One in, one out
Credit where credit’s due. Despite a host of rumours doing the rounds it was with huge relief that today’s latest manic transfer deadline day passed without any of our most important players leaving the club, this despite the club’s financial predicament.
Blackpool were linked with Yann Kermorgant and Fulham with Chris Solly, but to be honest there was nothing more than wild gossip doing the rounds today so we should accept that Jimenez and Slater were not that desperate to sell the family china. The next step (please) has to be to extend some of those contracts that expire at the end of the season.
An hour or so before 11pm it was announced that Danny Green had joined MK Dons on a one month loan, and then around about half an hour later news came that the Addicks had signed winger cum striker Cameron Stewart on loan until January from Hull City.
Stewart didn’t feature hardly at all in Hull’s promotion season and we were linked with him earlier in the summer. He has been on loan at Blackburn and Burnley but the 22-year old has had both injury and fitness problems, but is known to be pacy and tricky and in true Powell fashion he has plucked another player from relative anonymity who has a lot to prove. This is a good article on Steve Bruce’s thoughts on Stewart.
Stewart might not fit naturally into a 3-5-2 but will give CP options out wide and up front and the squad does lack pace, particularly after the departure of Danny Haynes.
In other news today Jason Euell was officially unveiled as the new U21 Development coach. That is two quick promotions for Euell and he will work under Paul Hart. Good luck to him in this very important role.
Also today on deadline day, was the day of Rick Everitt’s Employee Tribunal hearing and the outcome was that both parties settled confidentially just as the hearing was set to begin in Croydon. Rick was representing himself but the club were defended by a QC who has previously worked with Newcastle United.
I am sure Rick was keen to bring a lot of his grievances out in the open and many of us would have been very interested to hear them, but no one can blame Rick and his family for not wanting either the personal grief or financial expense, so who can blame him for agreeing to draw a line under his auspicious time working for the club.
It is alleged that it was the club that proposed the settlement, which if correct will give peace of mind and a little security to Rick who publicly had a lot less to lose. The club also settled out of court with Peter Varney with Steve Kavanagh’s hearing up next.
