Charlie I'Anson On BBC Football website

Thanks oldun !

Quoted from 120797

Can you elaborate here ?

Not trying to pick you apart, just genuinely interested cos I don't remember.

Terrible left foot, not technically gifted at all & bad attitude are the things that stood out. There was more, though i'm not sure if I could manage to find the actual recording.

Quoted from pontoonlew

Terrible left foot, not technically gifted at all & bad attitude are the things that stood out. There was more, though i'm not sure if I could manage to find the actual recording.

I think that is a massive exaggeration, I'm sure he said he was surprised where he had ended up and didn't think he was technically gifted.

For the record I think it was a crime to let him go and it comes down to the offer made to him by the club, he had already demonstrated at 18 that he was more than capable of playing at this level.

FWIW I'm guessing we should have kept him too.
In any case what you CAN say for sure is central defenders don't appear to be a major problem right now.

Has our back four improved since he left?? Simple answer is yes.

There seems to be a huge obsession with players that are no longer with us than the ones that are here at present.

Move on, the lads got a club, he's earning a wage and he may get in their first team at some point. More likely after this season when they've been relegated...

Good for him.  I remember PH being asked about him in the fans' forum (I think the question was about whether we could get some sort of payment for him) and I thought his response, questioning his technique and doubting his ability, was chippy, bitter and lacking in class.  It was embarrassing to listen to something like that coming out of the football club.

Quoted from aldi_01

Has our back four improved since he left?? Simple answer is yes.

Thank you aldi_01 for bringing some sense into the thread! I'anson is not IMHO big enough or strong enough to cope with the strikers in the Conference! He reminds me of Simon Ramsden! He had similar issues when we were in League Two!

Good to see a bit of press coverage to one of our former players

Quoted from oldun

My god, we would rather support players who are no longer here than get behind those that are. Good luck to him but he is not relevant to the present squad and will have no effect on our efforts to get promotion.

He isn't relevant but one of the people who thought he wasn't good enough is highly relevant.

Even I could tell he was a talent worth keeping.

No point saying "we should have kept him", or for that matter "should have kept Cameron Jerome" or "Should have kept Ryan Bennett" or "Should have kept John Oster".  Quality players will move on.

Maybe his football style was more suited to Spain than Conference Hoofball.  This is part of the reason we have this conversation every two years about why England don't produce decent technical footballers: "Not strong enough", "Needs to fill out/beef up", "Too fancy".

No-one's messed up or done anything wrong.  He moved on, developing his game in one of the top leagues in the world, and he's done well.  I really hope he gets back into La Liga soon and that more young English players try their hand abroad (although Spain isn't really abroad for I'Anson!)