He's acting like a spoilt child. Came to Charlton to get some game time to enhance his chances of going to the World Cup only to discover that two different managers think we've got a better goalie than him. Not a team player so he can head back to Belgium to sit on the bench at SL and plan his sumer holiday at Club Med as far as I'm concerned
The boy would struggle to earn a first-team spot in a League 2 club. We honestly don't need this kind of negativity and if it wasn't for our owner the club should terminate his loan with immediate effect.
Of all the penny dreadfuls the network has fedexed us, he is the most dreadful. It's not often that a player refusing to play is seen as a boost. God knows how anyone thinks his poor time for us will dent his world cup chances, unless the thinking is that he was going to watch it on the telly in Greenwich.
The SLP is a local paper, its journalists have to have some legal knowledge as part of their training but the paper is unlikely to have an in-house solicitor or to run a football story that would require legal advice.
All of which means that this story is very well sourced from within the club. So not only is the story interesting, but why it has been leaked / verified internally is too.
Let's be honest, it's not a big leak is it ?
When he wasn't on the bench tonight, questions would have ben asked straight away.
It's not a surprising leak, but it is surprising to have it stated categorically. Normally this would be dressed up as an injury doubt and therefore appear only as a rumour.
Yes and no. If he refused to travel to Leeds, there's a fair chance he won't appear again.
So, to cover it up, they would have to have said he was injured for the rest of the season & that wouldn't do his World Cup hopes a lot of good.
You're assuming, however, that the club is managing the story. It's possible, but unlikely, that the club gave it to the SLP off the record as a matter of policy.
It's more likely, in my view, that someone acting on their own initiative within the club did, in which case you have to look for that person's motive for doing so.
Becasue everyone who works for the club, or ever has done, hates their employer ?
I think there are people employed by the club who will have seen the opportunity to put the boot in and taken it for their own reasons, whether related to Thuram or Powell or something else.
I have some sympathy for him. He was, almost certainly, led to believe that he was coming to play. I've said this before but I don't think many Europeans realise that the Championship is as competitive as it is.
Refusing to travel is, clearly, not acceptable but I can understand why he would be a bit fed up.
I have some sympathy for him. He was, almost certainly, led to believe that he was coming to play. I've said this before but I don't think many Europeans realise that the Championship is as competitive as it is.
Refusing to travel is, clearly, not acceptable but I can understand why he would be a bit fed up.
Unless he's been told by the manager he should never have assumed he was coming to play. Secondly, if he isn't playing, then he should knuckle down and work hard to prove he should be in the team like every other play does at the club (except Reza and Sordell probably).
I have some sympathy for him. He was, almost certainly, led to believe that he was coming to play. I've said this before but I don't think many Europeans realise that the Championship is as competitive as it is.
Refusing to travel is, clearly, not acceptable but I can understand why he would be a bit fed up.
Unless he's been told by the manager he should never have assumed he was coming to play. Secondly, if he isn't playing, then he should knuckle down and work hard to prove he should be in the team like every other play does at the club (except Reza and Sordell probably).
This is pure speculation, but I would be very surprised if he wasn't given some indication that he would play. Uprooting and moving here would make zero sense otherwise. And isn't that the supposed point of the "network"? To shift players around and give them game time at one club if they can't make another?
This reflects badly on Roland to be honest. He's got football pie all over his face.
I don't see it that way at all. RD could be faulted for a few things but the professionalism of a goalkeeper isn't one of them. Piss poor attitude from Thuram, i actually thought this was an April fool at first, and i wouldn't be surprised if RD sells him.
@Chris_from_Sidcup, Roland and his very own "Mysteron" football advisors put Thuram in this position. We're seeing an example of a "blip" in The Matrix Network.
This reflects badly on Roland to be honest. He's got football pie all over his face.
I don't see it that way at all. RD could be faulted for a few things but the professionalism of a goalkeeper isn't one of them. Piss poor attitude from Thuram, i actually thought this was an April fool at first, and i wouldn't be surprised if RD sells him.
Sells him to who? He has no match experience of late, when he does he's shite, oh and he doesn't travel with a team battling for relegation because he's not happy sitting on the bench.
If true it will be difficult for Thuram to remain at the club on a number of different levels. It would need a massive slice of humble pie, that I doubt that Thuram would be happy to be served up with, let alone eat.
I find it difficult to believe that Thuram had even an outside chance of making the French World Cup squad. What a state french goalkeeping is in, if this is true.
Happy for Dillon Phillips to deputise and travel with the first team. It will be great experience for the lad. Good luck and enjoy the experience DP.
This reflects badly on Roland to be honest. He's got football pie all over his face.
I don't see it that way at all. RD could be faulted for a few things but the professionalism of a goalkeeper isn't one of them. Piss poor attitude from Thuram, i actually thought this was an April fool at first, and i wouldn't be surprised if RD sells him.
Sells him to who? He has no match experience of late, when he does he's shite, oh and he doesn't travel with a team battling for relegation because he's not happy sitting on the bench.
Not worth a penny.
Well as he was supposedly one of the best keepers in the French league, i'm sure a french club would be interested in him.
This is poor from him. I thought the plan was that he would go back to being the SL no. 1 next year, and that the current keeper (who is apparently much, much, better than him) would be sold.
Only read the original post but has to be an April fool. The timing and exclusion of a link. I know the game. Good one though ten times better then mine with more detail and thought.
This reflects badly on Roland to be honest. He's got football pie all over his face.
I don't see it that way at all. RD could be faulted for a few things but the professionalism of a goalkeeper isn't one of them. Piss poor attitude from Thuram, i actually thought this was an April fool at first, and i wouldn't be surprised if RD sells him.
Sells him to who? He has no match experience of late, when he does he's shite, oh and he doesn't travel with a team battling for relegation because he's not happy sitting on the bench.
Not worth a penny.
Well as he was supposedly one of the best keepers in the French league, i'm sure a french club would be interested in him.
'Supposedly' is the key word there. That story seems a bit like PR bumph, unless the standard of keeping in the French league is pretty feeble, which I doubt
But yes, hopefully some club out there is interested!
At the end of the day, Network or no Network it becomes a mess if more than one person at the club is making the final decision on who should and shouldn't be joining the club.
Did CP make the decision to bring this player in? Did he have any choice?
This reflects badly on Roland to be honest. He's got football pie all over his face.
I don't see it that way at all. RD could be faulted for a few things but the professionalism of a goalkeeper isn't one of them. Piss poor attitude from Thuram, i actually thought this was an April fool at first, and i wouldn't be surprised if RD sells him.
Sells him to who? He has no match experience of late, when he does he's shite, oh and he doesn't travel with a team battling for relegation because he's not happy sitting on the bench.
Not worth a penny.
Well as he was supposedly one of the best keepers in the French league, i'm sure a french club would be interested in him.
Apparently there were French clubs interested but Thuram Choose to come here because he saw it as a development opportunity.
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This bloke has thrown his toys out
Chrissy Powells red and white army...
I can't believe Roland will be impressed with this .Lets hope Hamer does not get injured.
Refusing to travel is, clearly, not acceptable but I can understand why he would be a bit fed up.
Yohan Thuram-alien on the other hand looks like a motorised pigeon.
He's got football pie all over his face.
Hamer for France!
I don't see it that way at all. RD could be faulted for a few things but the professionalism of a goalkeeper isn't one of them. Piss poor attitude from Thuram, i actually thought this was an April fool at first, and i wouldn't be surprised if RD sells him.
MatrixNetwork.Not worth a penny.
I find it difficult to believe that Thuram had even an outside chance of making the French World Cup squad. What a state french goalkeeping is in, if this is true.
Happy for Dillon Phillips to deputise and travel with the first team. It will be great experience for the lad. Good luck and enjoy the experience DP.
Well as he was supposedly one of the best keepers in the French league, i'm sure a french club would be interested in him.
That story seems a bit like PR bumph, unless the standard of keeping in the French league is pretty feeble, which I doubt
But yes, hopefully some club out there is interested!
Guess what?
Did CP make the decision to bring this player in?
Did he have any choice?
Apparently there were French clubs interested but Thuram Choose to come here because he saw it as a development opportunity.