).
I'm assuming part of the reason they're playing in France is because its easier settling in without language issues.
Don't think any are with Germinal Beerschot.
It would be nice to hear more about them from Charlton themselves.
Do they just get a work permit by playing in Europe for a certain amount of time? Otherwise its not much use them playing for a year in one country then a year in another.
Bakery was at Beerschot but is now at Lorient I think.
Fofana and Kouadio were the players at Fredrikstad. Didn't realise that they had moved.
The other players are, I believe, Troh Cesar, Kadio Boris, Gohi Bi Cyriac, N'Gossen Antoine and Zagbayou Viardot but other may have been signed or some of these let go.
Rules about work permits are different country to country. Spain now gives work permits to all players of African origin while France and Belguim allow them to work in those countries. After two years - I maybe wrong on this - they can work anywhere in the EU.
Rules in UK are much tighter for footballers who have to played 75% of recent internationals for a country in FIFAs top 70 or something like that. Hence we couldn't sign Bolanas. Obviously these rules don't apply to "big" clubs but we all knew that.
And Kouadio a midfielder
You've listed 8 there, earlier you said we have 5, I'm a bit confused now.
N'Gossen Antoine and Troh Cesar still seems to be with ASEC
Can't find Kadio Boris or Zagbayou Viardot anywhere.
Do you know if there is there a reason the club don't ever mention these players? Would have thought its the kind of thing they'd put in the match programmes in the community bit. It seems they won't be mentioned until they can play for us.
Don't know but there was a lot about the ASEC deal on the OS and in the programme. Most likely just waiting until they make an impact, if at all.
I was counting 5 who were signed recently via ASEC plus the three (Bakery, Fofana and Kouadio) who were already in Europe.
FM may not be the most accurate record of players BTW : - )
I always assumed when it said we had signed five players from ASEC, it included those three. Maybe not though.
I know you do that's why I was pulling you leg. Finding out the other sites was impressive.
You may well be right about the five and three players. The others may have not been signed or are just under option.
Some of the players they've produced.
pardew or Peter? : - )