New left back is injury prone

New left back Luke Chambers looks like he will be keeping the infamous Sparrows Lane treatment table busy.  That's why I thought Swiss starlet Junior Logue was a better bet.

Luke Chambers arrives from Liverpool on loan for the remainder of the season. The 21-year-old from Preston has previously had spells with Wigan Athletic and Kilmarnock.  Chambers joined the Reds’ academy at the age of six and made his senior debut against Leicester in the EFL Cup in September 2023.

Capped by England at multiple age groups from U15 to U20, he also represented Liverpool in 2023 Europa League fixtures - wins over Toulouse (5-1) and LASK Linz (4-0) as well as a loss to Union St Gilloise.

Chambers returned to Wigan at the start of the following campaign but a back injury limited him to just 13 matches.  After playing the opening 10 league games he was ruled out in early October. Chambers made his return on March 8 but the comeback lasted two matches, ending after a 70-minute runout in a 2-1 loss at The Valley.

Wigan boss Ryan Lowe announced that Chambers had headed back to Liverpool at the start of April.  He added: “He’s had another recurrence of the injury and his season will be done.”He was just not quite right. I know he came back from his injury and he played under Glenn [Whelan].

“But after that, he wasn’t really right. We could see he wasn’t really right in training. He came to see me and said he didn’t feel right, we then spoke to Liverpool, and he obviously wasn’t right."

Charlton linked with Zurich left back

German language sites are linking Charlton with 20-year old left back Junior Ligue.   The FC Zurich player is a Swiss Under 21 international.  He would come in on a loan with a possible permanent role in the summer.

Charlton made a second offer for the player on Wednesday: 'Und der 20-Jährige nutzt die freie Zeit offenbar ziemlich gut. Nach Informationen von 4-4-2.ch gibt es aus England konkretes Interesse an Ligue. Charlton Athletic hat am Mittwoch bereits das zweite Angebot für Ligue abgegeben.'

It's 45 years now since I was playing Cold War games in Berlin, but I think I have the essence right!

In the event Charlton have signed Luke Chambers from Liverpool, I just hope he isn't injury prone: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c62rvyv6dlqo

Nathan Jones says he had never even heard the player's name.   All I would say is that it's a strange story for German sites to invent given that there is virtually zero interest in Charlton in Switzerland.