The Charlton Athletic Gazette
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Too dear: Charlton Athletic walk away from Matt Freese
$9.2M was the most the club would pay and New York City were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market31 Aug 2026
Paris Lock hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Charlton Athletic can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Charlton Athletic bid $1.6M for Marvin Kaleta
The offer went to Rotherham United this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Charlton Athletic go back to the board over Marvin Kaleta
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.7M — a club that wants Marvin Kaleta enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
André Henrique turns down Charlton Athletic
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Grêmio keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Rotherham United tell Charlton Athletic: Marvin Kaleta is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Charlton Athletic training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcus Mathisen is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Óscar Aranda
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Óscar Aranda, and the manager let it.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Charlton Athletic supporters have found a favourite in Miles Leaburn
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Miles Leaburn has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
In brief
- Match Miles Leaburn sends Charlton Athletic past Preston
- Squad Tempers go at Charlton Athletic
- Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Miles Leaburn