Prediction League Lyle Taylor - Social media embarrassment

Lyle Taylor complaining about Twitter banter is a bit like Micheal Fish moaning about the weather.

 

A modern Greta Garbo? Hmmmmmmm

 

Life is never dull when you are a Charlton fan

…. Goodbye Horse

 

Or “Goodbye Lyle” ?

The next 48 hours ends one of two ways ...a new, improved contract for Taylor at Charlton ...happy emojis from said player on Twitter....or an ignominious & fairly underhand departure to a Championship rival, & a glib farewell Tweet. My money is currently on the latter.

I also recall Taylor’s forthright comments when KAG took the Huddersfield offer, despite them being all but relegated.

“Any player would do the same”

 

I think it is all about how much Ole Yellow gets for Lyle now... not a discussion about whether he'll go?

Perhaps he was promised a transfer this summer (which Bow now wants to cancel) with senior management at the club expecting us to still be in League 1?

 

There are a lot of comments flying about that Lyle Taylor missed training yesterday.

If there is now a bidding war for him between Middlesbrough and Brentford then a certain pair of thin Belgian lips must be salivating.

 

The alternative view is that Taylor is 29 and this is his final chance to get a big contract.

 

Lovely

 

Brentford offering us just over 10% of what they got for Maupay for our star striker?

 

It sticks in the craw that a move to Brentford is a move up. Bowyer even advised Aribo to sign for them. It seems Charlton is now being targetted as easy meat because Douchatelet always has his begging bowl at the ready.

 

Although I agree with the principal.... as I said yesterday... I do not believe the two transfers out this week are entirely the owners fault … mostly yes.... but not entirely.

 

It's a shame that when Dalman, the Aussies and the Europeans were apparently bidding for Charlton, RD managed to jack off all three. It takes a special kind of talent to do that, yet every time there is a bid for a player, the player always goes. When I read Charlton had turned down the bid from brentford yesterday, I was almost happy. But both they and Middlesbro are still there, armed with money, and it just means Bow will have less time to plug the gap if we accept a better bid between now and the window closing.

 

Who let AD and LT’s contracts run down? Was it our CEO ? Oh, wait .....

 

Taylor will only not force a move today if Charlton massively improve his contract.

And Duchâtelet has already set a cap at £5,000 a week.

 

The length of the contract only dictates the transfer fee, .. and as we know... Bow doesn't get a sniff of any transfer fee... if a player wants out then the club have to let him go.

 

No, I disagree strongly. RD has failed to sell the club so it is his for the foreseeable. Yet we continue to offload our players cheap, as their contracts are always in a state of decay. All the current batch in every conversation (Arribo, Grant, Dijksteel and Taylor) had problems with contracts with the club. The richest owner in the history of Charlton continues to dicker every time as if these guys are long term unemployed looking for a shelf stacking job in Sainbury's, but the reality is there are other clubs who want talented young players, and as Lardi and Royston point out, we are now seen as easy pickings.
Sort out the contracts, give Bowyer a war chest and slap a 10m price tag on everyone, and the problem goes elsewhere. Sadly the owner has decided to show the world he can run Charlton at break even level. There are no prizes for that though - success is purely judged on the pitch, and it is pointless trying to run a club purely not to lose money. If that is the endgame, sell up and the losses instantly cease. There is no possible reason to 'invest' in football, and if you don't want to spend money, get out and do something else. Until the owner understands this concept, we are royally screwed.

 

Yes, it is sensible, and common practice, to sell a player who won't renew in his final year, our problem is that none of the money gets re-invested in the squad, hence the rage.

 

The other problem is we have no senior exec overseeing very basic things like contracts.

 

I'd be amazed if there is another club in the League without a CEO.