Does seem to be a deal not stacked in our favour.
I suppose it relates to a question of supply and demand , and at the time of the deal there was probably not a great demand for Sorloth’s services.
I have to confess I came away from games where he featured for Palace (admittedly few) thinking I could do better and I’m in my sixties.
He didn’t seem to have a football brain and despite his size he didn’t appear to be able to compete for an aerial ball.
Perhaps it’s harsh to make early judgements.
If he turns out to be a gem we won’t be the first to make mistakes.
Chelsea let De Bruyne and Salah go after all.

Freeman, as DOF, should answer all these questions as it falls within his area of responsibility and Parish should explain why he signed them off!

I think I posted on another thread about Sorloth but I will add it here as its relevant.

At the time we bought Sorloth it was a choice between him and Jordy Hugill for a 8 to 10mill fee. Hugill actually came down to Palace and discussed terms but the spammers hijacked the deal so we went for Sorloth. Both were considered a risk and were speculative gambles. Personally I think we got the better of the two deals. Hugill has tanked at West Ham and tried to come back home to reki due his career with boro but that didn't really rejuvenate it and he was not a complete regular for boro on loan. Now at QPR and doing better but is unlikely to recuperate anything like the 10mill West Ham paid for him. I think we paid 8 mill for Sorloth. Who struggled and we all saw it and pretty much everyone thought getting him out the club in any capacity was the best thing to do at ghd time. £750,000 loan fee and another 6mill to buy majes for just a 1.25mill loss. Prob acceptable as it was worth a punt. Its only now that he has done well in Turkey peolke are saying its bad. Real case of 20/20 hindsight. And tbh maybe it was never got g to work for him here and he is just better suited to his football in Turkey. It happens.

This sorry saga simply underlines Roy's many failings,including his masterminding what undoubtedly will be SEVEN defeats in a row,unequalled in our Premiership history.Time to step down and retire gracefully,rather than face the bullet.

They'll say they took a £10m gamble on a player with an excellent goal scoring record and potentially a decent future. The manager refused to play him and said he was useless. They tried to get him off the books ASAP, then he turned out to be more successful than anyone wishing the Palace coaching team ever imagined.

It was Roy that thought he was a write off. I think Roy was using him as an excuse to cover his own failings.

This constant belly aching is just getting boring now.

He was pony for us. We cannot simply give any player 'a bit of a run' in the first team while they find their feet as we do not have the quality around them to carry passengers.
We entered into a stupid deal which will lose the club millions but no one at the club is willing to step up and comment on it let alone carry the can. (Me I blame Dougie - he should have been sacked, not for the loan but a contract that gave us no future opt outs)

But its done. Nothing can change it so let's learn and move on.