Apparently scouts from Chelsea, man city, Spurs and Arsenal were all at Brighton looking at Lookman and some have already indicated interest in the youngster. I think we may be losing him in January, our owner is a business man and money talks.
Apparently scouts from Chelsea, man city, Spurs and Arsenal were all at Brighton looking at Lookman and some have already indicated interest in the youngster. I think we may be losing him in January, our owner is a megalomaniac business man hell bent on destroying our club and money talks.
Sorry couldn't resist fixing that for you Sadiejane
RD regime essentially sees youngsters as free money. Especially lookman who's only been on the books 1-2 years. Wouldn't be surprised if he's off. Would deffo love another season off him after this one at least. But then I wished the same about Gomez
hell be gone, usual thing now, to sit on a bench somewhere if were lucky might get him loaned back to us, if you are a skilled player like that why would you want to stay here.
He looked devastated at the end of the game. Was it because he cares so much about the club, or because he couldn't believe that all his good work had been undone by the incompetence of the rest of the team?
Gomez had 21 appearances when he left and that was far, far too early. If Lookman went with half that amount of appearances then the player, the buying club and the selling club would all have to take a look at themselves because all would have made a mistake.
Don't believe the hype Sadie, Roly's trying to build a better tomorrow.
Yeah, but does that include Charlton, or just a better tomorrow for Staprix and Friends? Someone said somewhere here that Lookman wants to assure his future with us, so we should have a pen paper, and a wage increase done and dusted this week.
Fair point , but what sort of message does it send out to people paying into Valley Gold if we flog our youngsters off as soon as they pull on a shirt, all we're doing is lining Rolands ...
Fair point , but what sort of message does it send out to people paying into Valley Gold if we flog our youngsters off as soon as they pull on a shirt, all we're doing is lining Rolands ...
I still think that if people don't like to see us selling our youth then they shouldn't following a club of our stature... We'll always lose our kids to the bigger players, yes you could say that Derby have kept hold of Will Hughes but to me that means he's not good enough yet.
Even MK Dons lost Dele Alli after only a few years
Gomez had 21 appearances when he left and that was far, far too early. If Lookman went with half that amount of appearances then the player, the buying club and the selling club would all have to take a look at themselves because all would have made a mistake.
Why was it too early? He went straight into Liverpool's first team and didn't look out of place.
The buying club won't be regretting buying Lookman this early if he's as good as Gomez.
But the point should be not about who wants Lookman, but what Lookman wants. Unfortunately, a few years ago, many players like Lookman and/or their families and/or their agents, would have been more than happy for a player like him, to remain at the club, for a few seasons at least on an improved contract. I don't believe that is the case anymore.
Whilst I am a Charlton fan, it is with much regret that if he was my son, I'd be telling him to look elsewhere. Why on earth
Apparently scouts from Chelsea, man city, Spurs and Arsenal were all at Brighton looking at Lookman and some have already indicated interest in the youngster. I think we may be losing him in January, our owner is a business man and agents and money talk.
However when we sell without even giving the young player time to establish himself in our first team, that is when it gets silly.
And please don't lecture me it's a business. Of course it's a sodding business.
But if you have a player like Gomez and now Lookman playing regularly for us for at least a season plus, then the player's value will double or more over that time
Now that is good business. Selling him now is not.
He'll be gone. Its the way of things when your main aim and ambition is to finish above the bottom 3. As for scouts watching him, it's not just this week or last. He has been watched like all footballers are throughout their careers and all teams are aware of his talents. If he does go, or more likely, when he go's, it will be the time I call it a day with my Valley Gold subs. The club sells youth players year on year it is clearly self financing and really doesn't need my monthly contribution anymore.
However when we sell without even giving the young player time to establish himself in our first team, that is when it gets silly.
And please don't lecture me it's a business. Of course it's a sodding business.
But if you have a player like Gomez and now Lookman playing regularly for us for at least a season plus, then the player's value will double or more over that time
Now that is good business. Selling him now is not.
Can some of you not even see that?
We might not get the choice, if a player INSISTS on leaving then it's very hard to prevent it. I'm sure we've benefited from that, was it Wiggins who forced a move from Bournemouth?
However when we sell without even giving the young player time to establish himself in our first team, that is when it gets silly.
And please don't lecture me it's a business. Of course it's a sodding business.
But if you have a player like Gomez and now Lookman playing regularly for us for at least a season plus, then the player's value will double or more over that time
Now that is good business. Selling him now is not.
Can some of you not even see that?
the problem is though if he doesn't sign a new contract at the end he'll bugger off for practically nothing. We also don't know of any clauses in the contract but if there are not any then summer 2017 he'll leave and we will get the standard compensation, if that depending on what that is based on, so if we were offered even 2m in January or next summer you could see why that would be tempting. Unfortunately now in football it's the players that hold all the aces (and their money grabbing agents of course).
If the club had any ambition beyond survival the more talented kids would be happier to stay with us for that bit longer. Sure we'd lose them in the end, but at least we'd get a decent price for them.
"sees young players as free money". Right.... so free he subsidises the club around 6-8 million every season, and spends significant amounts on youth development.
How do you know Prague these players don't want to leave? Gomez seemed pretty certain he wanted to go. Yes we'd like more money, yes we'd like stability so players could see an improvement curve over more than a spring resurgence: Hopefully.
Other clubs, including Palace, are able to extract the most value out of their youth products. We can't and, so far, despite the propaganda, Duchatalet hasn't changed that.
Hopefully he gets advised to stay at Charlton, get regular first team football - a couple of seasons under his belt and then move on to bigger and better things.
Sad truth is he'll get paid a fortune to sit in Arsenal's reserves for a couple of years, play well in the Carling Cup and everyone will say how amazing their academy is for churning these players out.
So Lookman could be off to one of the moneybags clubs after effectively less than 12 games for Charlton. Not saying it will happen. I hope not but if it does then I think that will just about finish me and football.
Far too much money available to PL clubs to punt and squander on a whim whilst every other club in the country is dying on its arse.
Football is fecked in this country. I am really starting to lose any love I had for what still could be the beautiful game.
I've been going to The Valley long enough to know that clubs like us will always have to sell but this is altogether different.
Players like Gomez, Poyet and Lookman havnt really achieved anything in the game and not even become established at a second division club yet PL money can pluck them and ultimately in many cases fcuk them.
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lossespocket.Even MK Dons lost Dele Alli after only a few years
The buying club won't be regretting buying Lookman this early if he's as good as Gomez.
Whilst I am a Charlton fan, it is with much regret that if he was my son, I'd be telling him to look elsewhere. Why on earth
However when we sell without even giving the young player time to establish himself in our first team, that is when it gets silly.
And please don't lecture me it's a business. Of course it's a sodding business.
But if you have a player like Gomez and now Lookman playing regularly for us for at least a season plus, then the player's value will double or more over that time
Now that is good business. Selling him now is not.
Can some of you not even see that?
As for scouts watching him, it's not just this week or last. He has been watched like all footballers are throughout their careers and all teams are aware of his talents.
If he does go, or more likely, when he go's, it will be the time I call it a day with my Valley Gold subs. The club sells youth players year on year it is clearly self financing and really doesn't need my monthly contribution anymore.
How do you know Prague these players don't want to leave? Gomez seemed pretty certain he wanted to go. Yes we'd like more money, yes we'd like stability so players could see an improvement curve over more than a spring resurgence: Hopefully.
Sad truth is he'll get paid a fortune to sit in Arsenal's reserves for a couple of years, play well in the Carling Cup and everyone will say how amazing their academy is for churning these players out.
Far too much money available to PL clubs to punt and squander on a whim whilst every other club in the country is dying on its arse.
Football is fecked in this country. I am really starting to lose any love I had for what still could be the beautiful game.
I've been going to The Valley long enough to know that clubs like us will always have to sell but this is altogether different.
Players like Gomez, Poyet and Lookman havnt really achieved anything in the game and not even become established at a second division club yet PL money can pluck them and ultimately in many cases fcuk them.
I'll watch this one unfold with great interest.