Remember that on the day we were told Powell had been sacked and Riga had taken over Driesen was stood at Sparrows Lane alongside Riga overseeing training.
Never met Dreisen. Never seen anything anywhere to suggest he is anything other than a self important wanker with very limited skills given way too much power by a naive and foolish Belgian benefactor.
Glad he’s gone and I can stop getting annoyed at the mention of him.
Rubbershoes isn’t that bad, he was only doing his job/following (crap) orders....
I believe he, along with Keohane, was instrumental in taking charlton fans to court for comments on social media.
Wasn't he given the full time Charlton job around the time the Meire was busy whitewashing her google presence. I always though he was instrumental to that. I could be wrong though and am happy to be corrected.
To be honest I am not really sure I want to contribute to the oxygen this thread is providing to M. Driessen.
In defence of M. De Sart, the then Standard Sporting Director, I think his refusal to accept the role of Network Sporting Director says all you need to know about his views of the network.
Though Driessen is far from blameless I am not sure he is fully deserving of the level of vitriol heading his way.
The young man appears to have some data analysis skills and chose to invest such skills in football.
He is most certainly not alone in such a pursuit.
Indeed such skills are commonplace in contributing to the recruitment process in any number of industries. Employment, recruitment and human resource agencies regularly use comparable skill sets.
The challenge arises when you empower such analytics to the detriment and disrespect of industry professionals of many years standing. The professionals in question use a far broader spectrum of performance analysis than is evident from any statistical data, video analysis and any questionable recruitment criteria.
Seemingly empowered by Ms Meire, Driessen used precisely the language M. Duchatelet (MD) could understand which appears to have triggered his elevation to a level of authority beyond his capabilities.
I can but speculate why.
I offer the theory there is somewhere in the bowels of Staprix NV a complete profit & loss spreadsheet detailing per player: - cost of recruitment - ongoing salary & opportunity costs - related corporate income including transfer fees and subsequent contingent revenues
which will list every single player ever signed by or under contract to any team during MD's tenure.
A list which would likely include the likes of Benteke and Batshuayi.
I have little doubt any such spreadsheet will have addressed a range of player characteristics, performance criteria and related analysis.
However I suggest the extended spreadsheet addressed a full per player cost - revenue - benefit assessment to deliver to a per player profitability business model.
People forget MD was not only on a different page to everybody else he was reading an entirely different book. His recruitment was never to secure progress for our club, or any club, via playing success.
It was to generate financial reward from player trading. His need for any team to perform at a certain level was to provide a positive show case for his players.
The influx of Belgian recruits at the outset was to defray the cost of Standard Liege squad players and put them in a different shop window. Driessen did not send them to Sparrows Lane he just tried to communicate to Powell who they were, their strengths and weaknesses because no one had ever heard of them.
From that moment Driessen is caught in the headlights and he defaulted to the self important, self preservation, self serving defence mechanisms which embodied Meire's entire corporate culture.
Clearly a young man who has a high appraisal of his own abilities his arrogance reflected that assumed by any Head Office employee talking to a branch office. Quite simply he never worked for the club he worked for MD.
It would be churlish however to suggest his data analytics made no contribution to the progress seen over the past 2yrs. The value of such contribution however must weighed against the huge conflict of interest he chose to serve in fulling the business interests of his benefactor.
Ultimately from all we have seen, the young man was never employed to serve Charlton Athletic Football Club. He was empowered to work to an entirely different MD agenda.
@el-pietro Vetokele is often cited as proof Driesen once signed a decent player but he was signed by Bob Peeters, having played for him at Cercle Brugge and Gent. Not a scout signing.
@Grapevine49 and others, I really don't buy this logic that, having been responsible for the worst prolonged period of recruitment the club has ever seen, to farcical standards, that Driesen is then somehow to thank for the success of the recruitment of the past two years after the club changes tact and puts more power back to the manager and Gallen.
As Bowyer himself said, he and Gallen looked at the fact they'd have to work with Driesen and said "You either fight it and probably lose, or you work with it, and hopefully win." That is to say they do not agree or appreciate the structure and have worked to succeed in spite of it.
It must be a byproduct of the bizarre years we've just gone through that anyone could jump to Driesen's defense and even suggest that an amateur data analyst could actually be a positive addition at the very top of a professional football scouting team in one of the toughest leagues in the world.
What other successful clubs have one of these?
Let me rephrase, does any other club in the world have one of these?
An amateur data analyst at the very top of their scouting heirarchy.
This was a farce. A boy given a top job in football at a historic football club because he sent an email analysing Balotelli's penalty kicks from his bedroom.
This was nothing but the doings of an owner who is best described as bonkers and whose every business decision defied belief.
For fans to now sit here and suggest Driesen might actually have been a positive I can only put down to some kind of Stockholm Syndrome.
Rubbershoes isn’t that bad, he was only doing his job/following (crap) orders....
I believe he, along with Keohane, was instrumental in taking charlton fans to court for comments on social media.
Wasn't he given the full time Charlton job around the time the Meire was busy whitewashing her google presence. I always though he was instrumental to that. I could be wrong though and am happy to be corrected.
That ings a bell too. Perhaps it was that I was thinking of. It all merges into one now.
I do know that he was here for a long time as a contractor first and knew the situation (cub vs fans) and still willingly took the full time job and got involved with all that.
@Grapevine49 and others, I really don't buy this logic that, having been responsible for the worst prolonged period of recruitment the club has ever seen, to farcical standards, that Driesen is then somehow to thank for the success of the recruitment of the past two years after the club changes tact and puts more power back to the manager and Gallen.
As Bowyer himself said, he and Gallen looked at the fact they'd have to work with Driesen and said "You either fight it and probably lose, or you work with it, and hopefully win." That is to say they do not agree or appreciate the structure and have worked to succeed in spite of it.
It must be a byproduct of the bizarre years we've just gone through that anyone could jump to Driesen's defense and even suggest that an amateur data analyst could actually be a positive addition at the very top of a professional football scouting team in one of the toughest leagues in the world.
What other successful clubs have one of these?
Let me rephrase, does any other club in the world have one of these?
An amateur data analyst at the very top of their scouting heirarchy.
This was a farce. A boy given a top job in football at a historic football club because he sent an email analysing Balotelli's penalty kicks from his bedroom.
This was nothing but the doings of an owner who is best described as bonkers and whose every business decision defied belief.
For fans to now sit here and suggest Driesen might actually have been a positive I can only put down to some kind of Stockholm Syndrome.
I didn't say that Tommy deserved credit for anything.
What I took issue with is confidence that was used to argue that any "bad" transfer must be down to Tommy yet any good one can't have anything to do with him. That maybe true but it's based on guessing.
I mentioned on another topic that I find it strange how people are so happy to talk in absolutes when the truth isn't fully known.
Without knowing, as fact who Tommy was 100% responsible for signing and what players he vetoed it's impossible to draw the proper conclusion on his overall effect.
Remember before Bonne had a run in the first team there was rumour and innuendo that Tommy had signed him against Bowyer's wishes.
@Grapevine49 and others, I really don't buy this logic that, having been responsible for the worst prolonged period of recruitment the club has ever seen, to farcical standards, that Driesen is then somehow to thank for the success of the recruitment of the past two years after the club changes tact and puts more power back to the manager and Gallen.
As Bowyer himself said, he and Gallen looked at the fact they'd have to work with Driesen and said "You either fight it and probably lose, or you work with it, and hopefully win." That is to say they do not agree or appreciate the structure and have worked to succeed in spite of it.
It must be a byproduct of the bizarre years we've just gone through that anyone could jump to Driesen's defense and even suggest that an amateur data analyst could actually be a positive addition at the very top of a professional football scouting team in one of the toughest leagues in the world.
What other successful clubs have one of these?
Let me rephrase, does any other club in the world have one of these?
An amateur data analyst at the very top of their scouting heirarchy.
This was a farce. A boy given a top job in football at a historic football club because he sent an email analysing Balotelli's penalty kicks from his bedroom.
This was nothing but the doings of an owner who is best described as bonkers and whose every business decision defied belief.
For fans to now sit here and suggest Driesen might actually have been a positive I can only put down to some kind of Stockholm Syndrome.
I didn't say that Tommy deserved credit for anything.
What I took issue with is confidence that was used to argue that any "bad" transfer must be down to Tommy yet any good one can't have anything to do with him. That maybe true but it's based on guessing.
I mentioned on another topic that I find it strange how people are so happy to talk in absolutes when the truth isn't fully known.
Without knowing, as fact who Tommy was 100% responsible for signing and what players he vetoed it's impossible to draw the proper conclusion on his overall effect.
Remember before Bonne had a run in the first team there was rumour and innuendo that Tommy had signed him against Bowyer's wishes.
Your point implies that an amateur data nerd (I regret the term 'analyst,' since he has no qualifications I can see) can have any positive positive effect on the transfer policy of a professional football club, which I reject with full confidence.
@Grapevine49 and others, I really don't buy this logic that, having been responsible for the worst prolonged period of recruitment the club has ever seen, to farcical standards, that Driesen is then somehow to thank for the success of the recruitment of the past two years after the club changes tact and puts more power back to the manager and Gallen.
As Bowyer himself said, he and Gallen looked at the fact they'd have to work with Driesen and said "You either fight it and probably lose, or you work with it, and hopefully win." That is to say they do not agree or appreciate the structure and have worked to succeed in spite of it.
It must be a byproduct of the bizarre years we've just gone through that anyone could jump to Driesen's defense and even suggest that an amateur data analyst could actually be a positive addition at the very top of a professional football scouting team in one of the toughest leagues in the world.
What other successful clubs have one of these?
Let me rephrase, does any other club in the world have one of these?
An amateur data analyst at the very top of their scouting heirarchy.
This was a farce. A boy given a top job in football at a historic football club because he sent an email analysing Balotelli's penalty kicks from his bedroom.
This was nothing but the doings of an owner who is best described as bonkers and whose every business decision defied belief.
For fans to now sit here and suggest Driesen might actually have been a positive I can only put down to some kind of Stockholm Syndrome.
I didn't say that Tommy deserved credit for anything.
What I took issue with is confidence that was used to argue that any "bad" transfer must be down to Tommy yet any good one can't have anything to do with him. That maybe true but it's based on guessing.
I mentioned on another topic that I find it strange how people are so happy to talk in absolutes when the truth isn't fully known.
Without knowing, as fact who Tommy was 100% responsible for signing and what players he vetoed it's impossible to draw the proper conclusion on his overall effect.
Remember before Bonne had a run in the first team there was rumour and innuendo that Tommy had signed him against Bowyer's wishes.
Your point implies that an amateur data nerd (I regret the term 'analyst,' since he has no qualifications I can see) can have any positive positive effect on the transfer policy of a professional football club, which I reject with full confidence.
I have no idea what qualifications he has got. I have no idea what data models he uses. I don't know which players we signed based purely on his say so. Do you?
I think that "data nerds" do have a place in the recruitment policy of professional football clubs. Does that mean I think Tommy was any good at it? Well I don't know.
What was wrong, as with many things under RD, is it was back to front. A "data nerd" should be part of the scouting mix and make recommendations to the chief scout/head of recruitment who then suggests players to the manager. He should never have been the final yes/no authority.
@Grapevine49 and others, I really don't buy this logic that, having been responsible for the worst prolonged period of recruitment the club has ever seen, to farcical standards, that Driesen is then somehow to thank for the success of the recruitment of the past two years after the club changes tact and puts more power back to the manager and Gallen.
As Bowyer himself said, he and Gallen looked at the fact they'd have to work with Driesen and said "You either fight it and probably lose, or you work with it, and hopefully win." That is to say they do not agree or appreciate the structure and have worked to succeed in spite of it.
It must be a byproduct of the bizarre years we've just gone through that anyone could jump to Driesen's defense and even suggest that an amateur data analyst could actually be a positive addition at the very top of a professional football scouting team in one of the toughest leagues in the world.
What other successful clubs have one of these?
Let me rephrase, does any other club in the world have one of these?
An amateur data analyst at the very top of their scouting heirarchy.
This was a farce. A boy given a top job in football at a historic football club because he sent an email analysing Balotelli's penalty kicks from his bedroom.
This was nothing but the doings of an owner who is best described as bonkers and whose every business decision defied belief.
For fans to now sit here and suggest Driesen might actually have been a positive I can only put down to some kind of Stockholm Syndrome.
Perfect!
We have more qualified people and dare I suggest data analysts at that on this forum than Mr Driesen!
I go on - league position when he came on board and league position when we got lucky and Bowyer and Gallen came together.
I go by years wasted and money spent by our previous owner on bad transfers and on the whole poor use of the loan system (in comparison to our current use of it).
Driesen harps on about transfer "success". I'm certain 99% of Charlton fans would not consider our transfer policy under Roland a success.
And I do legitimately question how much Driesen knew about the loan players brought in under Gallen and Bowyer.
@Grapevine49 and others, I really don't buy this logic that, having been responsible for the worst prolonged period of recruitment the club has ever seen, to farcical standards, that Driesen is then somehow to thank for the success of the recruitment of the past two years after the club changes tact and puts more power back to the manager and Gallen.
As Bowyer himself said, he and Gallen looked at the fact they'd have to work with Driesen and said "You either fight it and probably lose, or you work with it, and hopefully win." That is to say they do not agree or appreciate the structure and have worked to succeed in spite of it.
It must be a byproduct of the bizarre years we've just gone through that anyone could jump to Driesen's defense and even suggest that an amateur data analyst could actually be a positive addition at the very top of a professional football scouting team in one of the toughest leagues in the world.
What other successful clubs have one of these?
Let me rephrase, does any other club in the world have one of these?
An amateur data analyst at the very top of their scouting heirarchy.
This was a farce. A boy given a top job in football at a historic football club because he sent an email analysing Balotelli's penalty kicks from his bedroom.
This was nothing but the doings of an owner who is best described as bonkers and whose every business decision defied belief.
For fans to now sit here and suggest Driesen might actually have been a positive I can only put down to some kind of Stockholm Syndrome.
I don’t read @Grapevine as “thanking” Driesen or suggesting he was a positive, he is putting his role into context.
At the CAST AGM Gallen was surprisingly sanguine about Driesen and acknowledged that every club use data crunchers who have no coaching or other football skills. I suggest it was who decided the weight given to data over other attributes that was the problem, and that would have been RD rather than Driesen.
@Grapevine gives a good analogy of a head office arse licker who acts above his station being given authority to pass on the boss’s orders to the branch office.
He gets the personal abuse that anyone would get in that position, but he would say he was carrying out orders. That wasn’t a defence in the Nuremberg trials and doubt it will be an acceptable defence in the Valleyberg trials.
Remember that on the day we were told Powell had been sacked and Riga had taken over Driesen was stood at Sparrows Lane alongside Riga overseeing training.
Are you sure, because Katrien told us that he was not involved at Charlton. Ohh wait a minute....
@Grapevine49 and others, I really don't buy this logic that, having been responsible for the worst prolonged period of recruitment the club has ever seen, to farcical standards, that Driesen is then somehow to thank for the success of the recruitment of the past two years after the club changes tact and puts more power back to the manager and Gallen.
As Bowyer himself said, he and Gallen looked at the fact they'd have to work with Driesen and said "You either fight it and probably lose, or you work with it, and hopefully win." That is to say they do not agree or appreciate the structure and have worked to succeed in spite of it.
It must be a byproduct of the bizarre years we've just gone through that anyone could jump to Driesen's defense and even suggest that an amateur data analyst could actually be a positive addition at the very top of a professional football scouting team in one of the toughest leagues in the world.
What other successful clubs have one of these?
Let me rephrase, does any other club in the world have one of these?
An amateur data analyst at the very top of their scouting heirarchy.
This was a farce. A boy given a top job in football at a historic football club because he sent an email analysing Balotelli's penalty kicks from his bedroom.
This was nothing but the doings of an owner who is best described as bonkers and whose every business decision defied belief.
For fans to now sit here and suggest Driesen might actually have been a positive I can only put down to some kind of Stockholm Syndrome.
I didn't say that Tommy deserved credit for anything.
What I took issue with is confidence that was used to argue that any "bad" transfer must be down to Tommy yet any good one can't have anything to do with him. That maybe true but it's based on guessing.
I mentioned on another topic that I find it strange how people are so happy to talk in absolutes when the truth isn't fully known.
Without knowing, as fact who Tommy was 100% responsible for signing and what players he vetoed it's impossible to draw the proper conclusion on his overall effect.
Remember before Bonne had a run in the first team there was rumour and innuendo that Tommy had signed him against Bowyer's wishes.
Your point implies that an amateur data nerd (I regret the term 'analyst,' since he has no qualifications I can see) can have any positive positive effect on the transfer policy of a professional football club, which I reject with full confidence.
I have no idea what qualifications he has got. I have no idea what data models he uses. I don't know which players we signed based purely on his say so. Do you?
I think that "data nerds" do have a place in the recruitment policy of professional football clubs. Does that mean I think Tommy was any good at it? Well I don't know.
What was wrong, as with many things under RD, is it was back to front. A "data nerd" should be part of the scouting mix and make recommendations to the chief scout/head of recruitment who then suggests players to the manager. He should never have been the final yes/no authority.
He said: “I was not the one who chose how to do the recruitment – the last say was from the network scout, not from me.
“The transfers were done through the scout in Belgium and he was the person who had the last say about players at Charlton.
“I would give him my opinion on a certain player but the last say was from the network scout.”
Now, under Gallen and Bowyer they choose the players and sell them to Driesen (this comes from Gallen), and look at the difference in the quality of players. So how do I know which players are Driesen players and which are Gallen/Bowyer? I'm not going to help you any more than that, @cafc43v3r, you can put the rest of the breadcrumbs together yourself.
Instead of football, liken Driesen's presence in a medical scenario ...
The hapless Mr Charlton is lying in a hospital bed with a group of vastly experienced medical staff around him discussing the best course of action.
Suddenly the swing doors burst open and up rocks a 20 year old kid donned in a white coat and carrying a clipboard. He elbows his way through to the front because he has all the answers. He has spent no time at medical school or indeed at the pit face working with patients. No matter though, this kid has watched every episode of Grey's anatomy, Casualty and House.
Given the choice Mr Charlton would undoubtedly go with the qualified medical team. Unfortunately for him though, due to another re-org bought about by the new head honcho he is left with Hobson's choice.
Consequently, Mr Charlton goes through a long period of pain, he even thinks he could be dying. Mr C is hoping for a miracle 🙏.
Sure mate, if that is what you believe that’s ok. I will bring out the real truth about the last transfer windows with evidence real soon. Hope you enjoy it!
Sure mate, if that is what you believe that’s ok. I will bring out the real truth about the last transfer windows with evidence real soon. Hope you enjoy it!
One of the reason I blocked this twat on twitter is so I didn't get myself in more trouble and you lot bring him in here to wind me up............... For godsake, what is he wearing FFS. He looks like he fell in a wheelie bin outside a charity shop!!
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Glad he’s gone and I can stop getting annoyed at the mention of him.
To be honest I am not really sure I want to contribute to the oxygen this thread is providing to M. Driessen.
In defence of M. De Sart, the then Standard Sporting Director, I think his refusal to accept the role of Network Sporting Director says all you need to know about his views of the network.
Though Driessen is far from blameless I am not sure he is fully deserving of the level of vitriol heading his way.
The young man appears to have some data analysis skills and chose to invest such skills in football.
He is most certainly not alone in such a pursuit.
Indeed such skills are commonplace in contributing to the recruitment process in any number of industries. Employment, recruitment and human resource agencies regularly use comparable skill sets.
The challenge arises when you empower such analytics to the detriment and disrespect of industry professionals of many years standing. The professionals in question use a far broader spectrum of performance analysis than is evident from any statistical data, video analysis and any questionable recruitment criteria.
Seemingly empowered by Ms Meire, Driessen used precisely the language M. Duchatelet (MD) could understand which appears to have triggered his elevation to a level of authority beyond his capabilities.
I can but speculate why.
I offer the theory there is somewhere in the bowels of Staprix NV a complete profit & loss spreadsheet detailing per player:
- cost of recruitment
- ongoing salary & opportunity costs
- related corporate income including transfer fees and subsequent contingent revenues
which will list every single player ever signed by or under contract to any team during MD's tenure.
A list which would likely include the likes of Benteke and Batshuayi.
I have little doubt any such spreadsheet will have addressed a range of player characteristics, performance criteria and related analysis.
However I suggest the extended spreadsheet addressed a full per player cost - revenue - benefit assessment to deliver to a per player profitability business model.
People forget MD was not only on a different page to everybody else he was reading an entirely different book. His recruitment was never to secure progress for our club, or any club, via playing success.
It was to generate financial reward from player trading. His need for any team to perform at a certain level was to provide a positive show case for his players.
The influx of Belgian recruits at the outset was to defray the cost of Standard Liege squad players and put them in a different shop window. Driessen did not send them to Sparrows Lane he just tried to communicate to Powell who they were, their strengths and weaknesses because no one had ever heard of them.
From that moment Driessen is caught in the headlights and he defaulted to the self important, self preservation, self serving defence mechanisms which embodied Meire's entire corporate culture.
Clearly a young man who has a high appraisal of his own abilities his arrogance reflected that assumed by any Head Office employee talking to a branch office. Quite simply he never worked for the club he worked for MD.
It would be churlish however to suggest his data analytics made no contribution to the progress seen over the past 2yrs. The value of such contribution however must weighed against the huge conflict of interest he chose to serve in fulling the business interests of his benefactor.
Ultimately from all we have seen, the young man was never employed to serve Charlton Athletic Football Club. He was empowered to work to an entirely different MD agenda.
As Bowyer himself said, he and Gallen looked at the fact they'd have to work with Driesen and said "You either fight it and probably lose, or you work with it, and hopefully win." That is to say they do not agree or appreciate the structure and have worked to succeed in spite of it.
It must be a byproduct of the bizarre years we've just gone through that anyone could jump to Driesen's defense and even suggest that an amateur data analyst could actually be a positive addition at the very top of a professional football scouting team in one of the toughest leagues in the world.
What other successful clubs have one of these?
Let me rephrase, does any other club in the world have one of these?
An amateur data analyst at the very top of their scouting heirarchy.
This was a farce. A boy given a top job in football at a historic football club because he sent an email analysing Balotelli's penalty kicks from his bedroom.
This was nothing but the doings of an owner who is best described as bonkers and whose every business decision defied belief.
For fans to now sit here and suggest Driesen might actually have been a positive I can only put down to some kind of Stockholm Syndrome.
I do know that he was here for a long time as a contractor first and knew the situation (cub vs fans) and still willingly took the full time job and got involved with all that.
What I took issue with is confidence that was used to argue that any "bad" transfer must be down to Tommy yet any good one can't have anything to do with him. That maybe true but it's based on guessing.
I mentioned on another topic that I find it strange how people are so happy to talk in absolutes when the truth isn't fully known.
Without knowing, as fact who Tommy was 100% responsible for signing and what players he vetoed it's impossible to draw the proper conclusion on his overall effect.
Remember before Bonne had a run in the first team there was rumour and innuendo that Tommy had signed him against Bowyer's wishes.
I think that "data nerds" do have a place in the recruitment policy of professional football clubs. Does that mean I think Tommy was any good at it? Well I don't know.
What was wrong, as with many things under RD, is it was back to front. A "data nerd" should be part of the scouting mix and make recommendations to the chief scout/head of recruitment who then suggests players to the manager. He should never have been the final yes/no authority.
We have more qualified people and dare I suggest data analysts at that on this forum than Mr Driesen!
I go on - league position when he came on board and league position when we got lucky and Bowyer and Gallen came together.
I go by years wasted and money spent by our previous owner on bad transfers and on the whole poor use of the loan system (in comparison to our current use of it).
Driesen harps on about transfer "success". I'm certain 99% of Charlton fans would not consider our transfer policy under Roland a success.
And I do legitimately question how much Driesen knew about the loan players brought in under Gallen and Bowyer.
He’s history and good riddance - Amen
Back in March, former Charlton head coach Guy Luzon told News Shopper Driesen always had the final say on transfers.
He said: “I was not the one who chose how to do the recruitment – the last say was from the network scout, not from me.
“The transfers were done through the scout in Belgium and he was the person who had the last say about players at Charlton.
“I would give him my opinion on a certain player but the last say was from the network scout.”
The hapless Mr Charlton is lying in a hospital bed with a group of vastly experienced medical staff around him discussing the best course of action.
Suddenly the swing doors burst open and up rocks a 20 year old kid donned in a white coat and carrying a clipboard. He elbows his way through to the front because he has all the answers. He has spent no time at medical school or indeed at the pit face working with patients. No matter though, this kid has watched every episode of Grey's anatomy, Casualty and House.
Given the choice Mr Charlton would undoubtedly go with the qualified medical team. Unfortunately for him though, due to another re-org bought about by the new head honcho he is left with Hobson's choice.
Consequently, Mr Charlton goes through a long period of pain, he even thinks he could be dying. Mr C is hoping for a miracle 🙏.
http://www.votvonline.com/home/the-2016-17-blogs/1-10-the-thomas-driesen-affair/
But he won't be because he offers nothing.
Had Gallen not ignored my advise we could have signed; Lookman | Upecamano | Haaland | Sancho
For godsake, what is he wearing FFS.
He looks like he fell in a wheelie bin outside a charity shop!!
His on the other hand will be little known players having storming seasons in Slovakia and Bulgaria