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January 2021 Transfer Targets (last minute swoop for Jaiyesimi p184 - NOW it's all over.)

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  • It's all going tits up ain't it?
  • edited February 2021
    Sage said:
    Anyone who blames Bowyer for Maddison leaving and not being successful whilst here is fully entitled to your own opinion. However, it’s incredibly difficult to form any kind of opinion when you just don’t understand what has happened behind the scenes.

    If and when the story comes out, everyone who has sided with Maddison will wonder what was going through their mind to question the decisions Bowyer makes.

    I am not in a position to put a public forum the situation. But what I will say is Maddison does not want to be here anymore and is not committed to the cause. When that is the case, it’s best to get rid. No matter how talented that individual may be with a football at their feet.

    I am with Bowyer 100% and all I can say is, good riddance. 
    It's odds on that Maddison feigned injury, when that excuse ran out, he feigned illness and when that ran out he said he'd been close to someone with Covid. He doesn't want to play for Charlton and Bowyer doesn't want this disruptive bad apple.
    The best solution is to get rid asap to any other poor saps that will take him (only lower L2 it looks like).
    According to the News story those incidents seemed to happen in reverse. 

    1. ill
    2. Told to isolate after being near someone with covid
    3. Ankle injury that Bowyer didn't care about. 

    Maybe he didn't care because Maddison wasn't really injured... Maybe he really was...


    I'm going to stop talking about MM and JW now unless they go and we don't replace them. 
  • Not sure how anyone can comment on how fair a chance Maddison (or anyone else) has had without seeing the work put in on the training ground. We heard after the restart last year that Williams was not getting into the squad because he hadn't been training well at that point
  • Will MM be the first to leave that Bowyer can't claim 'we have improved them'?

    He said he would improve Bogle and got him a move up the league by a few places. Not wrong is he..... 
  • edited February 2021
    Redrobo said:
    So far...

    Lost out to Wycombe for Ofoborh
    Lost out to Wigan for Solomon-Otabor
    Couldn’t tempt Exeter with the Randall deal
    Missed out for whatever reason with Kirk
    Let go of Wiredu
    Trying to get rid of Williams
    Trying to get rid of Maddison
    Brought in a loanee from Arsenal

    Same old Charlton.
    New Charlton. You forgot the players we have signed this window. All an upgrade IMO.
    All over 30 or on loan.......... You can see why some glasses aren't as rose tinted as yours.

    Bowyer could probably play Amos on the left wing and you would claim it was a revolutionary master stroke. 

    WHEN we start winning games regularly and WHEN we start actually rebuilding the squad properly more people will start being positive.  When not if. It will happen. 

    Until we actually do it it's just noise isn't it?

    Roland nearly signed Max Gradel and Southall tried to sign Toney (if you believed either of them, more fool you) at the moment Thomas nearly signed some blokes from Crewe and Exeter that half of us had never heard of.

    Bowyer said if he signs the players he wanted we would get in the play offs. According to Lee we did, now 3 months later he has got rid of 4 of them.

    I'm terms of what has happened, so far, it is same old same old, just with better PR?

    Of course I am greatful that Thomas saved us and fully aware that six months ago we nearly didn't have a club but surely, even if you don't agree, you can see where people are coming from. 
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  • Maybe its best to get rid of Maddison, but that begs the question why sign him in the first place? Excuse me for thinking its not cracking business signing a player and shipping him after 4 months.
    We had been after Maddison in January, so it's not as if he was a relative unknown to Bowyer and Gallen that we had to take a punt on  due to lack of options in the time remaining (which is a reasonable excuse for Bogle)
  • Cafc43v3r said:
    Redrobo said:
    So far...

    Lost out to Wycombe for Ofoborh
    Lost out to Wigan for Solomon-Otabor
    Couldn’t tempt Exeter with the Randall deal
    Missed out for whatever reason with Kirk
    Let go of Wiredu
    Trying to get rid of Williams
    Trying to get rid of Maddison
    Brought in a loanee from Arsenal

    Same old Charlton.
    New Charlton. You forgot the players we have signed this window. All an upgrade IMO.
    All over 30 or on loan.......... 
    ......and?
  • edited February 2021
    My understanding is a big chunk of his squad dislike him. This can happen in football, and it isn't always necessary to be liked as long as you are respected, but a manager who is always right, never apologises and blames others when things go wrong generally finds it hard to change that dynamic. 
    Williams disliked Bowyer so much he chose to trigger an extension.
    Maddison too signed a contract.
    I think it's probably mutual by now.

    I've managed hundreds of people in my working life and I always found the good workers and I got on really well.
    The staff I had to pull up for poor performance or pretending to be sick weren't in my fan club and neither was I in there.

    Managers are paid to manage, if your team aren't performing then you address it.
    Shape up or ship out.
    So have I and I pride myself how I managed to turn around the careers of people who were not considered to be any good. I was used to bring failing teams up and I always did it bringing staff along with me. It is harder to do that with failing teams and it takes time and trust. In grass roots football I turned a second from bottom team at the mid point of the season that was playing 3 divisions lower the previous season to finish third and win the cup. So we both have experience of management.

    I am not trying to say I must be right about Bowyer because I have successfully managed staff in totally different scenarios. But you seem to be so I'd thought I'd counter that with my own experience.

    Sage is not sharing what he knows. I am sure he knows something that might not shed the best light on Maddison. I don't doubt that. But I do know what Bowyer publicly said about him and it was damning.

    I also know of a couple of players, one experienced, one young who are not happy with Bowyer's management and behaviours this season and have spoken out privately about them. I have discussed privately with other posters and we agreed it was not helpful to name them. It isn't but there are two sides to this coin and it is important to know that.

     
  • So far...

    Lost out to Wycombe for Ofoborh
    Lost out to Wigan for Solomon-Otabor
    Couldn’t tempt Exeter with the Randall deal
    Missed out for whatever reason with Kirk
    Let go of Wiredu
    Trying to get rid of Williams
    Trying to get rid of Maddison
    Brought in a loanee from Arsenal

    Same old Charlton.
    If you add the entire window into the equation, it reads very differently......

    Signed Millar, stockley, smith and Schwartz.

    lost smyth 
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  • edited February 2021
    Maddison has started FOUR league games for us, and come off the bench 4 times. 

    He played reasonably well against Wimbledon and Swindon, scores that wonder goal off the bench vs Plymouth, and his reward was to not feature at all vs Hull

    Then in the next game he injures himself after coming off the bench, and his manager says he doesn't care if he's injured because he pulled out of a tackle.

    Maddison may be an arsehole - none of us know the truth - but he's hardly been managed well either or given a fair chance to show what he can do, when the likes of Bogle, Gilbey and Watson have played far more games without exactly covering themselves in glory.
    Agree,  Bowyer has hardly been ingratiating himself with Maddison. So I will defer my view as to wether he needs to go, until somebody tells me why. But, right now I see a talented player being forced out for reasons unknown....
  • So far...

    Lost out to Wycombe for Ofoborh
    Lost out to Wigan for Solomon-Otabor
    Couldn’t tempt Exeter with the Randall deal
    Missed out for whatever reason with Kirk
    Let go of Wiredu
    Trying to get rid of Williams
    Trying to get rid of Maddison
    Brought in a loanee from Arsenal

    Same old Charlton.
    I'll translate that.
    We've got Smith in on loan from Arsenal.
  • Maybe its best to get rid of Maddison, but that begs the question why sign him in the first place? Excuse me for thinking its not cracking business signing a player and shipping him after 4 months.
    Not at all good business (although the circumstances weren't ideal for getting it right) but having taken the risk and it not working isn't the best thing to to cut our losses and move him on?

    If it's not working, and from what @sage and Cawley are saying that's as much if not more about Maddison that Bowyer, than do something about it.
    My thinking exactly. It’s the right thing to do but yes, poor decision in the first place. 
  • Maybe its best to get rid of Maddison, but that begs the question why sign him in the first place? Excuse me for thinking its not cracking business signing a player and shipping him after 4 months.
    Sometimes players don’t work out because they aren’t as good as you thought they’d be or it’s all that was available at the time (Bogle). Sometimes players don’t gel (Maddison?)

    Pleased a respected poster has inside info on this as the boring few bowyer-out-whatever-the-weather posters would have sharpened the knives yet again. 
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