BIRMINGHAM boss Steve Bruce is planning to hand Charlton winger Jerome Thomas a Premiership lifeline in a £1.8million deal.
The 24-year-old is expected to be the next player to leave The Valley following Hermann Hreidarsson's switch to Portsmouth.
The ex-Arsenal trainee, who cost Charlton £100,000, was meant to join Fulham in January but the plug was pulled at the last minute.
Charlton boss Alan Pardew is planning to use the funds from Thomas' sale to bring in QPR's Lee Cook.
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Also helps with the old wage bill premiership wage gone Championship wage in
Defenders – Leighton Baines will be at West Ham if the players involved in the swap agree to the move the opposite way. Luke Young at Charlton will come if he agrees to be cover for Lucas Neil. Also don't rule out a move for Roberto Carlos on a one year deal.
West Ham set to pay £7 million plus Marlon Harewood for Charlton's Darren Bent (who will be new number 10 at Upton Park).
Charlton are planning for life in the Championship and will sell Darren Bent and Luke Young to the highest bidders. Kishishev and Marcus Bent are also set to be sold, along with Darren Ambrose. Alex Song is going back to Arsenal and will probably sign for Reading for £2m.
Charlton will then follow the signings of Iwelumo and Varney by signing Darren Purse, Kevin Nicholls and David Unsworth to add beef to the side. They also need a goalkeeper, and will sign Carlo Nash as their keeper.
Addicks fans can expect their team to lool like this next season:
Nash, Sankofa, Purse, Unsworth, Thatcher, Sam, Nicholls, Holland, Thomas, Varney, Iwelumo.
And now to the lower leagues, I use to play in the same boys team with Matt Jarvis of Gillingham and went on a lads holiday to Kavos with him 2 years ago and a deal is expected to be struck between Gillingham and Charlton in the region of 500k seeing Matt quadruple his wages of around 5k a week.
So Andy Reid, Magic and Diawara on the bench then LOL
Ha Ha. Must be true then. As soon as someone has to justify how they know via some distant cousin or meeting on holiday you know it's NOT true. As if we'd pay him 20k pw in the CCC.
Bring them on, I love these rubbish rumour like the one about the consortium in Bermuda buying the club that Richard Murray told me was rubbish as he rushed off to the airport to an unnamed Caribbean island. I know it's true as I helped a Charlton fan from Bermuda get a ticket a few years ago and he told me he's part of the consortium. He's just the front man and his name is Adam Davis. Can't tell you who the other partners are as they don't like publicity.
"When will you be back?"
"I can't tell you that. It's classified."
Total dreamworld loblocks!! It's all guesswork apart from the last bit which is just one of those "I knew a man who knew a man who knew a man" things.