Whoever the next manager is will hopefully be on board with the recruitment policies, even if not reponsible for them.

It’s approaching a year since Ahamada joined the first team set up.
He’s possibly further away from the first team now than when he joined, even in the absence of Eze, Schlupp and Doucoure.
I’m sure I wasn’t the only one yesterday who suspected it would be Jairo rather than Ahamada who came on for Hughes.

Franca was extensively scouted for around a year with Freedman visiting Brazil to track him to try and secure his eventual signature.
As he cost between £17 - £24 million (depending upon which report you read) it seems reasonable to assume he was bought for the first team.
We’re not a Chelsea who can afford to spend this type of sum and loan the player out to an obscure Belgian club.

I can’t claim to know if either are good enough - I’ve barely seen them!

In general terms Roy has been proved right when he has chosen not to select players…..and yet there’s a part of me that wonders if Roy’s obsession with trusted systems, players and organisations trumps all so it means that the continued non - involvement of Ahamada and Franca is likely.
Would a new manager give them more opportunity?

It’s illustrative that when Roy left last time round he has acknowledged that new young players were being brought in that summer and it was felt by both him and the club that it was the right time for a new face to take the club forward.
The worst case scenario I suppose is that neither Franca nor Ahamada do make an impact and that’s circa £30 million down the drain.
I know it’s early days but it’s clear that Roy doesn’t trust them preferring out of form players, journeymen squad players and even out of position players.
Whose judgement do you back , Freedman’s or Hodgson’s?

Now that’s a debating point.

[Link] If he wants the job then I think Palace have to try and get him before someone else does, even if it meant nudging Roy off the bench. He totally transformed Wolves last season and would be a major coup. I still struggle to believe it's true, but who knows.

Whoever the next manager is will hopefully be on board with the recruitment policies, even if not reponsible for them.

It’s approaching a year since Ahamada joined the first team set up.
He’s possibly further away from the first team now than when he joined, even in the absence of Eze, Schlupp and Doucoure.
I’m sure I wasn’t the only one yesterday who suspected it would be Jairo rather than Ahamada who came on for Hughes.

Franca was extensively scouted for around a year with Freedman visiting Brazil to track him to try and secure his eventual signature.
As he cost between £17 - £24 million (depending upon which report you read) it seems reasonable to assume he was bought for the first team.
We’re not a Chelsea who can afford to spend this type of sum and loan the player out to an obscure Belgian club.

I can’t claim to know if either are good enough - I’ve barely seen them!

In general terms Roy has been proved right when he has chosen not to select players…..and yet there’s a part of me that wonders if Roy’s obsession with trusted systems, players and organisations trumps all so it means that the continued non - involvement of Ahamada and Franca is likely.
Would a new manager give them more opportunity?

It’s illustrative that when Roy left last time round he has acknowledged that new young players were being brought in that summer and it was felt by both him and the club that it was the right time for a new face to take the club forward.
The worst case scenario I suppose is that neither Franca nor Ahamada do make an impact and that’s circa £30 million down the drain.
I know it’s early days but it’s clear that Roy doesn’t trust them preferring out of form players, journeymen squad players and even out of position players.
Whose judgement do you back , Freedman’s or Hodgson’s?

Now that’s a debating point.

Lopetegui, , is almost certainly a good manager, not a frigging magician.
But what he took over at Wolves was an under performing, but deep squad full of real talents . Why under performing ,who knows? But yes he sorted them out.
He would get seven or eight real talents here, a deep squad no way, not under performing just unable to cope with the sheer lack of depth in the squad, causing a really noticeable decline in quality when the very best eleven are not available which is most weeks.
He left Wolves almost certainly because he wasn’t going to get improvement in resources. Well that’s f—-ed it then , because he will be lucky to get an improvement just to draw him in , and if he didn’t , the odds of not going down would only depend on his luck, as only our best eleven playing almost every game from here on in could make that a near certainty. This applies who ever had the balls to take it on.

Firstly, why would he comes here when he left Wolves because they wouldn't spend any money. Out of the frying pan into the fire comes to mind.

Secondly the shower reporting this wrote an article two weeks ago saying that with Doucoure injured we should play Milivojevic instead. That shows the quality of their reporting

You’re not selling the role very well. Virtually every manager employed is because things are going wrong under the current manager.
Lopetegui would be great appointment, if we could get him.