As I keep saying, I believe that there is now money available and that we will have quite a frantic January bringing people in. I reckon that promotion will be regarded as a must, and all this led me to wonder who from the current squad will survive ? My vote goes to the following.
Elliott
Dailly
Semedo
Racon
Wagstaff
Reid
Jackson
Plus maybe Fry and Benson and the youngsters who are just coming through.
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Unlike Pardew's signings, the current squad are on shorter contracts and earning less money. Nearly every player has a contract expiring this summer or the year after. I doubt we'll have as many problems getting rid of them like we did with the likes of Yassin and McLeod.
elliot (although i prefer warner)
solly
fry
dailly
*new cb*
wagstaff
jackson/reid
racon
*new cm*
benno/aniynsa
*new st*
i'll go with this
Racon & Semedo are good but don't get anywhere in League 3
Reid and Wagstaff don't seem to be able to stay on their feet.
I really think we need an experienced goalkeeper.
We should sign Fry.
would possibly swop Solly for Semedo although i think he'd get done for pace / turned easily. certainly want Semedo out of the midfield and if the new lot are going to attempt to play football then he can;t stay in midfield. Only other place could be centre back?
Apparently Seip has got a law degree. So may be he wasn't here to play football at all (as he didn't play any). Perhaps he was here to give Murray additional legal advice during the sale !!!
Did you see what happened when he was asked to defend at the end of the Swindon game?! He should be defensive midfield or out the team, simples.
Why? You seem to be under the impression that we have loads of money whereas I get the impression that we'll be able to spend maybe a few hundred thousand (500,000 tops).
Definately not Wagstaff, hasn't gone past a full back or crossed a decent ball for months. Danny Green please!
elliot (although i prefer warner)
solly
fry
dailly
*new cb*
wagstaff
jackson/reid
racon
*new cm*
benno/aniynsa
*new st*[/quote]
Definately not Wagstaff, hasn't gone past a full back or crossed a decent ball for months. Danny Green please![/quote]
Wagstaff seems to have stagnated quite a lot; he was terrible against Colchester.
Francis
Abbot
McCormack
Llera
The bloke that sits about 4 rows behind me who has no idea!
I read as much as possible on here and elsewhere, and also read between the lines. Tony Jiminez brokered the last deal with Zabeel which was not concluded, and has extensive contacts in Dubai. I believe that he is the middle man between the Club and Arab money, I have seen nothing from TJ and MS to suggest that they have enough to convince Richard Murray and Peter Varney to go with them unless there are wealthy and commited backers. Richard said in his latest statement that he expects Charlton to become an important Club in the future, how ? There is more but I won't bore you with it, we will all understand much more by the end of this month.
I read as much as possible on here and elsewhere, and also read between the lines. Tony Jiminez brokered the last deal with Zabeel which was not concluded, and has extensive contacts in Dubai. I believe that he is the middle man between the Club and Arab money, I have seen nothing from TJ and MS to suggest that they have enough to convince Richard Murray and Peter Varney to go with them unless there are wealthy and commited backers. Richard said in his latest statement that he expects Charlton to become an important Club in the future, how ? There is more but I won't bore you with it, we will all understand much more by the end of this month.[/quote]
What Pops said.
Now we know Fry is staying in the short term, I think 4 quality additions would see us on another good run, namely a right back, centre back, right midfielder and pacy striker. I think there is enough quality and experience amongst the rest with the right motivator and tactician.
The fact we dont have any means Semedo is trying too hard and his passes go off key
That's me, Bibble!
My problem is with the guy that sits 4 rows in front of me. Clueless.
;o)
I'm thinking I have to agree with you, ISaw.
Whenever I've seen Semedo this season he's been off the pace and even ponderous perhaps, a red card waiting to happen. Maybe I've just seen his poorer games and in others he's played well?
IMO Semedo always seems at his best playing the 'Makelele' role in a 3-man central midfield - although with Jacko at LM, he and Racon form a much more efficient unit.
But with Jacko at LB and Reid randomly doing his own thing, Semedo and Racon get lost in the centre ..... and everything in our engine room never seems to fire on all 4 cylinders.
If we play a regular 4-4-2, methinks time to shuffle the CM pack - and take Semedo out of midfield and replace him in the short term with Oxo Tower man or AN Other soon to be signed.
I've never been impressed with Semedo at CB, but he's played decent games at full back.
And apparently, he can play both sides.
Semedo is definately not the answer for centre back. 100%
Unless we play 3 CMs, it might be time to change things otherwise.
It's only a thought?
Anyhow I think the way forward it this..........
Elliot
Solly, Dailly, Doherty, Fry Jackson
Racon, Semedo
Martin
Anyinsah Benson
This may look very defensive, but I feel Solly and Jackson would be very good as wing backs, and there's scope to push Jackson up to LM and shuffle the back across without the need for a sub:
Elliot
Solly, Dailly, Doherty, Fry
Racon, Semedo
Martin Jackson
Anyinsah, Benson
And amazingly I think it would also work with Si Franny at RB and even Waggy as the free role in place of Martin too
As for new players, I highly doubt there's much money floating around, as the fact of the matter is it was this or admin in June, so I think we were bought for a pittance and these guys are just a go between with CAFC and some guy with a bit of money looking to get us promoted and then sell us on.
I would say we have upto 750k (for transfers AND wages) and so we will be looking at loans more than transfers.
I would like a new CB (ours are too slow, we need a sweeping man who can play out of defence) a new CAM who can pass and shoot from range, Martin is ok but has no end product, and a new left sided player so there is scope to move JJ into CM if we need to freshen it up. We don't need a new ST IMO, just someone to feed them better balls