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Patrick Bauer has signed! (4 year deal - June 15)

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  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,562

    I wonder how he will cope playing in a proper stadium ?

    He's been playing, in a one sided stadium, in front of 3,500 on the island of Madeira

    They also play away games you know. Porto, Sporting Lisbon, Benfica etc
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008

    I wonder how he will cope playing in a proper stadium ?

    He's been playing, in a one sided stadium, in front of 3,500 on the island of Madeira

    They also play away games you know. Porto, Sporting Lisbon, Benfica etc
    Yep, but they are the only 3 "big" clubs in Portugal.
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,738

    Crickey, he's a wardrobe of a fella, where did we get him , IKEA?

    Can I put him together, please ?

  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,738

    Ok Pat says he wants to get to know his team mates and also get to know the city, is Zens still open on a Friday night?

    You mean Air & Breathe, MIA ?

    Do keep up !

  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,738
    edited June 2015
    Apologies, guys.

    Fanny's getting a tad excited by our first signing.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,767
    Have a weirdly good feeling about this fella despite nothing next to nothing about his game. I felt similar last summer about Johann. Hoping he proves to be as successful.

    Welcome Patrick Bauer!
  • foxjam
    foxjam Posts: 208
    Really looking forward to seeing him play. He's been a key player in a team that finished in the top half of the Portuguese league, which is of a much higher standard than the Belgian league. He's had experience dealing with forwards like Jackson Martinez and Quaresma and he certainly looks like someone who could cope with the physicality of the Championship. A 4 year deal also means the club must be confident that he will be a success. Plus he's German so we have a replacement for Buyens with penalties.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,562
    On paper a good signing. Young, ambitious, experience in a top European league, a unit, speaks good English, passes the CL height test. What's not to like. Welcome Patrick and good luck.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    I'm hopeful rather than expectant. His highlights video looks like it was put together by an amoeba.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,270

    I wonder how he will cope playing in a proper stadium ?

    He's been playing, in a one sided stadium, in front of 3,500 on the island of Madeira

    They also play away games you know. Porto, Sporting Lisbon, Benfica etc
    Yep, but they are the only 3 "big" clubs in Portugal.
    Maybe, but the stadiums are a lot bigger and louder than anything we will play in this season
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  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,572
    So will we be creative with his nickname and call him Jack
  • Greenie Junior
    Greenie Junior Posts: 3,881

    Ok Pat says he wants to get to know his team mates and also get to know the city, is Zens still open on a Friday night?

    You mean Air & Breathe, MIA ?

    Do keep up !

    Nope, still zens
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,037
    "What do you know about Charlton, did you see us play when we were in the Premier League?"

    He would have been a bloody child when we were in the Prem !!

    Impressed with his English.
  • foxjam
    foxjam Posts: 208
    se9addick said:

    "What do you know about Charlton, did you see us play when we were in the Premier League?"

    He would have been a bloody child when we were in the Prem !!

    Impressed with his English.
    Never met a German who doesn't speak good English... or take good penalties
  • Welcome Patrick,hope you have a great career here.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,851
    sam3110 said:

    I wonder how he will cope playing in a proper stadium ?

    He's been playing, in a one sided stadium, in front of 3,500 on the island of Madeira

    They also play away games you know. Porto, Sporting Lisbon, Benfica etc
    Yep, but they are the only 3 "big" clubs in Portugal.
    Maybe, but the stadiums are a lot bigger and louder than anything we will play in this season
    More massive than Hillsborough? Surely not!
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,276
    edited June 2015

    Type him in YouTube and watch

    "Patrick Bauer my time is now"

    It's got to be the worse YouTube video for a player you will ever see lol

    What a video. The graceful way he walked off when substituted gives me real hope! Why would anyone even go to the trouble of putting that video together?
  • MartinCAFC
    MartinCAFC Posts: 3,219
    edited June 2015
    Feeling very positive about this signing. Like everybody else I know nothing about him but you get the impression Bauer wasn't a Maritimo cast off and a player there fans would probably have liked to have kept too.

    Also could be the type of player JBG was hoping to see arrive rather than another Roger Johnson?
  • Addickted2U
    Addickted2U Posts: 3,080
    Reckon he should choose the number 12 shirt. Being German he should only need half the time and be twice as efficient as that other Bauer.
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 11,986
    Big Pat
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  • Was voted 3rd best defender in Portugal for season 2013/14. Says heading is his obvious strength
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,181

    Built like a Ziegel Scheiße Haus

    Oh ja!

  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616

    After moans on Charlton Life that previous signings have been photographed in the less than palatial offices of Chris Parkes Bauer signs in the Chairman's suite at the Valley.

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    I can see the potholes in the car park. RD sort it out.
  • SheedyCAFC
    SheedyCAFC Posts: 1,245
    What do they say on 'Maritimo Life' about him?
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,230
    Bubble said:

    What's his release clause?

    I don't know and stop calling me Claus.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,037
    Are there any rumours on what we've paid for this chap ?
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,319

    Was voted 3rd best defender in Portugal for season 2013/14. Says heading is his obvious strength

    Wonder if he's been signed for attacking corners an area we were extremely weak at last season (Bikey v Wolves was one of the few corners we scored from wasnt it?)

    As well I'd like to see how he manouvers, for a big guy up against some quick Championship defenders I hope he's not one of these units with the turning ability of a WW2 tank
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    There are some rumours on Twitter that it was 2 1/2 million pounds so I would be very surprised if that is the case
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,227

    On paper a good signing. Young, ambitious, experience in a top European league, a unit, speaks good English, passes the CL height test. What's not to like. Welcome Patrick and good luck.

    Agree, looking forward to seeing him in Belgium (insert world war joke here)