Let him continue learning fine. With a view to promoting him to manager a year later? no way! Sentimental rubbish. We are supposed to be a professionally run Premiership team. Not some ragtag outfit that hands the job to an ex player to please the fans and get someone cheap. Those days are supposed to be long gone.
Let him manage in the EFL with a handshake agreement he'll be offered a chance at Palace if he does well and when the job becomes available.
You dont see many other successful established Premiership clubs handing their most important job to a novice.

It's ridiculous how much a manager is paid out when fired...

This was once a quality forum....

The rumour about Cooper coming is not good.
I would far rather keep Roy than have that hapen.

With respect I don't view his record at Brighton in that category.When he was at the helm they finished 15th and 16th in his first two seasons, finishing below us.Last season they finished 9th.

Unpopular opinion perhaps however I have often thought that both the names you have mentioned attract the commentary they do as a result of exceeding what are initially very low expectations of them and therefore that is often conflated with them being very good as opposed to just 'not sh!t'.

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Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

I’m not convinced by Potter either.
In some quarters he’s seen as a budding Hodgson , but this seems more based on his taking on overseas early career coaching jobs and his unassuming approach rather than based on actual management credentials.
I know a few Brighton fans who were fed up with his playing of players out of position and his setting up of teams to play possession football seemingly without purpose.

I find it more difficult to assess Cooper.
He does have a good track record developing young players (Guehi and Gallagher played in his England and Swansea teams) and he did a very good job getting an underperforming Forest team promoted.
This season Forest has seemed something of a basket case with its scattergun approach to recruitment which is probably not Cooper’s fault.
At times they’ve still looked like a reasonably well coached team with a discernible pattern of play.
At other times they’ve looked chaotic and I’m surprised that Cooper did not make it a priority to get a settled defence to give a solid platform for the season.

I wouldn’t be averse to giving Cooper an opportunity but this would depend on the quality and experience of other candidates under consideration.