I really do admire your positive thinking and loyalty and I hope you are right but in reality I know from what I have seen, on pro side he is a good header of the ball, however, on the con side, he lacks any real pace, cannot work the ball on the floor with any degree of skill and control, fails to work defenders when off the ball, stands around waiting for the ball to come to him, is not a secure penalty taker (unlike other good strikers), shows little interest in helping out at set play when our penalty area is under attack, he has had several press match ratings this season below five, which should be of great concern when you paid 32m for a player. Frankly I hope he is sold because i'm sure we can do better for the cash and whilst goals 8/20 is okay its not that brilliant, it equates to less than one per game!

I want him. Without his goals we'd be down already.

@sxp55555

He's on for scoring 15-20 goals this season. So, according to you because he won't score, say 25 goals weh should get rid of him? He's the best goal scorer the clb has ever had so far.

If he performs well in the second half of the season, which is highly likely, he will be worth at least £50M to the chinese in the summer. That is fact. We could be in for a major profit.
There is no point in any sort of emotional loyalty in football anymore. It has become hard nosed business nothing more nothing less. Everyone working in it is out for themselves no one else. There is zero loyalty to fans.
Benteke will be offered a minimum £200K a week in China. He would be mad not to take it and I would wish him luck and move on when we lose such a good player. But that is football today.

Selling Benteke is a dangerous gamble. With regard to the fact that Palace are not an attractive club and destination at all for the time being, I cannot see any reason to sell him. We simply cannot replace him with the same quality and with money spent on him.
In my view, he is not lazy at all, he is the score-leader of the squad and this is Benteke who won the most aerial duel for Palace as a striker. He is not strong enough in defending, but ahead of his shoulder injury, he fought hard last time. I hope he does not go anywhere and will play together well with Rémy as a key frontman.

We desperately need a natural left-footed good left-back and a reliable CB. Do you know another EPL squad without having left-footed LB? (Please do not take into consideration Zeki Fryers. He does his best, but Premier League can be too strong for him).
If we sell Benteke and we will not replace him and/or we cannot buy a good LB and a good CB, we will easily go down. Please, sell Mutch and/or Campbell, if you want to have some cash.

A propos, these newly outlined financial issues... Where are those Americans, who came to us?

You know, I think you might be just about right there.