The summer is probably the busiest time of all for the staff at a football club.

The annual turnover of players is massive these days. The management team have to decide which players will be released and which ones will be offered new deals.

Of those still under contract, there will be discussions with those the club want to move on, and there will be others who will be seeking a new club.

There will also be players that are coveted by other clubs. The club will have a list of players they want to bring in to strengthen the squad, as well as a list of possible replacements for the players targeted by other teams.

Charlton will have to have contingency plans for a variety of situations.

Like most clubs, they will not really know what their budget is until they have sorted out the futures of the players they want to shift.

The groundsmen have to do whatever remedial work their pitch needs. For Charlton, this was a huge undertaking last summer. A new drainage system had to be put in, pipes for undersoil heating were installed and the pitch had to be relaid.

The stadium also underwent a major facelift with thousands of new seats replacing those bleached by the sun.

Though there will be less going on this summer, there is still plenty of work to be done.

The main renovation will be replacing the Valley turnstiles to accommodate the new credit card style swipe season tickets.

The Commercial Centre are busy processing season ticket applications and the mail out of the new style cards will be a big job.

The Communications team will are redesigning the programme ahead of the new campaign. This year they will have the added complication of engaging a new printer.

Another time consuming job for the Communications team is assembling the statistics for the handbook, which is incorporated in the first league programme of the season.

A new big screen is being installed over the summer. This has to be tested and procured and it is an enormous task to bring the task to fruition.

To supplement the upgraded big screen, the club is investing in a new multi camera replay system. The upgraded big screen will utilise new pre-sets, video content, matchday script and templates.

Things are just as busy at Sparrow Lane. The ground staff have pitch preparations to do and the kitmen will have to take in, sort and print up the three new kits that will be used for the 2015/16 season.

The pre-season schedules put a massive workload on the kit department. The first team, Under-21 and Under-18 sides will all be training at the same time.

Often there will be morning and afternoon sessions ahead of the warm-up games. The friendly games allow unlimited substitutions, the various groups normally go on pre-season tours as well.

One man guaranteed of a busy summer is Chris Parkes. As football secretary, Chris is responsible for all the arrangements for the pre-season games.

He is responsible for completing the paperwork needed to register new players. With a big turnover of players likely, Parkes’ workload will be even more onerous than usual when the new faces start arriving.

While fans will eagerly await the release of the fixtures next Wednesday, Chris will be thinking of the logistical and accommodation issues he will need to deal with when he sights the list.

Though most fans would love to work for their club, it is a long, hard slog and anything but a glamorous job.