A 20 goal a season striker

I'm willing to believe Karl Robinson genuinely wants the best for our first team.

But even his willingness to put up with the restrictions placed upon him by the Club (and quite possibly their double-talk as well) means he is possibly helping to prolong Roland Duchatelet's tenure as Charlton's owner. Robinson is compromising his own integrity by trying to do his best and having to fight his own bosses instead of being properly backed.
It's RD and KM who have made Charlton 'unmanageable' not anybody else. Now they are enjoying playing at being competent football suits (especially Meire with her PC job at the FA). She actually believes she has got the hang of being a CEO, all on the back of Robinson's efforts.

They can't find their backsides with both hands, so they get him to do it.

 

What I'd be more concerned with is when players agree to the structure of the deals - it somewhat vindicates her and her bosses methods.

Even a simple loan deal has its complications.

 

Stop being equivocal - we all know you partly engineered the previous deal that brought Anil Koc to Charlton.

What do you know about the latest negotiations?

 

Not equivocal - it was from not606 that we learnt Amos was joining, was on 18k a week at Bolton, his loan is structured heavily on bonuses rather than a bigger basic - on KM's insistence. KR appeared (key word) embarrassed when he kept returning calls to say KM "wouldn't go for it".

Amos saw one move to a championship club collapse a week or two previously and I think that played a hand in him being eager to join Charlton.

We also saw the Reeves deal drag on longer than it probably should have done because again, the club were trying to be economical with how the deal should be structured. However, as I said earlier, my concern is that whilst players continue to join with these deals then it vindicates KM and her decisions.

 

Gobbo reported as saying we have bid £1.2m for Will Grigg.

 

According to someone on Twitter, that bid has been turned down by Wigan.

 

I saw the same Dick.

Also quotes KR saying well played to the owner for pushing the boat out

 

Wigan want £120m for Grigg

 

Bollocks to us bidding a million.

 

News shopper saying that no bid has been made for Will Grigg.

 

Novak will come good.

 

That home brew is strong then

 

No but Bill was telling me that since retirement he has taken up gardening .........

 

Another week of moribund inactivity on the striker front. Just BS social media rumours to keep the criticism that is coming at bay.

Worth remembering the the useless out of her depth CEO has had well over 100 days this summer to address an urgent team need & sign us a striker. It says everything about her priorities that a kids fun day & greasing up to half a dozen old plastics before the Bristol Rovers game was more of a priority for her.

I can exclusively reveal on 606 the name of our new striker next week - it's A.Loan

 

Agreed, it is simply not good enough.

Perhaps we will get a decent striker, perhaps we will end up with another passenger. To some extent that is a risk with any signing. But it's a much greater risk when the deal is being cobbled together at the last minute.

Charlton have had all summer to get this sorted out. A loan arranged with a few days to go will no doubt be defended by the usual suspects (lots of Clubs do this, blah blah...) but it is plainly not the best way to do business in the transfer market.

After some good work that has been done during the summer, to risk that progress coming to nothing again by not securing a proven quality striker of our choice and in good time betrays the lack of serious ambition which Karl Robinson is willing to tolerate, even though it may cost him his job.

 

Those at Norwich on Tuesday night reported that KAG struggled, albeit against Championship players.

The cynic in me says the Regime are waiting to see if there are any bids next week for Michelin Man Novak.

After all, in the immortal words of the Belgian Freak, you can only play 11 players at a time so why pay to have more.

 

I don't think you will see any striker come in before the window slams shut, loan or permanent.

 

The Watt £300k wages savings disappeared into the same black hole as the Lookman money.

I thought we had a quote "competitive budget"

Robinson was laying a trail [again] ,this time on Novak - we won't get another striker in unless we shift Novo first.

 

If we were to shift Novak (which we probably will) we would still not get anybody in.... Weren't we told that we would get a new striker in when Watt's wages were off the books...... problem is that there are no clubs in the world who will let us have a striker! What a palaver

 

I'd expect us to get a loan in but think it will be in the mould of a youngster looking for experience.