Ian Harte would have been an incredible signing, amazed we didn't follow that up.
Probably the best taker of free kicks and corners in the entire Football League (yes, including Jackson and Kermorgant).
My memory is that we did try to sign him on a short term three month contract ,but he turned us down and reemergered later that season with Blackpool before the following season linking up with Carlisle .
At the time it looked like a gamble to sign a late 20's early 30's injury prone player.
There's 2 other internationals I remember seeing play for our reserves on trial, but O can't think of their names.
One played central midfield and was a USA international, who played in the late 90s or so- seem to remember there was something with his registration that meant we weren't able to charge an entry fee for the game he played in (was played at Welling).
The other was a Nigerian centre back that played in the reserve game against Arsenal where around 10,000 people turned up. Mortimer played alongside him and totally outshone him.
Cant for the life of me think what the link is, but didnt we have something to do with Oliver Bierhoff ages back? As in on trial, or almost signed him?
Didn't Bierhoff play against us in the Anglo Italian Cup and apparently his father enquired about a move to us ,I think Reuser was one of those players who was linked with us a number of times but never signed a bit like Julian Gray ,Hayden Mullins and Darren Purse ,I can't remember him actually trialling though.
There's 2 other internationals I remember seeing play for our reserves on trial, but O can't think of their names.
One played central midfield and was a USA international, who played in the late 90s or so- seem to remember there was something with his registration that meant we weren't able to charge an entry fee for the game he played in (was played at Welling).
The other was a Nigerian centre back that played in the reserve game against Arsenal where around 10,000 people turned up. Mortimer played alongside him and totally outshone him.
was flicking through an old programme & noticed that John Barnes actually played for us as a triallist in a behind closed doors friendly before signing, we also had this guy on trial at the time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Coimbra
There's 2 other internationals I remember seeing play for our reserves on trial, but O can't think of their names.
One played central midfield and was a USA international, who played in the late 90s or so- seem to remember there was something with his registration that meant we weren't able to charge an entry fee for the game he played in (was played at Welling).
The other was a Nigerian centre back that played in the reserve game against Arsenal where around 10,000 people turned up. Mortimer played alongside him and totally outshone him.
I saw Morts play CH many times for stiffs and he was more than useful.
Here's a question... How many players have been on trial for Charlton and have actually signed for the club afterwards? (Just in light of Coulibaly and Camerling)
Pretty sure Ricardo fuller was on trial back in curbs times, too injury prone apparently
Not sure if he was on trial but he was with us, we brought him over from Jamaica. It was not that he was injury prone but that he had a spinal defect, which resulted in him failing the medical. We paid for him to have a back operation and then kept him on but presumably we did not think he was good enough as we then released him. He subsequently became a journeyman joining Palace, Hearts, Preston and then settled at Stoke before joining us last season.
Here's a question... How many players have been on trial for Charlton and have actually signed for the club afterwards? (Just in light of Coulibaly and Camerling)
Simon Church, Bradley Pritchard and Richard Wood off the top of my head
Here's a question... How many players have been on trial for Charlton and have actually signed for the club afterwards? (Just in light of Coulibaly and Camerling)
Simon Church, Bradley Pritchard and Richard Wood off the top of my head
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Guillem Bauza - this type of thing is nice but hasn't been good enough to keep Hereford in the League
This pre-season we saw Niclas Andersen, Sam Williams, Alexis Honore and some guy called Diaz in Spain.
One played central midfield and was a USA international, who played in the late 90s or so- seem to remember there was something with his registration that meant we weren't able to charge an entry fee for the game he played in (was played at Welling).
The other was a Nigerian centre back that played in the reserve game against Arsenal where around 10,000 people turned up. Mortimer played alongside him and totally outshone him.
Also, Martin Reuser - ex Ipswich winger.
Steve Guppy
Steve Portway
Alan Dickens
How comes he was never picked for Scotland?
Lee Bowyer
Dean Chandler
Ricky Otto
Carlton Cole
Sean Newton
There must be more. Can't believe Steve Jones hasn't been in the dock before.