"Mentioned on one of our recent pods that Birmingham are paying the biggest wages in the division - huge jump
on other clubs you’d expect to be in top six mix.
Wrexham also got serious dough.
Easy to get gauge when you speak to agents or clubs in each window as they know what is being offered!"
I do think he will flop if he leaves. I do hope he stays but looking unlikely.
I don't think he will flop but he didn't score for us in his first three games. The two relegated sides will have a sense of entitlement and might be moaning at a relatively slow start for him.
Getting the old "Didn't want him anyway" crap now from The Udders, they are really pissed off with us that's for sure, sometimes life ain't so bad after all...🙄
Honestly now, this forum is full of adults....players come and go! There is nothing that can be done and you might not like it but you have to get on with it.
We have to see what the club up there sleeve. It might surprise us.
Either way, I am sure NJ has a plan and for now, that's good enough for me.
What is all this snobbery about how an adult should feel over Charlton related activity?
I spend a ridiculous amount of money following and watching Charlton, players like May and Dobson make those drives and shit journies home a bit more bearable.
If people spend their hard earned, and are sacrificing their time and money to follow this club, it's perfectly acceptable for people to be pissed off when the club makes poor decisions.
This lethargic approach of 'crying' 'grown adults' 'bed wetters' etc is a complete piss take. It's fans who give a shit about the team venting, all the sniping is proper frustrating to read.
Yeah I have to say it's getting pretty tiresome that whenever people on this board show passion for the club or one of its players, they get accused of bed wetting, crying, not being a grown man, etc.
It's called having a passion. We're not armchair Man Utd fans. In Argentina, people cry when they score a goal!
If you prefer to support from a more distanced place, by all means, but I don't see any need to try and humiliate others fans who are more invested.
There’s nothing dispassionate about taking the opposite approach to all this. I have watched almost every Charlton men’s, women’s, youth games that I possibly can. I have plenty of passion for CAFC.
Regarding what @Braziliance about the club making “poor decisions”. On the surface it does seem bonkers, but no one knows yet whether it’s a poor decision or a stroke of genius. Would it still be a poor decision if we get promoted and Huddersfield don’t?
It’s been quite clear from March / April that Jones hasn’t fancied Alfie. We don’t know why and I doubt we ever will. But he is the manager and he will live with the consequences of his decisions.
Everyone six months ago hated the model of players being forced on a manager and wanted the manager to be able to choose his squad. Now we have a manager with the remit to do it and the same people are upset because the manager doesn’t want the striker every fan loves.
I doubt if Jones will last the season if we are not challenging.
Same. I think we’ll be up there, with or without Alfie.
Based on what? Can only be pure hope at this point surely, as the squad is nowhere near where it needs to be.
The fact we finished the season strong and signing some good players and just putting the right systems in place behind the scenes . I think it’s a good time to be following Charlton with or with Alfie May.
Are you on commission to write this unrelenting drivel in support of this joke SMT? Have some pride!
Have some pride for backing the club and the manager ? Yeah that’s what I’m doing so stop talking waffle , I think the smt have done a good job since they’ve came in apart from a few poor decisions . We’re actually being run like a proper football club and that’s what people have been asking for since Roland . Carry on being negative about every little thing sad little man.
You’re either delusional or on the payroll. Worst season for 98 years mate, it’s embarrassing.
You’re delusional to blame the new owners for our worst finish after coming in late in the transfer window after taking over Sandgaard who had hardly any systems in place and a poor squad , no I’m not on the payroll I’m just happy we’re being run like a proper football club which was what every one has wanted for years. Stop being rude and use some common sense.
Appleton, I rest my case.
Yeah because no one has ever appointed a bad manager before have they even the biggest clubs in the world have , plus Appleton did have some successes it just didn’t work out for us. Any opportunity you lot get to jump on the owners you do . And it’s always the same lot.
And it can be argued its the 'same lot' who defend all owners/SMT without knowing very little about them or no up turn in results on the pitch
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, rather than having zero rumours on here today, and 200 posts about Alfie May, can we not just close the thread for a day?
I do think he will flop if he leaves. I do hope he stays but looking unlikely.
I don't think he will flop but he didn't score for us in his first three games. The two relegated sides will have a sense of entitlement and might be moaning at a relatively slow start for him.
Prefer he goes to Brum as they will buy the title anyway, with or without Alfie.
The Udders really don't like Rich Cawley, just seen this in response to Cawleys tweet about us accepting Birmingham's bid
"Call me cynical here but I think there is something else at play here. This bloke has consistently said no pressure to sell to us and no fee agreed. Now we find out it is almost to be announced this comes out and he doesn’t even mention us. I think it he could be told to release this as a ploy by Mays agents to get slightly more out of Town in wages etc"
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, rather than having zero rumours on here today, and 200 posts about Alfie May, can we not just close the thread for a day?
Or move on to who our new strikers will be - one being a replacement and another as we needed one regardless of whether May was sold.
Cawley said we wanted signings sorted first so we should be close to at least one new striker.
Ahadme, Etete and Godden have been mentioned, any other realistic alternatives? I’m ignoring the strikers linked by nonsense Twitter accounts.
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, rather than having zero rumours on here today, and 200 posts about Alfie May, can we not just close the thread for a day?
Or move on to who our new strikers will be - one being a replacement and another as we needed one regardless of whether May was sold.
Cawley said we wanted signings sorted first so we should be close to at least one new striker.
Ahadme, Etete and Godden have been mentioned, any other realistic alternatives? I’m ignoring the strikers linked by nonsense Twitter accounts.
That's been Rich's line all along tbf, but doesn't sound like we've got any one lined up at as an advanced stage as bids being accepted.
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, rather than having zero rumours on here today, and 200 posts about Alfie May, can we not just close the thread for a day?
Or move on to who our new strikers will be - one being a replacement and another as we needed one regardless of whether May was sold.
Cawley said we wanted signings sorted first so we should be close to at least one new striker.
Ahadme, Etete and Godden have been mentioned, any other realistic alternatives? I’m ignoring the strikers linked by nonsense Twitter accounts.
That's been Rich's line all along tbf, but doesn't sound like we've got any one lined up at as an advanced stage as bids being accepted.
Selling Alfie May, our first guaranteed 20+ goals a season striker for donkeys years, is undeniably a huge gamble but I understand wanting to do the right thing by Alfie and his family by letting him go to Huddersfield. However, that empathy should not extend to accepting a lower offer from them than Brum are prepared to pay. In that scenario our club just has to come first.
If you think and expect at the same time, it disappoints me that a super wordsmith like dear Rich Cawley hasn’t created a new word for it. Like ‘exink’ or ‘thinpect’.
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, rather than having zero rumours on here today, and 200 posts about Alfie May, can we not just close the thread for a day?
Or move on to who our new strikers will be - one being a replacement and another as we needed one regardless of whether May was sold.
Cawley said we wanted signings sorted first so we should be close to at least one new striker.
Ahadme, Etete and Godden have been mentioned, any other realistic alternatives? I’m ignoring the strikers linked by nonsense Twitter accounts.
That's been Rich's line all along tbf, but doesn't sound like we've got any one lined up at as an advanced stage as bids being accepted.
Depends how far we are in reality with the Adahme and Godden deals
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, rather than having zero rumours on here today, and 200 posts about Alfie May, can we not just close the thread for a day?
Or move on to who our new strikers will be - one being a replacement and another as we needed one regardless of whether May was sold.
Cawley said we wanted signings sorted first so we should be close to at least one new striker.
Ahadme, Etete and Godden have been mentioned, any other realistic alternatives? I’m ignoring the strikers linked by nonsense Twitter accounts.
That's been Rich's line all along tbf, but doesn't sound like we've got any one lined up at as an advanced stage as bids being accepted.
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, rather than having zero rumours on here today, and 200 posts about Alfie May, can we not just close the thread for a day?
Or move on to who our new strikers will be - one being a replacement and another as we needed one regardless of whether May was sold.
Cawley said we wanted signings sorted first so we should be close to at least one new striker.
Ahadme, Etete and Godden have been mentioned, any other realistic alternatives? I’m ignoring the strikers linked by nonsense Twitter accounts.
That's been Rich's line all along tbf, but doesn't sound like we've got any one lined up at as an advanced stage as bids being accepted.
We have a number of bids in .. and two deals in the pipeline one was suppose to happen on Friday ?? GK and Striker but we will want to get another striker once the May deal goes through and later in the window 2 attacking Mid men
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Wrexham also got serious dough. Easy to get gauge when you speak to agents or clubs in each window as they know what is being offered!"
https://x.com/RichCawleySLP/status/1807025745723830558
Bigamist who will be a big miss?
Lots of missus' and rarely misses.
Imagine spending all that money on a 20+ goal striker, only to get barely any return out of him... All that gloating they'd no doubt regret.
"Call me cynical here but I think there is something else at play here. This bloke has consistently said no pressure to sell to us and no fee agreed. Now we find out it is almost to be announced this comes out and he doesn’t even mention us.
I think it he could be told to release this as a ploy by Mays agents to get slightly more out of Town in wages etc"
Talk about comical...
Cawley said we wanted signings sorted first so we should be close to at least one new striker.
Ahadme, Etete and Godden have been mentioned, any other realistic alternatives? I’m ignoring the strikers linked by nonsense Twitter accounts.
Like ‘exink’ or ‘thinpect’.