Talented young striker, Karlan Ahearne-Grant, has penned a three-year professional contract with the Addicks and the club have an option to extend it by a further year.

Ahearne-Grant celebrated his seventeenth birthday last week and has played for the club’s Under-21 team this season.

He has impressed sufficiently to have been included in the first team match day squad a couple of times.

Ahearne-Grant had this to say to the club’s website after signing his contract:

“I’m really happy that club have put their trust in me with a long-term deal and I’m really excited with what’s to come here.

“It’s down to me now whether I can progress as a player. I’ve seen Joe (Gomez) do it, which is brilliant to see after I played with him last season. Now he’s pushed on and I just want to follow in his footsteps.”

The striking options are somewhat limited for Bob Peeters at the moment. Igor Vetokele has hit the ground running but George Tucudean has found things tougher and was relegated to the bench at Rotherham on Saturday.

Joe Pigott has been loaned to Newport, while midfielders, Franck Moussa and Callum Harriott, have often been preferred to Simon Church when Peeters makes a change during matches. Church was not even on the bench at Rotherham.

Charlton made a well publicised bid to capture Andy Delort in the summer but the Frenchman opted to join Wiganinstead.

The Addicks made late bids for other strikers but were unable to get a deal over the line.

Delort’s move to Wigan has given the Latics a plethora of strikers and they may be looking to move some of them on.

Grant Holt has only appeared for the Latics once this season, coming on as a second half substitute in the Capital One Cup defeat at Burton Albion.

The much travelled Carlisle born frontman is now 33 but still has plenty to offer. He is a target man with a more than decent scoring record.

Holt netted 24 times in 39 games when Norwich won the League One title and scored another 21 goals in 45 appearances the following season, when the Canaries were runners-up in the Championship.

He scored a respectable 15 goals from 36 appearances in the 2011/12 Premier League season and added a further 8 goals from 34 appearances the following season.

Holt joined Wigan at the start of last season and also had a loan spell at Aston Villa.

He would relish a fresh challenge and would give Peeters a different option up front.