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Summer 2022 transfer rumours (Gilbey loan confirmed p513, a signing falls through last minute p541)

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  • Scoham said:
    What time will the announcement be? I’ll guess 5pm today.
    Not too fussed if it’s announced tonight. As long as it’s before midday tomorrow so he can be involved at the weekend…
    In true Charlton fashion he will have to be Charltonised for a couple of weeks.  Have we EVER just plonked people in the squad on signing?  I am sure a few on here have that information in their locker.
  • edited August 2022
    Scoham said:
    What time will the announcement be? I’ll guess 5pm today.
    Not too fussed if it’s announced tonight. As long as it’s before midday tomorrow so he can be involved at the weekend…
    In true Charlton fashion he will have to be Charltonised for a couple of weeks.  Have we EVER just plonked people in the squad on signing?  I am sure a few on here have that information in their locker.
    Golfie will point out we have not.

    And it does feel right. But that might be the norm for all I know.


  • 1.3 million views of this thread.
    Seems a lot but I wonder what the views are for the Man U Life transfer thread?
  • edited August 2022
    Chunes said:
    Thanks for the memories, Ben. The painful, awful memories.

    I think we should henceforth refer to that Pratley-Watson midfield pairing as 'The Partnership that shall not be Named.' Like Voldemort.
    Outrageously harsh on Pratters that. One of the best midfielders we’ve had in the last 15 years 
    No it's not, I liked Pratley. But that midfield pairing was one of the most turgid I've ever seen. Two defensively minded 35-year-olds, one completely out of legs. The football was dire.
  • Chunes said:
    Chunes said:
    Thanks for the memories, Ben. The painful, awful memories.

    I think we should henceforth refer to that Pratley-Watson midfield pairing as 'The Partnership that shall not be Named.' Like Voldemort.
    Outrageously harsh on Pratters that. One of the best midfielders we’ve had in the last 15 years 
    No it's not, I liked Pratley. But that midfield pairing was one of the most turgid I've ever seen. Two defensively minded 35-year-olds, one completely out of legs. The football was dire.
    Pratley lacked many things but “legs” wasn’t one of them . 
  • Chunes said:
    Chunes said:
    Thanks for the memories, Ben. The painful, awful memories.

    I think we should henceforth refer to that Pratley-Watson midfield pairing as 'The Partnership that shall not be Named.' Like Voldemort.
    Outrageously harsh on Pratters that. One of the best midfielders we’ve had in the last 15 years 
    No it's not, I liked Pratley. But that midfield pairing was one of the most turgid I've ever seen. Two defensively minded 35-year-olds, one completely out of legs. The football was dire.
    Gower and Hughes all over again!
  • Scoham said:
    Chunes said:
    Chunes said:
    Thanks for the memories, Ben. The painful, awful memories.

    I think we should henceforth refer to that Pratley-Watson midfield pairing as 'The Partnership that shall not be Named.' Like Voldemort.
    Outrageously harsh on Pratters that. One of the best midfielders we’ve had in the last 15 years 
    No it's not, I liked Pratley. But that midfield pairing was one of the most turgid I've ever seen. Two defensively minded 35-year-olds, one completely out of legs. The football was dire.
    Gower and Hughes all over again!
    I'll raise you Crofts and Foley
  • edited August 2022
    wmcf123 said:
    Chunes said:
    Chunes said:
    Thanks for the memories, Ben. The painful, awful memories.

    I think we should henceforth refer to that Pratley-Watson midfield pairing as 'The Partnership that shall not be Named.' Like Voldemort.
    Outrageously harsh on Pratters that. One of the best midfielders we’ve had in the last 15 years 
    No it's not, I liked Pratley. But that midfield pairing was one of the most turgid I've ever seen. Two defensively minded 35-year-olds, one completely out of legs. The football was dire.
    Pratley lacked many things but “legs” wasn’t one of them . 
    "One completely out of legs" and you assumed I meant Pratley? Come on now!
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  • Scoham said:
    Chunes said:
    Chunes said:
    Thanks for the memories, Ben. The painful, awful memories.

    I think we should henceforth refer to that Pratley-Watson midfield pairing as 'The Partnership that shall not be Named.' Like Voldemort.
    Outrageously harsh on Pratters that. One of the best midfielders we’ve had in the last 15 years 
    No it's not, I liked Pratley. But that midfield pairing was one of the most turgid I've ever seen. Two defensively minded 35-year-olds, one completely out of legs. The football was dire.
    Gower and Hughes all over again!
    I'll raise you Crofts and Foley
    You win, they also played with Jackson at the end of his career.
  • sam3110 said:
    Pratley wasn't that shit, he also wasn't that good. One of the best midfielders of the last 15 years? Come off it
    Saw some of us say he should have been in the Championship team of the season the year we got relegated FFS 
  • Valley11 said:
    1.3 million views of this thread.
    Seems a lot but I wonder what the views are for the Man U Life transfer thread?
    That's not life.
  • Scoham said:
    What time will the announcement be? I’ll guess 5pm today.
    By Birmingham. 
  • Richard J said:
    Scoham said:
    If anything we seem slightly over stocked with RBs when compared to our LB options
    In hindsight, signing an out and out LB over Sessegnon would have made more sense. Depends on whether Garner thinks Egbo can do a job at LB, if he does we'll probably stick with the 3 we've got and have Clayden as 4th choice. If not, he's got a decision to make, would he be content if Sessegnon gets injured and we have to use Clayden for 10-15 games. 

    The left-footed defender able to play LCB or LB makes sense on paper, but I don't really think that sort of player exists. You might get a LB capable of playing CB in a 3, or a CB capable of being a defensive LB, but how do you get a O'Connell and Sessegnon as one player?
    It seems a bit odd if we end up with 3 options at LB in Sessegnon, Clayden and Egbo, all being of the "can do a job" variety.

    And it looks a bit inconsistent to have a right footed LB cutting inside, but not have the same on the right seeing that all our RB options are right footers, Egbo, Clare and Sessegnon plus Ness who's been tried there.

    A formation doesn’t need to be symmetrical. Probably harder to find a left footer comfortable at right back too.
    I prefer having left footed players on their ‘natural’ side. I think that we will be better off if / when JRS signs because having two right footers on the left makes us too predictable. Kirk thrived when he had a left footed left back at Crewe.

    Maybe after the other night Clayden could make a claim. Whilst I wouldn’t want to put too much pressure on him along with his impressive 30 second cameo against Mendez Lang I think we have something to work with.
    It doesn't make a team predictable as long as the players are being asked to do different jobs. City won a league title playing Grealish and Cancelo on the left and they're both right footed. They were far from predictable though; Cancelo moved into central midfield in periods of control and also arrived in the final third to provide a crossing platform for built-up moves. Grealish would push down the wing but also cut in, but he'd vary it which is important for a player in that spot. We've seen that Kirk is clever enough to know when to push down the line or cut inside and he keeps the width well. CBT is also very capable of providing width and then cutting in when he's built up some momentum. I know that we're not Man City but the instructions we will be giving the players aren't complicated. As long as the players are sufficiently comfortable on their assigned flank, which all three of our current options in those areas currently are, being able provide both line and inside play actually makes the team less predictable, not more.
    I'm pretty sure that Rak-SAkyi is being signed to play on the right as a left-footer as well.
    Last season they regularly used Zinchenko at LB, giving the left foot attacking threat down that side
    There' a few things there. Firstly, Zinchenko didn't bring any threat. He's a painfully average midfielder played as a LB because City didn't have any other backup. City do have the luxury of rotating their players regularly though. Despite that, no player made more appearances for City last season than Cancelo. He played 52 games, 36 in the league. Zinchenko made 28 appearances, 15 in the league. Most of Zinchenko's appearances were purely down to the absence of Kyle Walker (only 20 league appearances due to injury), at which point Cancelo would switch to RB. City under Guardiola rarely play the same way for too long, they have a huge amount of tactical flexibility. Mostly though your comment isn't really relevant anyway considering I never said they didn't ever play with left-footed LBs, I was pointing out how having two right footers on the left doesn't have to limit your tactical flexibility using City as an example of it done very well.
    Zinchenko was outstanding and helped turned the game when he came on at half time on the last day of last season.
  • Is Zinchenko ‘painfully average’? I don’t really know a terrible amount about premiership football, but from what I’ve read there’s arguments that he may end up being arsenals best signing this summer?
  • Riki Saki better be half decent after all this buggering about. 
  • Riki Saki better be half decent after all this buggering about. 
    That's that sorted then.
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  • He's tripped over A&Eekies foot on the way out of the medical room.
    Deal off.
  • Riki Saki better be half decent after all this buggering about. 
    Baki Sak-krakyi  has a smooth approach to the game, with a great feel.
  • DDOUBLEE said:
    sam3110 said:
    Pratley wasn't that shit, he also wasn't that good. One of the best midfielders of the last 15 years? Come off it
    Saw some of us say he should have been in the Championship team of the season the year we got relegated FFS 
    Pratley and Watson of 19/20 were worth having.  I am convinced Watson aged 10 years in the summer before we signed him and another 10 last summer. 
  • Scoham said:
    Nonsense Twitter rumour that we’re after a holding midfielder. Saying that didn’t someone on here say we wanted cover for Dobson?
    Source: trust me bro

  • Scoham said:
    Nonsense Twitter rumour that we’re after a holding midfielder. Saying that didn’t someone on here say we wanted cover for Dobson?
    Welcome back Ben Watson

    Good of him to finally announce his retirement two years after he stopped playing professional football.
    To be honest, I thought he'd retired that night up at Hartlepool last season.
  • I assume they are chiseling his name and stats into the Charlton Athletic Pantheon of Champions wall (behind the green skip next to the empty beer casks by the West Stand) as we speak?
  • Uboat said:
    Please can one of the experts provide me with my daily update on when the bloke from Palace is signing.
    You’re best to PM Ronnie Moore…..he’s the man for that kind of info.😎
  • Foley and Crofts
    Get a better tune out of Seals and Crofts.
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