May 22
Despite being without a head coach/manager or assistant manager Charlton announced the list of players that won’t be offered new contracts this morning. They were:
Ade Azeez
Jordan Cook
Leon Cort
Cedric Evina
Kevin Feely
Mark Gower
Danny Green
Danny Hollands
Bradley Jordan
Bradley Pritchard
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Ok, so where do we begin?
Let’s look at those going out. Dale Stephens to Brighton is done, undisclosed of course. Good luck to him, my last personal memory of Dale was his winner at St Andrews.
Yann Kermorgant was back at Sparrows Lane today and I am trying to understand what has gone on before and what can still happen in the next 36 hours. It appears Duchâtelet has offered him a contract extension, but one that Yann wasn’t particularly happy with. He has also insisted that Powell be guaranteed his future too. I wouldn’t think for a minute that the Belgium was very happy with this and with that accepted the £500,000 on offer from Bournemouth.
This has almost certainly been Powell and Duchâtelet’s first clash. The Daily Mail reported earlier that Powell’s future was now uncertain. That is hardly news, and I really don’t think Powell is a quitter.
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Rumoured to have been on Chris Powell’s original target list last season, CP finally got his man this morning when Mark Gower signed a 1-year deal with The Addicks.
A year older of course but Gower showed what he could do when he came in on loan at the end of last season. The ex-Southend midfielder showed all of his Swansea traits during the final game against Bristol City simply and expertly passing the ball around the park and it was his superb pass that released Pritchard who crossed for Jackson the put the icing on a cake of a great afternoon with our final goal of the campaign.
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Oh great. Millwall at Wembley again. Parky was there a few weeks, they’re all ruddy there. Everyone except us. Wigan. Wigan I ask you. Why do we take cups with such a pinch of salt?
Anyway let’s hope the Millwall players all got sloshed on the bus on the way back to Bermondsey and forget they have an early game to prepare for on Saturday.
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