Good riddance both of them, I loved Chuks but what striker wants to play knowing they're coming off most games for a "super sub." Amos has his strengths but also quite a few weaknesses that cost us a few points last season. We will build a competitive squad and now that we know players are leaving it gives us a chance to move forward with a few players we've spoken too. From what I hear we are still speaking to Gomes and Portsmouth keeper. Anyone that doesn't want to play for Charlton unless we pay ridiculous wages should be shown the door IMO. Ronnie has the potential to be a great poacher at this level, and think he could do fantastically feeding off of Stockley, Washington is also a great option. COYR can't wait for next season.
If Wigan are “paying serous £££” for Amos then they are mental and have learned nothing from recent financial meltdowns.
He’s a decent keeper at this level, I’m not going to re-write history and say he’s rubbish, but I reckon he if we roll the dice on him we can come up with better.
Cmon mate be honest you just want the Scottish squad keeper from Pompey 😉
Disappointing to lose both, can't see how anybody says they are no major loss when both had good seasons in their own way. It's an extra two players we have to sign but I have confidence signing the keeper will be relatively straightforward, replacing Chuks is going to be incredibly difficult.
Chucks is a decent player but his lack of appearances was so typical of last season. Way too fragmented and stop start as a whole. Good luck to Chucks. Hopefully we buy a fit, goal scoring striker to replace him.
I don’t understand J Block, just a few weeks ago you wanted rid of the whole squad and was saying that Amos wasn’t good enough. What’s changed?
Expected us to have brought in more by now,
I’m not necessarily gutted these two have left but it doesn’t feel me with confidence that the club wanted them to stay and haven’t managed to give them an offer they deem good enough.
Just relax and wait until the window shuts. I don’t understand why everyone keeps going on about our title winning season, it was years ago and times have changed.
If Wigan are “paying serous £££” for Amos then they are mental and have learned nothing from recent financial meltdowns.
He’s a decent keeper at this level, I’m not going to re-write history and say he’s rubbish, but I reckon he if we roll the dice on him we can come up with better.
Cmon mate be honest you just want the Scottish squad keeper from Pompey 😉
Had enough of Scottish goalkeepers to last a lifetime after that bloody Czech Republic goal!
I really can’t get too wound up about Amos and Chucks leaving. They saw out there contracts, gave of their best fitness permitting and have decided to move on. It’s a short career, they need to make as much money as they can to set themselves up for the rest of their lives. Good luck to them and thanks for the memories.
Or they could get a job.
I know that was tongue in cheek, of course they could but why would you if you could amass sufficient funds to provide an income eg investing into a property portfolio 🤔.
People trying to justify it. Ultimately two key players we’ve offered contracts too have rejected. Let’s not make excuses. We’ve also signed zero new players for the team that finished last season.
Equally, I think people are forgetting
He isn’t our player!
He stopped being out player at the end of last season. Same with Amos.
It feels like some are reacting as if we are selling contracted players on the cheap.
Sorry but that’s wrong. They were both our players for the past 8 weeks and they haven’t signed the contracts given to them.
That’s our first choice goalkeeper and top goal scorer.
Yes, but they effectively were no more a Charlton player than a player of any other club. Their contracts expired. Amos allegedly wanted to move near "home". Aneke wanted to play in a higher division. What would you have done to make them sign against their wishes?
Let’s just look at facts.
Top goal scorer - rejected our contract
Number 1 Goalkeeper - rejected our contract
Best midfielder - yet to sign
ZERO new players from last season in the building. No matter how you look at it, it isn’t pretty and not what anyone of us expected as we head into pre-season.
On the other hand
Top Goalscorer - Had quality but couldn’t play 90 minutes. Barely 45 at times.
Best Midfielder - Had little competition and is now out for the season
No1 Goalkeeper - Entirely replaceable. Decent but nothing special
That makes it look alright.
Does it though? Because in physical terms of having an actual squad, that's actually put us from having players who maybe weren't all that to not having anyone at all. Get the replacements in and everything will look different, hopefully better. But as a numbers game it's alarming with the balance of players out vs in at the moment as it increases the work needed just to get back to last season's level let alone surpass it.
People trying to justify it. Ultimately two key players we’ve offered contracts too have rejected. Let’s not make excuses. We’ve also signed zero new players for the team that finished last season.
Equally, I think people are forgetting
He isn’t our player!
He stopped being out player at the end of last season. Same with Amos.
It feels like some are reacting as if we are selling contracted players on the cheap.
Sorry but that’s wrong. They were both our players for the past 8 weeks and they haven’t signed the contracts given to them.
That’s our first choice goalkeeper and top goal scorer.
Yes, but they effectively were no more a Charlton player than a player of any other club. Their contracts expired. Amos allegedly wanted to move near "home". Aneke wanted to play in a higher division. What would you have done to make them sign against their wishes?
Let’s just look at facts.
Top goal scorer - rejected our contract
Number 1 Goalkeeper - rejected our contract
Best midfielder - yet to sign
ZERO new players from last season in the building. No matter how you look at it, it isn’t pretty and not what anyone of us expected as we head into pre-season.
So what would you have done to make them sign against their wishes, for the reasons given ie moving home and moving to a higher league?
People trying to justify it. Ultimately two key players we’ve offered contracts too have rejected. Let’s not make excuses. We’ve also signed zero new players for the team that finished last season.
Equally, I think people are forgetting
He isn’t our player!
He stopped being out player at the end of last season. Same with Amos.
It feels like some are reacting as if we are selling contracted players on the cheap.
Sorry but that’s wrong. They were both our players for the past 8 weeks and they haven’t signed the contracts given to them.
That’s our first choice goalkeeper and top goal scorer.
Yes, but they effectively were no more a Charlton player than a player of any other club. Their contracts expired. Amos allegedly wanted to move near "home". Aneke wanted to play in a higher division. What would you have done to make them sign against their wishes?
Let’s just look at facts.
Top goal scorer - rejected our contract
Number 1 Goalkeeper - rejected our contract
Best midfielder - yet to sign
ZERO new players from last season in the building. No matter how you look at it, it isn’t pretty and not what anyone of us expected as we head into pre-season.
So what would you have done to make them sign against their wishes, for the reasons given ie moving home and moving to a higher league?
I don’t understand J Block, just a few weeks ago you wanted rid of the whole squad and was saying that Amos wasn’t good enough. What’s changed?
Expected us to have brought in more by now,
I’m not necessarily gutted these two have left but it doesn’t feel me with confidence that the club wanted them to stay and haven’t managed to give them an offer they deem good enough.
But if you didn’t think he was good enough and didn’t want him to stay, there’s the chance the club didn’t think it was worth paying over the odds to retain him. If Wigan have offered him a figure we think is too much for us to budget on a keeper, what do we do? Overpay?
We don’t play a game tomorrow, it’s another 6 weeks. If we end up with a better keeper, or an equal keeper on lower £ allowing us to bring in a better player elsewhere, it’s worked out well.
I really don’t get the outrage (unless people are genuinely gutted that these players were worth building a team around). If come August our squads a dud, then I understand the moan up.
I don’t understand J Block, just a few weeks ago you wanted rid of the whole squad and was saying that Amos wasn’t good enough. What’s changed?
Expected us to have brought in more by now,
I’m not necessarily gutted these two have left but it doesn’t feel me with confidence that the club wanted them to stay and haven’t managed to give them an offer they deem good enough.
It’s a shedding process that clubs like us go through every season isn’t it? Gets to the end of June, players leave that don’t want to resign and then you look for replacements. Hopefully, we will start a recruitment process under TS that it won’t be the majority of our players each season as players coming in will be signed long term.
Time for Ronnie to step up and take his chances during pre season now.
Would rather get rid of him tbh, looks to me a Danish Ajose
I think judge him on after he has had a full pre-season, his family over here and with crowds in the ground (I honestly think that with the fans behind him he will get a bit of confidence up).
Has anyone told Gallen we have money now? Chuks going leaves a big hole. Not impressed with what we are doing right now.
if Aneke had signed we wouldn’t need to look to replace him. It all becomes a lot more clearer when the when these players contracts actually expire. We will be playing the same waiting game as many other clubs and players. Give it a couple of weeks it will all look a lot better.
Time for Ronnie to step up and take his chances during pre season now.
Would rather get rid of him tbh, looks to me a Danish Ajose
I think judge him on after he has had a full pre-season, his family over here and with crowds in the ground (I honestly think that with the fans behind him he will get a bit of confidence up).
Playing alongside Stockley and getting some decent service would help his cause no end.
Has anyone told Gallen we have money now? Chuks going leaves a big hole. Not impressed with what we are doing right now.
Have we got money now?
We haven’t seen any hard fast evidence yet that this is indeed the case.
I always said with any new owner the proof will be in the pudding. After the false dawns we have had it’s gonna take more than a few pics with a guitar to convince me.
Im staying neutral. See where we stand in August before declaring us well off, TS a brilliant owner etc.
People trying to justify it. Ultimately two key players we’ve offered contracts too have rejected. Let’s not make excuses. We’ve also signed zero new players for the team that finished last season.
Equally, I think people are forgetting
He isn’t our player!
He stopped being out player at the end of last season. Same with Amos.
It feels like some are reacting as if we are selling contracted players on the cheap.
Sorry but that’s wrong. They were both our players for the past 8 weeks and they haven’t signed the contracts given to them.
That’s our first choice goalkeeper and top goal scorer.
Yes, but they effectively were no more a Charlton player than a player of any other club. Their contracts expired. Amos allegedly wanted to move near "home". Aneke wanted to play in a higher division. What would you have done to make them sign against their wishes?
Let’s just look at facts.
Top goal scorer - rejected our contract
Number 1 Goalkeeper - rejected our contract
Best midfielder - yet to sign
ZERO new players from last season in the building. No matter how you look at it, it isn’t pretty and not what anyone of us expected as we head into pre-season.
So what would you have done to make them sign against their wishes, for the reasons given ie moving home and moving to a higher league?
Weird that JFC hasn’t signed though, isn’t it?
Presumably, we've offered a sensible deal based on the fact that he'll miss at least half of the season. Maybe he's hoping someone else will come in with a higher offer. He's still getting paid until the end of July, so he has until then to decide, assuming Charlton don't withdraw the offer.
Has anyone told Gallen we have money now? Chuks going leaves a big hole. Not impressed with what we are doing right now.
Have we got money now?
We haven’t seen any hard fast evidence yet that this is indeed the case.
I always said with any new owner the proof will be in the pudding. After the false dawns we have had it’s gonna take more than a few pics with a guitar to convince me.
Im staying neutral. See where we stand in August before declaring us well off, TS a brilliant owner etc.
Has anyone told Gallen we have money now? Chuks going leaves a big hole. Not impressed with what we are doing right now.
Have we got money now?
We haven’t seen any hard fast evidence yet that this is indeed the case.
I always said with any new owner the proof will be in the pudding. After the false dawns we have had it’s gonna take more than a few pics with a guitar to convince me.
Im staying neutral. See where we stand in August before declaring us well off, TS a brilliant owner etc.
Has anyone told Gallen we have money now? Chuks going leaves a big hole. Not impressed with what we are doing right now.
Have we got money now?
We haven’t seen any hard fast evidence yet that this is indeed the case.
I always said with any new owner the proof will be in the pudding. After the false dawns we have had it’s gonna take more than a few pics with a guitar to convince me.
Im staying neutral. See where we stand in August before declaring us well off, TS a brilliant owner etc.
You think Preston gave us Stockley for free?
Consistent money that funds the type of rebuild Charlton fans want to see. One player does not a squad make.
Even Roland funded a few random big ticket purchases at this level and that didn’t change the fact he was such a problem .
As I say - let’s see if we have built a squad a la Powell’s title winning side. Then can look back and evaluate
Just relax and wait until the window shuts. I don’t understand why everyone keeps going on about our title winning season, it was years ago and times have changed.
relax and watch the Euros!
Made this point earlier, word for word almost! Spot on!
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Way too fragmented and stop start as a whole.
Good luck to Chucks.
Hopefully we buy a fit, goal scoring striker to replace him.
I’m not necessarily gutted these two have left but it doesn’t feel me with confidence that the club wanted them to stay and haven’t managed to give them an offer they deem good enough.
relax and watch the Euros!
Some thoughts about keepers.
Our new GK coach has Millwall links.Ex Lions Jordan Archer and Tom King are both available as free agents.
I was put off Jamal Blackman after @Sage's previous comments but as expected Chelsea have released him
Palace have let Wayne Hennessey and Stephen Henderson go but signing either of them wouldn't reduce the age of the squad.
If we had anyone at all lined up announcements of departures would have been delayed.
The bed is wet.
I always said with any new owner the proof will be in the pudding. After the false dawns we have had it’s gonna take more than a few pics with a guitar to convince me.
Im staying neutral. See where we stand in August before declaring us well off, TS a brilliant owner etc.
Maybe he's hoping someone else will come in with a higher offer.
He's still getting paid until the end of July, so he has until then to decide, assuming Charlton don't withdraw the offer.
Even Roland funded a few random big ticket purchases at this level and that didn’t change the fact he was such a problem .
As I say - let’s see if we have built a squad a la Powell’s title winning side. Then can look back and evaluate