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Rumours Rumours - Summer 2021 edition (Deadline Day from p814)

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  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,171
    RedChaser said:
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    Yeah he'd certainly be a player that would divide opinion.
    That’s an understatement, if you’d been at the Stoke match eighteen months ago to hear our fans adverse reaction towards him at half time. 
    True but football fans are generally fickle and if he came in and played well, as i'm sure he would at this level, then he'd be an asset. I know others won't all agree, and it's no reflection on my opinion about wearing one, but i honestly couldn't care less what a footballer i don't know thinks about wearing a poppy.
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,499
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    RedChaser said:
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    Yeah he'd certainly be a player that would divide opinion.
    That’s an understatement, if you’d been at the Stoke match eighteen months ago to hear our fans adverse reaction towards him at half time. 
    True but football fans are generally fickle and if he came in and played well, as i'm sure he would at this level, then he'd be an asset. I know others won't all agree, and it's no reflection on my opinion about wearing one, but i honestly couldn't care less what a footballer i don't know thinks about wearing a poppy.
    I am kind of in the middle on this one, I understand his reasons for not wanting to but I have long thought of The Poppy as remembering who you want to remember and it is for normal people not those that choose to send people to war. There is also the idea that he dislikes what occurred where he is from so much but is willing to have lived his adult life in the land of the perpetrators earning a large wage.

    I am very pro The Poppy and all it stands for but those that died did so so we can make our choices.  I won't abuse him, but whilst understanding his reasons I think he is wrong.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,891
    addick1956 said:
    J BLOCK said:
    Big big week ahead
    That will of course be next week in the end i……….,,
    You what ? 🤔
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,891
    edited August 2021
    addick1956 said:
    RedChaser said:
    addick1956 said:
    J BLOCK said:
    Big big week ahead
    That will of course be next week in the end i……….,,
    You what ? 🤔
    Let me explain as you wish to be disingenuous. 
    It has been said regularly that next week is a Big Week for CAFC. Hence my remark.  DKU

    You ended your post with “i” as if you you hadn’t finished what you were going to say, so I enquired “you what”. Try using the edit facility as I’ve suggested to you previously, it’s my friend case in point and can be yours 😉.
  • Addicks59
    Addicks59 Posts: 140
    What is it with this site constantly snipeing at each other it is disgusting grow up .
  • Northern_Monkey
    Northern_Monkey Posts: 777
    Sorry to add to an already busy rumours chat, but I heard we’re bringing in lots of players this week. 

    Apparently the whole Wigan side are coming on Saturday!
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,055
    addick1956 said:
    RedChaser said:
    addick1956 said:
    RedChaser said:
    addick1956 said:
    J BLOCK said:
    Big big week ahead
    That will of course be next week in the end i……….,,
    You what ? 🤔
    Let me explain as you wish to be disingenuous. 
    It has been said regularly that next week is a Big Week for CAFC. Hence my remark.  DKU

    You ended your post with “i” as if you you hadn’t finished what you were going to say, so I enquired “you what”. Try using the edit facility as I’ve suggested to you previously, it’s my friend case in point and can be yours 😉.
    I wrote it in a hurry. I then left it there as I just knew that rather than answer me you or another person would make a remark. 
    Strange. If people don’t understand your posts, what do you expect?
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,214
    Oh good. We’re on to poppies now. 
  • Redhenry
    Redhenry Posts: 5,363
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Scoham said:
    We'll see, I'll be surprised if all the signings we bring in come in purely as cover.
    We need a minimum of 5 more players, we needed 7 and have since signed Clare and Kirk.  2 of them have to be absolute starters in CM and LB.  We then need another winger, striker and CB. 
    Signings needed/wanted? - Page 2 — Charlton Life 

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  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,171
    Imnot Athletic said:
    I live near Exeter and they have an excellent academy (I say this even though they wouldn't let my son into it!)

    They regularly produce top quality players and are probably the top youth set up in the south west.  (Matt Grimes, Ollie Watkins, Ethan Ampadu) 

    Jack Sparkes is 20 and from the same year group as Ampadu, and all the way through youth football was a left sided forward, strong and pacey.  Hes still very young (Ampadu is a freak of footballing nature)  similar in age to the bench we've had the last two games.  

    He's undoubtedly a talented but he's not the answer at left back. Hes not even a left back!

    Exeter, if you didnt know, are a community club owned by the fans and have bought two stands with the profits they have made on player sales in the last four years. Rebuilding the club and being sustainable has been their priority, and at the same time they have been there or thereabouts at the top of the league.  

    I think when adding the sell on fee and other add ons to the transfer fee they ended up getting around 5.5-6m for Watkins. An incredible sum for a league two club.
  • Imnot Athletic
    Imnot Athletic Posts: 1,017
    One thing Exeter don't do is sell players on the cheap.  (Unless they are stolen by Chelsea)   T
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    DiscoCAFC said:
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    James McClean is a target for Wigan and Bolton after being told he can leave Stoke and made to train with their U23s.

    32, never played below the championship, seasoned international. Could he do a job for a year?
    Wouldn’t want him, can’t stand him.
    Agreed. I’d rather play with 10 men.
  • The Prince-e-Paul
    The Prince-e-Paul Posts: 6,706
    EricBanterna said:
    Scoham said:
    J BLOCK said:
    Big big week ahead
    Big big 2 and a half weeks ahead
    Next 2 and half weeks are crucial.

    I'd say that the next 9 months are crucial, for Thomas dreams and ambitions to be on track or derailed! 

    This league is so competitive, but the depth of squads is so thin in quality for so many clubs, as soon as a few form players gets injured or dip, they drop like a stone. 

    More likely to win the lottery than to predict the final top six at this stage. 
  • barstool
    barstool Posts: 1,359
    It sounds from the interview with Adkins that he is very confident with a few new players plus the loans. Season will start improving after that no doubt 
  • chev
    chev Posts: 242

  • dajavouslagan
    dajavouslagan Posts: 727
    barstool said:
    It sounds from the interview with Adkins that he is very confident with a few new players plus the loans. Season will start improving after that no doubt 
    Yes but isn’t Adkins confident & positive about everything! 
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,834
    chev said:

    Can't believe he's only played 16 games since leaving us

  • Vfrf
    Vfrf Posts: 797
    edited August 2021
    barstool said:
    It sounds from the interview with Adkins that he is very confident with a few new players plus the loans. Season will start improving after that no doubt 
    To me it sounded like it was loans specifically he was talking about rather than players plus the loans. Hope it's a 2+2=5 from me but the transfer quotes starts with:
    "Charlton are expected to further utilise the loan market before the window shuts, their only temporary deal so far being the return of Akin Famewo from Norwich."
    That said, Nigel isn't overly open with the press, he didn't even give a jist that Charlie Kirk might be incoming Monday when asked the Friday before, then again given the Kirk personal situation he may genuinely have not known.

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  • PWADDICK
    PWADDICK Posts: 526
    Covered_End_Lad said:
    Defender on loan from Prem sounds fairly close.
    Club?
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,055
    Covered_End_Lad said:
    Defender on loan from Prem sounds fairly close.
    Let’s hope it’s a left back!
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,171
    Covered_End_Lad said:
    Defender on loan from Prem sounds fairly close.
    The Spurs kid? Went to school in Bexleyheath.

    https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/teams/under-23/players/tobi-omole/
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,335
    Rated Hendo quite highly before and he knows the club, plus is an older head in a position where age is less important. 

    If he is fit and passes a fitness test and if his wage expectations are relatively low I would be keen on that.  A player that would likely be ok on the bench but equally has the quality to put real pressure on Mac (which from what I have seen so far is a definite need)
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,677

  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 23,110
    Covered_End_Lad said:
    Defender on loan from Prem sounds fairly close.
    Not getting mixed up with Henderson and we are playing rush goalie are you @Covered_End_Lad B)
  • covered_end_junior
    covered_end_junior Posts: 4,541
    edited August 2021
    charlton_hero said:

    I was hoping for some slightly more encouraging words to be honest. I'm all for not rushing and bringing in the right players at the right price but a handful doesn't sound enough. We're still 5-6 short and at least 3 of those need to be top signings who get into the first 11.

    If we're holding out for Cullen/Bielik level players then great but if we don't get them we're in trouble. 


  • sinceiwasyoung
    sinceiwasyoung Posts: 1,040
    charlton_hero said:

    If he saw the game on Saturday he might have to reassess his transfer plans . 
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