Surely the message we send to future prospective players is that they look at the situation with Olise and potentially Guehi and think that Palace is a great place to grow, learn your trade and move up in your football career. It means we are more likely to attract a higher standard of young player in the future, which is beneficial for everyone involved.

Also, just to highlight that Leicester won the league - which to your point is the greatest you can be on the pitch - and they ended up being relegated. Long term success isn't defined in a singular season, you have to generate a more successful machine to be able to regularly compete and the hierarchy of our club are currently doing that. Whether fans like it or not, Rome wasn't built in a day unfortunately.

When you hear ex-managers talk about players wanting to leave the general consensus is that once a player decides they want to leave there's not much you can do. Whether Guehi wants to leave with any degree of desperation is not clear. If you start chaining players to the goal posts it creates disharmony plus it sends out a bad message to any prospective signings. So for me it's less about whether the club can make money to reinvest and more about whether Guehi wants to stay at Palace. If he does then refuse the bids and get him to sign a new deal and if he doesn't then get the best deal we can and move on. Every club has to cross that bridge. Just look at Alvarez leaving Man City for Athletico.

If players felt they could never join a big club if they signed a contract then the best ones would all want one- or two-year deals. This is not to say the club should accept any offer, just that if the player says they want to leave and a club meets Palace's valuation then it seems counterproductive to force him to stay. Wilf stayed because no one came close to the club's valuation of him. I do understand your position and I agree that I'd rather watch great players than a pile of cash, but I think also you have to accept that the best players are always going to want to move onto bigger and better clubs. It's just a fact. The key is bigger clubs understanding that if they want our best players then they will pay top price. There are no bargains to be had.

Parish just been on Sky sports:

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Looking silly to you is a compliment.

You are avoiding the simple truth.

You are seeing straight past the simple reality.

Big clubs can buy and sell top quality players.

We can only sell top quality players and fill the gaps with prospects.
Sometimes that comes off and sometimes it doesn't.
We have sold one top quality player already this season.

How many can we sell and replace and not become relegation candidates?

To paraphrase Steve Parish. Guehi is a superstar player and generational talent. He is worth superstar money.

Unless a club makes a massive bid for him, why on earth should we sell him? He could be the difference between mediocrity and Europe.
And what if someone comes in genuinely for Eze or Mateta or Wharton?

Shall we improve our bank balance by selling them too? I know that would make you happy and probably send us to the Championship.
But hey. We could make up for the 100 million we lose by selling the rest of the squad.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (13 Aug 2024 4.02pm)

Eze and don't know.

Oops! Misread the question. Eze is of course our highest 'e'.

Edited by YT (13 Aug 2024 4.09pm)

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