LONDON, CMC – Doubt is hovering over Jonson Clarke-Harris’s 500 000 kilos sterling transfer to Charlton Athletic, with the Jamaica worldwide but to agree on private phrases virtually two weeks after Peterborough accepted a bid from the Southeast London membership.
The 29-year-old was lacking from the squad that beat Charlton 2-1 away on the Valley on Saturday. Afterward, supervisor Daren Ferguson mentioned there was a risk the deal might be scuppered, particularly with no settlement in sight between the participant and Charlton.
“It’s gone quiet. Charlton have had a bid accepted a very long time in the past, however the private phrases are method off in the mean time,” Ferguson mentioned.
“Until Michael Appleton (Charlton supervisor) was to inform me one thing completely different, I don’t assume it is going to be taking place.
“After the bid was accepted, you’ll have thought it may need occurred by now. The league has nothing like ‘Jonno,’ however it’s out of my fingers. It’s as much as ‘Jonno’ and Charlton to strike a deal.”
Clarke-Harris was final season’s League One Golden Boot winner with 26 objectives however was transfer-listed after Peterborough, nicknamed “the Posh,” failed to achieve promotion to the Championship.
He noticed a deadline-day transfer to Bristol Rovers collapse final September however continues to be anticipated to depart the membership within the present January switch window.
Appleton conceded there was “distance between each events” and mentioned Charlton would proceed to discover different choices if the deal fell via.
“That’s my understanding of it as properly. Who is aware of if the deal is lifeless? However the distance between each events exhibits it’s in all probability nearer to not being alive than being alive,” Appleton mentioned.
“You’re all the time upset when a possible signing of that high quality doesn’t occur, however you’ll be able to’t maintain maintain of that disappointment too lengthy.
“The fact is there are different choices and gamers that we’re working exhausting to attempt to herald. If we will get a kind of gamers, it is going to assist us and enhance us.”
Clarke-Harris has notched ten objectives in all competitions this season.
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