I've been singing this from the rooftops, all my non Palace supporting mates think I'm mental. But I genuinely think he is the missing cog.

Me too on this. Wharton would completely change things for the better. His speed of vision and the way does the simple things is missing from the England team from the other night.

Roy Keane pointed out that TAA made one or two decent passes. The rest of the game he gave the ball away or looked lost.

Put Wharton in FFS

If he stays for another season, it surely makes it more likely that others do too.

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

I would take a contrary view to the Mail story that we are offering Olise a bumper new contract with a release clause for 2025.
It’s less than a year since he signed his last bumper new deal , this time with a reputed release clause for 2024 which top clubs are apparently seeking to activate this summer.
Yet another new contract only postpones the saga until next year and we start all over again with the speculation.

The counter argument I suppose is that we get Olises’s services for another year with a potential higher release clause

But for me it’s yet another demonstration of how cynical the game has become with a real absence of loyalty or acting in good faith.
Olise signed a lucrative long term contact at the beginning of last season and was injured for the majority of the season.
The club have been very supportive of him.
He’s obviously an exceptional player and made an outstanding contribution in the games where he was available.
No doubt some will see this as a naive view, but we gave him a long term contract when it was unclear as to how he would recover from his injury.
Wouldn’t it be nice if he just concentrated on playing a full season for the club under his current long term contract ?

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If the offer of a new deal is true then I'm glad Palace aren't just rolling over. We're in a much stronger position than last season when we had a stop-gap manager in place and the squad looked thin. We now have four current England internationals, we added Wharton and Munoz and we've just signed a Barcelona protégé, plus we're rumoured to have another star in Kamada due to be revealed within a couple of weeks. Perhaps most importantly we seemingly have a manager and coaching setup which could potentially see us challenge for a European spot.

Unless he has a serious injury then the top clubs will still be ready to buy him next summer, but the ones rumoured to be interested might be a more stable environment to walk into.