Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... 10:05 - Jan 13 with 4179 views | SomethingBlue | Yet to do it in senior football but it's very difficult at Chelsea, of all clubs, and especially as a striker. He was belting them in past Europe's best teams for fun at youth CL level. Good environment for him to do well at MK, I think it might go well for him there. | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:07 - Jan 13 with 3524 views | BryanPlug | [content removed at owner's request] | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:08 - Jan 13 with 3510 views | footers | How much did they pay for him? Can't have been peanuts. | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:08 - Jan 13 with 3501 views | footers |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:07 - Jan 13 by BryanPlug | [content removed at owner's request] |
balls . | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:16 - Jan 13 with 3438 views | itfcjoe | Yep, decent move for him - contract was up in the summer so guess all our sell on fees have now disappeared | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:21 - Jan 13 with 3357 views | bluelagos |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:07 - Jan 13 by BryanPlug | [content removed at owner's request] |
Guess they'd been snooping around for him a while. | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:23 - Jan 13 with 3346 views | Fixed_It |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:21 - Jan 13 by bluelagos | Guess they'd been snooping around for him a while. |
You Linus up and we'll put them away! | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:27 - Jan 13 with 3303 views | Coco |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:16 - Jan 13 by itfcjoe | Yep, decent move for him - contract was up in the summer so guess all our sell on fees have now disappeared |
will he end up a better player than Freddie Sears? | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:31 - Jan 13 with 3263 views | Radlett_blue | He's 21 & needs to be making his mark somewhere if he's going to have a pro playing career. Easy to see why these youngsters (and their parents) have their heads turned by big clubs, but it rarely works out. We'll never know if he'd have been better off staying at Town. I hadn't realised he's Zak Brown's brother. | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:32 - Jan 13 with 3252 views | hoppy |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:23 - Jan 13 by Fixed_It | You Linus up and we'll put them away! |
Woodstock up the punchlines to use, but they’ve probably all gone now.., | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:36 - Jan 13 with 3222 views | jeera |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:21 - Jan 13 by bluelagos | Guess they'd been snooping around for him a while. |
As the OP says, he was not about to break through at Chelsea. At least now he's Freida up to make his mark on the game. | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:39 - Jan 13 with 3202 views | hype313 |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:31 - Jan 13 by Radlett_blue | He's 21 & needs to be making his mark somewhere if he's going to have a pro playing career. Easy to see why these youngsters (and their parents) have their heads turned by big clubs, but it rarely works out. We'll never know if he'd have been better off staying at Town. I hadn't realised he's Zak Brown's brother. |
Professionally he probably would have been better off staying here, financially he was better off taking the Chelsea deal. | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:44 - Jan 13 with 3166 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:39 - Jan 13 by hype313 | Professionally he probably would have been better off staying here, financially he was better off taking the Chelsea deal. |
Not necessarily, he’s failed to breakthrough at Chelsea and landed in League One. Had he done the same here non league would probably be awaiting Of course he may have established himself and gone onto bigger things but that’s hardly a certainty - and he may well still do so from MK Dons Statistically chances of making it as a professional are much higher from an academy like Chelsea’s, than Ipswich | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:46 - Jan 13 with 3146 views | Pinewoodblue |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:44 - Jan 13 by C_HealyIsAPleasure | Not necessarily, he’s failed to breakthrough at Chelsea and landed in League One. Had he done the same here non league would probably be awaiting Of course he may have established himself and gone onto bigger things but that’s hardly a certainty - and he may well still do so from MK Dons Statistically chances of making it as a professional are much higher from an academy like Chelsea’s, than Ipswich |
I doubt you can back up that last comment with facts. | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:50 - Jan 13 with 3122 views | itfcjoe |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:39 - Jan 13 by hype313 | Professionally he probably would have been better off staying here, financially he was better off taking the Chelsea deal. |
I doubt it, in order to be in a better position he'd have needed to be playing regularly here or have signed for a better team.....chances are he'd have gone the same way Morris, or Folami have gone who were well ahead of him in the pecking order | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:51 - Jan 13 with 3110 views | hoppy |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:36 - Jan 13 by jeera | As the OP says, he was not about to break through at Chelsea. At least now he's Freida up to make his mark on the game. |
Quite Franklin, I think you’ve gone too far now. | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:52 - Jan 13 with 3102 views | Ewan_Oozami | Good grief!! | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 11:00 - Jan 13 with 3053 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:46 - Jan 13 by Pinewoodblue | I doubt you can back up that last comment with facts. |
Lol - how many ex-Chelsea academy products do you think there are playing league football, compared to Ipswich? | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 11:04 - Jan 13 with 3027 views | Pinewoodblue |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 11:00 - Jan 13 by C_HealyIsAPleasure | Lol - how many ex-Chelsea academy products do you think there are playing league football, compared to Ipswich? |
Think in percentage terms. | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 11:06 - Jan 13 with 3008 views | hype313 |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:44 - Jan 13 by C_HealyIsAPleasure | Not necessarily, he’s failed to breakthrough at Chelsea and landed in League One. Had he done the same here non league would probably be awaiting Of course he may have established himself and gone onto bigger things but that’s hardly a certainty - and he may well still do so from MK Dons Statistically chances of making it as a professional are much higher from an academy like Chelsea’s, than Ipswich |
it's pure conjuncture in all honesty, neither of us could know how it would plan out, I don't know if professionally it was the right decision, but clearly when you hear stories of 16yr olds getting £20k a week then you can see why he left financially. | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 12:55 - Jan 13 with 2791 views | jayessess |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 10:46 - Jan 13 by Pinewoodblue | I doubt you can back up that last comment with facts. |
Come on, graduates from Chelsea's academy playing professional football must outnumber ours quite considerably, surely? Even if you're only counting academy products Chelsea still own they've got 7 in their own first team squad and 21 they've got out playing football on loan either in English league football or in a top flight European league. You could include every single ITFC academy graduate currently playing league football and I doubt you get to as many as 28. | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 13:16 - Jan 13 with 2717 views | jaykay | well his brother has got engaged to the daughter of brightons owner, so he is doing alright to. | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 13:22 - Jan 13 with 2677 views | MonkeyAlan | Moving to Chelsea didn't do him much good did it? May as well have stayed here. Might have played a bit, if he had looked good, might have gotten a decent move. Instead he is no further along than he may have been with us | | | |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 13:23 - Jan 13 with 2670 views | BlueandTruesince82 | MK Dons? Good Grief. | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 13:41 - Jan 13 with 2609 views | Warkystache |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 13:22 - Jan 13 by MonkeyAlan | Moving to Chelsea didn't do him much good did it? May as well have stayed here. Might have played a bit, if he had looked good, might have gotten a decent move. Instead he is no further along than he may have been with us |
What? You saying he should have stayed at Portman Schroeder? | |
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Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 16:00 - Jan 13 with 2380 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Charlie Brown has signed permanently for MK Dons ... on 11:04 - Jan 13 by Pinewoodblue | Think in percentage terms. |
Chelsea have a larger academy than us but how many more players do you think that actually is, given we field teams at all age levels etc? The number of ex-Chelsea academy players playing in the football league absolutely dwarfs ours, let alone worldwide Been rather busy today but there have been a few articles highlighting this point - moving to a club like Chelsea certainly isn’t a ticket to making it but the fall is much slower and smaller than staying at a smaller club like us. If I get time I’ll dig out a couple of links [Post edited 13 Jan 2021 16:01]
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