From the SLP
The Addicks skipper is likely to leave the club this summer to help balance the books, after their failure to win promotion back to the Championship.
Being in League One for another season is likely to hit the South Londoners hard, and chairman Richard Murray has admitted that players will have to be sold to make the figures add up.
Bailey, who scored 13 goals last season, is the club’s most valuable playing asset, but no one has made a bid yet.
“We haven’t had any direct contact from anyone about Nicky,” manager Phil Parkinson told the South London Press.
“The reality is that one or two might have to go. I’ve always said I want to keep my best players and I’ll continue to fight hard to do that.”
http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/tn/Sport.cfm?id=19659&headline=Charlton 
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Nicky is available come and get him
Shame if he does go
Seems like a story preparing us for his sale. Gone before the weekend then.
Spot on but i reckon next weekend not this
What realistically should we expect ?
Serious question.
We are £30m+ in debt, and will post another £6-8m loss for the last year. Our forecasted revenues for next season will be lower than what it was this season.
We HAVE TO bring some money in, and Bailey is the only real saleable asset that is likely to attract a relatively decent (£400k+) fee.
It could of course just been the journalist asking 'have you had any offers for Bailey' !!
Personally, if he is going to be sold then the quicker the better for me. We need to get this, and any other potential bad news stories out the way now, not two weeks before the season starts.
We can't afford to keep him.
No sure how it smacks of desperation
As AFKA said the journo asks
"have you had any offers for Bailey?"
Parky replies
"“We haven’t had any direct contact from anyone about Nicky"
“The reality is that one or two might have to go. I’ve always said I want to keep my best players and I’ll continue to fight hard to do that.”
Perhaps you'll need to have his plums removed first?
;o)
shouldnt this be in the takeover thread
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Let's remember that if he leaves next summer he gets a free transfer. For free transfer read big increase in wages. When he signed for us we were pretending to be challenging to promotion to the Premier League, so I doubt he is on anything less than good Championship wages now.
Fast forward two years and while the economy, and football finances in general, have gone down the toilet he has been in an uninspiring Charlton side and has had his fair share of critics. What are the chances of a club paying a decent (or any) fee for him them offing him more than a) he's on now and b) he'll be offered next summer when he gets a free transfer.
Thus I suspect he will be with us next season, but more worryingly his presence will prevent us from making any new signings and/or reduce those we can attract of free transfers.
It's just my reading of this SLP article. Richard Murray making it clear that he's open to offers on anyone, but the following sentence (ok, not attributed to RM) makes it clear that top of the list is Bailey, our most valuable player.
This is absolutely key to me. People are awaiting the bad news of players going and this has to be done asap, as if we drag it out it will hinder the atmosphere on and off the pitch. Get the painful decisions out of the way and then the push towards going up can start again.
Agree but that scenario may be out of our hands...particularly if there's a bidding war going on which may stretch things out a bit.
Anyway...it's not certain he's going, I'd say it's 50/50.
If Parky is correct and no firm offers have come in then how can we sell him quickly? Only by touting him about at a reduced price.
On the other hand doing a deal now would be better as you say as we'd know the fee and could start to work to replace him.
So how long do we hold out for a good price? Days/weeks/months?
(Bit down today as met a gloating Milwall fan I know)
They'll know that his 1st touch can sometimes let him down, positionally he can go AWOL - but competitive, strong on the ball and in the air, ghosts late into the box and scores plenty of goals for a midfielder. They'll find that very appealing, no doubt.
On top of that, he's played twice against most of the Championship and League One team's during the past 2 seasons, so again most of them will have a fair idea what he can do.
Danny Wilson at Swindon is already on record as having said Bailey is among the very best midfielders in the division.
And I'm sure other managers will be thinking along the same lines.
Is that so?
yep my source said that too