70,000 per week for a 33 year old. That will help the wage bill
Still, on the bright side he will be fresh. Hardly pulled his shirt on last year

Not disrespect to you but really you think that Woods can go straight to the Premier without any experience at all?
Although he might be getting old but I don't get all the criticism, I'd take him on a free for sure, when you have to stay up you need expert Premier players and surely Cahill is one of them.
If Sakho and Tomkins are fit I guess they'd be the ones playing, but since we're often short in CD due to injuries, I think he's a very good solution as a backup.

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You can afford to be over the top on wages though when there is no transfer fee. £70k per week over two years is still only about a £7.5m total outlay. Whereas buying somebody for £8m (which is dirt cheap nowadays) is already more expensive even if they were on wages of £nil.

It’s a good deal and we should get it over the line ASAP. Even more so if it allows us to cash in on say, Dann.

Gary Cahill, at 33, may be past his best for Chelsea but he's a quality, experienced centre back who can do a very useful job for us if we can complete this deal.
At his age, any sell-on fee after 2 years is unlikely, but he's being bought in to do a specific job for 2 years.
He only made a handful of appearances for Chelsea last season and I assume won't have had a proper pre-season so it's likely it will be a few weeks before he's ready for first team action.
I have a feeling that this coming season may be a challenging one for Palace and having a player like Cahill in the squad can surely only be positive.

Breaking this cycle of signing these ageing players is unfortunately going to be like turnips cruise liner around with our finances the way they are. Oh and we’re signing these players on high wages to mount onto the ones we already have.

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Turnips! Ha ha ha. What a spud.

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