Sky Sports pundit Don Goodman has urged Charlton to appoint a permanent manager before the January transfer window.

Following Guy Luzon’s sacking at the end of October, Belgian boss Karel Fraeye was named Interim Head Coach.

After a difficult start, Fraeye recorded consecutive victories as the Addicks appeared to have turned a corner.

However, the club have dropped back into the relegation zone following humbling defeats to Ipswich and league leaders Brighton.

Former West Brom and Sunderland star Goodman believes it is important that the club bring clarity to the head coach position before the transfer window opens next month.

The 49-year-old told News Shopper: “The managerial position needs sorting out, for sure.

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“How can you go into the transfer market in January with the coaching position up in the air?

“It’s going to be impossible because you could find yourself in a situation where whoever comes in is working with players who he has nothing to do with in terms of recruitment.

“That’s a difficult place to be for a manager who is taking over a team at the bottom of the Championship.”

Fraeye, 38, was brought in from VW Hamme – who play in the third tier of Belgian football.

While the club have failed to climb to safety under Fraeye, improvement has been visible and Charlton will argue that they deserved at least a point against unbeaten Brighton last week.

Goodman, who played over 100 games for West Brom, Wolves and Sunderland in the 1980s and 1990s, insists it was always going to be difficult for Fraeye to instigate an upturn in results.

He said: “You’re talking about a foreign manager coming in from, with all due respect, not one of the elite European leagues.

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“It was always going to be a big ask and I think that’s maybe a mistake the owner has made in terms of being adamant in employing Belgian coach after Belgian coach.

“It’s an enormous ask for these coaches who don’t know a lot about the league.”

While Goodman questioned Fraeye’s appointment, the former striker suggested that another overhaul of the position would have a detrimental effect.

He added: “Once you have brought them in, you need to give them time, which the owner clearly hasn’t been prepared to do.

“That will be to the detriment of Charlton in the long run because there isn’t a club in the Championship who has chopped and changed and had success – we have seen it with the likes of Leeds.

“This is my opinion from the outside looking it, it’s purely a theory based on what I’ve seen. But I don’t think chopping and changing foreign managers breeds success and is good for the club.”

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