Jan 6
Today marks the 6th day of the January transfer window and rumours whether warm or wildly inaccurate are in short supply.
From an internet scroll only Wigan have been active making three signings, but most clubs have been quiet.
Please click for moreTaking point š£ļø
Back at it tomorrow, and with two games in a space of a few days I hope we can get ourselves moving away from the melancholy position of mid-table (not downwards š£).
Please click for moreSorry, itās been a long week.
A no brainer this one and long in the pipeline, Dan Potts(y) signed a short term contract today until January. The 30-year old is a left sided centre-half.
Please click for moreIf you did a heat map of my Blog then the name of Scott Fraser would be in a bright red bubble during these last few months, yet the last time he started a game for Charlton was that dreadful performance at Leyton Orient on Boxing Day.
As expected it was announced early this morning that the 29-year old Scot has left the club by mutual consent.
Please click for moreI donāt know if there has ever been a transfer deadline day where we havenāt seen one player leave or join.
Iām not knocking it as it was such a pleasant change to do our business early, seven of the nine new signings joining the pre-season tour that began on July 7th.
Please click for moreWhat are we going to see today?
Will it be a āsuper duper phoneā day punctuated by loads of fattening snacks? Iām not sure Will Abbott would approve of that. Or will the day pass without any deadline Charlton moves?
Please click for moreThe final week of the summer transfer window started well for Nathan Jones as his old compatriot Allan Campbell signed from Luton Town on loan for the season.
Campbell played 43 times in Lutonās promotion to the Premier League, which was began by Jones and finished off by Rob Edwards two seasonās ago.
Please click for moreIāve written about Kaheim Dixon already (here and here), but today the club announced his signing subject to a few final pieces of his work permit to finalized.
Dixon has signed a 4-year contract and will wear the number 13.
Please click for moreSo, that is one off the wage bill, although Lucas Nessā pay was not in the same bracket as Scott Fraser.
I am pleased Ness has got his move, and Notts County are a good club.
Please click for moreA few weeks back word came out that 19-year old Jamaican international Kaheim Dixon was expected to sign with the Addicks.
Since then he has been training with the team, but the club have been waiting on a work-permit, but itās understood that has been sorted and Dixon may be announced as early as tomorrow.
Please click for moreSigned 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.
Please click for moreA mate messaged our chat after 15 minutes. He couldnāt follow the game and asked how we were looking. I told him Iād report back after a further 45 and 3/4 games.
Itās impossible to judge based on one game, but still first impressions count, and itās hard not to draw some early reflections and assumptions.
Please click for moreHardly surprising that a player that has played 250 Premier League games and more recently sat on the bench for expensively compiled squads earns a lot more than the rest of the Charlton payroll.
The only surprise is how long it took to get to that summation, but the Asmir Begovic to Charlton deal is off.
Please click for moreItās a shame that Portsmouth got promoted, we are going to miss those six points this season.
It sounded like a far more promising exhibition today at The Valley, leaving Addicks in a far happier state of mind. Friendlies can bring a lot of misleading expectations, good and bad, but the final one has a lot more forward-looking importance attached to it.
Please click for moreAs socialized yesterday, after passing a medical Harry Isted has moved to Burton Albion for an undisclosed fee.
Isted played 23 games for the Addicks after joining from Luton last summer, although more recognizable for his loan spell at Barnsley.
Please click for morePossibly.
It seems at least that Harry Isted is leaving for Burton Albion on a permanent transfer.
Please click for moreItās been very quiet on the transfer front, not even a sniff of a rumour. That was until today.
19-year old Jamaican international Kaheim Dixon is expected to sign with the Addicks. The lightning fast right winger made his Jamaica debut in a Nations League match against the USA in March and has been a regular since playing through their World Cup qualifying and in the recent COPA America finals.
Please click for moreBy this time in 2011 Chris Powell had signed 12 new players. As a reminder they were John Sullivan, Bradley Pritchard, Cedric Evina, Paul Hayes, Dale Stephens, Danny Green, Nick Pope, Ruben Bover Izquierdo, Rhoys Wiggins, Danny Hollands, Michael Morrison and Matt Taylor.
There were 19 in total by the time Powell signed free agent Yann Kemorgant in September after the window shut. The rest as they say is history
Please click for moreThe first of the obvious surplus to requirements loan out yesterday.
Aaron Henry has secured a season-long loan at National League side Rochdale. There is a January break clause.
Please click for moreSo at least that saga is over.
Today George Dobson signed on a free for Wrexham on a two-year contract and he will join them on their Hollywood spin around the U.S.A on their pre-season tour in a couple of weeks.
Please click for moreOut of the blue this one. 27-year old Greg Docherty signs from Hull City on a three-year contract with a club option of a further 12 months (more).
Another Scotsman to join the ranks, Docherty played 90 games in the Championship in Hullās last three seasons and before that was a key figure in Hullās title winning promotion from League One in the āCovid season.ā
Please click for moreWe aināt spending a Ā£1 million on anyone. You pay for potential, you pay for value, you pay for possibilities.
The whole cost of transfer of football players is so flawed these days and fees are made up of a myriad of things, but we aināt paying a Ā£1 million.
Please click for moreWord reaches us from SzĆ©kesfehĆ©rvĆ”r that George Dobson and his family wonāt be leaving their Chigwell home and moving to the historical central Hungarian region after all.
It was strange that FehĆ©rvĆ”r hadnāt announced Dobsonās signing once his Charlton one expired, especially as they had made quite a big deal out of it in January, but it turns out the ābinding pre-contractā has been annulled.
Please click for moreIām sure we will rue comparing Matt Godden with Alfie May, so I will try not too.
33 years old in a few weeks, Coventry striker Matt Godden has signed a two-year contract with a club option of a further year. He passed a medical today and is expected to be unveiled tomorrow.
Please click for moreThe video was unexpected. Alfie does appear genuinely upset. Fair play for the message, but at least we can now move on. The whole affair had taken over the pre-season, and I think in the majority of most fanās minds set a negative mindset.
May joins Birmingham City for what is said to be Ā£775,000 plus add-ons, and supposedly according the Nathan Jones, the fee will be reinvested in this window, although Cheltenham will get a cut.
Please click for moreI think the writing is on the wall with regard to Alfie. Thereās rarely any smoke without fire and between Huddersfield having money to spend and Nathan Jonesā word gymnastics I am pretty convinced last seasonās L1 top scorer has played his last game in a Charlton shirt.
Please click for moreThis deal was done last week, but got delayed due to the tragic sudden passing of Millwall ākeeper Matija Sarkic.
Alex Mitchell has signed a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee, with the Lions adding a large sell on as part of the deal.
Please click for moreA little known fact is that Dunfermline is twinned with Sarasota. That is my only insight on Josh, who today signed a 4-year contract with Charlton reported to be for a five-figure sum.
The 24-year old has 220 games under his belt and was in the Scottish L1 team two seasons ago, the year Dunfermline won promotion, and again in the Scottish Championship team of the year for this past season.
Please click for moreI put Luke Berry and Charlton together after Luton announced their end of season release list and today that became a reality when the midfielder signed on a two-year contract (with a yearās option).
Berry is a signing to raise the eyebrows, and I would have expected him to have had plenty of offers from higher placed teams, particulary in the south-east, but has chosen the Addicks purely down to his relationship with Nathan Jones.
Please click for moreThereās been lots of chatter about Alfie May since the season ended. One half of the camp are āhe is definitely going,ā the other half āof course heās not.ā
No one really knows of course, probably not even Alfie, who on the back of a golden-boot winning season must have expected to just rest-up and get all fired up to start a new season.
Please click for moreThe first of the unwantables has left the club. Signed two years ago, we never saw anything like the best of the deep-lying midfielder who had played over 200 games before he joined us.
McGrandles leaves us after playing just 19 times in two seasons.
Please click for moreThe Addicks announced their first summer signing today. No surprises in that it was goalkeeper Will Mannion, who will join once his Cambridge United contract expires at the end of this month.
Mannion finished the season as Cambridgeās number one, but his career, which matches many goalies, has been stop, start.
Please click for moreBoth Ashley Maynard Brewer and Harry Isted are under contact, AMB until 2026 and Isted until 2025 yet it seems that Nathan Jones does not have them in his go forward plans.
Jones looks to be actively seeking goalkeepers in the market, and not just one but two.
Please click for moreSounding as if there is some early transfer activity planned by the Addicks when the window opens on June 14th. This is exactly what Nathan Jones has hoped for.
Three players have been linked in the last day or two. Luke Berry, goalkeeper Will Mannion and Josh Edwards.
Please click for moreI had been keeping an eye on when Luton Townās issue their released list, and it came out today.
It made sense in the law of putting two and two together to see if it threw up any obvious Nathan Jonesā previous connections.
Please click for moreCharlton have issued the names of players that will leave and stay for next season.
The only player offered a new deal was Tyreece Campbell, who has signed a new unknown length contract.
Please click for moreThe conversation on whether George Dobson will stay or leave in the summer has got louder and louder these past few weeks. There are over 3,300 comments on the Charlton Life Forum, and Nathan Jones spent the bulk of his post game chat throwing the clubās decision makers under the bus whilst singing Georgeās praises.
The people that matter – those that were witness to the deal in the first place including FehĆ©rvĆ”r, Georgeās agent, Andy Scott and George himself have been pretty silent on the matter.
Please click for moreNathan Joines confirmed yesterday that once Kazenga LuaLua resolves his contract issues with Greek club Levadiakos then he will sign with the Addicks until the end of the season.
Fitness doesnāt sound a problem: āHe’s one of those physical phenomenons that you could chuck him on the moon for a year and he’d come back and be able to be potent for a certain amount of minutes,” Jones said yesterday.
Please click for moreMy first thoughts are that is probably Chuks done for the season or at least a big chunk of what is left.
I canāt see what other reason weād sign Connor Wickham although he apparently has been training with the club for the past two weeks.
Please click for moreMore farce down at Charlton today played out for all to see.
George Dobson was about to jump on a plane in the morning to have a medical, sign his contract and have his photo taken as Hungarian side Fehervarās new transfer deadline signing.
Please click for moreItās always sad to see an academy player move on, but I am truly excited for Deji Elerewe, who today signed a permanent deal with Bromley. The club and player know each other well and Deji moved for an undisclosed fee with a sell-on clause.
As part of the deal, Charlton have a first refusal clause, meaning the club will be made aware, and can match, any offers that come in for him in the future.
Please click for moreHang on. The window has been wedged back open and in walked today Thierry Small.
Small, a free agent after mutually agreeing to leave Southampton yesterday, signs until the end of the season with a club option of an additional year. Clearly a trial run and a coincidence perhaps that both he and Kayne Ramsey were previously at Southampton.
Please click for moreThe window hardly slammed shut for Charlton tonight in a hail of glass and uPVC, although mind you it was the quietest overall window for the longest time leaving Sky Sports to get all dewy-eyed over a loan of Armando Broja.
Harrogate prospect Kayne Ramsay was the 4th permanent Addicksā January signing putting pen to paper this evening and whilst I cannot remember us making that many permanent signings in January previously, I am not convinced the squad begins February in a better place than we ended it in December.
Please click for moreRight back or wing back is an area we have really struggled with in recent seasonās, so now we have another one.
23-year old Kayne Ramsay was the solitary addition to the Addicksā squad on transfer deadline day. He signed on a permanent deal from Harrogate for what their manager Simon Weaver described as āa significant fee, a very good sum of money.ā
Please click for moreNot in my house as I have a woman arriving in a minute who is going to power wash my roof. Just hope she doesnāt want me to help.
A quiet day at Sparrows Lane though, which is what can happen when you have no manager. Players understand that managerās come and go, and whether it be a Technical Director or a Head of Recruitment that is often the main driver in deals, footballers, and people like you and me, like to know who they are working for.
Please click for moreNear the top of an extraordinary long list of frustrating waste of times in recent years is Scott Fraser.
Another that came with great promise, and although he could when he wanted to play a decisive pass and find the net, those āPirloā moments were too few and far between and I never warmed to him.
Please click for moreDo we think the Addicks will make more signings this week?
The deadline is Thursday at 11pm and we sit as of now with no manager / head coach so although it is Andy Scott that is pulling the strings will players sign for a managerless, some may say rudderless, team?
Please click for moreI thought this one had died. Certainly the current head coach didnāt seem aware any signings were close during his gruelling presser this morning.
However Lewis Ward, who had his Swindon contract cancelled last week, has now signed for Charlton on loan, with the club option of a further year in the summer.
Please click for moreThe old broken toe nail injury the day before a game heralded CBTās departure last week. He had done his Derby media work so it was just a matter of time before his departure was announced once Derby and Charlton had ironed out the intricacies of the deal.
Please click for moreI didnāt want to leave this story untouched.
After the JCH chase, offer and rebuke the new striker name of Uche Ikpeazu was a little bit of a let down at first but upon some journalistic research I began to quite like the thought of him signing.
Please click for moreFreddie Ladapo was flavour of the month in the summer as Addicksā fans clamoured over his signature. Well, we have finally got our man as he has signed on loan from Ipswich Town.
Ladapo is mobile and strong and although he has found it hard to be a starter in Ipswichās incredible beginning to the season, he has 22 games under his belt and scored 4 goals.
Please click for moreThereās meant to be a bit of activity down at Sparrows Lane today and the first use of the pen was by 25-year old Huddersfield defender Rarmani Edmonds-Green. He has signed a two and a half year deal.
Edmonds-Green can play at RCB or RWB, and won promotion out of L1 two seasons ago whilst on loan at Rotherham.
Please click for moreStories doing the rounds that we have āwon the raceā for Port Valeās 6ft 3 striker Uche Ikpeazu.
If true I think on this signing you have to look beyond his goalscoring record and remind ourselves of how Ikpeazu battered us up at Port Vale.
Please click for moreHe brought with him a lot of promise but today Chem Campbell has had his season-loan cut short and has returned to Wolves.
Wolves appear to have great hopes for him, especially after a successful loan at Wycombe in the second half of last season, but although we have had many worse, Campbell (C) just didnāt cut it.
Please click for moreOn Saturday evening both Michael Appleton and Darren Ferguson threw a fire blanket over the Addicks signing Jonson Clarke-Harris.
The 29-year old has plundered a career 150 goals, 111 in his last 220 games, the man knows his price and if heās smart heāll wait until the summer become a free agent and probably have a promotion medal in his locker as well.
Please click for moreAnother name I am always going to type wrong!
Welcome to Macaulay Gillesphey, a left footed centre-back signed from Plymouth Argyle for what is believed to be a six-figure sum. The Geordie has signed a contract until 2026.
Please click for moreCredit where credit is due. Andy Scott sweet talked Conor Coventry into signing for Charlton on Wednesday night after his talks with Sheffield Wednesday stalled predominantly over a sell-on fee.
This looks a considerable upgrade on other signings under this management group, so welcome to the other side of the Blackwell Tunnel, Conor.
Please click for moreCharlton appear to have won the race to sign West Hamās Conor Coventry pipping Sheffield Wednesday to his permanent signature. The midfielder had a medical at the training ground today.
Jim Rodwell excused Andy Scott at last nightās fan meeting saying he was away convincing a player to sign, and it looks as if may have pulled it off.
Please click for moreThe goalkeeper. Sam Walker worried me every time he came for a ball, but worry no longer CA as he has left the building and signed for Bradford City on a free.
Please click for moreThe Addicks have had an offer accepted by Peterborough United for Jonson Clarke-Harris who Darragh MacAnthony describes as the L1 GOAT.
Jonson Clarke-Harris has scored 130 league goals in 382 appearances at Championship, L1 and L2 level including 26 last season and despite not featuring very often this season heās still scored 6.
Please click for moreMy first thoughts on the signing of Man City U21 Lewis Fiorini is why would the World Champions give us anther loan player after the abject failure of Slobodan Tedicās loan. Perhaps City realize how useless he is.
Please click for moreFirst transfer in the door, and whilst the order of those arriving cannot be mapped, it is a little underwhelming.
Sheffield Wednesdayās 25-year old defensive midfielder Tyreeq Bakinson has joined until the end of the season, when he is out of contract.
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