Charlton will play two matches during their week long training camp in Austria.

The club have confirmed that the games will be against Russian top-flight outfit Anzhi Makhachkala, and Israeli top division side, Maccabi Petak Tikva.

The Addicks will face their Russian opponents on Saturday 16 July, and Maccabi on Tuesday 19 July. Charlton will fly out on Wednesday 13 July, and the trip will be a valuable bonding exercise, as Russell Slade puts the group through their paces. The manager had this to say to the club’s website:

“Every single week in pre-season is important and it’s about getting the players through that period and getting the work into them, but at the same time, managing them along the way and getting them ready for the season.

“Austria will provide an opportunity for us all to be together, working together 24/7, getting to know each other and will help towards bonding us all as a new group. It will be an invaluable week.

“The team spirit is massively important. If you are going to move forward, then you have to have that.

“You have to understand the football club and the success it’s had in the past and try to replicate those things that have been done in the past.

“That includes past promotions and cup runs under the likes of Alan Curbishley and Chris Powell and the time this club had in the Premier League.

“We all have to understand that and understand that this is a community club and that the foundations of it in 1905 was born from just that – a group of young lads at a youth club – before it became the club it is today.

“We have to move forward, but do so on the back of that history and aim high in terms of what has been achieved in the past,” said Slade.

The only gap in Charlton’s warm-up calendar is on Saturday 30 July – the final game before the big kick-off at Bury.

German side St Pauli were originally pencilled in to provide the opposition, then Hibernian looked the likely visitors, but both games fell through.

The Addicks will still stage a game at The Valley a week before the season, with a Dutch side – barring any late hitches – looking certain to provide the opposition.

Three League One games have been rescheduled. The local Derby with Millwall at The Den on 8 October, will now kick-off at 1.00pm. The start time has been brought forward as England host Malta in a World Cup qualifying match on the same day.

The trip to Roots Hall to face Southend on New Year’s Eve will now also kick-off at 1.00pm, and the game at Coventry on 15 April has been brought forward 24 hours. Kick-off at the Ricoh will be at 3.00pm on Good Friday.

Slade has said that he wants to make a central defender his next key signing, and speculation has already begun.

Experienced trio, Michael Turner, Matthew Kilgallon and David Wheater are reported as attracting interest from Charlton.

They are all experienced and would be assets for the Addicks, but their salary demands could be prohibitive.