“I joined the Arsenal on Chelsea and Spurs – it was the most terrible choice I’ve ever made”
The transfer of Mer Charles to Arsenal established a record for the largest transfer between the British clubs in 1959, but the Welsh described the transfer to the north of London as the decision of must ever make
Mer Charles once admitted that his record transfer to Arsenal has raked as “the most terrible choice I have ever made”. The former Footb
It was only a year after the competition in Sweden that Charles, who had on Sumven in the second division, ensured at £ 42,750 to move from the club of Fanciullo Swansea City to the north part of London, who were in the first division, between the interest of Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur
The transfer established a record while the largest deal mediated between two British clubs and took place only two years after Juventus had paid Leeds United £ 65,000 for his older brother, John Charles.
However, the large move for the young Charles did not work. Due to constant ligament injuries, he played only 64 games for the Gunners in three years while he scored 28 goals.
In his ghost autobiography, Charles was particularly disturbing of his decision to join the club, claiming that “the meaning for Arsenal was the most terrible and ever made choice”. He cut Tys with the club in 1962 and returned to Wales, Media Cardiff City for £ 28,500.
It was in the Welsh capital that Charles captured the only domestic Ionour of his career, when he won the Welsh Cup in 1964. After three years with Cardiff, he spent the last years of his career in the lower divisions of football, enjoying periods with artists of the caliber of Porthmangag, Port Vale, Oswestry Town and Haverfordwest.
I ended up retreating to the Welsh Club in 1972 after the five -year period. Charles ended with a record of 122 goals in 401 championship games and cup in the Football League. John followed in his brother’s footsteps, returning home to Wales to retire in 1974 after spending two years playing for Merthyr Tydfil.
However, he only did a legendary career in which he studied an iconic Forys Leeds United and Juventus figure. The midfield scored 154 goals in 317 games for Leeds before venturing into Italian football where he had enormous success.
In the five years spent in Turin, Charles scored 105 goals in 179 games and won three Serie A titles and two Italias Cup. Charles died at the age of 71 in 2004, but remains a famous figure in Welsh football and was appointed by Stan Collymore among the greatest players in British history when Rubbushing’s statements that Gareth Bale is the greatest player he ever emerged from the banks.
The former Liverpool star and Nottingham Forest said in 2023: “It is quite bizarre because the number of championships won and the race he made to Spurs who transformed him from the secondary secondary sub -muzzle
“And beating the trophies you have to put it among the biggest ever. But I look at Kevin Keegan, Kenny Dalglysh, John Charles – that it was obvious to me if it is this perceived attitude of Laissez Faire of Wales.