Charlton Athletic sign QPR striker Kelman

Charlie Kelman has joined Charlton Athletic after being on the losing side against them in last season's League One play-off final.

Charlton Athletic have made last season's League One Golden Boot winner Charlie Kelman their eighth signing of the summer.

The newly-promoted Championship side have paid Queens Park Rangers an undisclosed fee for the 23-year-old Basildon-born player, who topped the League One goalscoring charts while on loan at Leyton Orient last season.

Kelman played in all 46 league games for Orient, scoring 21 goals as they reached the play-offs, before losing to the Addicks in the final at Wembley.

Kelman began his career at Southend United but moved to Loftus Road in 2020. He played 23 games in the following five seasons, without scoring, before heading out on loan to Gillingham and Wigan, with the latter sandwiched between two spells at Orient.

He scored more goals last season than he had in the previous 11 campaigns combined.

Kelman qualifies for the USA after spending some of his childhood in Texas, and has represented the country at under-18 and under-20 level.

Charlton manager Nathan Jones told the club website: "He's a player we earmarked a long time ago as someone we really wanted to sign.

"With our promotion, it was something we went after really hard. He's a goalscorer - which he proved last year.

"He's scored 27 goals, played lots of games and he's a great age. He's everything we want at Charlton and adds to an already really strong strikeforce that we have."