To be fair to him, he's given us absolutely everything and the guy deserves the best chance of success as he can get. The constant instability and change of managers who will expect different things from him playing in different systems cannot be good for his development. I actually got to a point where I was very confident he was staying, but surely now he must be having serious considerations. I think he really would thrive under a manager like Poccetino and become a real star player and as sad as I'd be to see him go, I really wanna see him become the player we all know he can be.

We're the Arthur over ere!

This puts all signings into limbo. We'll miss out on some who will now opt for other options rather than wait to see what happens at Palace.

BTW, do we yet have credible, independent verification of this? I don't trust the Mail, Sky appears to be reporting on the Mail report and the Telegraph is thin and nonsensical.

Clutching at straws here...

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Significantly, perhaps, the Beeb haven't run with it. Just rehashes of the Mail story so far. And, most significantly of all, not a peep from the club.

Well he'll definitely be off if we appoint Moyes!

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...