No big reason for asking but wondering now that now Derby's season is well and truly ended is Luke spending the last few weeks at Palace getting to know a few of the players / staff and so on?

Would be a nice positive environment to come into after the difficulties at Derby and set him up for pre-season

Today Paper talk is suggesting he will go out on Loan next season and that Coventry are interested in taken him?

There seems little point in him coming to Palace to join the U/23 team. A Championship move would make total sense and give him another years experience.

We could then look watch his development and see if he really is premiership material. He did only cost us £1m…so no risk of being out of pocket.

Or…take him on the tour of Asia and see what he is like.

PV acknowledged that it would probably have been better had we sent out Rak-Sakyi on loan for the second half of the season.

These better youngsters need regular game time playing men's (not boys') football.

Plange is unlikely to get minutes ahead of Mateta or Edouard next season, so little point in him being benched or put in the U23s. Far better for him to go to a Championship team that want him on loan and it seems Coventry want him, which suggests they've seen enough of him to think he can be of use to them (he played the second half against them back in March). Sending him out on loan to Coventry or other decent Championship team seems eminently sensible to me.

A matter of opinions, of course.

I'm only guessing, but I would imagine he will come in for pre-season for Vieira and the coaching team to run the rule over him. I would imagine it's highly likely he'll go out on loan, but it's also possible they may see something that suggests he could offer something to our first team. I think this 5 subs rule may have a big influence on how the coaching team view the squad. I certainly think Rak-Sakyi so should go out on loan to the Championship for a season to earn his stripes. I reckon they'll be quite a few clubs interested too.

He got 4 goals in 1700 Championship minutes so on that basis he won't get game time with us next season, certainly nothing more than the odd 5 minutes here and there which doesn't help. We have three strikers ahead of him and we only ever tend to have one on the pitch.

Keep him for a bit of pre-season to integrate with the squad, sure, but a loan is definitely the right move as it probably is with Rak-Sakyi. Both those guys need 30+ starts next season. Rak-Sakyi only possibly stays if Ayew leaves and we don't replace.

26th January 2010 - Enter Administration
2nd May 2010 - D-Day 1 - Survival at Hillsborough
1st June 2010 - D-Day 2 - Survival at Lloyds
7th June 2010 - CPFC2010 exchange contracts.