The Charlton Athletic Gazette
Market25 Feb 2030
Iker Unzueta 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.
Squad25 Feb 2030
Ferdi Kadıoğlu in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Charlton Athletic this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings25 Feb 2030
Ninety minutes of Jayden Luker at his very best
Marked 8.26. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Charlton Athletic.
Squad25 Feb 2030
Time is catching up with Edu Espiau
Everybody at Charlton Athletic saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 35 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Squad25 Feb 2030
Jack Mitchell signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jack Mitchell and Charlton Athletic agree another 5 years.
Player ratings25 Feb 2030
Rob Apter runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad25 Feb 2030
Words at Charlton Athletic training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leon Musaev 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 dugout25 Feb 2030
The team sheet said everything about Ellis Iandolo
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Ellis Iandolo.
The dugout25 Feb 2030
No hiding place for Kieran Green
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kieran Green, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Match Charlton Athletic and Sheffield Wednesday take a point apiece
- The dugout Josh Laqeretabua is still being punished for one mistake
- The dugout The view from the dugout