Terry Taylor
Signed just over a year ago, Terry Taylor has started just two games for the Addicks and looks unlikely to add to them.
Not included in the Carabao Cup squad, Taylor has been added to the list of players that Nathan Jones is content to move on to create headroom for new signings before the month is out.
Taylor was signed for a fee in the region of £150,000, and came, we were told, with a hunger to succeed at a bigger club after a break-out season at Burton where he’d started to build a reputation as a good passer of the ball that can play in tight zones and was meant to have an excellent dead ball delivery.
We have seen none of that not helped by a second ankle injury that needed surgery in October.
He seems like a good lad and came across well in the pre-season stuff we were fed. If he moves on I hope he gets a good move allowing Jones to pick up a midfielder who can bring a creative spark.
In fact I’d trade Taylor, Fraser and Edun to be able to add a single ball-carrying midfielder who can bring energy and chances.
Taylor’s been unlucky, not only with injury but also the merry go round of managers, meaning he was unlikely to be given a chance.
The fickle fate of a players fortune or not, meaning wrong place, wrong time and hardly, if any glamour, that he might have harboured when joining the club.
3-4 managers can’t be wrong.
He was bought to train up and become a player we could develop and sell on but injuries and managers not giving him game time has put him in no-man’s land. we either play him and see what he can do, or we move him on. With the transfer window coming up we have a few decisions to make. He needs to be playing before he starts to go backwards career wise. Physically he doesn’t look like a Nathan Jones style player – he seems to want players who can bring a bit of muscle to the game.
In the meantime rumours are linking us with Hungarian international Mihaly Kata (well he has three caps) to be to be our midfield creator. But we are going to have to shift a few players on first…