The Charlton Athletic Gazette
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Jeffrey Schlupp would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jeffrey Schlupp is living that version at Charlton Athletic, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$120.0K settles it between the clubs for Jordan Bowery
Mansfield Town have accepted the money. What Charlton Athletic do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Sonny Carey signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sonny Carey and Charlton Athletic agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Charlton Athletic
Jeffrey Schlupp and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Charlton Athletic training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lloyd Jones 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
KAA Gent tell Charlton Athletic: Moctar Diop 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Kayne Ramsay's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Charlton Athletic try to borrow Modou Faal
Wrexham have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Sonny Carey knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Charlton Athletic, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Charlton Athletic and Luke Berry
- Market Paris Lock told to find a new club
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Tiernan Brooks