Charlton Athletic are set to make their first signing of the summer having clinched a deal to bring Leyton Orient striker Macauley Bonne to the Valley as reported by London News Online.
The report claims the Zimbabwe international is arriving in a £200,000 deal.
The frontman topped the scoring charts at Brisbane Road last season, finding the net twenty-three times in forty-six matches to help them clinch the National League title and promotion back to the EFL.
The twenty-three-year-old had youth spells at Ipswich and Norwich before emerging through the ranks at Colchester United. He scored fifteen goals in eighty-four outings at the U’s and was sent out on loan to Lincoln City and Woking before finding his feet in East London. In total, he has scored forty-five times for Orient since joining in 2017 and signed a new two-year deal last summer which recent reports claimed contained a £200,000 release clause.
Previously the striker was linked with Sunderland and Premier League Leicester City, but it now appears he has decided to stay in London and have a tilt at Championship level football with recently promoted Charlton.
Our View
Boone is still raw, but he does know where the net is, and he’s made considerable improvements to his all-around game while at Orient.
He is a gamble but one worth taking for Charlton.
Bonne has attracted summer attention for a reason, and it is not the first-time Charlton have given young players from lower down the pyramid a chance with Joe Aribo being the classic example.
