Rumours Rumours - Transfer Window Summer 2013 (Alnwick In, Green loan out, Stewart loan in)

dizzee said:

We won't get playoffs next season

Yeah you're right, we'll get auto's ; )

Henry Irving said:

As said FFP rules mean a lot of clubs cutting budgets to comply and having to reduce wage bill.

That will mean a lot of players available on lower wages.

So IF SCP can pick up some bargains, IF we can integrate the likes of Smith and Feely, IF we move on some other high earners, IF the board can bring more income in from sponsorship etc (FFP limits loans from owners even if they have/want to), IF we can have a money making Cup run then.........

That's a bit far fetched isn't it?...a money making cup run!

ShootersHillGuru said:

BlackForestReds said:

I don't know if the player's budget will be reduced or not - but we have a number of talented reserve team players coming through and while I doubt they'll be guaranteed starters they should be good enough to fill in for a few matches here and there or occupy a spot on the bench.

I think that's very true but isn't the real issue whether or not we are looking for further seasons of Championship consolidation which bye the way is fine by me or whether there is a real plan to get us closer season on season to the playoffs ? Not taking anything away from what SCP did last season but several of our key players are not getting any younger and although not too far off I don't see us as serious playoff contenders with what we have plus a few youngsters filling the gaps. What will be will be but a reduced budget will not see us progress.

As someone once said, you don't win things with kids...

Last season we made a loss of something like £7.5m on a turnover of around £8m - our wage bill is to high, so we need to either find a way to get another 5,000 plus fans in per match or we start to live according to our budget. All the clubs in the championship will have this problem, not many will be able to blood a crop of well trained academy players though.

BlackForestReds said:

I almost forgot...

Kieffer Moore who has been playing for Dorchester Town is apparently on trial at Charlton.

Not THE Kieffer Moore ?

BlackForestReds said:

I almost forgot...

Kieffer Moore who has been playing for Dorchester Town is apparently on trial at Charlton.

Must be bored stiff as all the players have left for the summer haven't they...and I think Powelly probably off on his hols too! poor timing to have a trial now!

Someone says Kevin Cash is back and everyone ignores it, someone else hears that the budget is being reduced and everyone soils themselves. I'll believe it when the transfer window closes and we haven't signed anyone

6'4" with a 12/13 second 100m sprint

That's pretty tasty!

Athletico Charlton said:

BlackForestReds said:

I almost forgot...

Kieffer Moore who has been playing for Dorchester Town is apparently on trial at Charlton.

Must be bored stiff as all the players have left for the summer haven't they...and I think Powelly probably off on his hols too! poor timing to have a trial now!

The development squad finished yesterday, he may have been training with them.

Garrymanilow said:

Someone says Kevin Cash is back and everyone ignores it, someone else hears that the budget is being reduced and everyone soils themselves. I'll believe it when the transfer window closes and we haven't signed anyone

Good point except no one has soiled themselves and it's a rumours thread and amazingly someone posted a rumour which, even more amazingly people then discussed in a calm and reasonable way.

#bizarre overreaction

Henry Irving said:

Garrymanilow said:

Someone says Kevin Cash is back and everyone ignores it, someone else hears that the budget is being reduced and everyone soils themselves. I'll believe it when the transfer window closes and we haven't signed anyone

Good point except no one has soiled themselves and it's a rumours thread and amazingly someone posted a rumour which, even more amazingly people then discussed in a calm and reasonable way.

#bizarre overreaction

to be fair there was a couple of overreactions which GarryManilow refers to. One even said we're down!

Why not just have a sensible debate rather than using silly OTT terms like "everyone" and "soiled themselves".

I heard from a very good source that Billy Davies is keen on Leroy Lita.

http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/24301/rumours-rumours

Either way. If it means more of these under 21s coming through, I'm all for it.

No point having it, funding it, if you're not gonna use it.

Step up Smith, Piggott, Holmes, Cousins & Poyet.

Richard Cawley just tweeted: "#cafc linked with £250k move for Crawley defender Mark Connolly. Be amazed - vibes at the moment are that no money to spend this summer."

_nam11 said:

Either way. If it means more of these under 21s coming through, I'm all for it.

No point having it, funding it, if you're not gonna use it.

Step up Smith, Piggott, Holmes, Cousins & Poyet.

I'd be happy with giving youngsters a go in the 1st team a but quicker than we have been doing in recent years, indeed that would be a major selling point any young playing thinking about leaving us for the likes of Chelsea. The likes of Palace and Derby have tended to play youngsters earlier than us.

Taking an example from 20 years ago, when Minto left, Sturgess and Stuart were given the chance at LB, rather than us getting a journeyman free transfer as a direct replacement. With the injuries at LB last season, and money too tight to get an experienced LB in, would it have been worth us playing Fox say at LB, rather than getting the fairly hopeless Seabourne in on loan?

Similarly, Harriott had a really exciting cameo subs appearance earlier in the season, but didn't get a proper chance until several months later, and has now become a 1st choice player in that position.