He says it was a mistake because he was a failure at Bolton, you think he'd consider it a mistake if he'd taken them up?

Who has he recruited of note when he was a forest and Bolton then ?

At Bolton he signed around 30 players on Perm or Loan with some Loans turning into Perm.
They included Dean Moxey, Quade taylor, Ross Fitzsimons,Andre Moritz, and Danny Butterfield !

At Nottm For his signings included Matt Mills,Jamie Ward, Gary Gardner, Chris O'Grady, Nelson Oliveira and Federico Macheda.

Personally I think it's another indication that De Boer genuinely wants to succeed here at Palace. Reading into the quote in the article, you'd have to assume he had a part to play in the appointment.

An appointment of his repute, a former player of his stature could quite easily have come here with an ego, an arrogance and not even entertained the idea of work with a sporting director.

He has recognised that our fan base on match day is fantastic, he's appointed 'One of our own' as Captain (whether he should be playing is a separate issue), he's said he'd give young players a chance when the opportunity arises and now he's willing to work with Freedman who is a legend for us (Misguided and ill informed when he left us). Most 21st century, forward thinking football clubs have a similar structure and that has been addressed very quickly since he has been in charge of the team.

De Boer has done homework (referring to our previous performances (results last three seasons) at Anfield in recent seasons would be one of many indicators of this) and that has to be applauded.

He wants to be liked by the fans here that is blatently obvious.

This is why (in my opinion) that he deserves more respect than he has been given thus far and that he should be given due time to do what needs to be done to improve the club.

I see very few negatives thus far. When he get results against Ipswich and Swansea this week, as well as the promise of a couple of signings (you'd assume Burke will be joining now with the Freedman connection) will have been a good week for Palace.

Can we please end this Steve Parish love in, years have now passed and we are all indebted to Steve for saving the club from when it was in administration. A fantastic gesture. But that is now history and we need to move on as a club.

The guy is not God and ultimately is responsible for where we are at this point. Some say he has lead us to safety for 4 years, In my opinion he has flirted with relegation without heeding any warning signs each season. Its the same every season, Where will we be at the end of this season when the loan signing return to there club. Probably in a bigger mess than we are right now.