Konsa to Burnley is coming. Sat in an office on NYE and second to sorting out Gary Monks deal is being told a bid is incoming. HNY all.
From the Mirror .... Charlton want Palace youngster Charlton want to sign Crystal Palace youngster Jason Lokilo on loan. The Belgian-born winger, 19, made his Palace debut in their EFL Cup win over Ipswich in August but is yet to play in the top-flight. He is highly-rated after coming through the ranks at Anderlecht before moving to south London in 2015. He has impressed for Palace’s U23s this term on the right wing and can also play in more central attacking role. League One play-off hopefuls Charlton are now willing to offer him regular senior football and Palace are likely to loan him out.
It would have to be them, wouldn't it. Still, if he is a decent player I guess we aren't in a position to worry about wounded pride. However, it is beginning to look like this transfer window has already been sabotaged by the incompetent take-over fiasco. There will be no coordinated plan, just a grab for whoever we can get, plus the probable exit of players we cannot afford to lose.
And just after the latest embarrassing defeat, we are promised an exciting player in the next 24 hours.... ON LOAN
We don't need an exciting loanee as much as we need to remember how to defend. Gillingham's two goals today were embarrassingly simple. Opposition teams don't have to work hard to score their first two goals against us, if we have not mentally prepared for them. First Southend, now Gillingham. And for all our efforts, not one point recovered from those losing positions.
As has been said at least 10,000 times since the decline began in 2006, silly, pissy little loans are not the answer.
Absolutely. But if we're to avoid a relegation battle we'd better hope that any loanees we do get are decent. KR's recruitment record doesn't give me any confidence anyway. It's 2018, Marshall has not had a single good game, Reeves only played well against Truro, and these were his 2 marquee signings. Amos has been his only real success. Even if the takeover goes through in a couple of weeks it's going to be a tough job to turn things round quickly.
Actually BBWT, while I loathe loans as much as the next man, I simply cannot see us signing anyone given the possibility of Roland shipping out. If the Best/Forster-Caskey injuries turn out to be as bad as suspected, we need lots of players coming in. Robinson dloesn't trust the youths - he fielded a six man bench at Southend so anything he may say regarding bringing the youngsters through sits pretty badly alongside his reluctance to let them watch a match as subs. Mavididi did okay for us. Our problems currently look so big it's dificult to see where we need to strengthen but as Forest points out, we actually look more likely to be battling to avoid relegation come march unless we make a rapid u-turn now. We need a takeover this afternoon, and a rapid attack on the transfer market if we are to challenge for the play offs (as DP says, be still my beating heart) but this is a dre situation, and we need to regroup rapidly.
Thing is we were getting too many loans even when RD was meant to be staying put. They just never do what they say, or give us what we need. Mavididi is NOT an out and out striker FFS - That's what we need. It's a joke, we've had no real competition in that department for some time, yet other L1 Clubs fighting for promotion have options. Going into the season with one recognised striker was always going to come back and haunt us.
1 striker in August, Best players going in January A smattering of loanee journeymen and kids coming in, and just enough class to stay out of the bottom 8. Nothing to look forward to except the takeover when it eventually comes. New owner, new philosophy, new manager hopefully. A chance to start again. But I do share the worries of some other members now that many disillusioned fans have been away for so long, they may no longer find that fire in the belly to get back behind their team when the take-over finally does come.
Well said...Honestly believe if we want to see the crowds coming back to The Valley we need new owners with a new philosophy. We'll always have "but they balance the books" brigade, but surely even a lot of these hardcore fans must be getting bored of this now. Seriously hope all the hundreds of Charlton fans that protested about the damage caused by the 'sell them high buy them cheap' player policy under this regime, don't stop protesting if new owners offer no change.
