Thursday 10 May 2012

Euell heads list of 5 released

The inevitable post-season transfer rumours are starting to litter the internet yet again, and today it was announced Charlton Athletic would be releasing five players. Jason Euell, an Addicks legend, Gary Doherty, the experienced central defender, Freddie Warren and Tosan Popo the former youth team players, and mystery man Mikel Alonso.

Euell is the stand out name from the list. Although it may not be a surprise to most fans, this does signal the end of his Charlton career and possibly his career itself, yet Powell did state that him coming back in a coaching role is a possibility. Gary Doherty never really hit the heights of fans expectations, and it is of no surprise to me that he will be departing the club, after signing in 2010. I know very little of Popo and Warren as neither of them were given a real first team opportunity, other than Popo's cameo outing against Preston North End near the end of the last calendar year. Now for Alonso, I, for one, was absolutely delighted to hear that he had signed for Charlton last year, yet it never crossed my mind that he would go down in the history books as another Omar Pouso or Cory Gibbs. Alonso only managed one first team appearance in a Charlton shirt, against Brentford in the Johnston's Paint Trophy, which happened to be one of the first home games I had missed in a while, and thank God I missed it, a 3-0 defeat and a supposedly awful appearance by the mystery man knocked Charlton out of the cup. I can only deduct one thing from this... Alonso never existed.

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