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Lee Bowyer has revealed that Charlton Athletic’s owners ambitions are to take the club back to the Premier League.
A first promotion for the Addicks in more than half a decade was secured at Wembley in May, thanks to a 1-0 win over Leyton Orient in the League One play-off final.
They had spent four seasons in the third tier before finally threatening to get back up to the Championship, and, the one time they looked likely, Nathan Jones’ side took their chance.
The Welshman signed a new five-year deal following his post-season success after interest from freshly relegated Cardiff City – his boyhood club – was reported.
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Bowyer, one of his predecessors, was in attendance at Wembley to watch his former club achieve their dreams of going up.
He was the last boss to lead Charlton to promotion, and did it in the exact same way that Jones did it last season: winning the League One play-offs.
The former Addicks player was sat near some of the club’s senior figures for the game, including the club’s ownership group, Global Football Partners. Bowyer has revealed what they told him about their plans for the club going forward.
Speaking in an interview with journalist Rich Cawley via his X account, Bowyer said: “They [Charlton] have also got people there that care. I met all the owners. They were polite, came over, said hello and had a quick chat.
“They said: “Yeah, we want to get to the Premier League. That’s the aim – it’s why we came here.”
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It’s perhaps fair to say that the Championship won’t have seen a more ambitious group of newly promoted sides enter the division next season in many years, perhaps even ever.
Birmingham City and Wrexham are both backed by incredibly wealthy and highly enthusiastic owners, with each club looking set to spend big this summer in order to challenge for an instant promotion out of the second tier and into the Premier League next term.
So, whilst Charlton may not splash the cash as much as their two newly promoted comrades might this summer, they won’t be short of top flight ambition themselves.
Jones doesn’t see why Charlton can’t take that next step up the English footballing pyramid at some point either, and get back to the top flight for the first time in nearly 20 years, although he understands the work that’ll need to be done to get to that point.
“I don’t just want to go and finish fourth bottom,” he said to CBS Sports Golazo following the play-off final victory. “Some people would think that’s a successful season, I’m slightly more ambitious than that…
“In time we can do that [get to the Premier League] but we have to build. What we have to do is make sure that that we have first and foremost no trap doors so we don’t go backwards, so this isn’t a forward step and then we come back down next year. So we have to build that structure, build that competitiveness and then slowly and surely keep moving forward.”
The 52-year-old understands that this is a long-term project with the Addicks, and that’s why he has committed a hefty chunk of his future to being at The Valley and, hopefully, overseeing this rise up the ranks that he talks about and that Bowyer revealed the owners are striving for.
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