Have we missed CB-T? Doesn't seem like it to me. I'm not sure if he'd bein NJ's starting eleven. I doubt if Lua-Lua will start a game and we hardly see T Campbell. With good wing-backs we're much stronger in midfield- remember how easily teams used to walk through our midfield? Alfie is a new man, especially with Kanu, so I don't think we'll be playing with wingers any time soon.
Interesting question. Tactics and playing styles are not my strong point. But what I perceive is that Nathan Jones has transformed Charlton from A team in free-fall to League Two, and then out of the leagues altogether, into A team which will scrape by in the lower half of League One. Not a team which can compete realistically for promotion to the Championship. Maybe after a couple of seasons of steady reform. But not yet. Not by a million miles. We just drew with Fleetwood Town. Now the bullet-pointed transformation is welcome. But it is not anything to write home about frankly. CAFC as a footballing entity has only travelled a fraction of the distance necessary to undo the harm of years of mismanagement and abuse by owners and gaffers unfit for the responsibility they took on. If NJ has done that without the need for wingers then fair enough. But how much further can the team go without the option? Surely teams that achieve things (promotions and long Cup runs) can fully utilise all the possibilities of the full width of the pitch. Good wing backs are part of that. But surely not all of it.
If we get a winger like Rak-Sakyi then fair enough, he saved us from a relegation scrap, but will we get another winger of that quality again? CB-T was always a threat but he went AWOL in plenty of games too. Possibly NJ would have improved him, but otherwise how would he fit in? Derby don't seem too impressed. Getting rid of Dobbo was Scott's major blunder. NJ wants to keep him, and if we end up paying a transfer fee for our own player then Scott's position would surely be untenable?
As far as player recruitment is concerned, it should be already. Maybe he’s a marvel at transforming other parts of the club. I don’t know. But his record on player recruitment is absolutely appalling. Worse than Martin Sandgaard. Worse than Katrien Meire. Worse than Thomas Driesen. And if you initially disagree with that, then look at our league position under his recruitment gems.
I would not disagree. Also, saying that he is worse than those other dodgy characters does not excuse or diminish how bad they were either.
