http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/sport/...veals_new_transfer_plans_after_Clarke_injury/ Does the Scouser actually believe he will get any transfers in during January?.... Is he still believing the cr@p he is being told by the Witch?
Regan Charles-Cook's best position is as a No 10..... I can see us recalling him from his loan at Woking to cover Clarke
The injury list is truly horrendous. Pearce. Bauer, Page, Kashi, Forster-Caskey, Fosu, Holmes. Plus Clarke is out for 8 to 9 months. Saturday's team could look something like this. Amos Solly, Konsa, Sarr, Da Silva Aribo, Jackson, Marshall, Reeves, Ahearne-Grant, Magennis Subs Phillips, Lennon, Dijksteel, Dodoo, Best, Hackett-Fairchild, Lapslie.
In a word, ‘no’. This fits the regular Regime manager cycle - inflate fan’s expectations about who you *might* buy, only to find that no other club will sell to the Manchester United of SE7. In short, taking the fans for mugs again.
Why I won’t bemoan injuries is that a lot of these players were available on cut price deals due to injury records. We ran the risk, and right now are losing.
If Robinson gets nothing in the January transfer window he will go up in a lot of fan’s estimations if he resigns.
To be fair to the bloke he’s in one hell of an awkward position right now.......he’ll no doubt find something to say as by nature as he always likes to say something or other but I would hate to be in his shoes right now with so much uncertainty at both Sparrows Lane and The Valley......the poor bloke doesn’t know where he stands or even know where he will be in the next few months or so! As such, I’m prepared to cut him some slack for now.
Is Robinson playing a game of public brinksmanship with the Belgians, going public in the Newshopper with “everyone knows I want two strikers” ?
More fool Robinson for taking the job. He will have known what the regime at CAFC was like before he signed. He went in with his eyes open. If he fell for their double-talk, then he lacks the insight and good judgment needed to be a shrewd and successful lower league manager anyway.
F*** him(and Slade). The pair of them saw us as a free hit and not a cv breaker with us getting rid of managers every five minutes. An easy pay day with the eventual sacking, amazing Robinson did not get the heave ho around the Northampton debacle.
I think one thing Russell Slade and Karl Robinson have in common is that they are both willing to accept severe austerity measures from the board of whichever Club is empolying them, and try make the best they can of it. In doing that however, they lay themselves open to accusations of not fighting their corner, and even collaborating with policies which many fans will see as directly harming their first team's ability to compete. Sometimes the board-driven austerity (spending cut backs, player sales, staff lay-offs) might be necessary in order to save a debt-ridden Club from extinction. But has that ever been the case at Charlton since Roland Duchatelet became our owner? Cooperating with harsh, unpopular policies for the sake of a football Club's very survival is one thing. But Duchatelet's board-driven incompetence on the footballing side has brought us to where we are today. Nothing else. We had a Championship place, a Championship squad (more or less) and we had 15,000+ fans coming to the Valley every other weekend. Now we have none of these things. If KR succeeds, then fantastic and all credit to him. If he fails, then he can't plead that the board let him down. He must have known their track record when he was considering taking the job. In his position, I would not have taken it.
