My understanding is that Sorloth was purchased for £9 Mill rising to £16.5 Mill if certain conditions were met.

How much was the squad worth he inherited tho and the wage bill, ultimately its the boards fault but is it not down to the manager to put pressure on the board to spend money ? Not blaming Roy and I think he has been fairly happy with the squad and knows he can keep them up, which the board is happy with. Neither the board nor Roy seems to want drastic changes which is fair enough, he can do his job and the board are happy ticking along which is all well and good untill we end up in the position we are in now, all players past their best, out of contract, only a few players with a good sell on fee. The manager and the board are both to blame, especially if zaha goes aswell, we might aswell be a newly promoted side this summer.

Look at our squad, zaha is now a cf, so that's zaha, benteke, batshuayi, ayew, mateta and Wickham, what other teams in the league have 6 centre forwards ? We play 442 and have one proper winger who's legs have gone, parish, freedman and Hodgson are all equally to blame.

Edited by rikz (12 Mar 2021 12.39am)

We are exactly as our points total.

Goal difference is the best measure in your opinion, which is cool, but it's not fact.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

'Better than we think?'
Interesting question.
My starting point would be that in our eighth consecutive season in the Premiership we should play better football than we do. Simple as that. When you are out-passed at home by a team like West Brom that's pretty damning. We don't seem to have any idea what to do with possession. Even in the 90th minute we were still giving the ball away. There was one piece of almost laughable lack of athleticism by Ward, who has genuine issues with giving the ball to someone on his side and, much as Ayew huffs and puffs, I fail to see what he contributes at the moment. Zaha was awful, but is coming back from injury and because he's Zaha he'll always be forgiven.
Doubtless some would regard this as negative but it isn't intended to be. I just think the product is shocking for, as I say, eighth consecutive season in the top flight. To ask whether one would prefer to be winning in the Championship than playing the mind-numbing football we are at the moment is something of a non-question. My case would simply be, that with the players we have, it should be possible to play better football. There's an almost Pythonesque stance taken by those who seem to believe that things couldn't be better than they are at present. It's a 'touching forelock' scenario where we say what a pleasure it is to be filled in by Liverpool, City, Chelsea, Spurs and even Burnley at home.
So, no, we are not better than we think. We are playing abysmal football at the moment. It is excusable if it keeps us in the Premiership, I suppose, but please...can we try something different next season?

You remember Alan Pardew?

I think we are good enough to do the job of staying in the premier league every season ! that is what the ambitions of the board is and that is what Roys job is , nothing more nothing less ! However , there has to be a major overhaul for next season to achieve this as most of the players are past their prime and are slowing in pace, dont get me wrong i love palace and always will but the game is getting faster and our team is getting older and slower. As Roy says there are games we dont expect to win and to be honest i wouldnt expect us to win . What i hate though is loseing 7 nill 4 nill 5 nil and shrugging the shoulders and saying move on to the next one. Its going to be a long summer and hopefully some new faces on the pitch .Also it will take a while for any new players to fit in to our way of playing . Its hard to be a palace fan sometimes but fcuk it who we going to support , Liverpool nah fcuk that id rather watch cricket and i fcuking hate cricket .