Skysports.comunderstands a number of former Charlton players are still waiting for severance payments that they are owed.
Several members of last season's squad, including the likes of Chris Dickson, Dean Sinclair and Grant Bassey, are all thought to be waiting on their payments from the cash-strapped League One club.
The club are believed to have not paid the the one-month severance pay the players who left the Valley this summer are due.
The players in question are thought to have contacted the Professional Footballers' Association to seek assistance on the matter.
The PFA are now looking into the problems to try and resolve the issue.
The news is the latest blow for Charlton as they have been forced to sell a number of key players already this summer to help ease their financial problems.
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This is a very worrying development though - things may be worse than we thought.
It makes my blood boil - would a better response not have been to slink away, embarrassed and be grateful for the all the cash that they have had that they did so little to deserve???
The other two should be giving us a frigging refund!
You are, of course, quite right, but equally I am sure that at the time, the players and their agents were not selling themselves as being such underachievers who would get us relegated! No, they were telling the board that they were well worth a huge contract because they would do great for the club. So, if the board was naive, then the players' 'product' did not at all live up to expectations. Surely, then, a little compensation would be in order?
I know this is not how it works and, indeed, that the money will (have to) be paid. It just seems very wrong.
Has to be paid though if contractually due.
no we wouldn't. We didn't offfer him a contract equal to or better than the contract he was on before so he was free to leave for any Club for nothing. I think Grant deserves a bit more respect than given here. He didn't want to leave and if he's owed then at least he deserves it, he's been at the Club for years. Plus we don't know if this story is even true.
Really not in Charlton's 'style' to be like this, and the players should be a little patient in the circumstances, they have masde there point, or there agents have!
As Len and others say it does stick in the throat a bit but if it was agreed...
That's where the holes in the west stand car park came from.
Bang on Saga!
Basey excepted the rest were in the words of my brother's old football manager "friggin pigshite" and should consider themselves lucky they even had a chance to play for this great club, opportunities they ff'd up on a regular basis.
Then too bad. If we owe we should pay. We're not Crystal Palace you know ; - )
Sure they will get their money soon enough. Storm in a tea cup.
Some players last season who were actually CONTRACTED to a club didn't get paid for weeks (southend, Palace, Pompey etc) - when we get paid by Cardiff etc then these players will get their money. I bet they are not down to their last penny or currently overdrawn like some of the fans probably are !!!!!!!!
In my line of business it's standard to offer 30 days credit terms.
But one of my customers, a big Import & Export company, still hasn't paid me after 72 days.
Basically they are in breach of contract, and I could sue - but they will no doubt pay eventually, even if I have to fork out for a solicitor's letter to remind them of the consequences.
Charlton are no doubt protecting their cash flow. Especially important at the moment before Richard Murray's dealings are rubberstamped at the EGM. After that, cash flow may well have eased, and those players will receive their severance pay.
And they will, because as Len points out above, the club are contracted to do so.
Why are we having to pay severance? We paid for the duration of the contract, so why are they owed more?
Just a thought.
Lots of love,
Mr Angry xxx