Benjamin Collins

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17 Sep 2027
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Process

Marked for Benjamin Collins

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The Charlton Athletic Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Raynon Richman asks to leave Charlton Athletic

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Tyreece Campbell runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets

Charlton Athletic baulk at the price for Marvin Kaleta

Rotherham United wanted more than $370.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

A row about effort at Charlton Athletic

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miles Leaburn was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Words exchanged at Charlton Athletic

Lars Ritzka and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Bazoumana Touré

Charlton Athletic asked and Newcastle United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The terraces

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.

Match

Charlton Athletic find a way past Sheffield United

Sheffield United made Charlton Athletic work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match

Charlton Athletic come up short against Southampton

Southampton left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Charlton Athletic Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Emmanuel Adegboyega

Charlton Athletic and Rotherham United have settled on $930.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Boardroom

Charlton Athletic go back to the board over Emmanuel Adegboyega

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.0M — a club that wants Emmanuel Adegboyega enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Giovanni Leoni

Charlton Athletic asked and Liverpool said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Charlton Athletic walk away from Micah Hamilton

$400.0K was the most the club would pay and Middlesbrough 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.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Charlton Athletic

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

A falling-out at Charlton Athletic

Lars Ritzka and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Benjamin Collins steps up from the Charlton Athletic academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benjamin Collins has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Charlton Athletic promote Oliver Harris from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Oliver Harris has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Adam Wood steps up from the Charlton Athletic academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Adam Wood has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief