In addition to signing Sam Smith from Reading today for £2,000,000, Wrexham have offered Burnley striker Jay Rogriguez a package worth £15,000 a week. Meanwhile, over at pauperised, cash strapped little Charlton, gaslighting CEO “Cheap” Charlie Methven has just recorded another personal podcast for Mundell & Seriously Red, boasting how he’s going lead CAFC to Champions League glory by 2027 and all on a budget of £3.56 a week.
What I don’t understand is this - Through a large dose of football good fortune - namely the return to fitness of Leaburn, L.Jones and to a lesser extent Ramsay & Small, the US money lenders now find themselves within 2 points of what looked to be an unlikely promotion challenge. Anyone who has watched our recent games will confirm that while results have undoubtedly improved, we are still not playing that well, and are very reliant on the 3-4 above named players staying fit for the rest of this season. Ergo …if they don’t…recent history suggests that the wheels are going to come off our promotion challenge even faster than Seriously Red sheds his crombie on a warm match day in Crossbars. When you add to that we now have the fewest outfield players in League One, bar Reading, this is starting to look like the latest proverbial House of Cards. “Pruning the squad in January” is a complete Straw Man when you also factor in that our current Technical Director, Mr A.Scott, is now busy shedding the same players that he himself signed (Edun, Taylor, Potts, A Campbell) within the last 18 months. What is more difficult to understand is the sheer lack of business logic in the US money lenders current financial constipation. Clubs moving up from League One to the Championship more than treble their TV and commercial revenues. For the sake of some sensible investment in buying 2/3 quality players in the next 72 hours, the US money lenders could literally be coining it in next season. But no …nothing …trying to loan a kid who’s played 25 games in 5 seasons And in reply to a well known Forum WUM & part time Crombie model trotting out his 15 year old excuse this afternoon about fans spending the owners money for them - we have sold nearly 2,000 for Birmingham away, and that trip is going cost those fans at least £150 each on the day. I’d say the real Charlton fans finally deserve an owner with a bit of ambition.
Charlie boy will not want to spend money. He will tell Little Ivor that it is not necessary and just look at the table. The more I think about it the more I am certain Jones was told there was no dough and he suffers it with a sizeable contract.
“We are already spending £8-£9m a year” No, we are not. Being generous, at least £20,000 a week was shaved off the wage bill in January, leaving us with the smallest squad of outfield players in the Third Tier, other than near bankrupt Reading. What an achievement Not only that, you never get the full story with this lot. It has now been revealed by a club sponsor on CL that star signing Alan Campbell cost the Methven regime “almost nothing”, with Luton Town picking up the costs of the deal. Funny how we never heard about that at the time
