Bonne to Charlton

[Thor]

The Charlton chairman is a proper nut job, he won’t spend the money and if you read his last message he has no intentions of doing so, in fact he’s looking to cut costs further. The strike partner will be gone soon with Bonne I suspect the cheap replacement. He can’t sell the club as he wants too much money, last quoted to be £70m plus debt of approx £65m and you can see why there’s no value in buying them. The last lot of buyers dropped out as he refused to sell the Valley or Sparrows Lane as part of the deal! Like I said he’s mental.

[LittleMate]

Seems a strange move given that Bowyer has just left Charlton over money wrangles.
He must have had discussions with Bowyer and the manager has upped and left on the day he signed.

Got a feeling they have a director of football too and given the anarchy over there only god and Bowyer know if he had anything to do with Bonne's signing - but you would have thought so.....

[Lucky7]

Is Bowyer on his way to us I wonder

[RedDwarf 1881]

Going from National League level to Championship level is one hell of a step up . I think Boarders who have said he's gone out of his depth could be proven correct

[RedDwarf 1881]

Is Bowyer on his way to us I wonder

Absolutely, no thanks.

[Beradogs]

Yeah! No way! He has just got Charlton promoted to the championship with no money and a nutty chairman. We can do so much better! (Not that he is coming here anyway)

[Thor]

I'd dig him here

[Lucky7]

I remember lots of people screaming when we sold Moses to Brentford saying we sold him on the cheap

[kokomO]

Good luck Macca and thanks for the memories!

[Thor]

Hes walking from a club with success and stability and into a madhouse. The manager has quit, they only had 10 professionals in the whole club before he signed, the owner wants out, but wants too much money so can't sell. The fans say more players will be leaving as they cost too much money, are too good and others want them, plus they want out of the madhouse.

[tuffers#1]

I don't know why people let dohy get to them. He's either properly thick or on a constant wind up; whichever it is, it's not worth getting dragged into anything with him

If people continue to slag doh off he is going to.respond in kind.

As i have found out , you give the bloke a chance & hell reapond to how you treat him.

He's said it enough times.
Yeah he can be narky now & then but tell me one person on this board who isnt .
Most people are the same ,

[Lovejoy]

Macca's transfer was reported in today's Sun newspaper so it appears it was no secret.

[RedDwarf 1881]

Hes walking from a club with success and stability and into a madhouse. The manager has quit, they only had 10 professionals in the whole club before he signed, the owner wants out, but wants too much money so can't sell. The fans say more players will be leaving as they cost too much money, are too good and others want them, plus they want out of the madhouse.

Sounds like McCauley is going to be in for a tough season, on and off the pitch.

[RedDwarf 1881]

Hes walking from a club with success and stability and into a madhouse. The manager has quit, they only had 10 professionals in the whole club before he signed, the owner wants out, but wants too much money so can't sell. The fans say more players will be leaving as they cost too much money, are too good and others want them, plus they want out of the madhouse.

Sounds like Macauley is going to be in for a tough season, on and off the pitch.

[Give it to Jabo]

Wilkinson has big shoes to fill. Hope he manages it....

[Lucky7]

Don’t Wilkinson do blades not shoes

[Stowaway]

It was kind of inevitable, but still a really big blow. It’s clear from Mac’s statement that he was approached during the last transfer window, but chose to stay and finish the job with us, and I’m very grateful for that.
We can’t blame him one bit, he’s been great for us over the last two seasons, and I hope it works out for him.
Thanks Mac, the best natural goalscorer we’ve had down here in years.

[Thor]

The deal was done last Tuesday from what I'm reading on Charlton life as the pictures were certainly taken then as someone was there!!

Seems like a pretty sh*tty and insensitive thing to do at that time, but I guess football waits for no one. Not happy about that now I know that.

[LOFC1948]

Bit surprised by this move and the level of fee involved. Stepping up to The Championship is a big move for him and it wouldn’t shock me to see him out on loan somewhere before the end of next season. Hope I’m wrong and I wish him the best - we owe him a lot.

[Disoriented]

Been in hospital and come out to this. WTF are the club playing at? Wasn’t Bonne under contract?

[Thor]

Hope your ok Dis?

He had a min release fee of £200k in his contract, Charlton offered that amount, he wanted out.

[Smendrick Feaselberg]

The deal was done last Tuesday from what I'm reading on Charlton life as the pictures were certainly taken then as someone was there!!

Seems like a pretty sh*t and insensitive thing to do at that time, but I guess football waits for no one. Not happy about that now I know that.

Not sure what's wrong if he has a release clause that was activated. I did think this was wrapped up last week and fair play if the announcement was deliberately delayed to today.

[Howling Mad Murdock]

Hope your ok Dis?

He had a min release fee of £200k in his contract, Charlton offered that amount, he wanted out.

Ahhh I didn't know he had a 200k release clause.That explains it.

[Buddy Manucci]

200k is the rumour, no part of the deal has been revealed.

[RBMarshall]

Is the consensus on here that Macca's performance last season wasn't quite what it was in his first season because he didn't get the rub of the green or because his performances weren't quite as good?