The full transcript of our exclusive interview with Charlton Athletic chairman Gavin Carter - including discussing investment situation and the summer transfer window
Addicks chief was a guest on Tuesday's South London Sport: Charlton Athletic Edition podcast
It has not been a quiet week for Charlton Athletic. And that’s had nothing to do with transfers, even though we are at the point when wheeling and dealing tends to intensify.
The reason that the Addicks hit the headlines earlier this week was due to a story by Matt Hughes in The Guardian newspaper on Monday evening. It can be found here.
Hughes reported that Charlton are up for sale and that they have employed the help of Oakwell Sports Advisory to find a buyer.
Matt Slater, the senior news reporter for The Athletic, also posted on social media on Tuesday night claiming that Gabriel Brener and Joshua Friedman, the American businessman with the largest stakes in the club, have got a new broker trying to secure a deal.
Slater added that Charlton would cost in excess of £50million and that Brener and Friedman have been “looking for help/an exit for ages”.
South London Sport: Charlton Athletic Edition caught up with the Addicks’ non-executive chairman Gavin Carter on Tuesday afternoon and he spoke exclusively to us about Hughes’ piece, as well as other topics including summer recruitment, the contract status of key players and the women’s promotion to the WSL.
You can listen to it here but below is a transcript of the full conversation.
Charlton fans will have seen The Guardian story and the description that the club is up for sale after three years of GFP owning it. How would you respond to it?
Yesterday must have been a slow news day. There is nothing new here. I think I’ve been consistent and said we will look to attract new investment to the football club to progress the plan. We are on plan.
But having additional investment into the football club is what will be required for us to continue to progress as a football club. It is no different than what every other Championship and Premier League football club is looking to do - to attract additional investment, particularly from a position of strength when things are going well and you are on plan. You position yourself in the best possible place to capitalise the club for those future plans.
What supporters would probably want me to ask you is whether there is a scenario where it could be fully sold to a completely new person or group? Is that a possibility?
