I have pondered this too DB! Will be interesting to see.

I wonder if the 4-3-3 was to predominantly accommodate Wilf too? I was assuming we’d just carry on with it but looking at the players available you do wonder whether another system might suit better? 5-3-2 for an example? The ol’ 4-4-2?

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

I agree, though I think in practice it will be more like a 433 with Eze to the left of the midfield three, albeit with licence to roam in the knowledge that Lerma will tuck in.

The great unknown is Franca. Injury aside, he's very young and in a totally new environment so we should be prepared to be patient. That said, I can't see Palace paying that much for a development prospect so I expect him to play. What will that do to the starting XI?

I'd guess he'll be coming off the bench and starting occasionally for the first half of the season, much like Olise and Eze did to begin with. Unless we sign someone before the window closes (certainly not impossible), I'd expect the team to stay pretty stable for the first six to eight weeks.

My main hope is that Eze isn't moved to the left wing.

Grover: was it you I drove past in Danbury yesterday, wearing a Palace shirt? Would have been about 5.15is

Spooky. Yes. Just getting over a hernia op (Wednesday) so it would have been a very slow walk!

My stomach looks like it's been hit with a baseball bat!!!

Apparently going to make a £10m bid for Che Adams.

104 goals in 416 career appearances, is he really better than what we already have? Surely there has to be someone tearing up a lower European league worth taking a punt on who won't ask for £60k a week.

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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

I wouldn't mind having him as an option, but hopefully the report of doubling his wages is rubbish. If he was on 30k in the prem then he can stay on that plus it's hardly like he's got tonnes of offers. But we offered Zaha 80k more despite no club seemingly even matching his original wages - so we've got previous with throwing money away.