Zach Mitchell ruled out for the season
Zach Mitchell had made a very good start to his loan spell at St. Johnstone. He had played 6 league and 3 cup games but missed their recent game against Celtic due to what St Johnstone boss, Simo Valakari explained was “precautionary.”
Turns out sadly that Zach had a knee injury, in all probability an ACL, and has now been ruled out for the season.
That is gut wrenching news for the 21-year old who has had a more stop than start career after making his Addicks debut in 2022. The defender had his last loan at McDiarmid Park cut short due to injury, and he has only played in 16 league games in two and bit seasons.
Mitchell has had an operation and returned to Charlton to begin his recovery. I expect Charlton will do the right thing and support him and his family, we have an excellent record at that, especially as he is one of our own. His contract at Charlton expires in 2027, but the club has a further 12 months option on him.
Yes, so unfortunate and yes CAFC are good at signing injury-prone players as that is the market we are in and also look after them as well and see as usual on the original post
I really feel for Zach. We all agreed that it was a big season for the likes of Mitchell, if they were to stake a claim for staying with us in the future, and now with this, you start to get that sinking feeling that it will be a case of ‘what if’ for him.
I hope I’m wrong, but he has played very little football over the past two seasons, and he seems to be falling further down the pecking order…
Agree, Jon. He has continued to impress in short bursts, but has been desperately unlucky. I also hope he can recover and have a good career in the game.
Just going back to your post blue moon how bad is this getting I don’t know how much news you get about our wonderful government in this country but the Man City owners are putting pressure on the prime minister that if the charges are not dropped they will pull out of putting money into Manchester also a few premier league chairman have said that the impact of Man City will impact the premier league so they won’t vote for them to get kicked out
Money definitely talks and how sad is that I’d rather Charlton be a champion ship side forever than join the ranks of pigs in troughs I think it’s time to let them have there super league and decent teams play in the top divisions in this country