Regarding Benteke it seems perverse we should get another centre forward (Mateta). Hopefully this is a sign that Benteke is leaving.

Another striker is not what we need but, put simply, creativity.

By which I mean a midfield capable of holding the ball and bringing it forward. Passes attempted are either backwards, sideways or straight to an already closely marked forward.

The defence just boots it aimlessly even after a period of quasi 'playing it out from the back'.

We have two skilled performers (Zaha and Eze) but no idea how to use their skills. We have a left footed winger playing on the right and absolutely no midfield 'general'

People are blaming Eze for the first goal which is a bit rich as he shouldn't be helping out at the back, and was no worse than our accredited defenders.

New players and new manager can't come soon enough.

Man and boy Palace since my first game in 1948 sitting on my dad's shoulders

I thought we beat Man U earlier this season away

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Not trying to be rude but do you get the opportunity to attend live games? Where I sit we can all see the poor build up play that has starved Benteke of service. And now The Athletic has done the research

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(As of March) since Roy Hodgson’s first Premier League match in charge in September 2017, #CPFC had made 9.9 open-play crosses per game, fewest of any current top-flight side & third-lowest overall.

Benteke has 4 of his 6 goals this season from crosses

Yesterday, like a few games this season is best that we forget as unfortunately we are what we are and that is a very aging and poor quality PL team. The problems have been festering over a number seasons now due to lack of any real recruitment or investment in the first team squad. As the chart above shows we are currently the only ever present PL side since 2018 with a negative spend on players (-£11.5 million). This is a senior management failure above Roy's level (either Parish or Freedman or both), they have mismanaged contracts and as a consequence we have something like 16 contracts ending on the 30th June 2021. They have also extended contracts of players where their current form does not justify (Benteke, Sakho) and then there have been contract extension for players that are more prone to injury (Wickham). Then there is the signing of Ferguson who on paper looked a good prospect but he is conspicuous by his absence, so as yet we do not know what if anything he can bring to the team. Whilst Roy has to be responsible for team selection, his hands are somewhat tied by the limitations of what he has to choose from and this in turn has a negative impact on team balance and how we play. The only problem I have with Roy at the moment is his refusal to play Mateta instead of Benteke. Mateta is a much younger player, hopefully with better pace and positional awareness but again until we seem him start more games we will never know. We will survive this season, even though it's unlikely we will get many more points from the remaining games. the end of season activity by Parish and Freedman will be pivotal in determining if we will remain in the PL at the end of the 2021/22 season, so finger crossed!

This means we're selling more players than we're buying, it'll flip drastically the other way this summer when a load leave on a free and we have to spend to replace them. We've got money, no doubt about that, you don't spend 20m on eze and potentially the same on mateta if you have nothing else in reserve as you'd never spend your full budget in case anything goes wrong.

So where is this money?

We have got one player on loan now pay later and no doubt the deal for Eze. We have a long proud history of spending not just up to our limits but well over.

Why have we got a negative spend? Because we have no money and no reserves and have to sell to balance the books.