January Transfer Window (rumours + actuals)

Swisdom said:

Expect one signing.  Name has been mentioned on here (and it’s not De Armas)

outside chance of another but no guarantees. Winger. Bit more of a punt

really not a lot of value in this market right now

Oggy Red said:

golfaddick said:

Braziliance said:

Chunes said:

Braziliance said:

It's not creating an image though. They weren't lying and saying that they went for x player but x club came in and stole the deal to create an image that they went for it.

They literally spent the cash. Whether or not it worked is an entirely different conversation, but they didn't do it to "create an image of giving it a go" they spent money hoping it would be enough to keep their club up. It didn't, shit happens, that's football. 

I'd rather we spent a fuck ton when we are on the verge of play-offs than have to start again next season, especially when we have billionaire owners. 

I'd also rather Ana de Armas was giving me back rubs while I scrolled Charlton Life, unfortunately, both myself and the club don't appear to have the capacity, life goes on. 

I just wanted to address the Carlisle thing as it's nonsense and shouldn't be a recurring example everytime a transfer window pops up when it was pretty much one person who said they're giving it a go.

Absolutely shite thread this is.

Mate we get it - you want the club to spend millions. But repeating it every day won’t change reality. We don't have owners who are willing to burn cash like that. Either accept it or keep banging your head against the wall, it won't change a thing.

Given our past ownership plights, I struggle to get upset over it. 

You've literally quoted my quote

"I'd rather we spent a fuck ton when we are on the verge of play-offs than have to start again next season, especially when we have billionaire owners. 

I'd also rather Ana de Armas was giving me back rubs while I scrolled Charlton Life, unfortunately, both myself and the club don't appear to have the capacity, life goes on." 

What part of that isn't acceptance? 

Anyway with that said, and clearing up the acceptance, I'd love it if our owners spent some money, would really help our play-off push. 

Agree. 

I'm not expecting the club to spend a lot of cash.....if any. But what I would like, and what has been plainly obvious since August, is someone in midfield who can create opportunities & a wide player (or 2) who can relive TC & Small when they tire during games or get injured / suspended. 

At this point we have a decent enough chance to be in with a shout of the play offs.....first time in 3 seasons. If the owners want to see a return on their money & not spend another c£10m just covering costs next season then I would have thought a little extra now isn't asking too much. 

Late on in the season, Curbs signed Neal Healy, Mark Bright, Danny Mills  and  Eddie Yates  - it gave us the edge to push for play offs and promotion 

charlton_hero said:

Five pages of absolute guff, can we keep this thread for rumours

the wonderful Ana De Armas

AllHailTheHen said:

TheHerminator said:

I genuinely don't understand people who are pissed off with us clearing out the dead wood this year and not throwing money at signings when we're finding form on the pitch.

Yes we have a gap in our midfield for someone, but the team is gelling and a quality midfielder isn't someone you just pick up at your local Tesco.

The club is damned if they do and damned if they don't with this fan base. We've had plenty of January's where we've picked up 5 or 6 players of dubious quality/fit. Seems a bit like people would prefer that to getting rid of dead wood and working with what we have?

The issue I have is that most of the dead wood being cleared out this month only joined us in the summer, these are players that should have helped improve the squad and they didn't. We're now light and a potential key injury or 2 away from derailing all our recent good work.