Let's be honest TS aim of Europe in 8 years is not going to start by signing a L1 journeyman. Would have hoped to have a bit more ambition this window. Its a shit league, we've signed Ronnie who I can't help but feel was signed due to the Danish connection and some more loanees. So no matter what another rebuild is needed in the summer.
Keep hearing the cap is killing us, but the cynic in me says maybe we don't have as much money as we thought.
One thing that has happened, TS has backed this club to the hills and sorted alot of the background issues and sorted the foundations going forward.
The cap is the cap, we could have funds like man City but are still governed by the cap unfortunately.
Unless you buy someone like Randall who wouldn’t fall into the cap at all.
And what if Exeter were taking the piss on price? And he becomes a player under the cap next season, so you get stung in the summer by overpaying salary now
Let's be honest TS aim of Europe in 8 years is not going to start by signing a L1 journeyman. Would have hoped to have a bit more ambition this window. Its a shit league, we've signed Ronnie who I can't help but feel was signed due to the Danish connection and some more loanees. So no matter what another rebuild is needed in the summer.
Keep hearing the cap is killing us, but the cynic in me says maybe we don't have as much money as we thought.
One thing that has happened, TS has backed this club to the hills and sorted alot of the background issues and sorted the foundations going forward.
The cap is the cap, we could have funds like man City but are still governed by the cap unfortunately.
If you look at some of the players we have it is no wonder we are at the top end of the cap. For League 1 we have some big names who are no doubt on big money. We are also in London so the cost of living is higher - ergo we need to pay a bit of a premium for that to attract players.
The bottom line is we have too many high profile high earners for a League 1 club so we need to clear the decks a bit - and that's what we are doing. Trimming away some of the fat.
If we get someone else in today then that would be a bonus but I really don't see why there is so much apparent wrist-slashing going on at the moment. THe signings we have made have been good and improvements on those they have replaced )with the exception of Williams and Maddison so far). Still time to go but maybe it's time to acknowledege this season isn't going to end with promotion and we are preparing for a rebuild in the summer.
With us frantically panicking and with Sunderland doing the same to get rid grigg I wouldn’t be surprised if he snuck in if we can cut his wages to tuppence.
Gallen currently trying to track down a late night plant hire company who can supply a mini-excavator in the hopes of exhuming Stanley Matthews before the deadline.
Instead of going for the 6th choice winger can’t we just try to meet Exeter’s valuation of Randall or something? Didnt they want a million? Doesn’t seem too much for a player they rate as highly as Ollie Watkins
Wasn't keen on it anyway. It's not worth singing someone for 18 months and then having to get rid of them in the Summer, we'll already have that problem with Gilbey.
There's no sense of a long term plan on the pitch. If we'd bought a couple of talented youngsters, you could see that we were planning for next season
Instead if we're just concerned about this season, why sell Williams? Surely it can't be for the money
And seeing that we're probably still paying some of Maddison's wages anyway, is it really sensible to dump him completely when we aren't strong in that position?
After hearing Bowyer bleat on about the salary cap every single week to which i've agreed with him up to now, but when the window closes I for one won't want to hear him whinge about the cap any more unless it's maxed out to the point it would be impossible to bring anybody else in.
There's no sense of a long term plan on the pitch. If we'd bought a couple of talented youngsters, you could see that we were planning for next season
Instead if we're just concerned about this season, why sell Williams? Surely it can't be for the money
And seeing that we're probably still paying some of Maddison's wages anyway, is it really sensible to dump him completely when we aren't strong in that position?
On the Maddison thing, guessing anything we're still paying won't count as he won't be in our registered squad?
Fleetwood didn’t want to sell as they had no replacement, nothing to do with the player turning us down. Could the anti Bowyer brigade read what’s been reported before blaming it on Bowyer,
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Lee questioned his commitment and pulled out I’m hearing.
The bottom line is we have too many high profile high earners for a League 1 club so we need to clear the decks a bit - and that's what we are doing. Trimming away some of the fat.
If we get someone else in today then that would be a bonus but I really don't see why there is so much apparent wrist-slashing going on at the moment. THe signings we have made have been good and improvements on those they have replaced )with the exception of Williams and Maddison so far). Still time to go but maybe it's time to acknowledege this season isn't going to end with promotion and we are preparing for a rebuild in the summer.
Wasn't keen on it anyway. It's not worth singing someone for 18 months and then having to get rid of them in the Summer, we'll already have that problem with Gilbey.
Instead if we're just concerned about this season, why sell Williams? Surely it can't be for the money
And seeing that we're probably still paying some of Maddison's wages anyway, is it really sensible to dump him completely when we aren't strong in that position?
The Charlton Life Tackle Test doesn't have quite same ring to as the Height Test.
GK Amos Maynard-Brewer
RB Gunter Matthews
LB Maatsen Purrington
Free role but will need to run the lines.
Millar
Winger/ wide man midfielder.
Add Barker and Vennings and we have 25 man squad.
Kirk? ❌
Solomon-Otabor? ❌
Graham? ❌
Morris? ❌
Anyone else?
Only one of those players actually turned Charlton down though (Solomon-Otabor)