'Immensely rewarding summer' - Addicks chief Rodwell
Charlton managing director Jim Rodwell: 'The summer was testing, trying and hopefully rewarding'
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Charlton Athletic managing director Jim Rodwell says he is delighted with how the newly-promoted Championship side's summer player recruitment panned out.
The Addicks brought in 11 new faces after promotion from League One through the play-offs - and sit ninth in the table with a 12-point haul from eight games.
"It's been an immensely rewarding summer, but it's been incredibly hectic, incredibly busy," Rodwell told BBC Radio London.
"Clearly, we start off behind the eight ball [after the play-off final] but it's been good, we're incredibly privileged to be in this position and we wouldn't change it for anything.
"A lot of people worked incredibly hard last season to make this happen and this summer was testing, it was trying, but ultimately rewarding.
"We absolutely had two plans, a plan to play in League One and a plan to be in the Championship. We knew the players we wanted to sign, we had two budgets so we'd done the work, doing the work is the reasonably easy bit.
"We had a fixed plan, but you've got to execute it in less time you ordinarily might have done if you had won automatic promotion.
"I think we got promoted on a Sunday and I met [head coach] Nathan Jones on the Monday morning afterwards, with slightly sore heads in a cafe in Greenwich and that's when we started."