I’ve only read about it being an obligation to buy (after 15 EPL games)

What have you heard and where from that says it’s only an Option?

It seems like a smart try-before-you-buu deal by the club.

Loan with an option to buy that becomes an obligation after 15 games for £17m.

Buy the time he gets to 15 games we should know if he's worth the money to invest.

£17m in itself isn't much for a premier league striker any more. You wouldn't get a Liverpool reject for that money.

I hope he doesn't become another Camarassa or Batshuayi. Could this be the reason Ayew was hardly played in his loan season?

You've got to gamble with strikers and most deals won't work out. Murray, Johnson , and Wright all required a bit of luck.

It's surprising a team in a relegation battle have let their top scorer go for so little.

Now we see why Meyer has been let go, based on new evidence, I'm now more inclined to believe the deal was instigated by the club rather than the player.

With Mateta, Eze, Ferguson signing the average age of signings is going in the right direction, and there's some hope that the club might be building for something.

Now the priority would be to tie up existing contracts, and try and find a Cabaye replacement (if one exists). To do that we need to let someone else go. The sale of Sakho has been rumoured.

A sensible post at last.

If some of the posters bothered to see the bigger picture -

1. Relatively small amount paid for him on a deal which is financially half decent for Palace(The team with sweet f*** all money in comparison to other teams with the pulling power of Roy Hodgson. Ignoring the Americans vast sum that they hang on to so dearly.)
2. A team that has god knows how many signings, restructuring and contract extensions to sort after this season.
3. A season that isn't too awful and so they are looking most likely...towards the following season. I mean for once they have a player in early.
4. Usually this forum would be up in arms about being beaten to a player. (Literally every transfer window.)
5. He isn't 31 years old.
6. Let's face it, Bats is here for a payday and he isn't here to put any effort in (as far as I've seen.)
7. Fingers crossed they're looking at creative midfielders now that a forward has been acquired.
8. It may lift the spirits and inspire and influence some of the players like - Zaha, Eze, Townsend etc.

It seems like a smart try-before-you-buu deal by the club.

Loan with an option to buy that becomes an obligation after 15 games for £17m.

Buy the time he gets to 15 games we should know if he's worth the money to invest.

£17m in itself isn't much for a premier league striker any more. You wouldn't get a Liverpool reject for that money.

I hope he doesn't become another Camarassa or Batshuayi. Could this be the reason Ayew was hardly played in his loan season?

You've got to gamble with strikers and most deals won't work out. Murray, Johnson , and Wright all required a bit of luck.

It's surprising a team in a relegation battle have let their top scorer go for so little.

Now we see why Meyer has been let go, based on new evidence, I'm now more inclined to believe the deal was instigated by the club rather than the player.

With Mateta, Eze, Ferguson signing the average age of signings is going in the right direction, and there's some hope that the club might be building for something.

Now the priority would be to tie up existing contracts, and try and find a Cabaye replacement (if one exists). To do that we need to let someone else go. The sale of Sakho has been rumoured.