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Lyle Taylor - August 2025 signed for Chelmsford City (p295)
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Life changing contract is a nice phrase. I prefer that to life changing move
I don't hate him but once he had left, I realised just how much of his personality I found false and did not like, but saw past as he was our main man.
On a funny note, he's been rumbled (or outed) by the media, the fans now don't exist in the stadium to feed his ego and he has become very boring and samey.1 -
Mendonca, you make a good point about the lack of a crowd affecting Lyle and his large ego on a football field. I wonder if Taylor is suffering more than most because after being a bit part Journeyman footballer until he was 27 and signed for Wimbledon where the Lyle Taylor baby chant started.
He certainly got the adrenaline rush from being the star of the show.
The paradox is, he now has the money but is back in the chorus line instead of being the leading man.
It's a funny old game.3 -
I think this is possible. Some players do better when they are the big fish. We shall see.soapboxsam said:Mendonca, you make a good point about the lack of a crowd affecting Lyle and his large ego on a football field. I wonder if Taylor is suffering more than most because after being a bit part Journeyman footballer until he was 27 and signed for Wimbledon where the Lyle Taylor baby chant started.
He certainly got the adrenaline rush from being the star of the show.
The paradox is, he now has the money but is back in the chorus line instead of being the leading man.
It's a funny old game.0 -
Definitely. Look at all the faces he pulls, pretend frustration posing and twatty antics with away fans at corners. He's just keeping himself interested and now that set of ego fuelled motivators do not exist.MuttleyCAFC said:
I think this is possible. Some players do better when they are the big fish. We shall see.soapboxsam said:Mendonca, you make a good point about the lack of a crowd affecting Lyle and his large ego on a football field. I wonder if Taylor is suffering more than most because after being a bit part Journeyman footballer until he was 27 and signed for Wimbledon where the Lyle Taylor baby chant started.
He certainly got the adrenaline rush from being the star of the show.
The paradox is, he now has the money but is back in the chorus line instead of being the leading man.
It's a funny old game.0 -
There is definitely something out of the normal about him. What I mean is if you look at his career, he wasn't widely known before he joined us and he was 29 years old. When we saw him play, most of us probably wondered why that was!
I suppose he is a player we can't really second guess. And given his club record, he doesn't stay in the same place too long.0 -
All he had to do was just play 3 games.
He didn't like or respect Charlton enough to do that.
His refusal to play in any of the games was not a life changing decision.
It meant he wasn't match fit.
If he played the 3 games....he would have been more sharp for Nottingham forest this season. It would have helped him!
He could have just used the 3 games for the best of both worlds.
Pre season fitness! And help the club that did so much for him!
He's an unprofessional bottle job.
I thought he was the opposite of that and a great person/potential Charlton legend...last year.8 -
Can someone comment on his insta for me? Please ask him how big school is going.
I would do it myself but the career journeyman has blocked me.7 -
I really don't think he'll care that much, if he cared more about football and less about money we'd not have had this issue.
Yes Forest are doing badly so far but he's still got his £3-4m contract.2 -
I wouldn't want the guy because he broke a principal of not honouring his contract. Anything else is immaterial.soapboxsam said:StrikerFirmani said:
As long as its not us, that is fine.Richard J said:I have a feeling he might end up being loaned out to a L1 club in January.
If he went in the stocks for a week (remember Tiswas ) and apologize for not playing the 3 games when still under contract then why wouldn't you want a guy who was brilliant for Cafc and could get us promoted.
It won't happen because Charlton fans do hate big time and Taylor has burnt his bridges. Lyle saw through Matthew Southall for the shyster he was. I'm still amazed that some normally sharp CL posters didn't realize until the window shut that MS was a wrong'un.
Lyle Taylor made a mistake in not playing till the end of his contract. I'm still gutted for Cafc, but also gutted for him because the goals, assists and good things he does off the pitch has been erased from memory.
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Hes blocked comments on his most recent posts, went to pst exactly that yesterday but thought it'd only feed his ego knowing that we are still bothered about him.J BLOCK said:Can someone comment on his insta for me? Please ask him how big school is going.
I would do it myself but the career journeyman has blocked me.2 -
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Had a chat with his Dad earlier this evening in a bar in Koh SamuiFansince1963 said:How much per week is Lyle new contract with Forest?
Said he was on 4.5 k a week at Charlton, and has now tripled his salary at Forest.2 -
Just as we guessed! Proper life changing.queensland_addick said:
Had a chat with his Dad earlier this evening in a bar in Koh SamuiFansince1963 said:How much per week is Lyle new contract with Forest?
Said he was on 4.5 k a week at Charlton, and has now tripled his salary at Forest.0 -
New ground due to open 21/22 season.Miserableoldgit said:
Think they are building a ground on the Sidcup bypass, Flamingos old site ?ElfsborgAddick said:
Groundshare with Bromley.golfaddick said:Where is Cray Wanderers ground ?? It seems like they were travelling along the A2 between Bexley and Falconwood.
They train there I'm told.1 -
Are you reading this @golfaddick?EdgeleyAddick said:Think Bowyer gets the best out of players. I reckon the ones who leave and can't cut it at their new club probably fail mostly due to not having him around as mentor/motivator /manager.
I honestly think he is a really top class manager.1 -
Precisely.2121 said:
Yeah but he is getting his pay so will happily wave us as he goes down without a carefloydroadfaithfull said:When we go up and forest go down we can all wave at taylor on the way
Now that would be poetic justice0 -
"Look here Charlton fans, I don't care about what I did. I never have to work again now I signed this contract for Forest".North Lower Neil said:I really don't think he'll care that much, if he cared more about football and less about money we'd not have had this issue.
Yes Forest are doing badly so far but he's still got his £3-4m contract.
This is the reality.0 -
Yep. 3 years on £15k pw week means he would probably have the equivalent of £100k per year tax free for the next 50 years to live on with no mortgage if he retired at the end of the contract.ElfsborgAddick said:
"Look here Charlton fans, I don't care about what I did. I never have to work again now I signed this contract for Forest".North Lower Neil said:I really don't think he'll care that much, if he cared more about football and less about money we'd not have had this issue.
Yes Forest are doing badly so far but he's still got his £3-4m contract.
This is the reality.
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I wonder how many slagging him off would not have done the same.RodneyCharltonTrotta said:
Yep. 3 years on £15k pw week means he would probably have the equivalent of £100k per year tax free for the next 50 years to live on with no mortgage if he retired at the end of the contract.ElfsborgAddick said:
"Look here Charlton fans, I don't care about what I did. I never have to work again now I signed this contract for Forest".North Lower Neil said:I really don't think he'll care that much, if he cared more about football and less about money we'd not have had this issue.
Yes Forest are doing badly so far but he's still got his £3-4m contract.
This is the reality.0 -
99.9% would have made the move. No issue with that at all.It’s the breaking of contract mid-relegation battle which is where I think that number comes down enormously.....35
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Exactly, he could have simply played and still got the move.cafctom said:99.9% would have made the move. No issue with that at all.It’s the breaking of contract mid-relegation battle which is where I think that number comes down enormously.....3 -
Taylor would have his people in his ear saying if you get injured you could fuck your one big payday up .
This is where a proper club with some leadership pays £100k for a £4m insurance policy to cover Lyle Taylor in the unprecedented times we were in to play out the last 9 games .
I'm up for the job Thomas .
cancel that , imagine having to deal with our cry baby fan base ... Thomas will see that soon enough when things don't go as hoped .6 -
Breaks his leg in the 3 games and no life changing move.North Lower Neil said:
Exactly, he could have simply played and still got the move.cafctom said:99.9% would have made the move. No issue with that at all.It’s the breaking of contract mid-relegation battle which is where I think that number comes down enormously.....1 -
🥱🤦♂️ElfsborgAddick said:
Breaks his leg in the 3 games and no life changing move.North Lower Neil said:
Exactly, he could have simply played and still got the move.cafctom said:99.9% would have made the move. No issue with that at all.It’s the breaking of contract mid-relegation battle which is where I think that number comes down enormously.....6 -
It's because people are too busy getting poo on their noses to understand why we were all so pissed at him.shine166 said:
Cant believe this still has to be explained months after it happened.cafctom said:99.9% would have made the move. No issue with that at all.It’s the breaking of contract mid-relegation battle which is where I think that number comes down enormously.....0 -
Let's be honest here, Forest weren't his life changing move. He expected Brentford to come back in for him.ElfsborgAddick said:
Breaks his leg in the 3 games and no life changing move.North Lower Neil said:
Exactly, he could have simply played and still got the move.cafctom said:99.9% would have made the move. No issue with that at all.It’s the breaking of contract mid-relegation battle which is where I think that number comes down enormously.....
He obviously alienated them with his behaviour.1 -
He’d be unlucky to break his leg in one game, let alone three.ElfsborgAddick said:
Breaks his leg in the 3 games and no life changing move.North Lower Neil said:
Exactly, he could have simply played and still got the move.cafctom said:99.9% would have made the move. No issue with that at all.It’s the breaking of contract mid-relegation battle which is where I think that number comes down enormously.....21 -
ElfsborgAddick said:Breaks his leg in the 3 games and no life changing move.
You could apply this to every player all the time.
Dougherty should stop turning out for us as he might break a leg and ruin a life changing move to Celtic.
Bonne should stop turning out for us as he might break his leg and ruin a life changing move to QPR
Levitt should stop turning out for us as he might break his leg and ruin his future chances of playing for United's first team.
Baker should stop turning out for us as he might break his leg and ruin his development and end his career at 17
Etc etc22 -
I'm expecting he does not have to work again with this Forest contract.Dazzler21 said:
Let's be honest here, Forest weren't his life changing move. He expected Brentford to come back in for him.ElfsborgAddick said:
Breaks his leg in the 3 games and no life changing move.North Lower Neil said:
Exactly, he could have simply played and still got the move.cafctom said:99.9% would have made the move. No issue with that at all.It’s the breaking of contract mid-relegation battle which is where I think that number comes down enormously.....
He obviously alienated them with his behaviour.2
