Thanks Dazza, I personally am sure you're acting in good faith and keep it going! The transfer season is hotting up! If Wilf moves to Turkey, good luck to him and his young family. Palace will have his contract money to spend elsewhere. As for Olise, he's a wonderful player, and would be a great loss. But if we got him for £8m and he's leaving for £35 + that's a massive profit. I guess it will mean that will be more talented young players coming in, but Roy and Ray will mould the team together. We seem to be doing a Brighton despite ourselves!

Still plenty of attacking midfield options out there in the Championship. Jack Harrison, Jack Clarke, Alex Scott, Luis Sinisterra, Wilfried Gnonto....

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2nd May 2010 - D-Day 1 - Survival at Hillsborough
1st June 2010 - D-Day 2 - Survival at Lloyds
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I am with you on this Stirling.
These are worrying developments and if the club really thought that Wilf was signing then more fool them.
Olise is a serious concern and especially at £35m - although it is being reported elsewhere on here that the offer is more than that because the release clause was removed.
Who knows what will happen but I hope that the club have something up there sleeve because the likes of Eze only work with other talent around them.
Not looking forward to the new season quite so much, albeit Olise was injured anyway.
We now know why Roy got the job - we are back to do what it takes to stay up!

The seems to be a lot of naivety on some of the posts, if Olise has a release clause then he will go, if matched, dont forget we bought him for 8m by releasing his clause, we have made a 30m profit which needs to be reinvested, we also have Rak-Sakyi who is going to be top class, if he isn't ready, loan someone for a year, its the way of the world, we dont have to sell, Eze, Doucoure, Andersen or Guehi if we dont want to, unless their is other release clauses we dont know about, it doesn't matter who leaves what is more important is who replaces them.

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My theory on what has been going on.

- The board decided that any transfer budget would have to be self financing.

- Parish tried to get a good younger manager but couldn't deliver on the transfer budget so decided Roy was the best bet for the club.

- Zaha agreed a deal with the club on the condition that Palace actually matched his ambition so he held off from signing waiting to see what we would do.

- It became clear that this transfer window is not about us strengthening the squad but trying to hang on to our better players.

- Gala is the best offer Zaha gets so he's decided to accept it rather than sign with us due to our lack of urgency over acquisitions.

- A good window for us will be hanging on to our stars.

Just my theory.

One more point

It is worrying isn't it....we know that if Olise goes that Eze will start to wonder why should he stay at a selling club.

Losing Zaha at this stage we could cope with but losing another or two of those proven stars would probably send us down.

The big clubs are after us.

Some people find the money exciting but I remember that losing Ian Wright basically sent the club into a spiral.....just as Venables leaving for QPR and taking players ended the 'team of the eighties' and what could have been.

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