Summer rebuild 2022 - window closed

Not Macauley Bonne - please!

 

Have they got the surname “sandgaard” by any chance

 

Less than 34 hours to go now...

 

It's so exciting

 

Thanks for these updates @Butterfield

 

Here we are then, the morning after
I'm disappointed we did not sign a forward, and will now have to go looking for one among the free agents.

But I'm not disappointed that the Macaulay Bonne 'deal' (last minute headless chicken impersonation) fell through.
I don't think very many fans would have been over the moon about it.
Certainly not many would have considered Bonne on loan as suddenly making a pretty lean transfer window into a good one.

Once again - despite being rather more circumspect than on previous occasions - Thomas Sandgaard has raised hopes among Charlton supporters and apparently not delivered.
Though I would point out that even Ben Garner and his people are products of this transfer window.
And judging objectively rather than sentimentally, Garner is an improvement over Johnnie Jackson so far, and obviously far sharper than the bewildered Adkins.

Two things we would all love to know but cannot know right this minute;
1. How does Ben Garner really feel about this transfer window. Let down? angry? frustrated? disappointed? philosophical, or even sanguine?
2. How are Charlton's next half a dozen league results going to pan out.

If our points per game average tails off and the team drops into lower mid-table, many more supporters will naturally decide they've run out of patience with TS.
In those circumstances I wouldn't be surprised to start hearing that frustration emerge as hostile chants from the upper North, as well as bucket loads more hostility on forums of course.

If Ben Garner keeps Charlton's PPG at over 1.5 and the team stays in touch with the top 6, then we won't hear those chants and forum frustration (a few hate-mongers aside) will be largely confined to frustration at any points we do drop being down to the weakness of the squad, rightly or wrongly.
There is still a long way to go this season.
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I'm not happy that CAFC has not done as much as it reasonably could have done in this transfer window.
Not fantasy expectations - what it reasonably could have done.
But I'm not going to turn on Thomas Sandgaard and call him a fraud because (after the progress we have made since May) we didn't sign Macauley Bonne on loan at 10:55pm.

 

Sandgaard is a fraud, have lost the remaining faith I had in him.

 

I second that - attendances will fall

 

I think attendances will follow results, for better or worse, unless there is an extraordinary circumstance like mass protests.

Can't see protests happening unless our form crashes and we slide towards relegation.
Maybe some grumbling from the covered end if we fade back to mid-table.

 

TBH I didn't expect anything from this transfer window, and won't expect anything from the next one either. My concern is how Ben Garner feels right now. The idea of signing Bonne wasn't very exciting, but it would have been better than nothing. I think we're well enough covered in other positions when you look at the present crop of Academy products.

 

Mixed bag really. The window started great - we signed some decent players and off loaded a few that didn't fit. And Ben Garner looks a good bet as manager.
Then there are a crop of youngsters who are looking like a great future for the club. Morgan has transformed, Leaburn, Henry and Claydon look good ( and worryingly, nearer to being ready to play than Burstow did)

The negatives were primarily that we shooed Washington out the door with no replacement ready, and while Bonne scored a few for us. I was hoping for better. So no new striker was a real screw up. Prolific strikers aren't sitting around out of contract.

I'll skip the conspiracy thing (Sandgaard had no intention of buying a striker) but he's losing a lot of money in this league. Paying for a good striker may be the difference between going up and missing out, and that will cost money.

So overall, not bad, but deadline day never fails to provide a bad taste in the mouth at Chsrlton these days.

 

Not really a fraud in the sense that Southall and his cronies are frauds. He bought a pig in a poke, and has had a shock since then, as reality has hit home. His talk about the Premiership in 5 years was wishful thinking, nothing more, and has been taken too seriously. His aim of running a L1 club which breaks even will probably turn out to be wishful thinking too, unless he gets lucky with the emerging Academy crop. Otherwise, what happens when he realises he is throwing good money after bad? The Sandgaard Aahrt Brigade will get their wish, and who will take over? Who knows.