In this league players value suddenly trebles and finding someone to boot a ball in the Championship is a different matter all together compared to this league and besides, any player who does come to us and performs too well will not be with us for very long, we need to rebuild our stadium as first priority the team on the pitch is very capable of avoiding relegation.

Yes he was, as a player only.

Dougie Freedman was an all-time great Palace player.
As manager; did a good job but left.
As director of football; little is known about his role but seems to have brought in a number of good players on the tightest of budgets.

This apparently equals hate figure and pantomime villain.

yes your right, but my point was that he was a legend as a player only, not as a manager

A fair point, which begs the question what in the blue hell is going on now, in this respect, and who's really responsible for some of the lacklustre recruitment in recent windows? It's possible, of course, that Freedman's recruitment experience didn't translate well from the Championship to the Premier League?

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

Yet many of the players that he bought in the Championship did translate well to the Premiership.

The reason why we buy and loan rubbish is one of life's great unknowns and no-one is going to hold their hands up and admit that it was them although when Roy retires and writes his memoires we might find out more