Lyle Taylor - August 2025 signed for Chelmsford City (p295)

jacob_CAFC said:

se9addick said:

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Be interesting to see the fans reaction if he signs for Galatasaray and refuses to play at any point

To be honest I doubt you would get away with it contractually at many other clubs regardless of what the fans might say/do.

they can't force anyone to play

No, and I wasn’t suggesting anyone could. However they can sue you for breach of contract if you don’t fulfil your side of the bargain. 

I know Taylor isn't actually keen on playing football, but if he went to Forest he'd be on the bench as they have Grabban.

MattF said:

Missed It said:

angrybird said:

To Lyle Taylor,  Just wondered how you are feeling seeing your former team mates trying desperately to avoid relegation. ... a situation you was actually part of until you decided you couldn't be bothered and walked out refusing to play.
Yes i understand you have to consider your future and you would have left at the end of the season anyway but the least i would have expected was for you to have the decency to honour your contract.
No doubt wherever you end up you will acquire another set of adoring fans who you will no doubt let down when you decide uve had enough and move on.
Hopefully we will stay up but it will be no thanx to you. 
From a very disappointed fan !

The real damage was done earlier in the season when he was out for weeks after getting injured with Montserrat.  He didn't think twice about indulging himself in international football for a total no-hope team. Getting injured for them was fine when it's on somebody else's dollar.  Getting injured when it's his own money at stake? No way Lyle is sticking his neck out for that.
 

Not really knowing the first thing about player contracts but could a team prepared to quadruple his wages be able to include some clause in his contract banning him from going to Montserrat on international duty?

No, I don’t think you can stop a player playing for their national team 

se9addick said:

MattF said:

Missed It said:

angrybird said:

To Lyle Taylor,  Just wondered how you are feeling seeing your former team mates trying desperately to avoid relegation. ... a situation you was actually part of until you decided you couldn't be bothered and walked out refusing to play.
Yes i understand you have to consider your future and you would have left at the end of the season anyway but the least i would have expected was for you to have the decency to honour your contract.
No doubt wherever you end up you will acquire another set of adoring fans who you will no doubt let down when you decide uve had enough and move on.
Hopefully we will stay up but it will be no thanx to you. 
From a very disappointed fan !

The real damage was done earlier in the season when he was out for weeks after getting injured with Montserrat.  He didn't think twice about indulging himself in international football for a total no-hope team. Getting injured for them was fine when it's on somebody else's dollar.  Getting injured when it's his own money at stake? No way Lyle is sticking his neck out for that.
 

Not really knowing the first thing about player contracts but could a team prepared to quadruple his wages be able to include some clause in his contract banning him from going to Montserrat on international duty?

No, I don’t think you can stop a player playing for their national team 

Unless he 'retires ' from International Football .

MattF said:

Richard J said:

se9addick said:

MattF said:

Missed It said:

angrybird said:

To Lyle Taylor,  Just wondered how you are feeling seeing your former team mates trying desperately to avoid relegation. ... a situation you was actually part of until you decided you couldn't be bothered and walked out refusing to play.
Yes i understand you have to consider your future and you would have left at the end of the season anyway but the least i would have expected was for you to have the decency to honour your contract.
No doubt wherever you end up you will acquire another set of adoring fans who you will no doubt let down when you decide uve had enough and move on.
Hopefully we will stay up but it will be no thanx to you. 
From a very disappointed fan !

The real damage was done earlier in the season when he was out for weeks after getting injured with Montserrat.  He didn't think twice about indulging himself in international football for a total no-hope team. Getting injured for them was fine when it's on somebody else's dollar.  Getting injured when it's his own money at stake? No way Lyle is sticking his neck out for that.
 

Not really knowing the first thing about player contracts but could a team prepared to quadruple his wages be able to include some clause in his contract banning him from going to Montserrat on international duty?

No, I don’t think you can stop a player playing for their national team 

Unless he 'retires ' from International Football .

Think he's too proud of playing for Montserrat to do that.

Money talks though, eh.  If they offered him the right package and said it was conditional on 'retiring' from what we have seen of his moral compass to date, he would say 'Where do I sign...' 

Charlton did mess him around with contracts which I do have sympathy for.  What I don't have sympathy for is not fulfilling a contract and allowing the kids who adored him the ability to say goodbye in these last few games.  He has really let them down.  

The next club he goes too will forget about this as soon as he starts banging the goals in. Football fans are fickle. As Harry Redknapp said:

"You go in and start winning football matches, they could take Saddam Hussein in there, they don’t give a monkeys do they.

“If you start winning every week they’ll be signing ‘there’s only one Saddam’.”

Now I am not one for conspiracy theories usually but I read something online and its got me thinking.

We all know Mr Taylor does not really like football he has said it himself but he has also said previously there are a few people innthe game he is thankful to, and I am pretty sure one of those would ne the manager at Concord who gave him a chance after being released by Millwall and gave him the opportunity to earn all this money.

Now this is where my conspiracy theory comes in, who was the manager at Concord at the time.............


DANNY COWLEY

the current Huddersfield manager and the team who will likely survive if we get relegated due to a lack of goals

Covered End said:

paulie8290 said:

Now I am not one for conspiracy theories usually but I read something online and its got me thinking.

We all know Mr Taylor does not really like football he has said it himself but he has also said previously there are a few people innthe game he is thankful to, and I am pretty sure one of those would ne the manager at Concord who gave him a chance after being released by Millwall and gave him the opportunity to earn all this money.

Now this is where my conspiracy theory comes in, who was the manager at Concord at the time.............


DANNY COWLEY

the current Huddersfield manager and the team who will likely survive if we get relegated due to a lack of goals

So what's your theory ?   :-)

Maybe just maybe part of him thought if I dont play it will help the man who kick started my career survive in the Championship 

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

I know Taylor isn't actually keen on playing football, but if he went to Forest he'd be on the bench as they have Grabban.

Did no one notice Lyle Taylor can play down the middle or out Wide ? Just like Karlan Grant.

Blimey, some bitter folk on here.
Never realised we had so many bunny boilers.
I prefer DaveMehmet doing his sex gags than becoming Chief inspector Dreyfus with a nervous twitch.

Wheresmeticket? said:

soapboxsam said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

I know Taylor isn't actually keen on playing football, but if he went to Forest he'd be on the bench as they have Grabban.

Did no one notice Lyle Taylor can play down the middle or out Wide ? Just like Karlan Grant.

Blimey, some bitter folk on here.
Never realised we had so many bunny boilers.
I prefer DaveMehmet doing his sex gags than becoming Chief inspector Dreyfus with a nervous twitch.

You didn't read the CAFC supporter role specification, did you?

I knew I was Charlton till I die, but not that it was a cult and we hate like religious zealots.

Now what was the recipe for that Rabbit !  

soapboxsam said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

soapboxsam said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

I know Taylor isn't actually keen on playing football, but if he went to Forest he'd be on the bench as they have Grabban.

Did no one notice Lyle Taylor can play down the middle or out Wide ? Just like Karlan Grant.

Blimey, some bitter folk on here.
Never realised we had so many bunny boilers.
I prefer DaveMehmet doing his sex gags than becoming Chief inspector Dreyfus with a nervous twitch.

You didn't read the CAFC supporter role specification, did you?

I knew I was Charlton till I die, but not that it was a cult and we hate like religious zealots.

Now what was the recipe for that Rabbit !  

Cook for 115 years.

AllHailTheHen said:

Its all academic and his contract was up at the end of June but our chronic lack of goals just makes me more and more pissed off with Taylor

The thing is, even if he'd played up to the end of June that'd have given us a bit more flexibility with our forward line, and a few more goals to help keep the goal difference up.

PragueAddick said:

Missed It said:

angrybird said:

To Lyle Taylor,  Just wondered how you are feeling seeing your former team mates trying desperately to avoid relegation. ... a situation you was actually part of until you decided you couldn't be bothered and walked out refusing to play.
Yes i understand you have to consider your future and you would have left at the end of the season anyway but the least i would have expected was for you to have the decency to honour your contract.
No doubt wherever you end up you will acquire another set of adoring fans who you will no doubt let down when you decide uve had enough and move on.
Hopefully we will stay up but it will be no thanx to you. 
From a very disappointed fan !

The real damage was done earlier in the season when he was out for weeks after getting injured with Montserrat.  He didn't think twice about indulging himself in international football for a total no-hope team. Getting injured for them was fine when it's on somebody else's dollar.  Getting injured when it's his own money at stake? No way Lyle is sticking his neck out for that.
 

I know its open season but try to keep at least some semblance of rationality. No footballer wants to be injured, ever. Taylor had missed out on a big money move in summer yet despite predictions was on fire for us before he went there. He might possibly have thought that RD might sell him in Jan, either way the shop window was Charlton, not Montserrat. Further Taylor had a very jnjury free career, it must have been traumatic for him because initially it had not even seemed anything big. And he shared a club with Lewis Page so he could see how things can go. I am not at all condoning his behaviour now, but I am sure the injury influenced him. Even more, it influenced his agent, who can rot in hell. 

The previous post to mine was complaining that Taylor was walking out in a relegation battle.  We got 7 points in the games he ducked, so at the end of the day it could be argued not fulfilling his contract didn't make much difference.  What has screwed Charlton's chances is his long absence earlier in the season, as result of playing third rate international football.  I would question whether Montserrat's league football is even of a standard to merit an internationally recognised team, but that's a whole other discussion.  I'm all for FIFA spreading football around the world but too often it's a vehicle for corruption with development funds disappearing into pockets they shouldn't, though I make no accusations against Montserrat in that regard.

Taylor's not daft, and I'm not buying that he found his injury traumatic.  He knows the chances of getting smashed by some caveman centre half.  He's spent most of his career in leagues where that sort of player still thrives.  The fact remains, he didn't mind risking injury playing for someone other than his actual contracted employer who have suffered as a result.  But when it came down to it, he refused to risk injury, deserted his employer and breached his contract to suit his own financial ends.  The only possible silver lining as far as I can see is that given the current state of events, he may have chosen to jump into the free agent sea just as the tide has gone out.