Agreed that Nuno is not comparable to those others, that why I said he isn't in the same bracket as them. Where he is similar is that he's out of our league. Not by the same distance as Tuchel et al, but out of our league nonetheless.

I think we need to learn from the players we have signed in the last ten years. First and foremost they have to be good enough of course. Even if they never get any better than they are the day we sign them, they still need to be able to do the job at hand.

Beyond that, if they are hungry to step up and are not being given the chance somewhere else, that can go a long way. If they are well thought of as a big club player, and just want an easier life by moving to little Palace then we won't get the best out of them.

Cooper, Frank or Ishmael could be the coaching equivalent of Bolasie, Jedinak, Delaney etc, hungry to prove themselves and willing to give everything to Palace to do it.

Nuno is fairly hot property right now and will expect bigger and better options than Palace. If he signs for us he will soon be underwhelmed at the step down he has taken, and be the equivalent of Sakho, Cabeye or Beneteke. Technically better than what we had, but without the end result to justify the expense.

Lampard or Howe would be the equivalent of that player who had a big reputation, had a lot of fuss made over them, but then hit a setback and found that not everything was rosy in the garden all the time and that the spotlight moved on very quickly. Allardyce used to seek them out when at Bolton - top-level rejects looking to prove people wrong.

I wouldn't rule out a big name whose stock is high at the moment, but my instinct is for someone with something to prove.

Edited by TheBigToePunt (28 May 2021 10.23am)

Oddly enough the only Palace manager that jumped ship for a bigger club under the present regime was Dougie Freedman.

In fairness, Allardyce left pretending to retire when he plainly had no intention of doing so, then took the Everton job when it came up. Not quite the same as Freedman actually leaving for another club I appreciate.

ME did specify 'under the current regime' in fairness. If we remove that filter, the list of managers to dump us for someone else might be a long one.

Bassett?
Venables?

Edited by TheBigToePunt (28 May 2021 1.25pm)

So it's a straight choice then Pullis or Alladyce.

One more point

I wonder why we would have enquired about the compensation if we weren't seriously interested