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Bowyer gives the low-down on his ‘project’

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Charlton’s manager Lee Bowyer has given his views on his project and how he can get him to where he wants to be, we are talking about of course Macaulay Bonne.

 

The 23-year-old arrived in the summer from Leyton Orient, but has seen his game time limited under The Addicks playing just six minutes in the league whilst starting The Carabao Cup game against Forest Green.

Speaking to The South London Press Bowyer had this to say

“I said to him: ‘The easy thing for me to do is let you go on loan and play games – you probably would get experience’. But he is a project for us. He is improving all the time.

“There are small details we are passing on to him and over a short space of time he has taken them on board straight away and it’s making him better.

“If I send him somewhere where they are not going to ask the same of him then he is not going to get to the level we want him to.

“So for now we are going to keep him and re-evaluate in January. We’ll see where we are and he is. It could be then that we do say: ‘Go on now – go out and score some goal, because you are going to play the way we want you to play’.

“In the meantime he is still going to get chances for us. This is the best thing to do.”

Lee obviously sees something in Macca which the fans have not seen yet. He is not ready for Championship football that’s a fact, but Bowyer wants to oversee Bonne’s development, so he becomes the exact player that the manager wants him to be.

I understand the aspect of doing this, but I also don’t want to see him rot in the reserves as we could have a good goal scorer on our hands.

He certainly knows how to do it but doing it in The Championship is proving to be difficult for him, for now.

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