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Hrolf is not for changing. His view of how cpfc should operate is the complete opposite of his political view of fiscal prudence.

It is not the selling of who he views as a world class full back who’s done very little over the halfway line that’s the issue. It’s what came after that’s the issue.

Hrolf wants us to never sell anyone. Unfortunately that’s unrealistic for a club of our size and it’s all bordering on teenage fantasy. I get the frustration but if he was in Parish’s position, not necessarily the yanks’, he’d do the same, and he knows it. Managers can afford to hold the same view. Chairmen and owners can’t.

COYP

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I appreciate that AWB was on low wages, how long would that have lasted if he knew he could get 100K/week elsewhere?

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I agree on the usual parish way of not having cover for RB. I doubt we’d do the same after selling Zaha, but you never know. Parish has as much knowledge on football as on one of the Strictly Come Dancing judges.

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I feel your pain as well and I'm sure the majority of Palace fans will also feel it. It will be interesting to see if we struggle up to Jan (which may well happen as we have a lot of top half teams from last season to play in the first 15 games or so) whether some cash will come.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

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1. You think AWB and his agent wouldn’t push for a move to the biggest club in the world on £80k or whatever per week and prefer to stay and play in front of the main stand? Yeah right. Have a look at his latest Instagram posts. Actually don’t. It’s too upsetting how much players love it elsewhere.

2. We bid for several players but wouldn’t go to £20 mil and Clyne got injured. As much as I dislike it, we’re probably biding our time for value because ward isn’t long term.

3. We could’ve bought a right back that wouldn’t have significantly weakened the team. It’s right back, not CB, def mid, midfield, centre forward or anywhere through the spine of the team. PVA has been shocking at LB for a year. Has the team and club crumbled to the point of extinction? No.

Your last sentence is amusing. ‘We are now relying on loans and cheap aging or sick note players.’ In the summer this is exactly what you were saying we should do. Keep everyone here until buyers come in and save us (take us to fantasy land), and in the meantime only loan players in we need. Striker, anyone creative. That is exactly what you were suggesting and now you’re slating it because you’re so married to this AWB opinion you’re either willing to contradict yourself and rubbish your original opinions, or you just can’t remember what you’ve said because you’ll never let go of selling AWB will destroy cpfc.

I respect a lot of your opinions on politics and current affairs but on this subject you’re being quite similar to an ideological and illogical leftie, where again, they are not, and will not, hopefully, ever be given the reigns to be in the position. Because as we saw with the Lib Dem’s, opposition is easy, power isn’t.

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But we should play all of them by 4 games later after 19 games.

Cpfc like to keep something aside for jan in case there’s a different position of urgency, but looking at the squad there isn’t, unless it’s winger or striker, but I doubt we’ll be buying a striker yet.

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