Boss Kieran McKenna says striker Freddie Ladapo leaves Portman Road for Charlton with everyone at Portman Road’s best wishes having been a big player at Town over the last 18 months.

Ladapo moved to the Addicks on loan for the rest of the season on Friday and made his debut in Saturday’s 2-0 defeat at Burton. The 30-year-old played the first 86 minutes.

“It’s a good move for Freddie and he needs to play some more minutes now and start some games and he’s got the opportunity to do that at a good club,” McKenna told TownTV.

“Of course, he goes with our best wishes, Freddie’s done a terrific job over the last 18 months-plus and been a big player for us and he goes there now with all our wishes to do well to the end of the season.”

Ladapo joined the Blues after leaving Rotherham in the summer of 2022 and has scored 25 goals in 33 starts and 42 sub appearances.

He was a member of the squad which secured promotion from League One last season, netting 21 times in that campaign. He has another year and a half left on his Town contract.

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Cadiar added 10:22 - Jan 21 Good move for FL. Like Greig Leigh he needs to be playing more. As for the snide remarks from some about his attitude & ability, he has a very good record of goals for minutes played. The messages on Instagram from his team mates indicate how popular he was at ITFC & to put the record straight Rotherham as a championship team didn't off load him to us, he turned down a new contract to drop a league to come to a team with history & ambition.

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dirtydingusmagee added 11:04 - Jan 21 well said Cadiar . And Freddies goals were a major contribution to our promotion .
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SussexTractor added 11:50 - Jan 21 Best of luck Freddie. I think this might be a wrong move personally because Ipswich need you (in the absence of a replacement).
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churchmans added 16:35 - Jan 21 @cadiar what snide remarks? Stop talking s hite and making things up Ladapo gone on loan to get games cos he ain't getting none this season! What does that tell you and everyone else throwing about the 'snide remarks etc' if there is point them out tell us show us because I ain't seen any
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KiwiTractor added 16:44 - Jan 21 I think it was Freddies brother that played against Burton... Freddie is still to make his debut for Charlton?
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Monkey_Blue added 17:39 - Jan 21 I’m still a little puzzled about this… we’ve now lost Hirst, Scarlett and Freddie from our pre new year squad… and even if we signed two strikers we are down on numbers.. it also lets clubs know we are more desperate for strikers than we were before. I have faith in McKenna but that doesn’t mean I think he’s perfect…
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blues1 added 20:17 - Jan 21 Churchman. Dont know where you've been the past couple of months but there have been many fans both on here and other social media slagging off Ladapo. Cadiar is spot on with that.
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Tractor_Boy_in_HK added 07:58 - Jan 22 Rotherham offloaded him. Listen to the excellent BBC podcast featuring Paul Warne and he/his agent are mentioned several times. He got benched, sulked about not starting and was left entirely off the team sheet. His attitude seems to have been much better with us, credit to him. But let's not rewrite history.
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