By Wilf MacDonnell
A busy summer is expected at Charlton Athletic with six first-team players set to leave the club, as well as loan players such as starman Jesurun Rak-Sakyi returning to their parent clubs.
The Addicks will be looking to launch a play-off charge having fallen short of expectations last season with their tenth-place finish.
Macauley Bonne is set to leave following the end of his short-term contract. Bonne made a name for himself in his first spell at Charlton in the 2019-20 season. He continued the excellent form he had shown at Leyton Orient and earned himself a move to QPR. But it never really worked out for the striker, despite having a reasonably productive loan spell back in League One with Ipswich.
Last, January Bonne re-signed for Charlton hoping to rediscover his goal-scoring form but only managed two goals in sixteen league games. Manager Dean Holden will now look into the transfer market to find a replacement frontman.
Elsewhere, Ryan Inniss will also not have his contract renewed. The defender featured 36 times last season and chipped in two goals and two assists but the Charlton hierarchy have decided to move in a different direction and let the former Crystal Palace man go.
Inniss is not the only regular starter from the 2022-23 season set to be let go. Albie Morgan, who has played over 100 times for his boyhood club, will also leave on a free. Morgan was somewhat of a maverick, regularly featuring in Charlton’s midfield three with an excellent eye for a pass.
Sean Clare will leave, too, after two years in London. The natural midfielder largely featured at right-back last season and was a standout performer for the Addicks throughout the campaign. He has since been linked with potential moves to QPR and Derby County.
Outside the first-team regulars, Alex Gilbey and Nathan Harness are the other two players set to leave. Gilbey spent the season on loan at Stevenage where he played 39 times in the league, but he won’t be part of Charlton’s plans for next season as he is returning to his former club MK Dons.
