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

Athletico Charlton said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

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se9addick said:

If Solly was willing to play if needed, why didn’t he return? Fear of injury in training? 

Can we put this to bed once and for all?

Solly was never going to be picked by LB. He hadn't been selected in the previous six months and was told he wasn't good enough to be offered a new contract even if we went down.  In the games that Solly refused to play post covid and when under contract, we did not concede a single goal. We beat both Hull and QPR 1-0 and drew with Cardiff 0-0. We didn't need him for those games. That season we won, in total, three of the 15 games Solly started. So how, exactly, was he going to improve the side?

Solly was thrown under the bus because it suited LB to do so, along with Davis, as he wanted to create a "them and us" siege mentality. Yet not one person ever calls Davis out, do they? Solly might have been Club captain but LB didn't think he was good enough as proven by us not offering him a new contract and the very next season he was playing in the Conference.

That is why he is back with us a coach. Because it suited the narrative at the time to make him a scapegoat. And yet, the one who really did hurt us, Taylor, was forgiven in a nanosecond by LB who then signed him when manager at another club.    

I find it really strange that fans struggle with all the facts before them when the Club, who know absolutely everything that went on, welcomed Solly back with open arms as a coach. I just don't get that. There are far more serious things in life going on than venting ones spleen on someone who wasn't wanted by us at the time, despite the message that LB wanted to convey at that time, anyway. 

Mostly because what you say is not facts, there are some states coupled with opinion, its makes the whole thing even more bizarre? Why would Solly refuse to play if he knew he wasnt going to anyway?

Dress it up however you like but people are more forgiving to Solly because "he is one of our own" as oppossed to Taylor who actually sets out the terrible way he was treatrd by the club. Do i agree with Taylor refusing to play ? No not in a million years, Do i understand it ? 100%

Was Taylor actually treated in a “terrible way” by the club?

Very much so given the story behind the Brentford offers being rejected after telling Charlton they'd pay the price wanted.

If you blindly believe the side of the story painted by Taylor sure.