Are we seriously not wanting than Arsenal just because he's goal record isn't good!!? He's an Arsenal player isn't that good enough these days??
Quite. When our options are Igor -fit now, but hasn't been since Oct 2014, Lookman - totally unproven, albeit talented, Makienok- 3 good games all season and Reza - insert comment here, we should be grateful for what we get
There's a customer to be proud of.
I'm not convinced I've said anything controversial there . Signing players from Belgium 2nd tier has been our modus operandi in previous windows, yet some are furious when we sign a player from Arsenal. Evidently your comment suggests that I am not a supporter . Cheers .
The problem is every January Window ,we have to go for the short term signing because we're in the Brown stuff (23rd is the brown stuff)
Can i state the fuc#ing obvious and say start the season, and have a proper pre season with the same group of 22 + that will then have the core fitness and skill to play 46 matches just changing a couple in the mid season window.
Sorry i've just used a common sense way to run a Pro football club.
I thought we started the season really well until 6/7 of the first team got injured!
Same strategy as last year. Short term signings. Let them go at the end of the year however they perform in the remainder of the season. Do think the permanent signing was made up by the club. Hope it's enough to survive.
Solly has had some poor games this year, and that is not like him. I have wondered if he was playing at less than 100% fit and consider it to have been highly likely. We needed cover - we now have it, and what a good pedigree he has. A lot better than we could have reasonably expected imo. I expect him to be replaced in the summer.
Sanago could be interesting. Someone on here described him as a Leaburn type player. I think he is a lot more mobile than that, and as he comes from Arsenal he will have a lot of pace. He will be playing for a contract so I expect the effort to be put in. I hope we have a buy option. He left his home club so early in life and things have not gone as he must have thought they would.
I remember reading about players who do not make it at clubs. Young players who have who have been at Prem clubs from 10yrs old and are then rejected (culling the clubs call it) then leave football altogether. Quite shocking when you think just how good they were.
If he Riga can help him find his confidence again we may have a gem. He is presumably viewed as potentially Watts replacement. Fingers tightly crossed he is all that and more.
We've needed proper RB cover for the past season and a half and needed to strengthen striker options after letting Watt go, so on paper these two look reasonable to me.
However, as @The Red Robin said above, it is still short term firefighting. We will again face a summer squad upheaval: we are a long way from a proactive long term strategy.
Underwhelmed again. However, hoping that Sanogo can turn out like our last Arsenal loanee, Coquelin! Different position but like Coquelin, a lot to prove.
The problem is every January Window ,we have to go for the short term signing because we're in the Brown stuff (23rd is the brown stuff)
Can i state the fuc#ing obvious and say start the season, and have a proper pre season with the same group of 22 + that will then have the core fitness and skill to play 46 matches just changing a couple in the mid season window. .
Dream on! Hopefully we'll stay up but I can't see our beloved owner doing anything as logical as your suggestion. Although, with Riga on board, there is hope....
Underwhelmed again. However, hoping that Sanogo can turn out like our last Arsenal loanee, Coquelin! Different position but like Coquelin, a lot to prove.
Coquelin really didnt come in wanting to prove himself... He almost had the attitude of; I'm ready to move on from Arsenal as its never going to happen, it allowed him to relax and play his best stuff which took him back to Arsenal
Sanogo just needs to do the same... Take a relaxed attitude that it'll never work at Arsenal yet maybe it'll work at Charlton
Had time to sleep on this now however my opinion hasn't changed. We have signed a striker who doesn't score and an over the hill defender. But I am realistic we couldn't really expect anything else in the position we are in. What makes it worse is the amount of spurious stories saying we are going to sign this player or that player for X millions. Classic CAFC spin stories
Overall a better window than I was expecting, but expectations were very low.
Fannie clearly has a lot of experience and quality - let's hope he can pick up the pace here quickly. We definitely need cover for Solly so that he can continue to get back to his best.
Sanogo - bit of a punt and needs confidence. Could say the same for most of the team after Hull, so maybe Riga will work his magic.
All I worry about the latter is that Wenger fobbed us off with him before sending Gnabry to Brighton. We need the latter more than the former, I think, and that would be a good overall window.
Haven't heard Riga mention Poyet yet. Rumours I've heard is he's come back a bit prima donna and might fail the 'Riga commitment test'. Poyet back to his best with us would transform our midfield, so hopefully nothing in it.
Same old Charlton loanees , been told sanogo ain't all that , as for fanni don't know to much about him but this is the championship and we are battling relegation hope he is up for it , Time will tell if these 2 are good signings ,personally I'd like to see some up and coming championship players In our side that in time could play at the highest level but that's football today .
For some reason I'm in an optimistic mood. Maybe sending Watt to Blackburn could be Riga's slyest move yet - disrupt the competition. It worked for that Surrey team when they sent us Dowie, after all.
I was always a fan of Watt, loved to watch him, but some mates from Glasgow predicted what would happen. Decisive and not a team player - or, in Glaswegian, a 'f**ckin lunatic'. I suspect it was our players that forced him out, like they got rid of Fraeye.
If Riga was involved in the decision making to bring in both loanees, then, I am more relaxed. How many out against how many in? Have we saved money on the wages bill to spend on more loanees shortly?
2 players out, 2 players in. pretty straight forward with not too much extra cash spent. do I think the signings are any good? well I laughed when I heard about them and where they came from.
a bloke called fannie who was once good but is now playing in a Qatar side, also he happens to be Diarra mate a bit like vaz te. so great scouting once again.
then their is sanogo. a striker who hasn't scored for two years. wenger rings up club says I got a player who needs game time can you help me out like you've done before? sure wenger. again great scouting.
where is this championship experience player they said they were bringing in?
I hope both players are good but I just doubt it. glass half empty.
I'm quite pleased with both signings to be honest. Sanogo will bring pace and strength to the front line and will score at least as many goals as anyone else we have. Fanni is a bit out of left field but he has pedigree in abundance and if he can help stiffen our leaky back four then his short term fix will have been worth it.
Where my concerns are is about our recruitment policy in general. We are in a perilous situation and a betting man would still see us as good for relegation. Yet again the meagre budget has overridden all our efforts. We have actually yet again bought no one. We played the brinkmanship game and although the two we loaned are in my opinion decent it could just have easily all gone wrong.
Duchatelet is even in our current relegation danger unable to see past an investment now to save money in the longer term.
This regime has again proven that we are an experiment with no ambition other than to cut corners and go cheap.
If you consider our squad today, compared to three weeks ago, it does IMO look better. Moving on Pigott, Watt, Moussa, Vaz Te, and bringing in Sanogo and Fanni gives us depth in the right places. With Lookman and Vetokele both back from injury too, the attack, midfield and defence all have robust options, and with Diarra and Bauer hopefully both back soon, even more so then. If we can add Gnabry next week that would be even better, but even without him, picking our best starting XI is not as simple as it used to be, and with a full in-form squad to chose from, quite difficult!
Seen some matches over thenyears that fannihas played in and he is tireless, always very physical, can score and create goals and has pace even at the age he is now. He also has a knack of last ditch perfect tackles/clearances as evident on his youtube videos. Hopefully good things from him and i expect hivto play more as a cb with us!
First off, I do hope that the current squad (and any further additions) can keep us up, but...
For me, it's a continuation of the previous summer's wing and a prayer strategy, with limited numbers of decent players (more out than in appears to be our policy). We may have an OK first 11, and a few to cover, but we really are relying on none of our key players getting injured - which, being Charlton would mean we won't see them again (part of me thinks that we should have signed up Eva Carneiro as Director of Medicine/Crocks).
Deadline day/Transfer Window was about where I was expecting us to be, except I thought Lookman was gonna be on his toes, and just because we have kept him Im more confident that we can stay up, especially now that Igor looks to have shed the timber, Mak is looking aggressive, Cousins and JBG are playing again, just need a more consistent defence and Riga will get us out of it and become a Charlton legend (again). Its down to us to stay up and not because of the tits that are running our club but in spite of them.
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Sanago could be interesting. Someone on here described him as a Leaburn type player. I think he is a lot more mobile than that, and as he comes from Arsenal he will have a lot of pace. He will be playing for a contract so I expect the effort to be put in. I hope we have a buy option. He left his home club so early in life and things have not gone as he must have thought they would.
I remember reading about players who do not make it at clubs. Young players who have who have been at Prem clubs from 10yrs old and are then rejected (culling the clubs call it) then leave football altogether. Quite shocking when you think just how good they were.
If he Riga can help him find his confidence again we may have a gem. He is presumably viewed as potentially Watts replacement. Fingers tightly crossed he is all that and more.
In Riga we trust - at least until Chris is back.
However, as @The Red Robin said above, it is still short term firefighting. We will again face a summer squad upheaval: we are a long way from a proactive long term strategy.
Sanogo just needs to do the same... Take a relaxed attitude that it'll never work at Arsenal yet maybe it'll work at Charlton
But I am realistic we couldn't really expect anything else in the position we are in.
What makes it worse is the amount of spurious stories saying we are going to sign this player or that player for X millions. Classic CAFC spin stories
Fannie clearly has a lot of experience and quality - let's hope he can pick up the pace here quickly. We definitely need cover for Solly so that he can continue to get back to his best.
Sanogo - bit of a punt and needs confidence. Could say the same for most of the team after Hull, so maybe Riga will work his magic.
All I worry about the latter is that Wenger fobbed us off with him before sending Gnabry to Brighton. We need the latter more than the former, I think, and that would be a good overall window.
Haven't heard Riga mention Poyet yet. Rumours I've heard is he's come back a bit prima donna and might fail the 'Riga commitment test'. Poyet back to his best with us would transform our midfield, so hopefully nothing in it.
I was always a fan of Watt, loved to watch him, but some mates from Glasgow predicted what would happen. Decisive and not a team player - or, in Glaswegian, a 'f**ckin lunatic'. I suspect it was our players that forced him out, like they got rid of Fraeye.
How many out against how many in? Have we saved money on the wages bill to spend on more loanees shortly?
do I think the signings are any good?
well I laughed when I heard about them and where they came from.
a bloke called fannie who was once good but is now playing in a Qatar side, also he happens to be Diarra mate a bit like vaz te. so great scouting once again.
then their is sanogo. a striker who hasn't scored for two years. wenger rings up club says I got a player who needs game time can you help me out like you've done before? sure wenger. again great scouting.
where is this championship experience player they said they were bringing in?
I hope both players are good but I just doubt it. glass half empty.
Where my concerns are is about our recruitment policy in general. We are in a perilous situation and a betting man would still see us as good for relegation. Yet again the meagre budget has overridden all our efforts. We have actually yet again bought no one. We played the brinkmanship game and although the two we loaned are in my opinion decent it could just have easily all gone wrong.
Duchatelet is even in our current relegation danger unable to see past an investment now to save money in the longer term.
This regime has again proven that we are an experiment with no ambition other than to cut corners and go cheap.
They have to go.
For me, it's a continuation of the previous summer's wing and a prayer strategy, with limited numbers of decent players (more out than in appears to be our policy). We may have an OK first 11, and a few to cover, but we really are relying on none of our key players getting injured - which, being Charlton would mean we won't see them again (part of me thinks that we should have signed up Eva Carneiro as Director of Medicine/Crocks).
Its down to us to stay up and not because of the tits that are running our club but in spite of them.
I just hope the retirement league that Fanni has been playing in is a little more competitive than the one Johnson has spent half the season in.