Oct 23
Taking point 🗣️
Luke Berry got his 3rd and 4th goal of the season last night. There’s only been six starts, criticized in some quarters for not influencing games enough, he does have a habit of appearing from nowhere to score.
The question on everyone’s lips after Alfie May was cut loose was where will the goals come from.
Please click for moreI have to say I’ve been pretty impressed with Birmingham City’s start to the season.
The Premier League can be bought, The Championship can be bought thanks to parachute payments, and a bit of investment can go a long way in League Two but buying success in the third tier has long been fraught with impediments.
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 fan’s minds set a negative mindset.
May joins Birmingham City for what is said to be £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. There’s rarely any smoke without fire and between Huddersfield having money to spend and Nathan Jones’ word gymnastics I am pretty convinced last season’s L1 top scorer has played his last game in a Charlton shirt.
Please click for moreThere’s been lots of chatter about Alfie May since the season ended. One half of the camp are ‘he is definitely going,’ the other half ‘of course he’s not.’
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 moreWith a record breaking 82% of the vote 27-goal Alfie May won Sunday’s POTY award voted for by supporter’s.
In 2nd place was George Dobson and 3rd was Terell Thomas, somewhat surprisingly but I bet that the top two made up about 98% of the vote and the rest was shared amongst a number of players.
Please click for moreCongratulations to Alfie May on his League One Golden Boot win. He truly is a very nice bloke. Lovely interview with him here.
May’s 23 goals are the most by an Addick in a league season since Andy Hunt who scored one more 24 season’s ago.
Only Bradley Wright-Phillips and Lyle Taylor have scored 20 or more goals for us in those intervening years.
Please click for moreA sign that the season is coming to a close with the voting starting for the Addicks 2023/24 POTY award.
Last season the winner was loanee Jesurun Rak-Sakyi, but I don’t see any loan player, and we’ve had eight, getting even a single vote.
Please click for moreAnd there he is. The ‘will he won’t he’ saga of Alfie May has concluded, and he will and has.
The 30-year old has signed a two-year deal with the option of a third year and will wear the no. 9 shirt.
Please click for moreIt looks as if all is not lost in the chase for Alfie May. Ever reliable Rich Cawley wrote today that the Addicks are moving closer to a deal for the Cheltenham man.
A fee in the range of £250-300,000 has been agreed but it sounds as if the structure of how that will be paid is still to be ironed out. That presumably due to the takeover.
Please click for moreThe summer ‘are we aren’t we saga’ of Alfie May looks like coming to a conclusion with the Cheltenham striker choosing Gillingham.
The Gills, under new ownership, are throwing money around and have already made three signings including Jonny Williams.
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