My two pence worth. Charlton are financially stable. Moving from financial instability to stability can happen at the stroke of a pen. Broader stability in terms of how the club is run both on and off the pitch is far less black and white and is much harder and takes longer to turn around. I’d say at present we’re on the right tracks.
I'd agree that we're generally looking to try and get back to "proper" stability. The issue for me is that while the SMT genuinely do know what they need to do and have the right intentions, their actual competence to achieve it remains questionable.
This is why we need to get the next manager/coach decision correct. We can't keep lurching from mistake to mistake and getting away with it. It's impossible to make proper long term plans when you have 3 coaches in one season.
Might not be morally right, but I’d like us to go for a couple of Reading players.
At the end of the day, we need to survive and if that means signing a player or two from Reading who are just below us, so be it.
Smith would improve us and weaken them, helping our chance of survival.
I am a Charlton supporter, not Reading. It’s not nice to see any club in any trouble, as we all well know!
But I’m not here for the “you can’t sign their players because they’re struggling and going through it”. No. If they’re a player who will improve us and we can sign them, you do it no matter who they play for.
I am all for it, I said immediately we should take advantage of their situation as other clubs will, already have and they would to us, if we were in their situation.
They have some amazing talent Reading, just a club in turmoil.
I was just highlighting the utter pisstake of 75k for a player that valuable.
Starting to be a bit concerned at a) Fraser not going yet and b) the general lack of outgoing rumours. We have a lot of midfielders now, surely there should be some loans out at the very least
Starting to be a bit concerned at a) Fraser not going yet and b) the general lack of outgoing rumours. We have a lot of midfielders now, surely there should be some loans out at the very least
Probably have to wait for a new manager to come in.
Starting to be a bit concerned at a) Fraser not going yet and b) the general lack of outgoing rumours. We have a lot of midfielders now, surely there should be some loans out at the very least
Doubt anyone really wants them, although aren’t these more likely to happen in the February part of the January window? I also think Fraser will go if they get Collins over the line, (or similar).
Still think Fraser would be a good option at 10 in this new formation.
Last season's Fraser was excellent and, probably, our most creative player. He had 8 games out with injury and hasn't really been on it since coming back. Might be a combination of post injury and lack of motivation (Appleton?). If he can get match fit and regain his confidence/motivation then he still has a part to play IMHO.
Still think Fraser would be a good option at 10 in this new formation.
I liked Fraser last season, really had high hopes for him, but he just looks so lightweight in a league where every opposition we face all look physically stronger than us.
It's concerning that our "hit rate" with loanees this season has been so bad, as it'll put off PL clubs sending their better kids here rather than to another L1 club.
Of the 5 we signed in the summer, 2 were flops and went back (Abankwah and Tedic), 1 went back after an unwhelming spell (Chem), 1 has been injured nearly all the time (Camara) while the other has struggled to get many minutes (Watson).
Charlton recruitment team, easiest job to secure in the world.
They couldn't identify a good players if their lives depended on it
I feel that signings like Abankwah were more to do with a limited budget on the last day of the window than the abilities of our recruitment team.
Identifying good players isn’t really the hard part, it’s having the budget to beat other clubs to them, finding the right mix of personalities, being a club on the up that’s attractive to sign for etc.
Had we not had the money to pay fees for at least 3 players this window we’d have probably signed cheap loanees/free agents as an alternative.
But it does assume the Reading player would want to move from one unstable club to another? Also, one relegation battle to another.
A bit like JCH, our bid might be accepted but it could be a waste of time and effort.
We're not an unstable club, we're just a bit rubbish. We've spent a fair bit this window already and there's no indication there's any financial trouble looming. We're just reaping the rewards of some middling player recruitment and a bad manager choice and we can fix up both of those things if we get stuff right in the next couple of days. Get in a good manager, win a few games and it'll all be talk about next season and building.
You’re getting a bit too optimistic again. I’ll have to send Golfie round
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This is why we need to get the next manager/coach decision correct. We can't keep lurching from mistake to mistake and getting away with it. It's impossible to make proper long term plans when you have 3 coaches in one season.
They have some amazing talent Reading, just a club in turmoil.
I was just highlighting the utter pisstake of 75k for a player that valuable.
I also think Fraser will go if they get Collins over the line, (or similar).
Three appearances and goodbye
It's Abankwah
They couldn't identify a good players if their lives depended on it
I've don't think I've seen us or many stable Clubs returning 3 loanees in the transfer window?
Of the 5 we signed in the summer, 2 were flops and went back (Abankwah and Tedic), 1 went back after an unwhelming spell (Chem), 1 has been injured nearly all the time (Camara) while the other has struggled to get many minutes (Watson).
Identifying good players isn’t really the hard part, it’s having the budget to beat other clubs to them, finding the right mix of personalities, being a club on the up that’s attractive to sign for etc.
Had we not had the money to pay fees for at least 3 players this window we’d have probably signed cheap loanees/free agents as an alternative.
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