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Karl Robinson offers to resign as Charlton Athletic boss as malaise under Roland Duchatelet continues

Karl Robinson offers to resign as Charlton Athletic boss as malaise under Roland Duchatelet continues

Crisis-club Charlton Athletic are set to be searching for yet another new manager.

Karl Robinson is understood to have offered his resignation to the Addicks’ absent owner Roland Duchatelet.

His resignation has been rejected by Duchatelet but it seems just a matter of time before the 37-year-old leaves The Valley.

Robinson has been heavily linked with the managerial vacancy at Charlton’s League one rivals Oxford United.

He had vowed to restore Charlton - not so long ago a fixture in the Premier League - ‘back to where it belongs’ when he was appointed as Russell Slade’s successor in November 2016.

But a promotion charge has failed to materialise under Robinson and the south London club are currently sitting ninth in League One, with fans fed-up of the way the club is run and attendances at an all-time low.

Robinson has had minimal funds to spend on players and has been working without a chief executive since December after Katrien Meire quit to join Sheffield Wednesday.

Duchatelet, who has not attended a match at The Valley for more than three years, has been in talks over selling the club with a number of interested parties, including an Australian consortium, but a deal still appears to be some way off.

Charlton have lurched from one crisis to another since the Belgian businessman bought the club in January 2014.

Seven managers have come and gone, including club legend Chris Powell, and they have fallen from the Championship into League One.

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