This lad has had an awful start to his loan period. I am really dissapointed as the soundbites indicated that he was just the type of player we needed.
I took the opportunity to look up his Wiki page and have seen that he played 127 games for Middlesboro and 14 for his country. To be fair neither of them could be considered slouches.Has been club captain and described as a firm favourite at Boro. Still only 27 as well.
Have we signed the right player, or is he still up there at Riverside. Cmon on Rhys prove us wrong as from now!
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Two serious injuries, played only two games in the last two years, lacking match fitness, only here for 28 days. I've got nothing against the bloke, he just wants to get fit and play but we can't afford to be the ones nursing him back into football. We needed an experienced centre half who could step straight into the first team and take command.
It really is a joke signing and sums up Charlton's incompetent and desperate player recruitment.
If we wanted a decent player who is on form, you have to pay for it - and we're clearly not willing to do that.
The experienced players available are generally those who can't get in the team, and hence aren't match fit. Morrison, for example I imagine wasn't fully match fit when he joined Birmingham.
Whatever Williams once was or had the potential to be is historical now, and picking him up was essentially picking up a player without having done a single moment's scouting. He was signed based on the fact he was a footballer two years ago with no data or judgment to go on inbetween, and the vague hope that nothing could possibly change if a player misses two years of football. Our club is insane.
Granted, Rhys is a sticking plaster for a defene that needs its own A&E.
Roland. We are going down mate. Cheap punts are not the answer.
This has happened every year since Duchatlelet took over. The squad is assembled in the summer with an inadequate budget (and I suspect a strict limit on headcount/positions) and when it is shown to be inadequate over the first half of the season, typical January cast-offs are used to plug the gaps.
There is no strategy to build a competitive squad over several seasons like Charlton did back in Curbishley's day. The best players are there to be sold, everybody else is there to make up the numbers.
Its like Grant Basey... He slowly dropped through the Leagues and is playing at a level so that he can enjoy the game yet its not the end of the world if he gets injured as he's another job (I presume so) to fall back on to
I think he is turning out for VCD, who was he playing cricket for Leuth?
Nothing more to be said.
Still got a good left foot, but he's as big as an house.
Presumably the reason we signed him is that we contribute only a nominal amount to his wages or, alternatively, nothing. Nice work, Katrien - maybe also Karel's way of leaving a mess on the carpet on the way out.
No Garrymanilow, it's the bloody owner who wants his brain checking, but I think you will find that RD's only priority is not to lose money. He cares nothing about the football situation apparently, just the assets and how he can best exploit them before he walks away our Club.
This is the standard of player we can "recruit".Even if Roland opens his wallet (he wont) no one will come here.