An obvious one is Wilf will go. I presume we will replace with Sarr - as it seems to take us that long to get targets in general. Spurs for Guehi sounds ok for him but I have noticed quite silly bids from them before for our players. I reckon Guehi has to be a 40 mil player - more maybe. He has good stats but is young and English.
Obviously Richards has done ok: but we would need another centre back. Apparently O'Brien is pretty good which is relatively interesting.
Olise - the French Textor side worries me. I can only imagine the mayhem if he nicks Olise for them. Conversely, I've a strange feeling (backed up by absolutely nothing) that Olise would like that move. But, I mean, who would swap South London for the French Riviera? - no way we all say! Surely Norwood miles better.
The out of contract players and the amount of transfers we will likely require seems quite daunting.
Overall, I have to say - I think we need to focus on this season first. There's a strange sleep walking into trouble feeling. Not doom and gloom yet, but clouds on the horizon.

Red and Blue Army!

It's a very good point and I think the thought of this perhaps already lacking squad losing Wilf, Olise, Guehi, ASL departing from loan and then others who are looking slightly past it these days is cause for concern. Schlupp is over 30 now, you have Joel who occasionally rolls back the years but more often than not looks to be well past his best, McArthur, Ayew, Tomkins, Luka all entering their last if not very last days and other bit part players many have deemed sub-par for a while now.

I find it hard to believe the club is unaware of this and therefore will allow complete catastrophe to strike however our track record is hardly the best. The bringing in of the likes of Marc, Joachim, Olise, Edouard, Eze and Doucoure in the last few years suggest there is some effort there however my fear is still the attempt to do this is more reactionary and absolutely necessary in plastering over massive holes and very precarious as opposed to progressive.

Whilst I hope for a transformational summer, provided we avoid relegation, I'm not going to get my hopes up too high as this could well leave my anxiety and despair very vulnerable when little to nothing occurs.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Summer 2023, when the bulldozers move in to demolish the stadium to make way for a Mega Walmart...

In recent years we haven’t been a selling club.
In terms of high profile sales I can only think of AWB and Bolassie and even then we obtained excessive transfer fees.
We obviously managed to hold on to Wilf , but there was also high level interest in Scott Dann when he was at his best, and we managed to rebuff this too.
With regard to Guehi he has managed to get England caps while at Palace and I believe he has been earmarked as a future Palace captain.
Obviously every player has his price, but he doesn’t strike me as a troublemaker or one who would agitate for a move.
We don’t appear to operate a similar model to Brighton who seem to develop players for the top 6 while extracting maximum value from their sales.

I acknowledge we could be under more selling pressure with the younger players we are now buying and note that reputedly Olise has a release clause in his contract.
I don’t see him staying at Palace for 10 years .
Furthermore, the ownership structure has changed in recent years which means that Parish may not totally call the shots any more on player sales.

It is by no means certain that we will be ploughing our furrow in the PL.

i think it is 50/50 at the moment, lose to both Brighton and Brentford, 60/40

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