Using the 1 to 10 used on the player ratings score our just finished window overall on the ìncomings and the outgoings.
In
Perm - Coventry, Gillesphey, Edmonds-Green, Ward, Ramsey
Loans - Bakinson, Fiorini, Ladapo
Out
Kirk, Walker, Tedic loan return, C.Campell loan return, CBT, Abankwah loan return, Fraser loan, McGrandles loan
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anything higher is acceptance that we are a division 3 club whose ambition is not to get relegated to division 4.
we are Charlton FFS… not Stockport or Crawley or Burton or Colchester or Gillingham or Exeter or Bristol Rovers or Walsall etc. etc.
the January window was never going to be the one that made the difference. Let’s get this season over with, let’s not get relegated and let’s see what the ambition of this round of ownership really is, in its choice of management and its player strategy.
sadly I’m not hopeful.
Hopefully Jones takes the manager's job and keeps us up.
Then he needs to be able to bring in his own backroom team.
If that means some of our coaches are released so be it.
He must then be fully backed in the transfer market in the summer as we need far better than we currently have if we are to go up next season.
Brought in a load of defenders & sold our main attacking threat. We have no width & no creativity and relying on injured players coming back into the team to save us from relegation.
Oh....and managerless too.
Cant believe I’m typing this,
Shame to lose CBT but we really don't have the squad to accommodate his position and I'd rather build a team around May. At least we got a fee for him.
Everything else is background noise.
1 out of 10.
As said on the other thread, we have just gone about neutral in players in and out. There's no obvious, standout strengthening, as a lot of the signings are unproven, unfit or lacking match sharpness, with only 17 games to go, we could have done with players who are actually in a bit of form.
We lost CBT, who we look hopeless without most games and haven't replaced him.
We didn't sign anyone to create chances from open play.
We didn't sign the Pearcey type centre back who we are probably going to need fighting for points. Admittedly Gillesphey sounds promising, but he is a different type of option at centre back.
All of our goalkeeping options are very shoddy, except Isted, who can hopefully replicate his Barnsley form.
I just don't think we did enough to actually guarantee survival, and during February, we will more than likely be banking on the teams below us not picking up points.
Hopefully I am very wrong, Jones comes in and this team looks completely different, however, I've watched this lot over 30 times this season and they're pretty much all shit bar the likes of May & Dobson.
Of the defenders we bought in it is not yet clear if any are the leader we need.
So I would say the jury is not just out, it has been sent home until the trial properly starts.
Players out 9 (mark deducted for not preventing CBT playing given it's a 'loan'. No argument with the rest who've underperformed and we retained Dobbo)
Players in 5 (too early to assess really, but I think Ladapo will come good and Bakinson, Coventry, REG I expect to be upgrades)
These players will take time to bed in and no one knows at this stage if they are any good or not in a Charlton shirt.
Time to judge this window will be at the end of the season
5/10 but could probably turn out to be anywhere between a 3 or a 7 in the longer run.
Overall, I would rate it a 6.5 out of 10 which is much better than any in recent years. Started strongly, but disappointingly petered out towards the business end of the window due to the bungled decision-making and timing of Appletons dismissal. It must be a very hard sell, trying to attract high quality players to a club struggling near the bottom of league one and without any clear indication of who the manager is going to be
Generally speaking, I think overall there's been an upgrade in the quality of the squad, but I would argue that only Conor Coventry of the new recruits could potentially be regarded as being one of the so-called elite 8.
The loss of CBT, and with it our main attacking threat is a major disappointment and it has left us with very limited options to switch formation to wingers if we need to change things up. Tyreece Campbell has gone backwards and Henry Rylah, although promising, is still far too raw. The other big gap is a creative attacking midfielder as neither Louie Watson or Fiorini look to quite have that ability to affect games. Aaron Collins would have been a fantastic signing but no surprise that we missed out to a team challenging strongly for promotion.
We are left with a squad that really ought to be good enough to keep us up this season and challenge in the top half next season, and hopefully we can continue the squad rebuilding in the summer to push higher still. The quality of the team organisation, tactics and motivation will be key so the imminent manager/head coach appointment is crucial. If Nathan Jones is appointed, then I think that will be a big sign of intent.
??/10 based upon the ins. If I am honest i'd never heard of any of them before the window......so can't really comment.
I'd say that overall....the whelm-ometer is hovering at about 5/10.
Biggest signing will be NJ if we manage to get that over the line.
Truth be told, Coventry isn't a player I would have even thought of, as he hasn't featured in the leagues enough for me to notice. I tend to purposely forget games of recent years, so can't really recall how well he played at MK Dons, I may have even been hammered for a few games that season.
Ladapo is a good signing, but I'd have preferred JCH personally and Ladapo to be a permanent move.
I understand though how I come across and I am working on that by looking at how my posts may come across before I hit comment 😂
Just have to say it how I see it though, I think it's an unsatisfactory window, happy to change that view and of course be wrong, if these signings end up performing better than I expect. 👍🏻
Ladapo | Edmonds-Green | Gillesphey all sound good on paper having won promotion from this level
Coventry and Ramsey show decent potential... Bakinson I've liked the look of thus far
Ward and Fiorini I'm not overly bothered about, the former was brought in as emergency backup not to play, the latter I feel he joined because we had to take someone to replace Tedic
We can only properly judge the Window come April
The score from me mainly reflects the fact of where we are and the pool of players we nowadays dip into. Maybe its my general lack of interest in lower league football playing a part in my judgement but I've never heard of any of these 8 players we have signed.
On the plus side we have at least signed 5 more players to our club rather than the usual loan stiffs of which there are 3. A significant change to the squad and one that hopefully allows us to move in the right direction.
We've been unbeaten since the 24th January so we have turned the corner.