Deadline Day from Pg.641 - Summer 2025 Charlton Athletic Transfer Rumours

The geezer who said Kelman is slow yesterday only has to look at the 5 min clip on our YouTube from the end of the Orient game. He beats Ramsay in a one on one to the ball after it’s played over the top. If that’s your idea of slow….

AndyG said:

Braziliance said:

MarcusH26 said:

Conservative estimate not knowing exact fees this would make it £8m spent? Assuming the QPR fans are right with £3m. 

Kelman - 3 million 
Tanto - 1.5 m
Kaminski - 900k
JRC - 750k
Burke - 300k 
Apter - 2.5 m

Around* 9 million spent on transfer fees so far, if rumoured prices are to be believed. 

It's ridiculous and I don't think anyone saw it coming tbh. It goes beyond what Pompey and Oxford spent now I think, and it's almost as much as Derby, except Derby sold Cashin for a big fee. We are certainly giving ourselves a fighting chance. 

So either we are doing the same as Derby and selling an asset to cover for all this, or, the owners have decided they hated league 1 as much as us, don't want to chance us seeing it again and are taking a bit of a financial gamble.

I’m not surprised re the money being spent our owners have a lot of financial clout and when they came here they wasn’t buying a league one club. I think promotion came a year early and surprised everyone but once achieved they were always going to provide a budget to keep improving. Whether our signings prove to be enough to keep the momentum going who knows but that isn’t the ownerships job. They have done what they can the rest is up to NJ, the squad and us as fans 

NJ even said last January window, there were funds available to buy new players - but that he'd rather save that and add to the summer window budget. 

Bedsaddick said:

I won't believe Kelman is signing until i see the pen in hands. The thing that worries me is that Reams is somehow involved in the rumour and I've given up on how many times he has got things wrong. 

I don't understand, Charlie left two months ago.

Goddenole said:

Laddick01 said:

I’d like to personally apologise to Linfieldos and the guy who leaked this on the other forum. I was wrong to doubt you. 

They have been added to the ITK list.

I have not posted on here in the past and posted the info I had on the other forum because I knew how skeptical everyone would be. Kelman done, the Japanese player I was told about has now been cooled but Knibbs is still being worked on. 

Also had Joe Bennett in for a look in training this past week. Not sure if his name turns up as a trialists today but was at SL for a couple of days. 

Thanks Matty!

Scoham said:

https://x.com/efl/status/1084764553819377664?s=46&t=A-w3Eq0EWWpjMxring904Q

Saw this quoted on X, I remember seeing it at the time - Kelman scoring from his own half for Southend as a 17 year old.

Just wow!

That's some tekkers and self-belief to score from that distance. 

I’m not especially shocked by the spending. It is, undoubtedly, a big step change from what we’ve become used to, but it’s still relatively modest by Championship standards and a reflection of the gap between our squad and a competitive Championship level squad. It’s probably a bit more in terms of fees than I thought but voices from inside the club, including NJ, did say we’d be giving it a go so I certainly wasn’t expecting a Roland style ambitionless skimp and save type window either. It’s not like we’ve been going out and paying the kinds of fees and wages required to get other Championship teams’ best players. If you want a solid championship player then a million plus is not exorbitant. 

The signings we’ve made are picking up some if the better ones from the division below or ones out of favour in the Championship and with a bit of a point to prove. That’s a bit of perspective to keep in mind and, even with what we’ve been doing in the transfer market, important to remember that just staying up will be a great achievement. However, what I really like and am encouraged by is these have been exactly the sort of signings that Curbs used to make and were the foundation of a very successful decade or so for us.

I’m tempering my excitement a little, but it’s been a hugely encouraging summer so far. 

ElfsborgAddick said:

Bedsaddick said:

I won't believe Kelman is signing until i see the pen in hands. The thing that worries me is that Reams is somehow involved in the rumour and I've given up on how many times he has got things wrong. 

I don't understand, Charlie left two months ago.

West2003 said:

Jury's out for me on Kelman. It took him a good few seasons to find any kind of goalscoring form in League One including looking pretty powder puff up front while on loan at Gillingham. Who's to say the same won't happen in the Championship?

I think then it’s important that we don’t all get on his back if he doesn’t hit the ground running. I’d imagine he’ll start the season as a ‘finisher’ with Leaburn after Oloafe, Campbell and Apter have run the defenders into the ground.

Such an exciting signing and Charlton now thinking about succession planning is something I never thought I’d see again!

Safe to say, I am a bit excited about the Charlie Kelman talk 

https://x.com/BigBadBraz/status/1949087142489034763?t=vyz7ipHnsJOx7TI-kNds_w&s=19

Exiled_Addick said:

I’m not especially shocked by the spending. It is, undoubtedly, a big step change from what we’ve become used to, but it’s still relatively modest by Championship standards and a reflection of the gap between our squad and a competitive Championship level squad. It’s probably a bit more in terms of fees than I thought but voices from inside the club, including NJ, did say we’d be giving it a go so I certainly wasn’t expecting a Roland style ambitionless skimp and save type window either. It’s not like we’ve been going out and paying the kinds of fees and wages required to get other Championship teams’ best players. If you want a solid championship player then a million plus is not exorbitant. 

The signings we’ve made are picking up some if the better ones from the division below or ones out of favour in the Championship and with a bit of a point to prove. That’s a bit of perspective to keep the keep in mind and, even with what we’ve been going in the transfer market, important to remember that just staying up will be a great achievement. However, what I really like and am encouraged by is these have been exactly the sort of signings that Curbs used to make and were the found of a very successful decade or so for us.

Im tempering my excitement a little, but its been a hugely encouraging summer so far. 

What he said

Is it Harvey Knibbs we're rumoured to be in for?

It's been an interesting window, signing  players with experience or potential.

But like Curbs and Chris Powell before him, NJ is all about signing players with the right character to fit in with his team ethos. 

Remember, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" 

Plaaayer said:

Maybe that was the link between Jaws in Cawley’s podcast. 

Fuckin ‘kelman there’s a shark in the water 

With all these new signings, we're gonna need a bigger boat!

No Ramsey in the Cambridge squad… 

Sheepie1985 said:

No Ramsey in the Cambridge squad… 

That’s worrying