According to Sky transfer centre, the Mirror are now reporting we will move for Dame N'Doye from Hull for £4m, if we miss out on Austin. Can't say i'm thrilled if he's the plan b, if of course there is any truth behind it.

Totally agree; Austin is a decent player, but £15m? He might get 15 goals again next season he might not, no guarantee just because he has a high profile at the moment. If we paid £15m and he got injured after a handful of games, we wouldn't have much of a budget to replace him in January.

N'Doye will miss as many as he scores, but he gets into the right positions at least and there's as much a chance he might get 15 as Austin. If he doesn't do the business we can still get someone in January.

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Looked pretty good against us, and probably a better value signing than Austin or Remy. Having said that, are we looking for value or are we looking for quality? We have lots of strikers already, what we want is one that takes us to the next level, as Villa did with Benteke, Swansea did with Bony etc. I'm not convinced that N'Doye is good enough to be that striker, but I'm happy to be proved wrong.

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Decent imo

I know this is a somewhat ephemeral point but hearing Bruce talk about him, N'Doye seems like a player whose make-up would be well suited to the sort of ethic and team spirit that is prized at Palace and which seems to be an important part of CPFC2010s recruitment policy. I suspect Parish (rightly, on the evidence) would be very reluctant to sign a player, no matter how good, whose face was felt not to fit. The fact that N'Doye is a hard worker and team player makes me think the interest may be genuine.

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A yes from me.

At this stage in our development we need a shed load of cash available for infrastructure improvements.

£15m players are too much for us until we get that sorted.