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Deadline Day from Pg.641 - Summer 2025 Charlton Athletic Transfer Rumours
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Getting to that point of the window just before we announce a flurry of signings where I am getting concerned for the sanity of other posters.16
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Callumcafc said:Getting to that point of the window just before we announce a flurry of signings where I am getting concerned for the sanity of other posters.
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I’ve never noticed that this concern is restricted to transfer windows really @Callumcafc 🤷🏻♂️😉Callumcafc said:Getting to that point of the window just before we announce a flurry of signings where I am getting concerned for the sanity of other posters.11 -
Callumcafc said:Getting to that point of the window just before we announce a flurry of signings where I am getting concerned for the sanity of other posters.
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After logging on to Charlton Life at least 30 times per day, every day for the past 2-3 weeks and
generally wasting hours of my life, reading rumours that rarely if ever materialise, I have decided that I actually prefer the “Good Old Days” before the internet.
In those days I really looked forward to Thursday morning when the Kentish Mercury was published.
I used make a detour from Liverpool Street station to Cannon Street Station to buy the paper, and if I was lucky read that Charlton had been discussing a move for John Pearson or Keith Jones.
Then I usually had to wait seven full days for the next edition to see if the player had actually signed.
In those days the rumours had a bit of truth about them, not complete works of fiction written by a 13 year old school boy in his bedroom.43 -
Sounds rubbishBillericaydickie said:After logging on to Charlton Life at least 30 times per day, every day for the past 2-3 weeks and
generally wasting hours of my life, reading rumours that rarely if ever materialise, I have decided that I actually prefer the “Good Old Days” before the internet.
In those days I really looked forward to Thursday morning when the Kentish Mercury was published.
I used make a detour from Liverpool Street station to Cannon Street Station to buy the paper, and if I was lucky read that Charlton had been discussing a move for John Pearson or Keith Jones.
Then I usually had to wait seven full days for the next edition to see if the player had actually signed.
In those days the rumours had a bit of truth about them, not complete works of fiction written by a 13 year old school boy in his bedroom.25 -
It is. A couple of decades before we signed Pearson or Jones the UK had Teletext (pre-internet internet). He didn’t have to wait a week to find out…daveydanger said:
Sounds rubbishBillericaydickie said:After logging on to Charlton Life at least 30 times per day, every day for the past 2-3 weeks and
generally wasting hours of my life, reading rumours that rarely if ever materialise, I have decided that I actually prefer the “Good Old Days” before the internet.
In those days I really looked forward to Thursday morning when the Kentish Mercury was published.
I used make a detour from Liverpool Street station to Cannon Street Station to buy the paper, and if I was lucky read that Charlton had been discussing a move for John Pearson or Keith Jones.
Then I usually had to wait seven full days for the next edition to see if the player had actually signed.
In those days the rumours had a bit of truth about them, not complete works of fiction written by a 13 year old school boy in his bedroom.1 -
He's 17, apparently.Billericaydickie said:After logging on to Charlton Life at least 30 times per day, every day for the past 2-3 weeks and
generally wasting hours of my life, reading rumours that rarely if ever materialise, I have decided that I actually prefer the “Good Old Days” before the internet.
In those days I really looked forward to Thursday morning when the Kentish Mercury was published.
I used make a detour from Liverpool Street station to Cannon Street Station to buy the paper, and if I was lucky read that Charlton had been discussing a move for John Pearson or Keith Jones.
Then I usually had to wait seven full days for the next edition to see if the player had actually signed.
In those days the rumours had a bit of truth about them, not complete works of fiction written by a 13 year old school boy in his bedroom.8 -
Didn't realise footballers took such long holidays ...7
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letthegoodtimesroll said:
It is. A couple of decades before we signed Pearson or Jones the UK had Teletext (pre-internet internet). He didn’t have to wait a week to find out…daveydanger said:
Sounds rubbishBillericaydickie said:After logging on to Charlton Life at least 30 times per day, every day for the past 2-3 weeks and
generally wasting hours of my life, reading rumours that rarely if ever materialise, I have decided that I actually prefer the “Good Old Days” before the internet.
In those days I really looked forward to Thursday morning when the Kentish Mercury was published.
I used make a detour from Liverpool Street station to Cannon Street Station to buy the paper, and if I was lucky read that Charlton had been discussing a move for John Pearson or Keith Jones.
Then I usually had to wait seven full days for the next edition to see if the player had actually signed.
In those days the rumours had a bit of truth about them, not complete works of fiction written by a 13 year old school boy in his bedroom.
What was that premium football phone line. Used to nag my dad to allow me to phone it all summer and the couple of times he allowed me I would be so happy but never learn anything of note.
Teletext was how I found out we had bought Djimi Traoure and Amdy Fay2 - Sponsored links:
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The pages must have loaded much more quickly than in Northern Ireland then...letthegoodtimesroll said:
It is. A couple of decades before we signed Pearson or Jones the UK had Teletext (pre-internet internet). He didn’t have to wait a week to find out…daveydanger said:
Sounds rubbishBillericaydickie said:After logging on to Charlton Life at least 30 times per day, every day for the past 2-3 weeks and
generally wasting hours of my life, reading rumours that rarely if ever materialise, I have decided that I actually prefer the “Good Old Days” before the internet.
In those days I really looked forward to Thursday morning when the Kentish Mercury was published.
I used make a detour from Liverpool Street station to Cannon Street Station to buy the paper, and if I was lucky read that Charlton had been discussing a move for John Pearson or Keith Jones.
Then I usually had to wait seven full days for the next edition to see if the player had actually signed.
In those days the rumours had a bit of truth about them, not complete works of fiction written by a 13 year old school boy in his bedroom.
It would feel like ages passed before the Charlton news or, more likely, Teamtalk rumour would come up...2 -
That teletext has a lot to answer for.Athletico Charlton said:letthegoodtimesroll said:
It is. A couple of decades before we signed Pearson or Jones the UK had Teletext (pre-internet internet). He didn’t have to wait a week to find out…daveydanger said:
Sounds rubbishBillericaydickie said:After logging on to Charlton Life at least 30 times per day, every day for the past 2-3 weeks and
generally wasting hours of my life, reading rumours that rarely if ever materialise, I have decided that I actually prefer the “Good Old Days” before the internet.
In those days I really looked forward to Thursday morning when the Kentish Mercury was published.
I used make a detour from Liverpool Street station to Cannon Street Station to buy the paper, and if I was lucky read that Charlton had been discussing a move for John Pearson or Keith Jones.
Then I usually had to wait seven full days for the next edition to see if the player had actually signed.
In those days the rumours had a bit of truth about them, not complete works of fiction written by a 13 year old school boy in his bedroom.
What was that premium football phone line. Used to nag my dad to allow me to phone it all summer and the couple of times he allowed me I would be so happy but never learn anything of note.
Teletext was how I found out we had bought Djimi Traoure and Amdy Fay0 -
I remember being on a lads holiday in Gran Caneria in 99/00 and buying The Sun everyday to get the transfer news. Year after we went up from winning the title.
Remember reading that Don Hutchison was signing and then we lost out at the death.
The others i remember from further back on the infamous Clubcall that fell through right at the death:
- Jeremy Goss
- Richard Cadette (sure we almost signed him from the scum)2 -
Growing up I was always pestering my dad for a paper when we were on holiday for transfer news , that then changed to spending most of my holiday money on internet cafes for transfer news , remember being abroad when the Flamini deal broke , only to get home and find out we got jumped by Arsenal at the last minute.2
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Just a reminder that this is the transfer rumours thread!!!!! Can we get back the back on topic please and discuss whether Will Mannion is good enough for the Championship!4
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Remember the old football magazines Match was one.They would have a transfer rumour page.
I do recall being at the dentists and while in reception picked up a Match magazine from the year before.
I thought this will be interesting as I went to the rumour page. 15 rumours with a zero per cent success rate.2 -
That is the very process by which I discovered the earth shattering news that we had signed John Bumstead!Billericaydickie said:After logging on to Charlton Life at least 30 times per day, every day for the past 2-3 weeks and
generally wasting hours of my life, reading rumours that rarely if ever materialise, I have decided that I actually prefer the “Good Old Days” before the internet.
In those days I really looked forward to Thursday morning when the Kentish Mercury was published.
I used make a detour from Liverpool Street station to Cannon Street Station to buy the paper, and if I was lucky read that Charlton had been discussing a move for John Pearson or Keith Jones.
Then I usually had to wait seven full days for the next edition to see if the player had actually signed.
In those days the rumours had a bit of truth about them, not complete works of fiction written by a 13 year old school boy in his bedroom.
Simpler days Billericay.1 -
Charlton Clubcall 0898 121146Athletico Charlton said:letthegoodtimesroll said:
It is. A couple of decades before we signed Pearson or Jones the UK had Teletext (pre-internet internet). He didn’t have to wait a week to find out…daveydanger said:
Sounds rubbishBillericaydickie said:After logging on to Charlton Life at least 30 times per day, every day for the past 2-3 weeks and
generally wasting hours of my life, reading rumours that rarely if ever materialise, I have decided that I actually prefer the “Good Old Days” before the internet.
In those days I really looked forward to Thursday morning when the Kentish Mercury was published.
I used make a detour from Liverpool Street station to Cannon Street Station to buy the paper, and if I was lucky read that Charlton had been discussing a move for John Pearson or Keith Jones.
Then I usually had to wait seven full days for the next edition to see if the player had actually signed.
In those days the rumours had a bit of truth about them, not complete works of fiction written by a 13 year old school boy in his bedroom.
What was that premium football phone line. Used to nag my dad to allow me to phone it all summer and the couple of times he allowed me I would be so happy but never learn anything of note.
Teletext was how I found out we had bought Djimi Traoure and Amdy Fay
calls charged at a ridiculous rate for bugger all content.10 -
Clubcall. We used to have a phone at school that you only put money in to speak. Would ring from there and got quite the bollocking when we were inevitably rumbled!Athletico Charlton said:letthegoodtimesroll said:
It is. A couple of decades before we signed Pearson or Jones the UK had Teletext (pre-internet internet). He didn’t have to wait a week to find out…daveydanger said:
Sounds rubbishBillericaydickie said:After logging on to Charlton Life at least 30 times per day, every day for the past 2-3 weeks and
generally wasting hours of my life, reading rumours that rarely if ever materialise, I have decided that I actually prefer the “Good Old Days” before the internet.
In those days I really looked forward to Thursday morning when the Kentish Mercury was published.
I used make a detour from Liverpool Street station to Cannon Street Station to buy the paper, and if I was lucky read that Charlton had been discussing a move for John Pearson or Keith Jones.
Then I usually had to wait seven full days for the next edition to see if the player had actually signed.
In those days the rumours had a bit of truth about them, not complete works of fiction written by a 13 year old school boy in his bedroom.
What was that premium football phone line. Used to nag my dad to allow me to phone it all summer and the couple of times he allowed me I would be so happy but never learn anything of note.
Teletext was how I found out we had bought Djimi Traoure and Amdy Fay5 -
Jeremy Goss actually went through, with an interview with him on Clubcall. The next day he had changed his mind and send he preferred to go to Aberdeen!DamoNorthStand said:I remember being on a lads holiday in Gran Caneria in 99/00 and buying The Sun everyday to get the transfer news. Year after we went up from winning the title.
Remember reading that Don Hutchison was signing and then we lost out at the death.
The others i remember from further back on the infamous Clubcall that fell through right at the death:
- Jeremy Goss
- Richard Cadette (sure we almost signed him from the scum)3 - Sponsored links:
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Think it was Chris Malkin. He failed a medical and we signed Bradley Allen instead.DamoNorthStand said:I remember being on a lads holiday in Gran Caneria in 99/00 and buying The Sun everyday to get the transfer news. Year after we went up from winning the title.
Remember reading that Don Hutchison was signing and then we lost out at the death.
The others i remember from further back on the infamous Clubcall that fell through right at the death:
- Jeremy Goss
- Richard Cadette (sure we almost signed him from the scum)3 -
I think it was 10p a minute but it took ten minutes to get to any news of significance.Valiantphil said:
Charlton Clubcall 0898 121146Athletico Charlton said:letthegoodtimesroll said:
It is. A couple of decades before we signed Pearson or Jones the UK had Teletext (pre-internet internet). He didn’t have to wait a week to find out…daveydanger said:
Sounds rubbishBillericaydickie said:After logging on to Charlton Life at least 30 times per day, every day for the past 2-3 weeks and
generally wasting hours of my life, reading rumours that rarely if ever materialise, I have decided that I actually prefer the “Good Old Days” before the internet.
In those days I really looked forward to Thursday morning when the Kentish Mercury was published.
I used make a detour from Liverpool Street station to Cannon Street Station to buy the paper, and if I was lucky read that Charlton had been discussing a move for John Pearson or Keith Jones.
Then I usually had to wait seven full days for the next edition to see if the player had actually signed.
In those days the rumours had a bit of truth about them, not complete works of fiction written by a 13 year old school boy in his bedroom.
What was that premium football phone line. Used to nag my dad to allow me to phone it all summer and the couple of times he allowed me I would be so happy but never learn anything of note.
Teletext was how I found out we had bought Djimi Traoure and Amdy Fay
calls charged at a ridiculous rate for bugger all content.8 -
When I was a lad in NZ in the late 70s early 80s you had to wait a few days to see the football results in the paper, if at all. And probably only for Div 1. I’d never even registered/clocked Charlton until the late 90s so didn’t stress too much about our transfers back in my childhood. And you only got one tv football highlights package a week ‘n all back then. That covered football games from a week or so previous. Only live football I saw was grainy distant World Cup coverage and FA cup finals. Still knew Milwall were scum though
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0898121146 wasn't it?Athletico Charlton said:letthegoodtimesroll said:
It is. A couple of decades before we signed Pearson or Jones the UK had Teletext (pre-internet internet). He didn’t have to wait a week to find out…daveydanger said:
Sounds rubbishBillericaydickie said:After logging on to Charlton Life at least 30 times per day, every day for the past 2-3 weeks and
generally wasting hours of my life, reading rumours that rarely if ever materialise, I have decided that I actually prefer the “Good Old Days” before the internet.
In those days I really looked forward to Thursday morning when the Kentish Mercury was published.
I used make a detour from Liverpool Street station to Cannon Street Station to buy the paper, and if I was lucky read that Charlton had been discussing a move for John Pearson or Keith Jones.
Then I usually had to wait seven full days for the next edition to see if the player had actually signed.
In those days the rumours had a bit of truth about them, not complete works of fiction written by a 13 year old school boy in his bedroom.
What was that premium football phone line. Used to nag my dad to allow me to phone it all summer and the couple of times he allowed me I would be so happy but never learn anything of note.
Teletext was how I found out we had bought Djimi Traoure and Amdy Fay1 -
Beat me to it, rang up a hefty bill my dad went madBedsaddick said:
I think it was 10p a minute but it took ten minutes to get to any news of significance.Valiantphil said:
Charlton Clubcall 0898 121146Athletico Charlton said:letthegoodtimesroll said:
It is. A couple of decades before we signed Pearson or Jones the UK had Teletext (pre-internet internet). He didn’t have to wait a week to find out…daveydanger said:
Sounds rubbishBillericaydickie said:After logging on to Charlton Life at least 30 times per day, every day for the past 2-3 weeks and
generally wasting hours of my life, reading rumours that rarely if ever materialise, I have decided that I actually prefer the “Good Old Days” before the internet.
In those days I really looked forward to Thursday morning when the Kentish Mercury was published.
I used make a detour from Liverpool Street station to Cannon Street Station to buy the paper, and if I was lucky read that Charlton had been discussing a move for John Pearson or Keith Jones.
Then I usually had to wait seven full days for the next edition to see if the player had actually signed.
In those days the rumours had a bit of truth about them, not complete works of fiction written by a 13 year old school boy in his bedroom.
What was that premium football phone line. Used to nag my dad to allow me to phone it all summer and the couple of times he allowed me I would be so happy but never learn anything of note.
Teletext was how I found out we had bought Djimi Traoure and Amdy Fay
calls charged at a ridiculous rate for bugger all content.0 -
I phoned from the fax line at work as there was no call records kept for faxes!
Clubcall. We used to have a phone at school that you only put money in to speak. Would ring from there and got quite the bollocking when we were inevitably rumbled!
What was that premium football phone line. Used to nag my dad to allow me to phone it all summer and the couple of times he allowed me I would be so happy but never learn anything of note.
Teletext was how I found out we had bought Djimi Traoure and Amdy Fay13 -
I also remember Charlton Quizcall - similar number. Won the blue Woolwich away shirt during our exile. It still gets an outing at The Valley a few times a season.Valiantphil said:
Charlton Clubcall 0898 121146Athletico Charlton said:letthegoodtimesroll said:
It is. A couple of decades before we signed Pearson or Jones the UK had Teletext (pre-internet internet). He didn’t have to wait a week to find out…daveydanger said:
Sounds rubbishBillericaydickie said:After logging on to Charlton Life at least 30 times per day, every day for the past 2-3 weeks and
generally wasting hours of my life, reading rumours that rarely if ever materialise, I have decided that I actually prefer the “Good Old Days” before the internet.
In those days I really looked forward to Thursday morning when the Kentish Mercury was published.
I used make a detour from Liverpool Street station to Cannon Street Station to buy the paper, and if I was lucky read that Charlton had been discussing a move for John Pearson or Keith Jones.
Then I usually had to wait seven full days for the next edition to see if the player had actually signed.
In those days the rumours had a bit of truth about them, not complete works of fiction written by a 13 year old school boy in his bedroom.
What was that premium football phone line. Used to nag my dad to allow me to phone it all summer and the couple of times he allowed me I would be so happy but never learn anything of note.
Teletext was how I found out we had bought Djimi Traoure and Amdy Fay
calls charged at a ridiculous rate for bugger all content.3 -
Although not at the same levels as Hayden Mullins and Daren Purse , Hutchison was linked a few times with us. Iirc when we were first promoted he was poised to sign only to join Everton. He was also heavily linked when West Ham were relegated in 2003.0
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Have you not been paying attention ? There are no rumours whatsoever. Everybody is on holiday apparentlyTodds_right_hook said:Just a reminder that this is the transfer rumours thread!!!!! Can we get back the back on topic please and discuss whether Will Mannion is good enough for the Championship!0 -
And reminiscing the Kentish Mercury, Teletext, and Clubcallletthegoodtimesroll said:
Have you not been paying attention ? There are no rumours whatsoever. Everybody is on holiday apparentlyTodds_right_hook said:Just a reminder that this is the transfer rumours thread!!!!! Can we get back the back on topic please and discuss whether Will Mannion is good enough for the Championship!0
