I don't blame Diego for the decision at all, I'm just gutted that I won't get to see him play week in, week out for us anymore.
He is one of the very few footballers that I've seen at The Valley who made watching football a joy, the ability he had to find space, pick out passes and mug off the opposition with this at ease was brilliant.
He made people the row in front of me laugh every week with that, I just wanted to see him for a full season.
Good luck Diego, I'm sure wherever you go you'll make the right decision and flourish (Just don't play for Uruguay).
Let's hope they have a couple of players up their sleeves to unveil to quickly bury this news
Wonder if this was decided a few days ago and the signings of Buyens / Igor / Morrison were bits of news to get us in a really good mood before the sucker punch
Was pretty obvious we were going to see the loyalty, rot in reserves comments. Shame. He is a kid with a massive talent. He could break his leg tomorrow. He will now get security for the rest of his life and train amongst the best.
Good luck Diego. I would have done the same.
Hmmm,he could quite easily have done what Shelvey and Jenkinson did though. Sign a new contract so the club that nurtured them,brought them through and gave them their chance get a decent fee for all the time and money they invested. The Prem teams get enough without picking up real talent for next to nothing. He could've signed and if they really wanted him,they would've paid,everyone's happy. May seem very black and white but if Jenks and JJ could do it then pretty sure Poyet could've done. All about the £££.
If you assume that the club he's going to has a budget then is it not obvious that if he earns us, say £2m, in a transfer fee it comes out of his pocket? How many on here have given their former employers thousands of pounds of their own money to say thank you when they leave?
We'll still get a fee for him, and he wasn't offered a new deal a year ago when he would probably have liked the money, nor was he played before RD came in due to some rumored contract pay rise.
In all honesty the club (under different management) blocked his route into the first team, and refused to pay him what he thought he was worth (from what I've seen he was, well, worth it) then with five months until he becomes a free agent he starts to play and then within a matter of weeks of him being able to earn an absolute fortune the club offer him, presumably, significantly less than that to stay at a club that only just avoided the third division.
I think anyone that thinks he owes us anything (other than not lying to us) is being very harsh on him.
I also think that we saw a fraction of the talent he has. I think he could walk into more than half of the Premier League first teams and hold down his place. I don't fine the rumors about Arsenal and Chelsea to be outrageous. I think he could be in their first team within eighteen months.
I would have loved him to stay but I fear it would have shown a massive lack of ambition and/or confidence if he had done. We should have offered him a longer contract twelve months ago. It's a bit like taking your wife for granted and then calling her all the names under the sun when when another bloke comes along and sweeps her off her feet by giving her all the things she's been asking you for.
not quite - at least we got to see him play half a season for the first team, which we never did for Defoe. We alos got over a £1m compo for that Judas and I fear we will be lucky to get anywhere near that this time.
I am gutted with this news & can only think of Captain Manwarring 's voice....."stupid boy". By the sounds of it he hasn't signed up for anyone else and that could be a very risky plan. Most people when changing employer have at least a signed contract before handing in their resignation and it only needs a change of manager/owner/wind direction for things to unravel pretty quickly. Yes he is a good player, but not a great one, and as mentioned earlier, he has only 6 months experience playing in the first team & I very much doubt he will see the first team for his new club for some time.
I believe it is a mistake on his part, but the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. From a personal perspective, I don’t wish him well – players like Jenkinson and Shelvey have still left us at a young age but will get cheers and claps when they visit in the future. It is called starting your career with some class and respect. I don’t tend to boo players, but I will find it hard to supress the odd one if he visits.
Was pretty obvious we were going to see the loyalty, rot in reserves comments. Shame. He is a kid with a massive talent. He could break his leg tomorrow. He will now get security for the rest of his life and train amongst the best.
Good luck Diego. I would have done the same.
Hmmm,he could quite easily have done what Shelvey and Jenkinson did though. Sign a new contract so the club that nurtured them,brought them through and gave them their chance get a decent fee for all the time and money they invested. The Prem teams get enough without picking up real talent for next to nothing. He could've signed and if they really wanted him,they would've paid,everyone's happy. May seem very black and white but if Jenks and JJ could do it then pretty sure Poyet could've done. All about the £££.
So, you have Arsenal and Chelsea knocking at your door for your services and saying "we want to sign you this Summer".
You would say "no" to those teams and tell them to come back in a year's time because you know they aren't going to use you?
And do you think that club will come back in a year's time and say "We don't mind paying £4 million for you now, even though we could have had you on a free last year and we have about 200 youth players on our books to look at anyway who won't cost us anything"?
That's not taking into the account that he could get an injury or be involved in a Charlton side that gets relegated and his profile drops considerably. In that time god knows how many other promising 18-19 year olds will pop up around the country who those clubs can go after instead, rather than the guy who turned them down.
If it was "all about the £££", as you put it - then he would have probably stayed with us considering it sounds like we were doing everything possible to provide him a lucrative deal. His priority is to look after himself, as it should be. His contract with us is finished - it is not his job to look after our balance sheet.
I know contracts in Football are used a bit differently, but the whole point of signing a contract is to adhere to the term and then it is down to you to make your own choice at the end of it if you want to. He owes us nothing.
The man that brought Diego into our first team was pushed out the door by our owner, the man that played football the way Diego liked it replacing him, was pushed out the door. Diego needs security, say it over and over again. We aren't the club for him, and he would have signed for a little longer without our new regime. But we can't mull over that, what is, is. Diego didn't take a liking to RD and that was seen from his twitter activity around the time, he knows what's going in within the club, we don't, as much.
Was pretty obvious we were going to see the loyalty, rot in reserves comments. Shame. He is a kid with a massive talent. He could break his leg tomorrow. He will now get security for the rest of his life and train amongst the best.
Good luck Diego. I would have done the same.
Hmmm,he could quite easily have done what Shelvey and Jenkinson did though. Sign a new contract so the club that nurtured them,brought them through and gave them their chance get a decent fee for all the time and money they invested. The Prem teams get enough without picking up real talent for next to nothing. He could've signed and if they really wanted him,they would've paid,everyone's happy. May seem very black and white but if Jenks and JJ could do it then pretty sure Poyet could've done. All about the £££.
THIS...........and why if Shelvy or Jenkinson ever play against us I will not boo them, unlike Defoe or Spotty Parker.
Sorry, but I really do blame him (not that he will care, I am sure). There would have been absolutely no issue with him signing a contract with, say, a £2m get-out clause - no Premiership or top international club that would have thought him good enough to sign would have worried about what would be a pittance of a fee to them. If he had done that, then I would have applauded him like I would applaud Shelvey or Jenkinson if they ever came back, he chose not to.
Now we get nothing for all the money invested in him. And a club like ours survives on the kind of transfer fees that he could have brought in with absolutely no damage to his career at all.
In a week when a loyal member of the back-office staff had lost her job because the club is desperate to get somewhere closer to balancing the books, then this is an absolute kick in the teeth and just shows how self-serving players can be.
Let's hope they have a couple of players up their sleeves to unveil to quickly bury this news
Wonder if this was decided a few days ago and the signings of Buyens / Igor / Morrison were bits of news to get us in a really good mood before the sucker punch
I would imagine the signings were to show a sign of intent to Diego, as well as obviously strengthening the side. Diego would of had to make a decision by the time pre season started tomorrow anyways.
Unfortunately for us, Diego has decided his future lies elsewhere, and I wish him the best.
yes its Disappointing, but lets face it he is far to good for us and he wants to improve his career maybe play international football, for England or Spain or Uruguay whichever one it is he chooses. But come on lets not be bitter, He played well when he played, and he let his contract run down.
Just corrected that for you.
Just one comment for all the money mad on here who will tell us that we would all do the same. His father is a millionaire.
disappointed but maybe there is a player in the pipeline lined up after awaiting his decision.I have been going to Charlton too many years to be gutted and have learnt to move on.I am still really excited about the coming season!
Very dissappointed. Feel it's just as a big a loss for him as it is for us. I don't believe all the 'he's a confident lad so fancies himself at a prem club.' If this was the case he woudn't be rushing into a deal at 19 but having another top season in the championship and getting himself a better move.
He would have been playing under an owner who openly talks on how he likes to play youth so another season as the star man in a championship club was only going to further his career.
I just fear he'll jump at whatever club offers him most money and we will see another wasted English talent.
What a player -- he deserves to play at the highest level IMHO - amazing thta he came in @ the time he did and looked so assured , lets hope he finds the right niche to display his quality. Good luck.
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He is one of the very few footballers that I've seen at The Valley who made watching football a joy, the ability he had to find space, pick out passes and mug off the opposition with this at ease was brilliant.
He made people the row in front of me laugh every week with that, I just wanted to see him for a full season.
Good luck Diego, I'm sure wherever you go you'll make the right decision and flourish (Just don't play for Uruguay).
Big gamble from Poyet, he may have been better off signing a two year deal here and getting a full season under his belt in the 1st team.
Plenty of young players out there as good as him in what is now a global market.
We'll still get a fee for him, and he wasn't offered a new deal a year ago when he would probably have liked the money, nor was he played before RD came in due to some rumored contract pay rise.
In all honesty the club (under different management) blocked his route into the first team, and refused to pay him what he thought he was worth (from what I've seen he was, well, worth it) then with five months until he becomes a free agent he starts to play and then within a matter of weeks of him being able to earn an absolute fortune the club offer him, presumably, significantly less than that to stay at a club that only just avoided the third division.
I think anyone that thinks he owes us anything (other than not lying to us) is being very harsh on him.
I also think that we saw a fraction of the talent he has. I think he could walk into more than half of the Premier League first teams and hold down his place. I don't fine the rumors about Arsenal and Chelsea to be outrageous. I think he could be in their first team within eighteen months.
I would have loved him to stay but I fear it would have shown a massive lack of ambition and/or confidence if he had done. We should have offered him a longer contract twelve months ago. It's a bit like taking your wife for granted and then calling her all the names under the sun when when another bloke comes along and sweeps her off her feet by giving her all the things she's been asking you for.
I am gutted with this news & can only think of Captain Manwarring 's voice....."stupid boy". By the sounds of it he hasn't signed up for anyone else and that could be a very risky plan. Most people when changing employer have at least a signed contract before handing in their resignation and it only needs a change of manager/owner/wind direction for things to unravel pretty quickly. Yes he is a good player, but not a great one, and as mentioned earlier, he has only 6 months experience playing in the first team & I very much doubt he will see the first team for his new club for some time.
You would say "no" to those teams and tell them to come back in a year's time because you know they aren't going to use you?
And do you think that club will come back in a year's time and say "We don't mind paying £4 million for you now, even though we could have had you on a free last year and we have about 200 youth players on our books to look at anyway who won't cost us anything"?
That's not taking into the account that he could get an injury or be involved in a Charlton side that gets relegated and his profile drops considerably. In that time god knows how many other promising 18-19 year olds will pop up around the country who those clubs can go after instead, rather than the guy who turned them down.
If it was "all about the £££", as you put it - then he would have probably stayed with us considering it sounds like we were doing everything possible to provide him a lucrative deal. His priority is to look after himself, as it should be. His contract with us is finished - it is not his job to look after our balance sheet.
I know contracts in Football are used a bit differently, but the whole point of signing a contract is to adhere to the term and then it is down to you to make your own choice at the end of it if you want to. He owes us nothing.
Now we get nothing for all the money invested in him. And a club like ours survives on the kind of transfer fees that he could have brought in with absolutely no damage to his career at all.
In a week when a loyal member of the back-office staff had lost her job because the club is desperate to get somewhere closer to balancing the books, then this is an absolute kick in the teeth and just shows how self-serving players can be.
Great player - no class at all, end of. Move on.
#moveon
Unfortunately for us, Diego has decided his future lies elsewhere, and I wish him the best.
Yoni Buyens baby, Yoni Buyens whoa
He obviously doesn't want to be here, and I don't want to see anyone who has that mindset playing in a Charlton shirt.
Whats the ratio of English kids coming through that club successfully or having to move on?
Just one comment for all the money mad on here who will tell us that we would all do the same. His father is a millionaire.
He would have been playing under an owner who openly talks on how he likes to play youth so another season as the star man in a championship club was only going to further his career.
I just fear he'll jump at whatever club offers him most money and we will see another wasted English talent.