Rumours

The first couple of Charlton transfer rumours surfaced today. I am sure there is a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes and remember this is still early.

The transfer window doesn’t offically open until June 15th, and players contracts in the EFL all run around ‘til June 30th.

The first rumours related to players that could be sold. Daniel Kanu, who impressed and won a number of individual awards last season on loan at Walsall has been subject to a bid from Luton Town for £750,000. Jon in my comments was the first I saw of that, but it has been followed up elsewhere today. Bromley are also thought to be interested.

15 League Two goals is still a long way of cracking it at Championship level and I’d take the money especially if we can get two or more clubs fighting over the 21-year old. A sell-on should be deemed a necessity.

Alex Mitchell will certainly be thinking over a move to Plymouth, who despite making almost their entire women’s squad redundant apparently do not have financial issues. Relegated Oxford United have also entered the fray for the boy from Windsor, who is still only 24. He was voted Plymouth’s POTY.

The only rumour I have seen with an ounce of probability about it is a move for midfielder Jordan Holsgrove, who plays for GD Estoril Praia in Portugal. I do think we will see incoming activity from overseas, where there is much better value and a Scotsman that came through Reading’s academy at a good age (26) does not look beyond the realms if impossibility.

Rumours, proper ones anyway and not those put on social media platforms by spotty teenagers, are hard to find these days. Nathan Jones is notoriously discreet and despite the prolificacy of places to find transfer gossip, most of it is rubbish.

I used to have a few contacts back in the old days, and knew a couple of people at the club, but that was now a long time ago.

As it was when I lived in Chicago and with the 6-hour time difference I used to get a head-start over Addicks living in the UK, by being able to read the transfer gossip in the online newspapers the night before.

Now’s that showing my age, and we also used to be in the Premier League then so we were it bit more newsworthy.