Thursday, 4 September 2008

Great news -Zheng wants to extend his contract.

Zheng wants a new contract

According to the official website and other media sources ZZ has declared his love for the club, is desperate to stay, and wishes to extend his contract. This is very good news indeed .. The most skillful and high profile player we have will be with us until at least January and I hope much beyond that. The Board has effectively sold our best players along with the so called dead-wood to balance the books and I think enough is enough. They do need to invest a little and we must surely now exploit ZZ marketing potential to the largest football supporting nation in the world. If Bailey is played in the centre of the park and plays the way he did against Reading then I think we will see the best of ZZ playing a free and roaming role.

Curbs

Unbelievable treatment of a man who deserves to be held in high esteem not only by Charlton but West Ham . The best Charlton manager in the history of the club who gave little o'l Charlton fans the time of their lives. Take yourselves back to the dark old days and then to the seven years of premiership football, which for most of us oldies was a never ending roller coaster. Players came to play for Charlton that we could have only dreamed about 20 years previously. Curbs maybe not every ones cup of tea, but he is a dam-site better than the majority of Premiership managers . Take Arsene Wenger for example -great manager great tactician but my god he talks a load rubbish sometimes and of course Arsenal players can do no wrong even when the evidence is highlighted on television. I do remember when Charlton drew 1-1 with Arsenal in 2003 (Best Charlton team I have ever seen) and Wenger accused Holland of diving for that great Di-Canio penalty - We so deserved that point as at times we matched Arsenal but all Wenger could say is Arsenal were cheated.

Assessing Curbs transfer dealings

Obviously the signing of Darren Bent was his crowning glory and the return on him has been fantastic, but there are others who were good signings.
Good signings

Luke Young , Mark Fish , Jason Euell, J Johansson , Chris Powell, S Barlett, D Kiely, A Todd,
M Holland, C Perry, Hreidarsson, Jensen.
All of these players cost the club large fees but overall they were not a waste of money.

Worst Buy - was Marcus Bent followed by Francis Jeffers who could have been a good buy but it all went wrong.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Radostin Kishishev was a damned good signing too and an integral part of the team in the Pem years under Curbs.

Anonymous said...

I would add Mendonca, Graham Stuart, and best of all Mark Kinsella.
Duffers bought (well not really duffers- injury prone-Gary Rowe a captain that never was , Gary Poole)
Biggest disappointment Rommerdahl-chocolate teapot
On balance a very good track record in the transfer market
Andrew

charlton north-downs said...

Hi Anon
Your correct but I was naming the players that cost large fees but I think Mendonca was £800,000,so although he didn't play many games he probably made the biggest payback.