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Post by bexleyboy on Feb 9, 2010 10:36:44 GMT
CHARLTON chairman Richard Murray says the club will almost certainly be forced to sell their star players in the summer if they do not win promotion from League One.
Murray insists making an instant return to the Championship is “imperative” for the Addicks’ medium-term future, since they face losing a number of key men in the summer if they are still in the third tier in six months’ time.
“If we’re going to keep this squad together then promotion is absolutely imperative,” Murray told the South London Press.
“The differential between League One and the Championship in terms of TV money and gate receipts is about £4million per year, and that is not something that can be sustained over a long period. That makes a huge difference to the squad we can run with.”
For the full story and all the latest Charlton news, see Tuesday's South London Press.
I am sorry Mr Murray but if promotion is so important to the furure of this club why the hell have you not invested in the team that is clearly not good enough to win promotion.
Once again the board have showed how inept they are in running a football club
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Post by reamsofverse on Feb 9, 2010 12:03:28 GMT
Norwich passed us with ease and have disappeared since, Colchester will do the same come next week so that leaves just two more which due to our current form won't be long in coming.
Makes me laugh that he says "If we want to keep this squad together promotion is imperative" he's talking as if we are world beaters ffs, yet more blinkered rubbish from a man whom despite being involved in the game for several years has yet again proved that he knows very little about it.
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Post by DFT on Feb 9, 2010 17:35:12 GMT
Swindon and Millwall will pass us soon and Southampton will make the play-offs.
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Post by jonkool on Feb 9, 2010 21:03:27 GMT
Happy sods aren't you! All will be revealed over the next 3 months.
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Post by offit on Feb 10, 2010 0:00:18 GMT
Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.
This site encapsulated in one short thread.
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Post by canterburyaddick on Feb 10, 2010 0:06:38 GMT
Not necessarily
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Post by offit on Feb 10, 2010 0:12:41 GMT
No, you're right - but I think you get what I mean. People slam the chairman for not being straight. Chairman says "we're fucked if we don't go up". People then slam the chairman. And round we go again. |
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Post by reamsofverse on Feb 10, 2010 0:38:30 GMT
Can't remember him ever saying we're fooked if we go down but there again he wouldn't would he because he was responsible for it in spectacular style, remember Dowie offit? tell me was his appointment for the good of CAFC or just to get one over on Palace and tango man? Remember Pardew? who appointed him? then he tells us that basically PP was brought in to suceed him!!
And what about waggot and co brought in to earn thousands for nothing alongside a chief executive both emplyed by a 3rd tier club these days whilst genuine working class people were made redundant, I wonder who was tp blame for that then the same man with the shortest memory I know comes out and staes the obvious about failure to go up this season.
If we dodn't it's because the mess he created over the past few years has finally caught up with us.
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Post by offit on Feb 10, 2010 0:47:42 GMT
Yawn.
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Post by redredroosta on Feb 10, 2010 12:07:46 GMT
I reckon you must be related to Murray.Nobody can be this blinded by loyalty to their club that they fail to see the board's diabolical decisions over the years.  |
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Post by canterburyaddick on Feb 10, 2010 13:25:03 GMT
Don't think many complained about Pardew when he came in I recall. Seem to remember most thought that the club did well to get him. Really it was a combination of him and the players who let us down last year.
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Post by redredroosta on Feb 10, 2010 16:05:55 GMT
So you are going to forget the 2 awful decisions before that then when they appointed Dowie and gave him £12M to waste and then gave Reed the job which ultimately cost us relegation as it left too much for Pardew to do?
I,personally,would have also stuck with Pardew as I felt we had more chance of getting out of the shite that he & the board had got us into.
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Post by reamsofverse on Feb 10, 2010 17:27:11 GMT
Clearly blinded by the facts offit and as redredroosta correctly said why did Murray give Dowie £12m to go around like a kid in a sweet shop when Curbs who I admit was happy to see go at the time only ever got £6m to spend. Where we would be today if it had been Curbs who got the £12m the season after we finished 7th in the Premier League? An established Premiership club I would say. If it had not been for Murray acting like Bertie big bollocks we would have been what Fulham are today but when Curbs went so did Murray's advisor.
Sorry but you cannot make the catalogue of mistakes that he has and expect to get away with it, as the saying goes it might not catch up with the club the next day week or month but one day it will and it has and anybody who says Murray is not to blame needs to go and have a chat with all those hard working people who got the boot.
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Post by canterburyaddick on Feb 10, 2010 19:08:33 GMT
At that time you got a new manager in and gave him money to spend. That was the way it was in the Prem at the time. I wasn't really against Dowie at the time, he had a reputation as a good coach and was very hands on. Also looking at the fixtures we had at the beginning of the season that year, I had us with a point more than I expected when Dowie went. But as we all know, he didn't go because what happened on the field, and Murray can't be blamed for that. Now Les Read that was really naive, but he rectified it with Pardew.
As Red above I would have stuck with Pardew.
But my point is that was then, this is now. Parky is here to stay, we are not going to attract anyone better and couldn't afford to anyway. So let's get behind him. Bottom line we had a good enough side last year to be at least mid table and the players got us in this mess.
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Post by offit on Feb 10, 2010 19:34:04 GMT
I reckon you must be related to Murray.Nobody can be this blinded by loyalty to their club that they fail to see the board's diabolical decisions over the years. Just because I don't constantly rant and moan at every opportunity doesn't mean that I don't think mistakes have been made - of course they have. Evreyone knows it, Murray has said it himself. Someone please tell me where I have said any different. Please,do. All I would say is that it's very easy to be wise after the event - hindsight is a wonderful thing - and chucking "blame" around doesn't really help us get out of where we are, does it? |
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Post by canterburyaddick on Feb 11, 2010 11:44:21 GMT
Agreed Offit. Now don't feel so paranoid, we're not all out to get you  |
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