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Alfie May - signed for Birmingham (p68 - Now Huddersfield )

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  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
    pettgra said:
    I am surprised how naive I am.
    When Alfie said look forward to seeing you at the Valley next season, I did think he meant more than twice.
    Think we've got them in a cup as well so maybe three times!!

    Joy
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,734
    edited July 2024
    The particularly annoying thing about this transfer is that every time we miss a chance now it'll be 'MaY wOuLd HaVe ScOrEd ThAt' and every time we don't win someone will pop up to tell us that if we'd had May that match would have been three points. The only solution is we'll have to win every single game, it's the only way we won't all go mad.
    Yeah it’s going to be insufferable. Alfie scored lots but he also missed lots. Chances to win games fluffed against Exeter and Cambridge to name just two. 

    He went on a 15-16 game run where he only scored once midway through the season and when your gameplan is “get it to Alfie” but he’s gone off the boil, it  means you start flirting with relegation.

    That’s not to say we didn’t all love what he did in a Charlton shirt this past season.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,308
    You know who else had a 20-goal (all comps) season for us, at a younger age than May? Jayden Stockley. He stayed for the next season. Anyone remember how that went? 
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,711
    Scoham said:
    Don’t give a shit about losing may, he scored goals in a meaningless wanky season.

    I’d put money on it now that the team scores more goals next season than we did last.

    absolutely nothing against him but let’s not pretend he’s something that he wasn’t 
    Wow. Just wow.

    In 2 sentences you've said -

    1) that we are going to score more goals than last season, even though we've lost 2 players that scored 31 league goals between them & the rest of the team (that remain) scored 19.

    2) that we shouldn't pretend he's something he's not....and what is that precisely? Someone who has scored over 60 goals in the past 3 seasons. 
    He was with us for one season and we finished 16th.

    despite not having May 15 teams finished above us

    despite not having May 9 teams scored more goals than us

    despite not having May 11 teams had a better goal difference than us 

    He wants the team set up to suit him and we did that last season with the above results.

    Jones wants the team to work/play differently so he wants out.

    Our valuation has been met , good luck Alfie.
    And as I said before, without May we’d have been relegated. 
    Do you think that’ll be the case this season?
    I have no idea but it can't help. 
  • ValleyBen
    ValleyBen Posts: 572
    Just about getting promoted, nothing else, if Birmingham do and we don't, even if May only scores half the goals as the last three seasons then we are still the losers in this deal. 

    Please prove me wrong, I want the happier clappier members of the fanbase to be right for the first time in years and years because all I care about as long as we are stuck in the third tier is on pitch success.

    I am just not willing to excuse and go to bat for any set of owners/decision makers before they prove themselves, especially not after the last two decades of crazies, crooks, idiots and charmers we have sadly had at our club. 
  • To be honest whilst i don't agree with us selling May to a side in the same division, i'm not as angry as some appear to be. 

    Too much emphasis is put on having a 20+ goal striker. Obviously that helps but it's going to be much better if we have 4-5 players getting into double figures than one guy getting 25 and the rest getting nowhere. Last year May got 23, CBT got 8, Kanu got 6 and then the next highest was 3. So it's no surprise that we struggled.

    All i'm bothered about is that the squad overall looks better by the start of August. Our problem is a rubbish defence and a lack of creativity, so without improving those areas we'll go nowhere. We have made defensive signings but there is still a very obvious lack of anyone to create chances (and of course now a striker to convert them).
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,195
    Leuth said:
    You know who else had a 20-goal (all comps) season for us, at a younger age than May? Jayden Stockley. He stayed for the next season. Anyone remember how that went? 
    Lyle Taylor
    Bradley Wright-Phillips
    Darren Bent
    Andy Hunt
    Clive Mendonca
    David Whyte
    Derek Hales
    Mike Flanagan
    Arthur Horsfield 
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,125
    Scoham said:
    Don’t give a shit about losing may, he scored goals in a meaningless wanky season.

    I’d put money on it now that the team scores more goals next season than we did last.

    absolutely nothing against him but let’s not pretend he’s something that he wasn’t 
    Wow. Just wow.

    In 2 sentences you've said -

    1) that we are going to score more goals than last season, even though we've lost 2 players that scored 31 league goals between them & the rest of the team (that remain) scored 19.

    2) that we shouldn't pretend he's something he's not....and what is that precisely? Someone who has scored over 60 goals in the past 3 seasons. 
    He was with us for one season and we finished 16th.

    despite not having May 15 teams finished above us

    despite not having May 9 teams scored more goals than us

    despite not having May 11 teams had a better goal difference than us 

    He wants the team set up to suit him and we did that last season with the above results.

    Jones wants the team to work/play differently so he wants out.

    Our valuation has been met , good luck Alfie.
    And as I said before, without May we’d have been relegated. 
    Do you think that’ll be the case this season?
    Is a squad that can get promotion? That’s the only aim. 
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,411
    I trust in Jones.
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  • ct_addick
    ct_addick Posts: 4,332
    The phone call from Tom Brady must have twisted Alfie's arm......
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,580
    we've turned in to a proper 3rd division minge of a club with a mingey fan base to match who will wank themselves stupid if we get out of this league( i will)  and with plenty ready to lap up the continue shit show and question why punters are negative
    next season will be our 11th in 16 in this the third division of pure shitness 
    in the previous 74 years we had 4 , yes just fucking 4, seasons in this division and we're about to enter our 5th on the spin in it ffs
    of course there's fuck all we can do about selling our top scorer , midfield dynamo and whoever else , they're all shit and we have a lot shittier to play too 

    so until we're 10 points clear with 3 games to go its shit pure fucking shit to a few of us 

    i haven't even mentioned our rivals can't even see us we've been so far beneath them for years
    shameful times but the excuse posse will trot out any old crap forever no matter how wank it is
    So what you're saying is you can't wait for the new season mate?
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    has he gone yet ? .. perhaps we sent Aneke as a ringer and he failed the medical 
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,004
    has he gone yet ? .. perhaps we sent Aneke as a ringer and he failed the medical 
    That would be very difficult.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Hi I’m Alfie May, I’m here for my medical 


  • Jones probably figures that strengthening the defence and preventing goals is more important than a 20 odd goal a season goalscorer.

    He may well be right, as it only takes one goal and a clean sheet to bag the 3 points.
    No point in getting two goals out of an Alfie, but still only drawing or losing and that's where we were last season.
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,116
    For that to work, Alfie would have had to have hit 92-goals
  • NabySarr
    NabySarr Posts: 4,273
    About to be announced by Birmingham it looks like 
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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,286
    I feel like someone has stolen my Ben May joke!!

    Louis Mendez on X: "Ben May coming out of retirement?" / X
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 10,945
    fenaddick said:
    Blokes genuinely cut up from the looks of it
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 10,945
    Put in a request to move himself according to the club

    https://www.charltonafc.com/news/alfie-may-joins-birmingham-city
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,359
    https://x.com/cafcofficial/status/1808198958524911727?s=46&t=A-w3Eq0EWWpjMxring904Q

    He handed in a written transfer request after we rejected a bid last week.
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,587
    He looks really upset 
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,912
    He looks really upset 
    Not sure why if it was his choice 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,286
    Just seen the announcement from Birmingham as well, is that seriously their new kit he's wearing, looks like something from the 90s
  • Well… fair play.. good Luck Alfie… big boots to fill and a lot of goals to replace..