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PatrickA London 01 Mar 21 7.55am | |
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The Telegraph ran a piece a few days ago on Palace suggesting there were summer plans to extend four of the expiring contracts, sign four new players and bring in two loans.
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southnorwoodhill 01 Mar 21 7.55am | |
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Going down!
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Gary St.Andrews Kenley 01 Mar 21 8.02am | |
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We will extend contracts, get loanees in and sign a few players. The likes of Sakho will go and we will free up the wage bill. We will balance the books as best we can and get through this period. Whether we will still be a Premiership club is another matter altogether.
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Spiderman Horsham 01 Mar 21 9.24am | |
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Originally posted by PatrickA
The Telegraph ran a piece a few days ago on Palace suggesting there were summer plans to extend four of the expiring contracts, sign four new players and bring in two loans. Yes I have seen similar. I do wonder whether LB will not be a priority, given we have Mitchell, Schlupp, Ferguson (?) all who can play there. Definitely CB, creative midfielder and wide player. If rumours are true and Lundstram joins he will be replacement for McCarthy/MacArthur presumably.
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Eaglecoops CR3 01 Mar 21 9.50am | |
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We have painted ourselves into a corner with inadequate investment and a negative approach that is slowly but surely grinding down our existing decent players. We have become grateful for fortunate wins as opposed to them being deserved and become accustomed to pitiful performances against mediocre opposition. We are a first team squad in decline with no support from the U23s and we have 6 months to sort it all out otherwise we will be nailed on certainties for relegation next year. I would suggest that is too short a period of time to resolve the issues we have as we appear to have investors who don’t wish to speculate any further. Our policy of clinging on without steady window by window player investment is coming home to roost so let’s hope for two more wins out of 12 and then enjoy what could be our final year at the top level for this time around. I’ll be delighted if someone finds the money to dig us out of this hole we have dug for ourselves, but I’m not convinced it’s going to happen. We will end up with 70% of our squad who are past their best getting a years extension to their contracts and we will soon discover that backs to the wall football from day 1 of the next season will not be sufficient to earn enough points to stay up. It all sounds very downbeat doesn’t it, but until Parish tells us something different I can’t see it going any other way.
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palace99 New Mills 01 Mar 21 9.57am | |
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Originally posted by Lanzo-Ad
They were one year extensions last august, all four end on June 30th 2021
These 3 are definitely not out of contract this summer. However, whilst we clearly need to get rid of high earning deadwood - Tekkers, Sakho and Wickham etc Of those 3 who have re-signed none are immediate first choices too - Jimmy Mac is 33 and hasn't scored a goal in over 2 years, Kelly hasn't played at all this season and the jury is still out on Jeff (plus his mixed injury record). We clearly need reinforcements across every position of the team
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PatrickA London 01 Mar 21 10.03am | |
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In fairness to Hodgson, and I don’t always feel disposed that way, he did point out a year or so ago that the squad would need to be bolstered owing to the ageing nature of many of the players.We haven’t done this as quickly as we should have , but let’s hope we properly address the situation this summer. Originally posted by Eaglecoops
We have painted ourselves into a corner with inadequate investment and a negative approach that is slowly but surely grinding down our existing decent players. We have become grateful for fortunate wins as opposed to them being deserved and become accustomed to pitiful performances against mediocre opposition. We are a first team squad in decline with no support from the U23s and we have 6 months to sort it all out otherwise we will be nailed on certainties for relegation next year. I would suggest that is too short a period of time to resolve the issues we have as we appear to have investors who don’t wish to speculate any further. Our policy of clinging on without steady window by window player investment is coming home to roost so let’s hope for two more wins out of 12 and then enjoy what could be our final year at the top level for this time around. I’ll be delighted if someone finds the money to dig us out of this hole we have dug for ourselves, but I’m not convinced it’s going to happen. We will end up with 70% of our squad who are past their best getting a years extension to their contracts and we will soon discover that backs to the wall football from day 1 of the next season will not be sufficient to earn enough points to stay up. It all sounds very downbeat doesn’t it, but until Parish tells us something different I can’t see it going any other way.
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Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 01 Mar 21 10.14am | |
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Originally posted by PatrickA
In fairness to Hodgson, and I don’t always feel disposed that way, he did point out a year or so ago that the squad would need to be bolstered owing to the ageing nature of many of the players.We haven’t done this as quickly as we should have , but let’s hope we properly address the situation this summer. Camarasa and Meyer were brought in to try and add some creativity and we know what happened! Squad has been bolstered,some did not work out, and some a 'Work in progress' in the PL.
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Midlands Eagle 01 Mar 21 10.16am | |
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Originally posted by PatrickA
The Telegraph ran a piece a few days ago on Palace suggesting there were summer plans to extend four of the expiring contracts, sign four new players and bring in two loans. Not necessarily as the club must be making significant losses in these covid times. The accounts for the year ended 30th June 2019 showed gate receipts of £10.6. plus advertising revenue of £10m. The former will have completely disappeared whilst the later will have been drastically cut so if there was cash available for transfers last summer it doesn't mean that it's still there. The only way that we will be able to buy new players is if the Americans and Parish dip their hands deep into their pockets
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Midlands Eagle 01 Mar 21 10.19am | |
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Originally posted by Willo
Camarasa and Meyer were brought in to try and add some creativity and we know what happened! It shows what happens when the buying decisions are made by a PR man and a failed Championship manager
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silvertop Portishead 01 Mar 21 10.33am | |
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Originally posted by Aj's_Magic_Hat
25 man squad. keepers RB CB LB Wide players Wilf, Eze sign 2 young wingers
Strikers signing 7 players younger and on less wages than Benteke and Sakho. Thats a 23, dont understand why that is so hard if the guys at the club are doing their job. You/re dreaming. It isn't a question of doing one's job, it is about not having the vast resources required. Also, Mark Hughes made an important point in yesterday's half time analysis. Big dramatic change is bad. While the play is dull, the players are clearly comfortable with it. Try and introduce radical change - 7 changes! - in a team that already operates on the margins of safe mid table and cliff-edge relegation, and we will go down. Perhaps we need to invest in 3/4 quality players that will enable us to go back to e.g. "early Roy" or equivalent.
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palace99 New Mills 01 Mar 21 12.26pm | |
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Originally posted by silvertop
You/re dreaming. It isn't a question of doing one's job, it is about not having the vast resources required. Also, Mark Hughes made an important point in yesterday's half time analysis. Big dramatic change is bad. While the play is dull, the players are clearly comfortable with it. Try and introduce radical change - 7 changes! - in a team that already operates on the margins of safe mid table and cliff-edge relegation, and we will go down. Perhaps we need to invest in 3/4 quality players that will enable us to go back to e.g. "early Roy" or equivalent. good point - remember deBoer tried to change us and look what happened. Just looking back on the team a few years ago - when we beat Leicester 5 - 0 playing 442 the defence wasn't massively different to now and the midfield 4 was Loftus-Cheek, Luka, Cabeye and Jimmy Mac, so essentially 4 centre mids with no great creativity on paper
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