May 8
It’s hard to take the scalpel to the squad when there isn’t much lying on the operating table.
The only long-term contracted players that expired this summer are Luke Berry and Terry Taylor, both will be released. As expected TC will have his additonal year triggered. The club also have an option on Godden, but with him and Lyndon Dykes the club “remains in discussion.”
Please click for moreNathan Jones has stated numerous times, and yesterday more forcefully that this summer will see a big turnaround in playing staff following the consolidation of our Championship status, the first time the club have done that since 2013, and the first time ever following promotion through the play-off’s.
Jones said yesterday: “We need an influx of quality, athleticism, better decision-makers and pace. Everything. We need better.”
Please click for moreQatar side Al‑Sailiya have joined the race, not sure if that is the right word, to sign free agent Michail Antonio.
The BBC suggested yesterday that Antonio has options but continues to train with Charlton.
Please click for moreMichail Antonio has been training with the Addicks for a few days as Nathan Jones and the medical team cast their eyes over the ex-West Ham striker with a view of putting together a deal for the free-agent.
Antonio has not played a competitive game in England since the highly-documented car crash in December 2024 that left the 35-year-old with multiple leg fractures.
Please click for moreA little disappointed tonight. It is the early hours in Orlando where I have had back to back meetings all day and evening trying to grab quick searches to see how the transfer deadline was going for us.
In hindsight I was happy I kept busy and didn’t sit in front of the computer / social media / Sky Sports.
Please click for moreHere’s one for those Addicks looking for the club to widen their transfer net.
Kenyan and Serbian media (as well as Rich Cawley to add a little bit more source to it) are reporting that Charlton are set to sign Kenyan centre-back Collins Sichenje from Serbian top flight club Vojvodina.
Please click for moreAs anticipated this morning Conor Coady signed on loan until the end of the season. The experienced ex-England international leaves Wrexham six months after his £2million arrival.
The charismatic 32-year old will bring experience and leadership to a defence that is in desperate need of it.
Please click for moreRob Elliot was probably influential in Charlton’s signing of Gateshead ‘keeper Tiernan Brooks today.
The 23-year-old has put pen to paper on a two-and-a-half year deal, with a club option of a further year.
Please click for moreIt was a strange evening down at Sparrows Lane. Clearly the club have never heard of the theory of priming emotion protection.
Researchers use this term to describe the, usually subconscious, desire to “ease into” bad news by starting with something positive. The old good news first approach.
Please click for moreIt’s hard to imagine that Ashley Maynard-Brewer has been at Charlton for 10 years after moving from Perth in Australia.
Ashley has signed only an initial 6-month deal for Dundee United, who are 8th in the Scottish Premiership. Any fee was described as undisclosed.
Please click for moreBack to Stockport County for striker Tanto Olaofe for the rest of the season.
Last season Olaofe played 51 times for County and scored 12 goals. For Charlton he has started just 6 games and the winner at Sheffield United was his only goal.
Please click for moreThere’s been a lot going on this evening at Sparrows Lane.
To much melting down by Addicks fans, Rob Apter has gone on loan to Bolton Wanderers for the rest of the season. Apter is a Lancashire boy of course, and it’s been obvious that Nathan Jones, and possibly Jones alone, doesn’t feel he is ready for The Championship
Please click for moreFinish this Charlton Athletic trivial pursuit question:
Cory Gibbs, Sérgio Leite, Anil Koc, Rúrik Gíslason, Steve Barbé, Martin Christensen, Florent Rouamba and….?
Please click for moreThe owner group known as Global Football Partners (GFP) and made up of a handful of individual investors, mostly stateside, have been widely liked by the Addicks fan base since they collectively bought the club in July 2023.
I mean it is though a very low bar, even Thomas Sandgaard has been proven to be a complete wrong-un. I mean those sparkly white teeth, fake tan, guitar, and sparkly jackets were always going to hide a lot of sins. At least I sold my Zynex shares at break even.
Please click for moreThe Addicks have signed 21-year old Luke Chambers from Liverpool on loan until the end of the season.
This is Chambers fourth loan move from Liverpool, where he’s been since the age of 6.
Please click for moreBrighton & Hove Albion’s algorithmic way of signing young players from across the globe has taken them to young Micah Mbick.
This month Charlton have turned down two bids from the Sussex club, the latest totalling £3.5m, £2.5million of that being up front.
Please click for moreIt sounds as if James Bree will return to Southampton after the weekend as Saints manager Tonda Eckert wants to utilize him in his first team plans.
Nathan Jones said this week that conversations are ongoing, but Bree frozen out by Will Still, is under contract and if Southampton want him back then that is probably the end of that.
Please click for moreScottish international Lyndon Dykes has signed for the Addicks until the end of the season, where I am sure there is an agreement in place to extend that as his Birmingham contract ran until 2027.
Dykes said: “I’m super pleased and I can’t wait to get going. It’s going to be really exciting for myself and my family, and I think there’s going to be good times to come.”
Please click for moreIpswich Town’s Harry Clarke became Nathan Jones’ first January window signing today. The versatile 24-year-old defender has signed on loan until the end of the season.
Clarke can cover the range of roles at the right of the defence and hopefully signals the beginning of a busy week at Sparrows Lane.
Please click for moreI understand how difficult the January transfer window is, but we are now day 12 and we have the most important run of games coming up, so come on and hurry up!
The squad is decimated and is running on the fumes and the left side of defence has to be addressed this week.
Please click for moreA lot of fingers are pointing at Birmingham’s Lyndon Dykes as a possible early window signing for Charlton early next week.
The 30-year Scot has mostly been used from the bench by the Blues this season, and has been made available as Birmingham themselves look to spend in the January window.
Please click for moreSky Sports have named the Addicks as one of four clubs trailing Hull City’s Cody Drameh.
The 23-year old is comfortable playing left or right wing back, and despite making 12 Championship appearances this season for the high-flying Tigers, he hasn’t played a first team minute since the end of November.
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I am sure I am not alone, but I feel low and worried about those Addicks this morning, but I am here to attempt to put a positive spin on proceedings.
The overblown foreboding and anti-Jones sentiments in some of my comments and many hundreds on Charlton Life possibly need to press the brake a little.
Please click for moreThe transfer window opens in 8 days time, and typically Charlton rumours are thin on the ground.
Nathan Jones has talked openly about adding Championship quality to his squad. That could be a striker, midfielder and most definitely a left-sided wing back.
Please click for moreThe Black Friday sale is underway at The Valley.
32-year old left sided French defender Jérôme Roussillon has joined the Addicks on a short-term contract. This tells me that Josh Edwards is going to be missing for some time, but welcome Jerome.
Please click for moreThe summer transfer window is still breathing apparently.
Charlton Athletic are delighted to announce the signing of Cuban international Onel Hernández (more).
Please click for moreChuks Aneke signed for Shrewsbury Town today, making him the last of the players released by the Addicks in the summer to get themselves sorted.
There’s a really good interview, if you ignore the comments about Michael Appleton, with Chuks on the Shrewsbury website if you have five minutes.
Please click for moreIt was quite nice watching last Monday’s transfer deadline pass without having expectations of loads of last minute signings, although whatever happened to David Datro Fofana was a slight dissapointment, if it ever was a thing. We’ll probably never know.
We’ve had so many last minute signings that have turned out to be crap at best, that it’s so much more comforting having new players in the building early in the window. Jones’ stance on loans also means we are not scrapping around in the Premier League academy barrel hoping that the next young hopeful turns out to be Conor Gallagher.
Please click for moreIt appears this deal was in the hands of FIFA to get approval.
Today 20-year old Zach Mitchell made the loan move back north of the border to Edinburgh and will play the season with Hibernian on loan.
Please click for moreLots of confusion tonight surrounding Chelsea striker David Datro Fofana, but it does look as if the loan move to Charlton has fallen through as the EFL never received the transfer ‘deal sheet’ in time.
This move really fell under the radar, and Charlton nor the club’s most-in-the-know journo, Rich Cawley have even commented on the 22-year old’s potential late move.
Please click for moreSouthampton’s James Bree has joined on loan until January.
The 27-year old Bree’s versatility will appeal to Nathan Jones. He will solve, temporarily at least, the need for more depth at right (wing) back, and can also play at centre-half.
Please click for moreThis window closing at 7pm is a bit of a joke really as Sky Sports despite saying this is the biggest transfer window since the partition of India, still has about 30 deals listed to be completed. Apparently 9pm is the ‘real’ deadline.
They of course don’t even include clubs like Charlton and others in their bed wetting.
Please click for moreWell, it is the last week of the transfer window and if it’s silly season in Wrexham, then why not in Charlton Village.
Some Addicks have suggested that JRS is a remote possibility of a last minute loan signing and he would meet Nathan Jones’ criteria of someone than can considerably improve or add real competition to the squad.
Please click for more20-year old striker Daniel Kanu has joined Walsall on a season-long loan. I peg this as a really important move for Dan. Hopefully he gets plenty of game time leading to him being a real threat in League Two for The Saddlers.
Nathan Asiimwe clearly benefited from his time under Mat Sadler and Nathan Jones and his coaching team must trust their peers at Walsall.
Please click for more“What we probably want to do is add, at least one body. We know the position we need it. Maybe to do that, we want to make sure our numbers are good.” – Nathan Jones today.
A right wing back I reckon, possibly waiting to pounce with a low-ball offer for Japanese player Shinnosuke Fukuda, who halfway through their season his club Kyoto are demanding a large fee even though his contract expires in January.
Please click for moreAlex Mitchell has moved to Plymouth Argyle on loan for the season.
A very likable and a solid, non-compromising centre half, still only 23 Alex will do a good job for Argyle and I hope he gets plenty of game time.
Please click for moreThis looks a good move for Kaheim Dixon. The youngster will move to Crawley Town for the season to play under Scot Lindsay in L2.
That’s four players now out on season-long loans – Nathan Asiimwe (AFC Wimbledon), Terry Taylor (Northampton), Gassan Ahadme (Stevenage) and Dixon.
Please click for moreIt was this week’s Carabao Cup opposition Stevenage that have taken Gassan Ahadme on loan, with negotiations concluded on Tuesday after the striker was left out of the Addicks’ squad.
Ahadme ends a tough first year at The Valley by moving on a season loan to Stevenage.
Please click for moreTerry Taylor has gone back to Northampton Town, where he had a very successful loan in the second part of last season.
Terry will spend the season at Sixfields. This is the final year of his Addicks’ contract.
Please click for moreThis week was always going to be quiet on the transfer front. Jim Rodwell needs to refill his biro and give his phone a rest and Nathan Jones will be hard at it on the training field.
9 signings by the start of August has been phenomenal work, and whilst it is right to reason that not all 9 will be terrific, the ideology of strengthening key positions with a cross of experience and potential is to be applauded.
Please click for moreNever in any doubt 😉.
Not sure what that was all about but welcome to The Valley Harvey Knibbs signed for an undisclosed fee tonight on a 4-year deal.
Please click for moreAccording to reports from Reading, Charlton have pulled out of a deal to sign Harvey Knibbs.
A fee of £1.8m was agreed and Knibbs was apparently at the training ground this week, so a little mysterious and a lot disappointing.
Please click for moreThat’s a good move for Nathan, playing a level higher up than he was at Walsall the second half of last season.
Asiimwe has joined Jacko’s League One side AFC Wimbledon on a season-long loan.
Please click for moreA Sunday signing.
Charlie Kelman has signed from Queens Park Rangers on a 4-year deal for an undisclosed fee, which apparently was in excess of £3m, rising to £5m with a ton of add-ons.
Please click for moreK&K. Well, at least it seems one K.
QPR and Charlton today reached an agreement for the transfer of Charlie Kelman according to top level transfer guru Fabrizio Romano. Of course the much more reliable and down to earth source Rich Cawley is now carrying this story as well.
Please click for moreJoe Bennett has been training with Charlton and for the first time he put on a red matchday shirt today appearing as a 60th minute substitute in the 1-1 draw at Cambridge.
Bennett is a free agent and could provide both cover at left-wing-back plus add an experienced head and good counsel to the younger players in the dressing room next season.
please click for moreRich Cawley is reporting that Bolton Wanderers have approached the Addicks to discuss options for Gassan Ahadme.
Bolton manager Steven Schumacher has made it a priority to sign a striker and that could be Ahadme.
Please click for moreWas the name of the young man labelled ‘Trialist’ in tonight’s team sheet at Wealdstone, a game the Addicks won 3-0.
Lembikisa came on at the 60 minute mark as Nathan Jones shuffled his pack and fitted in at right centre back, even though he’s meant to be a right-wing-back.
Please click for moreHere’s a name to conjure with. Sourced by the Daily Mail, according too them we have had an offer turned down for Japanese defender Shinnosuke Fukuda.
This one will confuse those Addicks that think we only do our scouting in Bedforshire, but the 24-year Fukuda plays for Kyoto in the J League
Please click for moreSeven players signed. The club has been quick, strategic and quite stealth like in the summer window.
I always want to see what these guys will be like in a red shirt, but on paper the squad looks much stronger and deeper than it was the day after the play-off final.
Please click for moreOnto the next one, then. North of the border there are suggestions led by Sky Sports that Charlton and Blackburn have had £1m bids turned down by Hibernian for right back Lewis Miller.
The 24-year old Australian is a regular for his national side, and Hibs triggered an contract extension for 12 months back in April.
Please click for moreRob Apter has arrived on his bike in Slovenia to become Nathan Jones’ 7th summer signing.
The 22-year old has signed on a 4-year deal for a fee officially undisclosed, but unofficially £2m plus add-ons.
Please click for moreIt’s exciting, right?
Six years ago in the exact same position we had just convinced Jason Pearce and Jonny Williams to sign new contracts, this only after Roland Duchatelet did a u-turn over Lee Bowyer’s contract. Joe Aribo had just left and Duchatelet was behind our backs negotiating to cash in on Anfernee Djiksteel.
Please click for moreAnd aboard Sunday’s flight to Slovenia. Question is will anyone else new be at Gatwick to join the squad.
Joe Rankin-Costello becomes Nathan Jones’ 6th summer signing after signing from Blackburn Rovers for an undisclosed fee but said to be in the £750,000 bracket.
Please click for moreI’m liking this rumour. A lot of upside if it happens. Apparently we are ‘lining up a move’ for Blackpool’s Rob Apter.
A right wing back who can play high up the pitch, skillful, tricky, assists, goals, an old fashioned winger crossed with a disciplined defensive virtue.
Please click for moreIt’s a little short on rumours round here, so here’s one to throw into the mix.
According to some sources Blackburn Rovers’ Joe Rankin-Costello is subject to a £750,000 bid from the Addicks. The 25-year old is a right-wing-back that can invert into central midfield.
Please click for moreIf Reece Burke can stay fit then he will be a hell of a signing. How often have we *insert name* said that in previous seasons?
Reece Burke today completed his signing from Luton on an undisclosed fee. He has signed a 2-year contract plus a year club option.
Please click for moreRich Cawley has thrown another name into the Hatters…. see what I did there?
Reece Burke was another player that Nathan Jones signed for Luton Town that went on to look comfortable in the Premier League.
Please click for moreYou can ring my…. 🔔
This looks a sensible squad building signing. Left sided centre back Amari’i Bell has signed on a 2-year deal after the expiry of his contract at Luton Town.
Please click for moreThe players returned to Sparrows Lane today for post-summer testing, which I suspect is a little different to the old days when players returned having loaded on a few holiday pounds and smelling of stale cigarettes were told to run up and down the East Terrace.
The first friendly is 9 days away.
Please click for moreOr to give him his real name…. Isaac Tanitoluwaloba Aduraoluwatimileyin Olaofe was today added to Nathan Jones’ Championship squad. Imagine getting his name on the back of your short at 50p a letter?
Olaofe has signed a three-year contract with a club option of an additional year.
Please click for moreLuton Town’s Thomas Kaminski has become the Addicks second signing of the summer. Noted as fee undisclosed, Kaminski has signed a three-year deal.
The 32-year old Belgian has made close to 500 appearances including 38 in the Premier League and 160 in The Championship.
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