I don’t agree with you.

A prime McArthur was a good player. But we haven’t been close to having that player for over two years. The blokes just retired! Are you seriously saying a retired McArthur is better than a Lerma in his prime? I’m sorry, but I don’t agree with that notion.

Zaha would be a big miss for 13/14 clubs in the division. Replacing him like for like may be impossible for us and our spending power. What we have to do now is build a “team” of talents rather than rely on a single player all the time. Who knows, that may make us a better team without Zaha.

I was really surprised to hear how VG has reacted to a bit of competition.

If he was as good as he thinks he is then he would want to stay and fight for his place to prove this.

SJ is a better all round keeper and I think our back 4 feels the same way and seem far more confident with him behind them.

I personally would drop VG into the reserves so as not to affect the team morale and lets hope we can get someone else in to give the position competition.

Bye bye VG...time to move on.

Some people are like Slinkies … not really good for anything, but you can’t help smiling when you see one tumble down the stairs.

Hard to fault VC’s performances on the whole, he’s been solid, but, Johnstone has been superb and taken his chance when it came.

It stinks of bad attitude and if that’s the case we don’t need him. Johnstone could get injured on Saturday and he’ll back in and it would be his shirt to lose.

It does leave us short as we’d urgently need a back up keeper. Not good.

The irony is that he got injured so was replaced. Does he think Johnstone is superman. For nothing but spite when he goes Johnstone gets a little knock and our no3 comes in. Feel the karma vin.

So Johnstone is perfectly good enough to be a mid-table Prem number 1. We can set and forget with him.

For a number 2, McCarthy is one of the few keepers who falls into the following bracket:

- Isn't number 1 elsewhere
- Isn't number 2 at a bigger club
- Is good enough as a Palace number 2 (people on here will moan, but he was a PL number 1 for 3 of the last 4 years - 11th, 15th, 15th).
- Is at a club that will be willing to let him go (Saints have all their chips in Bazunu's basket, signed a new keeper yesterday, and McCarthy is a luxury number 2 in the Championship).

He'll cost sod all money and ticks a lot of boxes.

Listen to quite a bit of Ben Foster's stuff and he regularly talks about how helpful it is to have a goalkeeping group with a clear No.1, No.2, No.3. Everyone knows where they stand and it's harmonious.

It makes a lot of sense...

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Again I’m not sure I agree. Olise is injured. He hasn’t left yet. For now, he’s a palace player and he should recover just fine. Having to work around injuries is part of football. You can’t expect the club to replace Olise before he’s even left.

And I don’t think Lerma is a million miles off McArthur. Actually, I feel as though people should reserve judgment on that until they have seen how he performs in our colours.

We haven’t sold any centre backs either. I mean, your argument seems to be, IF we sell everyone and buy bad players then we are in trouble. We haven’t sold anyone yet, and so we haven’t had to show how well we can replace them.

There are just too many IFS in your point. Who said we are after Che Adams? If we believe everything that’s printed, then we are after a whole bunch of good strikers. Who knows…we might get a good one! IF we’re lucky lol