Here is what the Blackpool manager said and he is so very right
Blackpool caretaker manager Tony Parkes:
"We're not safe yet so we will stay focused and carry on.
"Charlton must have had problems here because they shouldn't be going down, they've got better players than a lot of teams around the bottom of this division.
"Hopefully they can get back. It's not always easy but if they can keep their players together they'll have a good chance."
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When the chips were down they were not good enough.
I'd like to know what we've made out of that as a club - it can't be that much or we wouldn't be in such dire financial straights at the moment.
ZZ wasn't Prem quality when we were in the Premiership, in fact he single handedly wasted enough chances to keep us up. When we were relegated he was keen to jump ship but no one else was interested. I haven't seen anything since then to make me think he's prem quality.
The permit is currently for him to play for Charlton only, NOT for him to play football anywhere in the UK.
If he doesn't get a new contract with us, I can see him leaving the country.
Think after fx gains and losses are taken into account it is about as much as Steve Waggots salary ;-)
Not sure the signing and retention of ZZ was what I would call The Charlton Way.
All well intentioned, could have paid off, but tbh another failure commercially and footballing wise.
In a weird way I find our often relative commercial incompetence and lack of nous quite endearing....the plucky young upstarts that we are!
I feel its similar to the Ivory Coast set up that was somewhat out of our natural comfort zone.
We are after all a small club in South East London and I just think we should focus a bit nearer home.
maybe i'm being naive... but signing ZZ was first and foremost a footballing decision because he is a very good player. He also seems to have affection for the club and i don't think it is true that he got no other offers when he re-signed for us, as Stig says. Any extra exposure we got was just an added bonus, i'd have thought. I don't doubt the guy's commitment and signing players who give their all and care about the club (like ZZ seems to) is the charlton way IMO, wherever they're from.
On a side note, people who don't rate ZZ absolutely baffle me. A top player.
May I baffle you by saying I think he may be a top athlete but not a top player.
consider me baffled ;0)
No we don't. Who are these MUCH better players?
ZZ and Racon are good players, but there are equally good players in their position at other clubs. Shelvey is still only 17 and played 20 games for us at the most. Bailey is a typical hard working decent Championship player.
Who else could you be talking about?
He's at best a lower Prem player, really more of a good (but not great) Championship player. Therefore I rate him for where we are as a club at the moment. We had equally good and better players when we were in the Prem though.
If we had a decent pair of strikers playing in front of them, we'd probably be raving about them IMO.
If you meant the other bit, I don't see how anyone can say we have much better players. We have some good players, but they aren't clearly better than the rest of the league.
I agree about the strikers, I keep repeating myself about it but it's making the team look so much worse than it is. I don't blame Parkinson for it, he could do nothing about it in January with no money and with us bottom of the league. Good strikers would take pressure off the rest of the team, both defensively and from the midfield to score.