Why? We may have offered a contract? Charlton is obviously a bigger draw. Wanted to move closer to London. Do we need to be linked to players to be able to sign them? How many have we been linked to so far this pre-season?
We don't have to be linked to players in order to sign them. But your first post was cryptic, didn't identify which players you were talking about or why the were/might have been potential targets.
If you had said 'Charlton have signed Marshall and Fosu, both of whom are wingers and therefore could have been targets based on JED comments last week'. We wouldn't have needed more posts to clarify.
In the age of 2 follower twitter account transfer rumours and fake news, you cant blame people for being dismissive when you gave absolutely no clue who or what you were talking about.