South London & Proud
Sometimes I really wonder if family are really worth it.
Because it doesn’t matter how time and affection you give
It’s never enough

I agree Cooper and Ismael are employed in the championship ; for the same reason I'd leave Dyche out of it.

either of the other three I'd be happy with

Edited by Vincehair (01 Jun 2021 12.18pm)

Didn't he have Tammy Abraham and Billy Gilmour with him?

This all reminds me of 2017. We were linked with Mauricio Pelligrino, and I seem to remember some clamouring for him to be our new manager. There was disappointment that he chose Saints over us.
But he pretty much failed there.

We ended up gettin Fdb. not commenting on that one!

I guess my point is that you don't really know how a manager is take to a new club or a new league. Some knock it out of the park, some Struggle to make an impact, some are an unmitigated disaster.

We should have faith in the direction that the boards has chosen to move forward, and that they employ the best manager for that direction.

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

All I would add is that, as I've said for some time now, the ideal route for Palace is to get agreement from as many of Burnley, Swansea and Barnsley as possible to speak with their manager, then just interview them, if they want to be interviewed, plus any out of work managers who apply. Then decide on who gave the best answers and had the most convincing plan for the team, based on whatever the budget, expectations and requirements actually are.

Football clubs can't interview a range of candidates for a vacant post very often, Usually it's a question of trying to keep it quiet that you are speaking with a particular manager until you've sacked the one you've got, normally in the middle of a season when you have no time at all to spend considering options.

We are in the unusual position where we can have a proper interview process, so why not do that?

Without any inside track, I do tend to think the Cooper rumours could be well founded. What's interesting to me is that Allardyce, Hodgson and now Cooper all had backgrounds with England - although admittedly Cooper was with the lower age groups.
That kind of experience seems to be attractive to the Americans if the rumours are to be believed. Equally, given the investment in the academy it makes some sense given his time with the Liverpool academy, England and so on. I would also surmise he is used to working with a Sporting Director structure in place.
Anyway, just another perspective on this debate - thank goodness it happens relatively infrequently!