Every month CAFC are signing up another youth player on a long term deal. Solly has also just signed a long term deal and Kermorgant has been offered an extension conditional on making x appearances this season...
But people are asking what about the management and the senior squad - where most contracts expire next summer?
The fans showed overwhelming support for CAFC to offer Chris Powell an extension with just 50 out of 2,250 disagreeing or strongly disagreeing last May. A survey in which more than 1,000 ST holders participated. It was also promoted by the club and the results have been shared with the management team.
Should the club be offering extensions to everyone? Should they be setting targets for individuals and does the lack of certainty have an impact on the results?
It would be good to know peoples views now that we are in the bottom half of the table.
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With regard the seniors. I am yet to be convinced that many of the current bunch are good enough for the Championship and if all the out of contract players go maybe we can replace them with at least the equivalent standard players on less wages. That seems the strategy to me.
Two of the top seven are just relegated with parachute monies and FFP does not apply to them. Two other clubs up there are ignoring FFP in an attempt to get promotion - they will pay penalties but are happy to do that if they go up.
I am certain that some of the senior players will be signed for 2014-15 and that four or five have nil chance of being offered new deals... But will we lose any of the better players because the club is taking time to renew? I would sign Stephens, Hamer, Wiggins and a few others asap and maybe the club is talking to agents right now? What I am saying is that just like last summer some will stay and some will go.
he is and has been doing that since Powelly said it , I have no issue with it personally he performs for us like he is we benefit, and he gets his move and we get the cash
Means we get a better version of Dale playing and if that offer from a Northern club doesnt come in then we can try and offer a new contract and see what he says
Stephens, who is set to replace injured captain Johnnie Jackson at Barnsley on Saturday, wants to move closer to his family in the north.
"It's a hard one with Dale because he had the disappointment of not moving in the transfer window this time last year," said Powell.
"He got on with it and I'm mindful of the fact that he has suffered a little bit with homesickness. We have had discussions with him that if anything transpires that might be right for him to go back up north then we'll look at it.
"But if he's here, as I've always said, if they're fit then they are under consideration regardless of their situation.
"We've had that discussion with him but, of course, it takes a club to pick up the phone and if nobody does, he's here. We've had no real interest from northern clubs and we just have to play it by ear and see if anyone comes in. If they don't he'll have to stay fit and, like any footballer, he will play here."
Anything nth of watford is nthn
I don't think there are many Charlton players in this position which is why I don't buy the hysteria and panic about "all our players running out of contract"
its a win win for all parties he is desperate to move home your mgr has said so in a press release
Since that release stephens has performed really well and consistant
So is it just a coincidence of course not
We benefit now and he benefits long term
Win win for all don't be doing the poor old dale stuff its obvious and not a probllem no one is slating him ffs