Charlton squad lists & summer transfer diary 2017

Transfer Window Closed

Last Update: 1st September

Here are two versions of our squad lists, to help members to keep track of changes to our squad during this summer, and have a quick reference point if they need one.
The first squad list shows players by position, the list below it shows the same information, but sorted by squad number.
Please let me know if you think any of the data is not correct and I'll change it as required.

I will always try to keep these tables updated, hopefully making changes within 24 hours at most as things develop.

On the squad lists;
The left hand side (titled in blue) shows our squad as it stands now at the end of the 2016-17 season.
The right hand side (titled in purple) shows the changes once they have been confirmed on the official website. So by the end of the transfer window the right hand side of the lists will show our completed squad for the 2017-18 season.

TABLE 1: Squad listed by position



TABLE 2: Squad listed by squad number



Key to colours / symbols

Green name - player is from the CAFC academy.
Red name - player is on loan from another Club.
Blue contract date - unconfirmed date.
Orange squad number / contract date - expires during this summer.
? - squad number not yet known.
Yellow background - player who has left the Club during the transfer window.
Blue background - player who has gone out on loan during the transfer window.
Green background (squad number) - new signing.

TABLE 3: Charlton players on loan



SUMMER TRANSFER DIARY
Red = out ... Purple = out on loan ... Green = in (permanent or loan) ... Black = staying

28 April --- Richie Barker (first team coach) announced as leaving the Club after the last game of the season.
28 April --- Simon Clark (first team coach) announced as leaving the Club after the last game of the season.
02 May --- Declan Rudd confirmed as being recalled to Norwich City (by NCFC official website).
09 May --- Terrique Anderson (academy player) signs first professional contract.
09 May --- Taylor Maloney (academy player) signs first professional contract.
09 May --- Reeco Hackett-Fairchild (academy player) signs one year contract extension.
09 May --- Jo Cummings joins from Sheffield United U18's; signs contract until 2019.
11 May --- Adam Chicksen reported as leaving the Club.
17 May --- Roger Johnson announced as leaving the Club (released)
17 May --- Dimitar Mitov announced as leaving the Club (released)
17 May --- Terell Thomas announced as leaving the Club (released)
17 May --- Chris Millar announced as leaving the Club (released)
09 June --- Billy Clarke joins from Bradford City; signs a 2 year contract.
16 June --- Mark Marshall joins from Bradford City; signs a 2 year contract.
19 June --- Tariqe Fosu joins from Reading; signs a 2 year contract.
20 June --- Jason Pearce signs a contract extension until summer 2020 (1 year).
26 June --- Igor Vetokele loaned to Sint-Truiden for the 2017-18 season.
29 June --- Ryan Blumberg joins from Nike Academy; signs a 1 year contract with the U23 squad.
30 June --- Jay Dasilva (loan expired)
30 June --- Nathan Byrne (loan expired)
30 June --- Fredrik Ulvestad (loan expired)
30 June --- Jordan Botaka (loan expired)
01 July --- Lee Bowyer appointed Assistant Manager.
01 July --- Johnnie Jackson appointed First Team Player/Coach.
10 July --- Ricky Holmes signs a new 3 year contract.
14 July --- Nicky Ajose loaned to Bury FC for the 2017-18 season.
15 July --- Jorge Teixeira leaves the Club, signs for Sint-Truiden on a 3 year contract.
19 July --- Cristian Ceballos leaves the Club, signs for Sint-Truiden on a 3 year contract.
21 July --- Jay Dasilva signed on a season long loan from Chelsea.
29 July --- Ben Amos signed on a season long loan from Bolton Wanderers.
03 August --- Ben Reeves joins the Club, signs a 2 year contract.
12 August --- Tony Watt leaves the Club, signs for OH Leuven.
18 August --- Josh Magennis signs a 1 year contract extension, until summer 2019.
21 August --- Jamie Mascoll joins our U23 development squad on a 1 year contract from Dulwich Hamlet.
29 August --- Josh Umerah loaned out to Wycombe Wanderers FC until January 2018.
31 August --- Brandon Hanlan loaned out to Colchester United until January 2018
31 August --- Lee Novak leaves the Club, signed by Scunthorpe United on a 2 year contract.
31 August --- Joe Dodoo signed on a 4 month loan from Rangers FC.
01 September --- Andrew Crofts leaves the Club, contract terminated.
01 September --- Regan Charles-Cook loaned out to Woking until January 2018


SUMMARY - OUT AND IN (first team players only)
Red = loan player ... Green = academy graduate ... Black = permanent signing
(Charlton players going out on loan / youth team players not included)

OUT :
Declan Rudd (GK)
Adam Chicksen (LB)
Roger Johnson (CB)
Jay Dasilva (LB)
Nathan Byrne (RB)
Fredrik Ulvestad (CM)
Jordan Botaka (RW)
Jorge Teixeira (CB)
Cristian Ceballos (LW)
Tony Watt (CF)
Lee Novak (CF)
Andrew Crofts (CM)

IN :
Billy Clarke (CF)
Mark Marshall (LW)
Tariqe Fosu (LW)
Jay Dasilva (LB)
Ben Amos (GK)
Ben Reeves (CM)
Joe Dodoo (CF)
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Great work Lardiman.

 

Seconded - amazing job!

 

Thank you Lardiman, much appreciated.

 

11th May Update:

Adam Chicksen has left the Club. His 1 year contract not being renewed.

 

Not sorry to see Chicksen leave.

I saw just about all of his appearances for us last season - he is not as good in that position as any of Solly, Byrne, Da Silva or even Fox. He is better than Lewis Page however.

You are never going to get promoted out of League One with 11 players of the standard of Chicksen. The bottom line as always with this mob is what comes next. Being linked with a free transfer from Swindon Town (Thompson?) is not promising. A team with promotion ambitions should be recruiting out of the Championship, not raiding the larder of teams who have just exited League 1 with their arses hanging out.

 

Have to agree, for a club chasing promotion Chicksen would be 3rd choice. Thought he was a poor all round player who did a couple of good things.

 

I voted for him as POTY.

 

but you were getting in practice for tactical voting.... weren't you?

 

I always vote for the underdog.

 

My first reaction was disappointment when I heard that Chicksen was leaving; I had thought he was one of our better players this season.
However, an analysis of win percentages for our squad last season suggests otherwise;

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This table does not tell the whole story of course, there are many factors not included.
But it seems to bear out your perceptions of his influence rather than my earlier impression of him.

His defeat percentage is fairly low, but not as low as those of Dasilva, Pearce, Fox, Foley or Chris Solly.

 

If we were starting off in the Championship in August, and had to play Middlesboro away on the opening day, how many of the current squad are capable of holding their own up there ? Realistically - 2 or 3 - Pearce, Holmes and Magennis - with caveats about 3 others - Phillips (inexperienced), Solly (injuries) and Konsa (inexperience).

That should be the test for player recruitment this summer, "we all dream of a team of Ricky Holmes" precisely because he is a player good enough for the next level.

In a squad already denuded of quality, the last thing we should be doing is signing 3-5 players from raggedy-arsed MK Dons.

 

It would be like Lady May signing Dianne Abbott as the Tories Press Relations Officer

 

Lardiman you need to stop with all these figures, you're going to put Driesen out of a job !

 

Out of the loan players who will return only Igor, if he's fit, looks like a positive addition. Umerah hasn't even featured in the Killie squad, no idea how the other youngsters have done, although Charles-Cook always looked a good prospect. Ajose will get another chance, but Sarr and Ceballos?????????????????????????????????????????

 

Ceballos scored two and set up two yesterday. Allegedly he is very happy there, so I imagine he will stay.

 

Naby Sarr is busy getting himself relegated for a second straight season with Red Star.
If we bring him back, we might as well give Karel Fraeye another chance.

If Karl Robinson has anything to do with Sarr, Ceballos, or Teixeira for that matter next season that's as good as proof that he isn't calling the shots.

 

Lardi, I have a feeling that the wages we are paying those three will mean that we are stuck with them until their contracts run out a bit like Roger 'well don't fvcking come next week' Johnson

 

I remember we had a Lisbon fan pop up on here when we signed Sarr and warned us how awful he was - more alarmingly that their fans were not only surprised they received a fee, but such a large one.

We're stuck with him. Any clubs with the incompetence of our SMT don't have an owner with the cheque book of RD.

 

I remember that, they fell about laughing that they had managed not only to get rid of a useless player, but receive 2.5m euros into the bargain. Thomas Driesen's finest hour.