Would you put circa £150mil on a horse at 25-1?, that is what is at risk if we take any advice from bookies. We still have to get the required number of points to stay up which has to be more than the team at 18th can achieve from the remaining games. Until we are mathematical safe, he is of course, quite rightly going to be cautious, his job is worth nothing if we are relegated because he has looked at the bookies odds and then decides, oh, we are safe now, because the bookies say so. As for the past games against NF, Luton and then Bournemouth tomorrow, these are really the games that we could not afford to lose under any circumstances and therefore he has to select the best he has got available to achieve this objective. This now is not the right time to try out players with no experience, not losing under any circumstances is his most important consideration!

Would you put circa £150mil on a horse at 25-1?, that is what is at risk if we take any advice from bookies. We still have to get the required number of points to stay up which has to be more than the team at 18th can achieve from the remaining games. Until we are mathematical safe, he is of course, quite rightly going to be cautious, his job is worth nothing if we are relegated because he has looked at the bookies odds and then decides, oh, we are safe now, because the bookies say so. As for the past games against NF, Luton and then Bournemouth tomorrow, these are really the games that we could not afford to lose under any circumstances and therefore he has to select the best he has got available to achieve this objective. This now is not the right time to try out players with no experience, not losing under any circumstances is his most important consideration!

Here's one national newspaper journalist's view of Wharton and our DF.

"Wharton the latest Palace gem
Crystal Palace’s admired recruitment department have unearthed another gem in Adam Wharton, the 19-year-old bought for £18.5m from Blackburn in January. If Eberechi Eze was the outstanding player at the City Ground, his runs dovetailed with Wharton, whose vision and weight of left-foot passes were on point on a number of occasions. To follow Eze and Michael Olise, Wharton is the latest Palace diamond mined from the EFL, where talent abounds if you look in the right places. Daniel Muñoz, the Colombian defender also signed in January, also put in a fine performance at Forest. Little wonder Dougie Freedman, the former Palace striker and manager turned Eagles sporting director, is one of the most respected members of football’s ever-growing class of front-office execs. That Palace are renowned as a talent factory is tribute to the department Freedman heads up. Wharton, capped by England Under-21’s last week, represents the latest proof. (John Brewin The Guardian from that paper's Premier League 10 talking points from the weekend's games)

You can read the other 9 talking points here
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I was just disappointed with how unfit and disinterested some of the players looked on Saturday (Munoz & Andersen being the two exceptions), JPM looked even more knackered than usual after just 50 minutes.

Second half when we won a throw in in the Forest half, time & time again not a single person showed any movement or interest and we just lost possession back to Forest. JPM and Eze being the two most likely to receive and the two worst offenders.

For all of Eze’s good play there was equal dross, caught in possession and giving the ball away far too often and his two misses could’ve / should’ve put the game to bed.

Andersen looked properly p*ssed off with the rest of the teams application and as a result ran around furiously for most of the game. Lerma worked hard and Wharton looks an absolute gem. Wardy tries but there’s nothing he can do now about his lack of pace but his distribution is awful poor lad.

Mitchell again frustratingly bad, can’t cope defensively and going forward gives the ball away or plays it into no-mans land; that cross on around 80 minutes was typical of his play. In acres of space on the wing, under no pressure and just delivers a ball across the 6 yard box without looking when our two forward players wanted it pulled back.

For all of Forest’s possession we had the better chances and whilst I’m happy with the point and not losing, we have now dropped 20 points for winning positions and it just gets a bit frustrating.

Good support from the travelling fans and it was worth going just to to see Munoz in the left wing position during the first half!

Sorry for the rant

Edited by Phil’s Barber (02 Apr 2024 11.02am)

Utterly pointless response.

Glasner will be looking to offload deadwood and replace with players like Munoz. Was he mega expensive and outside and beyond our reach? No, of course he wasn’t. He will look to become stronger in depth and bring in players that are better than the bottom half of our squad.

Just saying money is a ridiculous glib comment, it’s about finding value for money and selling players at top value to replace with 2 or 3 squad players that are stronger than those we currently have.