The Charlton Athletic Gazette
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$4.9M settles it between the clubs for Niall Ennis
Blackpool 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Miles Leaburn puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Charlton Athletic, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 8 signed and 4 gone
That is the business done at Charlton Athletic until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Juan Herrera turns down Charlton Athletic
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Guadalajara keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Charlton Athletic
Ephron Mason-Clark and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Charlton Athletic rebuffed over Kristi Montgomery
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Blackburn Rovers have kept their man, and Charlton Athletic go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Charlton Athletic training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luke Berry 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
Lloyd Jones knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lloyd Jones trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A promotion for Amari'i Bell
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Amari'i Bell has moved up it.
In brief
- Squad Greg Docherty loses the armband
- Market Charlton Athletic and Ryan Wintle are talking past each other
- Market The market said no: Kayne Ramsay stays put