The players are leaving as this club shows no ambition. They aint stupid they know Grandad Roy cant inspire them for a whole season so they are jumping ship. I told you lot our chairman knows nothing about football and is more interested in his sun tan and how his barnet looks. If we had appointed a younger manager with fresh ideas and tactics like Brentford did a few years ago with Frank. Fulham done the same with Silva. The players can see we are trying to improve the club. By appointing Roy again the players are thinking oh him again we are going round in circles.

I dont blame them if they all leave blame that poser Parish.

The so called Palace Ultras the HF should grow some balls and organise a protest against the board but they aint got the balls as they are scared of upsetting Parish.

Evening All,

I am happy to take any flack or abuse you want to throw at me, but believe me you ask anyone at the club they fully expected Zaha to sign a new deal.

It was even being reported in days leading up that Zaha was likely to stay at Palace even the bookies had us as favourites.

Gala came from nowhere in the last 48hrs & have closed the deal.

In regards to Olise this again has come from nowhere. We was all told there was a release clause & it then was removed now it sounds like it hasn’t.

I’m being told £50m, also Olise is said to want the move so looking likely this will go through.

Palace will now push on with signing some replacements.

As I said Franca is a done deal, Gray we are in advanced negotiations & don’t rule out a late move for CHO from Chelsea even though he is in advanced talks with Lazio.

You can blame me all you like but everything I pass on is in good faith.

Bring it on.

Still at least you have the Europa league to look forward to! Off you pop, be a good boy

Ideally, we are seen as a stepping stone unless by some chance we have enough gems to be a permanent top 8 club. That means we do have to sell players and it will be the ones that have done the best for us that will command the most money: fact of life.
If we are virtually certain to have replacements for either Guehi or Andersen then they would be the best option. Probably, Guehi will have the greatest interest
I would be loath to see an attacking player leave with Zaha gone. Having said that, if Olise has a low release clause compared to value we may be in a hard position and need Man City or PSG to show interest and push Chelsea's offer price up
If teams are offering silly prices for Doucoure then so be it.
Whatever happens, the money has to be reinvested with quality striker and right back (signing both Ward and Clyne was such a dumb move) as well as taking a punt on a younger guy like Franca

Edited by pssguy (23 Jul 2023 10.18pm)

Edited by pssguy (23 Jul 2023 10.19pm)

Up until two summers ago it was impossible to keep count of the posts on here bemoaning the absence of young players in our squad that we could develop and sell.

Well, looks like a great many people got what they wanted. We now have a good few saleable youngsters and, guess what, one by one they'll be sold. Not all at once maybe, but make no mistake, the first sale will open the floodgates because the rest will want to go once they see a colleague doing so.

I get the argument that we couldn't keep on getting by with cheaper veterans, but the 'buy young, develop, sell, repeat' model is fraught with risk too. There is no guarantee that we will be able to replace the players, only that we will be rolling the dice more frequently in coming years as we have less stability and more turnover.

I hate the idea that after a decade in the Premier League and over a billion pounds we're no more than scouts for clubs with rich owners.
Stuff the self-styled Best League in the World where finishing 10th rather than 11th or 12th is the height of our ambition.