Leaburn is the only one I could see potentially going, and wouldn’t be shocked if he did.
My concern is that they try and get a fee for Small now
If he won’t sign a deal then why not?
I don’t think we should but ultimately it’s a business, he’s probably worth a fair chunk imeven with 6 months left.
Because he can't realistically be replaced right now. He's got 6 months left on his deal, we'd get at most a few hundred thousand and in return we would lose the pace and width that has completely transformed our season. He and TC are key to our improvement, but he's the most important as he helps us drive the ball up from deeper, which had been one of our main problems up to that point. The amount we would have to spend to get that level of pace and ability to play both attacking and defensively, inverted especially, would be ridiculous. Selling him just to get a bit of cash would be catastrophic
Amazed by the amount of people who would let Leaburn go because he’s had a couple of dodgy games and looked tired
Some don’t seem to rate him no matter what he does. He showed his potential during that scoring run, where his hold up play was good too. He’s our only striker with a bit of everything to his game, but being young and returning from injury his inconsistent, which can be normal even for very promising young players.
Amazed by the amount of people who would let Leaburn go because he’s had a couple of dodgy games and looked tired
Some don’t seem to rate him no matter what he does. He showed his potential during that scoring run, where his hold up play was good too. He’s our only striker with a bit of everything to his game, but being young and returning from injury his inconsistent, which can be normal even for very promising young players.
It's not as if he's only 20 and coming back from a long term injury.....oh, hang on.
Leaburn is 11 starts into a recovery/ new playing development programme after A YEAR OUT. Progress is rarely if ever s straight line. Intermittent fatigue and inconsistency comes with the territory. Try it sometime.
Don't care anymore. We all know what we need but we wont get them. Will be more moving deckchairs with a couple of players leaving (on loan- no one wants our dross) being replaced with the usual inept PL loanees or players at the twilight of their careers.
Highlight this post & re-visit again in February.
Posted this on the 1st page of this thread.
For once.....just for once, I'd like to be wrong and to be eating humble 🥧 at 11pm tonight.
How about 09:30am this morning?
Nah he’s actually right you see but instead of inept Premier League loanee, he’s an inept Championship loanee so it’s actually even worse than he said.
Yep. I know this was a dig at me but its actually fairly true of my thoughts on the signing.
He may be good, he may be average. He might be just what we need.....but his career stats dont scream outstanding ability or quality signing.
And if I had a £1 for every comment posted on here over the past 2 transfer windows about how Coventry is mustard or Docherty is the dogs bollox then I could retire & be sunning myself in the Bahamas.
Comments
"I'm leaving it to my agent" smacks of "if somebody comes along with a better offer, I'm out of here"...
"Theirry Small has admitted he would love to extend his stay at Charlton Athletic with his contract set to expire at the end of the season".
His contract runs our at the end of this season, hence the urgency...
It's not as if he's only 20 and coming back from a long term injury.....oh, hang on.
He's had good games and bad games
Last season many wrote off TC, now it's ML.
The player we can least afford to lose today imo is TC.
Hopefully not.
He may be good, he may be average. He might be just what we need.....but his career stats dont scream outstanding ability or quality signing.
And if I had a £1 for every comment posted on here over the past 2 transfer windows about how Coventry is mustard or Docherty is the dogs bollox then I could retire & be sunning myself in the Bahamas.