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Palace have the largest squad in Europe (but they actually don't)
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 GlaziertoEagle  Coventry 21 Jan 14 11.50am |
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According to The CIES Football Observatory (via the BBC) we have the largest squad in all of Europe's top division. 'Palace have 34 players on their books who have played in this or the previous two seasons' It has to be said that this of course will be unsettling but also on the positive side shows that there have been chances to be had by fringe players and the unity in the squad over the last 12 months has been despite all the changes.
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| GlaziertoEagle Coventry 21 Jan 14 11.55am |
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| southport_eagle Southport 21 Jan 14 12.05pm |
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This is nonsense. It says that there are 9 players who are ineligible to play when of course the 7 of these players are all under 21 so can play: Williams Of course there is Garvin and Wilbs who aren't in the squad. Maybe they would be better having an article about how good our academy is in that there are so many players coming through.
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| Hambo Crawley 21 Jan 14 12.09pm |
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Some more detail here:
"Poor stategic planning" would be fair were it not for the fact the squad that got promoted were amongst relegation favourites - so it stands to reason wholesale changes would be required in a market where moving lower quality players, who are under contract, out of a club is difficult given the financial implications for teams in attempting to sign them - the loan market being much mroe prevalent these days for Football League teams to take on those missing the 25 man squad. I think the statistics are simply showing once cosequence of how far we have come in such a short space of time. It is fair to say recruitment was probably excessive in the last window, but the circumstances of our promotion meant that the previous manager wanted to get in as many as he could in all areas. Edited by Hambo (21 Jan 2014 12.09pm)
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| SH17FIELDS Swanley 21 Jan 14 12.18pm |
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I find this hard to believe as I believe I saw yesterday that Chelski had 24 players currently out on loan.
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thebob  Tatebayashi (from Croydon) 21 Jan 14 12.18pm |
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SP isn't our chairman, he is co-chairman. Edited by thebob (21 Jan 2014 12.18pm)
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| Bekken 21 Jan 14 12.21pm |
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This post has been merged from a topic called 'Europe's largest squad' by Hambo Sorry, Mods. Edited by Bekken (21 Jan 2014 12.22pm)
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Palace_denizen  filed under " time wasters " 21 Jan 14 12.28pm |
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i thought this was an article about Obesity in London
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Palace23  21 Jan 14 12.45pm |
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Slightly off Piste and possibly stupid question..... But if Wilb's isn't in the squad - how come he played on Saturday.....was it because Jerome can't play against Stoke and therefore we can bring him in?
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cardiff eagle  21 Jan 14 12.47pm |
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Quote Palace23 at 21 Jan 2014 12.45pm
Slightly off Piste and possibly stupid question..... But if Wilb's isn't in the squad - how come he played on Saturday.....was it because Jerome can't play against Stoke and therefore we can bring him in? 25 man squad doesn't count in Jan so anyone can play.
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| Palace23 21 Jan 14 12.53pm |
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Quote cardiff eagle at 21 Jan 2014 12.47pm
Quote Palace23 at 21 Jan 2014 12.45pm
Slightly off Piste and possibly stupid question..... But if Wilb's isn't in the squad - how come he played on Saturday.....was it because Jerome can't play against Stoke and therefore we can bring him in? 25 man squad doesn't count in Jan so anyone can play.
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| Jenny Taylier Thornton Heath 21 Jan 14 12.54pm |
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Arsenal (link tbc) and Manchester City ( [Link] ) have both named youngsters in their squad recently with shirt numbers in the sixties. This would indicate a much larger squad than ours (although possibly not all "seniors"). Additionally, at the time the report was compiled (Oct 1st), we had at least a 43-man squad: [Link] However, it is likely that no other team has had so many ineligible players on their books this season. Edited by Jenny Taylier (21 Jan 2014 12.55pm) Edited by Jenny Taylier (21 Jan 2014 12.56pm)
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