Charlton Athletic boss Nathan Jones on Preston link to Tyreece Campbell and clarifies whether there would still be another midfielder deal on cards if trialist Nathaniel Chalobah was to earn contract

Welshman also responds to transfer link to Hull winger Abu Kamara and provides Charlie Kelman injury update

Nathan Jones chatted to South London Sport: Charlton Athletic Edition today with the Addicks boss completing his press conference ahead of Saturday’s EFL Cup tie at Cheltenham.

Further down in this piece are the answers to a number of our questions - including his reaction to Preston North End showing interest in Tyreece Campbell, the latest on trialists Nathaniel Chalobah and Nathan Redmond plus an injury update regarding Charlie Kelman.

First up came the club’s questions, with Jones saying that the switch this season, so that the first fixture of the new season is the EFL Cup, is “quite a nice way to do it”.

“We will treat it as our first competitive game and prepare accordingly,” he added. “We are taking this as seriously as we possibly can.”

Jones revealed that Rob Apter and Micah Mbick are back in full training. Collins Sichenje played an hour in a midweek fixture. Sonny Carey, who missed the friendly against Reading due to illness, has trained all week.

Forward Charlie Kelman has been missing from the Charlton squads since coming off at Gillingham last month.

And Jones confirmed to this website that the former QPR man is likely to be absent for the opening weeks of the Championship campaign.

“He has had a shoulder problem, so he will be weeks, in terms of that,” said the Welshman. “That might stretch over into six weeks, or whatever it is.

“It is an injury that he required a bit of treatment on. It is one we just have to be patient with. Because it is his shoulder it is an injury he will be able to train on, it’s about when he is ready for contact and it has healed properly, then we’ll be able to put him back in.

“He will be able to do non-contact training with us. The frustrating thing is that I wanted him to have a really good pre-season with us this year.”