Things have turned around at The Valley and it feels great.

Tuesday’s win over Nottingham Forest was the third home victory in a row since the Norwich City game.

Never an easy feat in this Championship but made all the more remarkable when you remember the three-month winless run that proceeded it and the atrocious Norwich game.

After the Canaries result, a win within the next 100 games seemed less likely than Alan Pardew being named England manager.

After the less than receptive welcome Guy Luzon was given, due to the probably network limited search for Bob Peeters’ replacement, the Israeli appears to be winning some supporters over. 

Just having players at your disposal isn’t enough to mould a winning side - although of course it helps.

The signings of Roger Johnson, Tony Watt, Chris Eagles and Alou Diarra (who has played in the World Cup Final for goodness sake!) have helped to, vitally, improve and deepen the squad.

Just having nice furniture doesn’t automatically turn a house into a home.

And to further the analogy, you all know that when you first move into a new abode, there’s boxes of stuff spewed all over the gaff and it takes a while to get comfortable.

That was certainly true of Luzon’s start with the club.

An OK point at Wolves was followed by an awful performance at home to Rotherham, a tough defeat at Middlesbrough and an absolute mess at home to Norwich. 

But it all clicked in the Brentford game.

All of a sudden Luzon’s feng shui was on point.

Watt and Igor Vetokele looked great next to each other in the front garden. Jordan Cousins deserved to be the centre piece.

Hedge trimmers soon sorted that defence that was ever growing messily out of control. 

We play attacking football, even if we’re already winning.

Luzon said himself that when the opponent is there to be killed off: “I want to kill him.”

That’s a breath of fresh air, to see us going for the jugular against Forest instead of holding on for the 2-1 was fantastic.

Luzon has settled in now and with the help of his players provided to him during winter cleaning, has a squad which could host dinner parties.

But how long will it last? 

Over the past few weeks since I last wrote this column, Katrien Meire held the VIP Q&A meeting at The Valley, which was followed the evening after by the Supporters Trust’s public meeting in Woolwich.

Meire made it clear during the first meeting the club owner Roland Duchatelet will be doing all his talking through her.

The Trust meeting, which I attended in the world’s coldest building), seemed to list amongst its aims a more open dialogue with Duchatelet himself - something which I don’t think will happen.

A lack of understanding on the direction which the club is going in is what causes the most worry among supporters.

While we’re riding this wave of winning games and playing exciting football, many won’t care.

But for me, I still have a slight nagging feeling in the back of my mind.

Charlton have always been a selling club, even when we had an outside chance of Champions League football we cashed in on Scott Parker.

When Luzon had his first fantastically successful season at Standard Liege, things looked to be going swimmingly.

Then that summer a host of player sales were made, ripping the league-topping side to pieces.

The rot set in and Liege fans were so distraught with the performances, they rioted to get Luzon out.

Thing is, if someone comes in and sells your three piece suite leaving you with just the coffee table to sit on, things aren’t going to be comfortable.

Results have picked up recently for Liege but they are still sitting only in fourth position.

The player sales mean they have missed the chance to make the next step in their club’s development - a more sustained campaign in Europe. 

With the owner’s wealth, we don’t need to be a selling club.

However, if we are just bringing in players to fatten them up and sell them for profit then we won’t take that next step ourselves - back to the Premier League promised land. 

The next two years’ worth of transfer windows will tell us a lot.

I think the general quality of players that come into the club has been addressed. It’s whether we hang on to them which will be telling. 

Come on you reds.

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