Charlton Athletic have resubmitted a planning application to upgrade their training ground.
The club’s original plans were approved in 2015, but the project was put on hold by Roland Duchatelet after the owner decided to put Charlton up for sale in 2017. Now the club have submitted a scaled-down version of the proposals that will allow their academy to earn Category One status.
They include a purpose-built indoor pitch, a floodlit 3G pitch and a two-storey building which will house state-of-the-art training facilities.
Duchatelet insists he is still trying to sell, with the club saying it remains the owner’s “number one priority”.
Meanwhile, manager Lee Bowyer has confirmed Huddersfield interest in him but warns potential suitors that only a bigger club may lure him away.
"Of course it was tempting to go there," he told talkSPORT. "It’s great to be recognised for what you’re doing. But it was about what was right for my career, and more importantly what was right on a moral level.
“My family are local and we’re sitting second in the league. I’ve got a good bunch of players, some of them have come here specifically to learn from myself – I couldn’t just walk away."
