Bradley Goes Into The Valley

The Bradley Wright-Phillips saga has finally come to a conclusion with the Plymouth Argyle striker signing for League One rivals Charlton Athletic.

The transfer fee is undisclosed but believed to be around £250,000.

For Argyle history repeats itself with another striker with a double-barrelled surname leaving Home Park after scoring 13 goals. It was just three years ago when Sylvan Ebanks-Blake was sold to Wolves after notching up 13 goals in the Championship.

Wright-Phillips needed to be sold to ease Argyle’s financial situation and settled a tax debt with those nice people at Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs but over the last few weeks it’s been like a Carry On film at Home Park.

Reading agreed a transfer fee with Argyle for the striker but he subsequently failed a medical and the deal was off.
Wright-Phillips missed five games over two weeks for Argyle because ‘his head was not right’, at a reported £7,000 a week that’s a lot of money to pay for a club heavily in debt.

So what Wright-Phillips will Charlton get? The lazy, uninterested one who turned up at Watford last season – the worst performance I’ve seen from an Argyle player – or the hot-shot striker from this season, the one who tore Exeter City apart?

Good luck Bradley and thanks for the last six months.