Lyle Taylor - August 2025 signed for Chelmsford City (p295)

The Red Robin

Seems a popular choice with Celtic fans

thickandthin63

I think he will come unstuck,he will forever be known for what he did at Charlton,would we as fans welcome him to our club knowing that in their desperate times he had deserted his former club,no,and other clubs and their supporters will feel the same.He is linked with Rangers,does anybody honestly think Gerrard would go near anyone with that attitude.

MattF

Lyle's mantra which cropped up a lot during those interviews before the restart was "I know my own worth", which might be a problem if he's overvalued himself.

Garrymanilow

Valley11 said:

If he didn’t find a club and Bowyer wanted him back, would you take him?

Would score 20 plus in League 1 to get us back to the Championship.

(......runs for cover).

Yep. On a three year deal. We are absolutely ballbagged at the moment, getting in a proven L1 promotion striker would be a godsend. Just look at the hand-wringing on the Conor Washington thread because he's not scored 100 goals and hurt his hamstring once. To be honest, I didn't like Lyle when he was with us; loved the player, but thought he came across as an arse on social media. Deliberately baited opposition players and fans on the pitch, which was fine, and then went home and deliberately baited Charlton fans on Twitter. Mystifying. I don't need to like him, I need someone to do goals so I don't have to see us play Accrington anymore.

Wheresmeticket

se9addick said:

Don’t think his politics will go down well at Celtic


https://twitter.com/eoinmac67/status/1291402191387922434?s=21

"Hard earned money".  Beyond belief.  

gilbertfilbert

Weegie Addick said:

mendonca said:

Out of interest, when was the last time Taylor played a full game? 

And that's the point:

https://www.castrust.org/2020/06/lyle-taylor-last-impressions-count/

Great article, Weegie.

Dave2l

Hopefully he will just get offered a worse deal then what Roland offered last November.

Should have signed on the dotted line LT.

Unfortunately 2 people who up extremely far up their own assholes don't usually ever really get on and see eye to eye.

The same magnetic force repels.

ElfsborgAddick

AllHailTheHen said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

ricky_otto said:

Valley11 said:

If he didn’t find a club and Bowyer wanted him back, would you take him?

Would score 20 plus in League 1 to get us back to the Championship.

(......runs for cover).

As good a player as he his, he is too far up his own arse and has treated the club like dirt. 

The club/Dushitelet let him down on a transfer.  He's bitter because of this.

So because of his hurt feelings he refused to play thus risking us to relegation and thereby screwing over his teammates, Bow and his staff, the club employees and the supporters. What a guy.

Yes, he probably did.
Why should he care about upsetting fans and ex team mates?  It is only a job.

stoneroses19

ElfsborgAddick said:

AllHailTheHen said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

ricky_otto said:

Valley11 said:

If he didn’t find a club and Bowyer wanted him back, would you take him?

Would score 20 plus in League 1 to get us back to the Championship.

(......runs for cover).

As good a player as he his, he is too far up his own arse and has treated the club like dirt. 

The club/Dushitelet let him down on a transfer.  He's bitter because of this.

So because of his hurt feelings he refused to play thus risking us to relegation and thereby screwing over his teammates, Bow and his staff, the club employees and the supporters. What a guy.

Yes, he probably did.
Why should he care about upsetting fans and ex team mates?  It is only a job.

If it’s only a job, then you wouldn’t go around upsetting clients and colleagues, because eventually your reputation would stop you getting any decent new job. 

ElfsborgAddick

stoneroses19 said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

AllHailTheHen said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

ricky_otto said:

Valley11 said:

If he didn’t find a club and Bowyer wanted him back, would you take him?

Would score 20 plus in League 1 to get us back to the Championship.

(......runs for cover).

As good a player as he his, he is too far up his own arse and has treated the club like dirt. 

The club/Dushitelet let him down on a transfer.  He's bitter because of this.

So because of his hurt feelings he refused to play thus risking us to relegation and thereby screwing over his teammates, Bow and his staff, the club employees and the supporters. What a guy.

Yes, he probably did.
Why should he care about upsetting fans and ex team mates?  It is only a job.

If it’s only a job, then you wouldn’t go around upsetting clients and colleagues, because eventually your reputation would stop you getting any decent new job. 

Fair comment, but I think COVID has come at a bad time for Taylor.

BigRedEvil

Taylor has been a lower league journeyman for much of his career who did very well for us for 18 months. He's 30, worth a punt on a free but clubs will be put off by his refusal to play. 

ross1

ElfsborgAddick said:

stoneroses19 said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

AllHailTheHen said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

ricky_otto said:

Valley11 said:

If he didn’t find a club and Bowyer wanted him back, would you take him?

Would score 20 plus in League 1 to get us back to the Championship.

(......runs for cover).

As good a player as he his, he is too far up his own arse and has treated the club like dirt. 

The club/Dushitelet let him down on a transfer.  He's bitter because of this.

So because of his hurt feelings he refused to play thus risking us to relegation and thereby screwing over his teammates, Bow and his staff, the club employees and the supporters. What a guy.

Yes, he probably did.
Why should he care about upsetting fans and ex team mates?  It is only a job.

If it’s only a job, then you wouldn’t go around upsetting clients and colleagues, because eventually your reputation would stop you getting any decent new job. 

Fair comment, but I think COVID has come at a bad time for Taylor.

Oh dear, what a pity, never mind

covered_end_junior

I think he was quite likely waiting to see if Brentford went up to be honest. They were willing to pay 3-4 million for him only a few months ago so why would they not want him now on a free.

Watkins out Taylor in.

MattF

covered_end_junior said:

I think he was quite likely waiting to see if Brentford went up to be honest. They were willing to pay 3-4 million for him only a few months ago so why would they not want him now on a free.

Watkins out Taylor in.

Can't imagine for minute that Taylor is in a position to be waiting to see what happened with other clubs promotions. Taylor is no replacement for Watkins.

covered_end_junior

I'd have to disagree, Brentford may have spoken to him already and made it clear that they want him if they stayed down. On that basis why would you not wait rather than rush a decision and end up at a worse Championship club. I think he'll sign somewhere soon and would make Brentford favourites. 

Charltonparklane

If he'd have played after lockdown and scored 5 goals he could prob have demanded high end champ striker fees.
Shot himself in the foot

peterreeves

I'd just like to see the Judas go anywhere so we can stop talking about him on this thread! Boring as fuck and who cares... He fucking didn't! 

Dazzler21

peterreeves said:

I'd just like to see the Judas go anywhere so we can stop talking about him on this thread! Boring as fuck and who cares... He fucking didn't! 

You do, hence you being here on the thread

peterreeves

Dazzler21 said:

peterreeves said:

I'd just like to see the Judas go anywhere so we can stop talking about him on this thread! Boring as fuck and who cares... He fucking didn't! 

You do, hence you being here on the thread

Well... what else you gonna do on a hot day... But 184 pages... Gee! 

killerandflash

Charltonparklane said:

If he'd have played after lockdown and scored 5 goals he could prob have demanded high end champ striker fees.
Shot himself in the foot

Agreed. The only reasonable logic behind him not playing was that he already had something agreed, and hence didn't need to put himself in the shop window

siblers

killerandflash said:

Charltonparklane said:

If he'd have played after lockdown and scored 5 goals he could prob have demanded high end champ striker fees.
Shot himself in the foot

Agreed. The only reasonable logic behind him not playing was that he already had something agreed, and hence didn't need to put himself in the shop window

Yeah, thought he had something lined up which would somewhat explain why he didn't play. Maybe it has fallen through since, which would be awful 

Miserableoldgit

Apologies if already posted.

https://thecelticbhoys.com/2020/08/06/celtic-fans-unhappy-rumoured-target/

MattF

What were you worried about Lyle?
https://romapress.net/2020/08/03/despite-injury-chelseas-pedro-will-still-to-join-roma/

Callumcafc

How’s the new club search going Lyle?

i_b_b_o_r_g

Callumcafc said:

How’s the new club search going Lyle?

"Wrote to 26 clubs and not had 1 reply!"

MattF

Nottingham press are saying that Forest and Derby are battling it out for Ivan Toney for £5 million, maybe Taylor has to wait in turn for the attractive options to be signed first.

happyvalley

With all that's been going on I'd forgotten about that snake.

Macronate

Mark my words, Taylor will be part of the ESIv3 consortium. 

Farnell will rope him in with Danny Murphy, Kevin Muscat and Kelvin McKenzie.

ricky_otto

Macronate said:

Mark my words, Taylor will be part of the ESIv3 consortium. 

Farnell will rope him in with Danny Murphy, Kevin Muscat and Kelvin McKenzie.

You might be on to something, he has a family connection with club - his daughter Leon played for us.

2121

Great signing for brentford tbf. With him and midfield fit we were top 6 despite patchy defence