From our 25 man squad our only hope of scoring goals is to get Benteke back fit and playing. Whatever is said about his bad run of goal scoring form does not detract from his ability to work apposition defences and create space for other team members. He will come good with goal scoring himself but Wilf and Andros need to play on the wings for us to be effective and in that scenario Max will be key. I am still optimistic that come the end of the season we will still be in the Premier League. COYP

Edited by Brinscall Eagle (06 Oct 2018 9.04pm)

Have to agree. Certainly until Jan that looks the only option, unless like AWB there is some undiscovered striker talent at the club.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

seeming as you are to lazy to google it yourself here is 1 of many links, this is from 16-17 season...im sure when 17-18 season is announced it will be worse.

“Representing £78.30 of cost for every £100 of income in 2016/17, wages at Palace are proportionately the highest of any Premier League club”

heres the link... [Link] hint...its not the prettiest of reading.

there are many more, for context i will find them tomorrow.

you talk about SP screwing up, i dont envy him one iota, hes damned if he does, damned if he doesnt...we spend in excess of 40m during sams transfer window, and almost the same during last summers window on purchases & loan fees...and another 20m on roy...thats pretty much 100m in 18 months and people are f***ing moaning.

and all that to keep us in the PL and keep us on par with the teams around us.

we currently have the best squad by miles in the clubs history, the best back 4 in AWB sakho tomkins PVA i have seen in my lifetime...the rest of the squad is full of talent we just need our £30m striker to get his confidence back & everybody will be happy again

ive said this hundreds if times, but i just dont get what people expect us to do in this league given our owners finances! people need to be realistic!

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

5 main issues from today IMHO.

Wan Bissaka was poor today, this was a major issue for us as we funnel a lot of balls to him via Tomkins or Luka. This is especially problematic when Zaha cant get anything going.

He looks seriously clueless lately coming forward. Playing give and go passes to Townsend when Townsend has 3 players around him. He only took a couple of people on and he gave the ball away countless times in positions where a counter attack is inevitable.

Zaha was not at the races and honestly despite a moment of world class brilliance against Huddersfield he is not really firing lately. He is being crowded out of things in the middle of the park and without a proper target man he has to go wide to get on the ball.

Speaking of target men, Sorloth must be so poor that when Benteke is down our like for like Benteke replacement cannot even get a game. Sorloth is poor, he doesnt win headers. He gives away fouls, its not looking like a good signing at all.

What is going on with our transfer policy? Most of the players we have signed lately are not even starting, let alone Rakip and Jach. We need to take a long look at our transfers lately, in and of themselves some of them look great but the players cannot get into the team - begs the question what level of alignment was existing between RH and Freedman and Parish on who to sign? When you sign a Benteke replacement, and dont play him when Benteke is out, what is going on there?

Townsend - had a nice game against West Brom but he had more space than in a recent MLS game I went to. When Zaha is not firing he has the almost sole responsibility to drag the ball up the pitch and make something happen. He made one good cross for the Meyer volley in the whole game.

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its infomation taken from the recently published accounts, you are correct, they are old but as im sure you are aware accounts are published after the end of the financial year, however they are the most relevent info we have to take info from.

so what, SP takes a wage from the club, he runs who whole club, so considering he earns less than schlupp. how many other buisnesses can you name that the MD takes home less than modt employees?

our sponsors are nowhere near what the “big teams” bring in who are you kidding?

Edited by braunstoneagle (06 Oct 2018 10.40pm)

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

We need players to play as though they mean it.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)