Before my time but thought he made minimal appearances for England youth teams.
Paul Elliot was excellent and should have gone on to be a regular for England. My Brother in law is a Chelsea supporter and he was one of his favourite players.
Paul Elliott was the one Charlton Player, who i said would play for England and Didn't. The tackle with Saunders put paid to any chance of that. Paul Walsh was my most outrageous prediction when i said he would play for the full England team after seeing him score a hat trick when only 16 for the youth team against Chelsea when Mike Bailey was manager. Said the same when Robert Lee ran riot at Wimbledon in one of his first matches. (took quite a few years thou). I was told about Joe Gomez 3 years ago and after seeing him glide over the ground in Spain in the summer, Text my family and said remember the name, this boy will play for the full England team.
Gomez has had to mark some pretty experienced, wily and narky characters this season,and had another one in Sharp yesterday, who had a few digs and kicks at him, as did Vaughan for Hudds. Doesn't phase him one bit and it seems he is able to get in the zone of focussing purely on defending while other things go in around him. Quality player.
Yesterday in Crossbars watching the Arsenal vReading game. I was talking about Joe Gomez and these 2 Leeds guys on the next table in crossbars (one was a Londoner and the other a Leeds man)were telling me about Lewis Cook. It did sound they were the outstanding two youngsters in the champ.
I wouldn't pay much attention to that article . If the right offer came in for him he would be sold.
Though you can't force a player to go. I don't see any Prem club offering him first team football yet, and as the SLP article says (which the above site links to) if he wanted u21 football he could have gone by now.
I wouldn't pay much attention to that article . If the right offer came in for him he would be sold.
Though you can't force a player to go. I don't see any Prem club offering him first team football yet, and as the SLP article says (which the above site links to) if he wanted u21 football he could have gone by now.
www.southlondon-today.co.uk/Sport.cfm?id=31357
I have heard it all before Scoham. Player says he is happy at the Club that brought him through and gave him his chance in the first team. Big Club makes Charlton an offer they can't refuse, player leaves. This player is one of the best young players in the country do you really think we can hang onto him for long? As a regular watcher of the U18s and U21s I will be gutted when he leaves, but it will be when and not if.
Agree it'll be when not if, but I just have a feeling he'll be here until at least January. Might not be long but I don't think he'll go until he's had a run as a regular in the team.
Come January it'll depend on where we are and how he's doing. He'll be worth even more in 6 months to a year as I expect he'll be first choice CB from now on.
JBG is the one I think could go this summer. The one player that looks like he could probably make the step up to the Prem next season.
I wouldn't pay much attention to that article . If the right offer came in for him he would be sold.
Though you can't force a player to go. I don't see any Prem club offering him first team football yet, and as the SLP article says (which the above site links to) if he wanted u21 football he could have gone by now.
www.southlondon-today.co.uk/Sport.cfm?id=31357
I will be gutted when he leaves, but it will be when and not if.
I think we all know that, but all we can hope for is that he goes down the Jonjo route, not the Poyet route, putting Charlton in a strong bargaining position.
The one hope is we keep him next season and go up. A new contract will then be on the table for him, with assured premiership football, without the pressure of having to instantly deliver for the 'big' teams. We will then get relegated (hopefully not having blown the money) and then be in a powerful Darren Bentesque position to demand top dollar similar to when we were relegated before. So to extend Joe's stay with us we have to go up next season, and certainly look like we can do it come January.
Maybe the most likely scenario is us accepting a big offer from a top half Prem side, with Joe coming back on a season's loan next season. Then he goes out on another season long loan to a lower Prem side the year after. In two years, Arenal/Chelsea/United/City/Southampton or whoever have a great young experienced player ready to break into the first team.
Joe is one week younger than my youngest son. As a fan I hope he stays but if my son had top Prem teams looking at him I would encourage him to leave after signing a new contract!
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Paul Walsh was my most outrageous prediction when i said he would play for the full England team after seeing him score a hat trick when only 16 for the youth team against Chelsea when Mike Bailey was manager.
Said the same when Robert Lee ran riot at Wimbledon in one of his first matches.
(took quite a few years thou).
I was told about Joe Gomez 3 years ago and after seeing him glide over the ground in Spain in the summer, Text my family and said remember the name, this boy will play for the full England team.
My God the lad has a hell of a footballing brain.
I really don't give a toss how much other teams want to pay for him, I want to see him at The Valley for as long as possible.
Doesn't phase him one bit and it seems he is able to get in the zone of focussing purely on defending while other things go in around him.
Quality player.
With Charlton Athletic on his CV, what chance did he have?
Typical!
I was talking about Joe Gomez and these 2 Leeds guys on the next table in crossbars (one was a Londoner and the other a Leeds man)were telling me about Lewis Cook. It did sound they were the outstanding two youngsters in the champ.
www.southlondon-today.co.uk/Sport.cfm?id=31357
As a regular watcher of the U18s and U21s I will be gutted when he leaves, but it will be when and not if.
Come January it'll depend on where we are and how he's doing. He'll be worth even more in 6 months to a year as I expect he'll be first choice CB from now on.
JBG is the one I think could go this summer. The one player that looks like he could probably make the step up to the Prem next season.
We will then get relegated (hopefully not having blown the money) and then be in a powerful Darren Bentesque position to demand top dollar similar to when we were relegated before.
So to extend Joe's stay with us we have to go up next season, and certainly look like we can do it come January.
As a fan I hope he stays but if my son had top Prem teams looking at him I would encourage him to leave after signing a new contract!