By Steven Kennedy

CHARLTON Athletic defender Jonathan Fortune admits he does not know where he'll be playing his football next season.

The 26-year-old, currently on loan at Stoke City, wants to stay with the Addicks but has conceded he may have to look elsewhere if he can't be guaranteed a regular place in the team.

Fortune said: "I would like to stay at Charlton but I need to be playing week in week out so who knows what the future holds for me."

He added: "When Charlton sent me out, Alan Pardew told me to play some football because I had not played in a long while.

"But sometimes when you go out on loan you don't go back.

"Hopefully I'll do well at Stoke and impress the manager and then return to Charlton next season, but you never know."

Fortune, who has only made 13 appearances for the Addicks since Alan Curbishley left last summer, has also defended the club's former managers Iain Dowie and Les Reed and believes they weren't given enough time.

He said: "When Iain Dowie arrived it was the right appointment.

"He got all his points over to us but results just didn't go his way and he didn't really have time to settle, and the same can be said for Les.

"All the lads were fully behind both Dowie and Reed and none of the incidents the press said happened ever took place.

"There were a couple of joke incidences but nothing ever serious."

He added: "We had a terrible start to the season and nothing was ever settled, but Pardew has come in and turned it around and we look like we're on the front foot now and have a great chance of staying up."