Dyche is the closest we will get to a guarantee of £750 million in revenue over five years with a low budget team. The football will be dull but hugely effective relative to our spend.

A risk candidate (Lampard, Howe type) will either do badly and leave or do well and leave.

Let's get that revenue in, build up the ground as much as we can, and review our priorities in five years time.

We all want good football, but Palace aren't ready to play it on a sustained basis.

Dyche gets us more established in the prem. And him leaving Burnley really hurts them.

Edited by Ginger Pubic Wig (21 May 2021 1.32pm)

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If the club has secured a new manager they won't be announcing it until next week at the earliest. Why would they lumber Roy with his last round of press conference questions all being a variant on:

'So Roy, they didn't even wait until you had cleared your desk mate. How do you feel about that?'

'Why do you reckon they like Lampard / Cooper / Alan Patridge so much more than you, when you plainly were at one stage willing to stay on?'

etc and so on. It wouldn't serve any positive purpose.

The club is good at keeping its cards close to its chest, and quite right too. There were one or two rumours that Roys departure would be announced before Arsenal so he could get a send-off, but they only surfaced very close to the day itself, so that cat stayed in the bag pretty much. Up until three days ago many of us were half expecting Roy to do another year.

For now, we shouldn't take radio silence as a lack of action behind the scenes. If it gets to the end of next week and nothing has been announced then plainly we haven't secured a new man in advance of letting Roy leave. That's not necessarily a failure.

I commented elsewhere that we should discard Ishmael or Cooper as candidates as waiting for the playoff finals to end reduce our summer transfer window too much, but upon reflection, why shouldn't there be an interview process for all the best available candidates? Why not approach Swansea and Burnley and Barnsley and see which, if any, will agree on a compensation fee?

Whilst I dare say appointing Lampard would attract a player or two that might not have come otherwise, ultimately it is the managers medium to long term ability that will matter, and if we have to wait a bit for the right man then so be it.

DF should be hard at work on transfers anyway, and if we do go for Cooper or Ishmael I'm sure they will be happy to work with whoever we provide.

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Yes please!

Nuno leaving Wolves by mutual consent after their game tomorrow.... that's an interesting new factor

Interesting and a bit of a surprise. He is a manager I would not mind seeing at Selhurst.