Reading and watching some of the videos and reactions to it from the fans.
The players are not thick and will know the long term goals etc.
Fck, imagine playing knowing there is no ambition to be promoted or that your superiors don't really care what happens.
I know we are fans but shit, I'd hate to be a player and really don't think we could get on their backs as a lifelong supporter of nearly 40years..
Bit dumbfounded at the moment with it all tbh.
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The 10k players will get 10k anywhere, the others will pick up the same wage they are on anywhere.
Think my point is that it won't be the players fault trying to play knowing what's going on around them.
The question is not whether this type of negative influence makes a player's job more difficult than, say, a postman's.
We care about how successful our team is, so the issue is whether the conditions at the club put our players at a disadvantage when compared to the FOOTBALLERS at our competitors. Not postmen, not builders, not you or I.
All footballers are well paid, but OUR players are surrounded by negativity and mismanagement. That has a relative impact.
One example of a player finally understanding the business model..,
I work for the NHS and before that Connex, so i am used to shit managers, but it doesn't stop me doing it, why should it stop them?
And then there are players like Lookman, Holmes Dennis, Fox, products of the academy who are thinking, where is this club heading? why am i still here? should i move to a bigger club?
Finally players like Vaz te and Diarra, who are towards the end back end of their career who still yet have something to offer but they must be thinking thank lord my contract wont keep me here for much longer and I can get out of this shambles.
I don't really sympathies with the players as they are still earning good money but it is how they most likely feel about our club that worries me the most.
But this was not from some bygone age only; we had it recently, under Chris Powell, and his hand-picked squad - an enlightened management and a gutsy side that chimed with the terraces.
Some good players have run out in Charlton shirts since CP was sacked, no doubt, but the management - and I refer here not so much to the coaches, but to the owner - has never chimed with us. It probably never will, for it is alien and aloof.
Who knows what the players think. It's hard to speak truth to power, and that's probably the case irrespective of what you earn, when all around you are competitors seeking to displace you from the team.
Something about the playing side of things is not right...and my feeling is that the distant, unfathomable management is largely the cause.
Like most, I hope we can break free of this strange, unsettling regime before long, and re-set the co-ordinates, so that SE7 can feel like home again. That moment may be some time in coming, but I look forward to it, nevertheless.
But I tend to think players who get paid mega money for the likes of Chelsea, Man United, Barcelona etc, they do not need the money and are playing for medals.
The also-rans are just playing for the next contract.
Two of the biggest mercenaries in my book, Adebayor and Sven-Goran Eriksson.
There are a few like this in our squad. How do I know this? I just do.
The bouncer came back with "yeah, you're the c*** who follows Charlton, the drinks are on the house".
Another reason I take issue with these owners. Under investment has led to too many youngsters too soon. We then come to rely on them at too young an age.
However, although a bad atmosphere isn't conducive to getting the best out of players, they do have to take some responsibility. Yet I was about to list those more seasoned pros in the team like JBG and Solly, but remembered even our new signings who have been largely shit, are also too young. It's RD, it's all RD's doing
Whatever, I am gonna bang my favourite drum yet again ... booing and jeering is just not going to improve either morale or performance, quite the contrary , we are where we are player wise, we'll just have to hope that the penny/centime/100th of a € has dropped with Duchatelet and he frees some cash to sign some fresh blood a s a p
They're going to be visiting stadiums of well-run clubs and duelling with players who are willing to fight for their badges. And they'll lose.