Monday, 18 May 2026

We need to improve all over the pitch admits chairman

Speaking on Charlton TV, chairman Gavin Carter has confirmed that the club will have to be ‘ruthless’ in terms of summer signing and departures, but admitted that the strategy would be financially constrained.

“We have got a lot of work to do.   There are not many players that are out of contract. We have got to look at the squad. If we’re going to bring players in then we’ve got to move some players on, which isn’t easy.

“Sequencing this is difficult. Ideally you would get players out - you get the cash in and then you spend the cash - but we don’t live in a perfect world.

“We are going to do stuff in a fiscally sustainable way. I’ve said many times that I’m not going to risk the future of the football club. You see teams do it all the time and owners do come and go. I’m not going to put us in a position where we have made too many commitments that we then can’t fund in the future. But we are going to make progress.”

“We need more up front. We didn’t score enough goals this year and that’s painfully obvious. In the middle of the park we don’t want to rely just on Sonny (Carey). We need to make sure we’re carrying the ball and we’re what Nathan wants us to be - fluid and aggressive.

“I don’t think there is one area of the pitch where we can’t improve. That has got to be the mentality. But there were clearly some areas of the squad, where there were loan players, that we would like to bring in squad players for next season.”

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