I know I am missing something, but what?

This page is no longer updated, and is the old forum. For new topics visit the New HOL forum.

I know I am missing something, but what?

Previous Topic | Next Topic

TheExpatEagle 01 Sep 17 11.37am
In the summer we released a few players four of which were Flamini, Benteke's brother, Ledley and Frazier Campbell. We can discuss their merits all day long and I for one don't think they were of the quality we should have at the club... However. We wake up this morning with a section of fans still nursing a stiffie over signing Sakho yet we are devoid of signings in important areas. For the record I think Sakho is a very good defender who will do wonders for us but I don't think he is comfortable on the ball when trying to play out. We saw that last year when. That aside, this morning we have 21 'senior' players. Players like Fosu-Mensah, Loftus-Cheek and Riedewald are under 21 so do not require a squad place. So why did we release players who, thought they might not play much or be good enough are certainly better than nothing! Before you take to the keyboard to write obscenities at me remember we gave new contracts to Delaney and Speroni, two players I love to bits but are no more deserving of a new contract than the ones we released. But, even worse, we gave a new contract to Jonny Williams. A player who last played for us in January 2015, if memory serves. Then what did we do? Ship him our for a season to Sunderland. These contract dealings do not make any sense. I'm sure they do because smarter people than myself have made the decisions. To close I'd like to remind you the players we released were released. They did not turn down new contracts. We did not have a manager who might have kept them around. With any luck we'll sign 4 free transfers but if they are without a club we can imagine how good they will be. Sometimes it's better the devil you know. Resign your dead wood than ship them out and sign other dead wood.
Alert a moderator to this post

TheExpatEagle

01 Sep 17 11.37am

In the summer we released a few players four of which were Flamini, Benteke's brother, Ledley and Frazier Campbell.

We can discuss their merits all day long and I for one don't think they were of the quality we should have at the club... However.

We wake up this morning with a section of fans still nursing a stiffie over signing Sakho yet we are devoid of signings in important areas.

For the record I think Sakho is a very good defender who will do wonders for us but I don't think he is comfortable on the ball when trying to play out. We saw that last year when.

That aside, this morning we have 21 'senior' players. Players like Fosu-Mensah, Loftus-Cheek and Riedewald are under 21 so do not require a squad place.

So why did we release players who, thought they might not play much or be good enough are certainly better than nothing!

Before you take to the keyboard to write obscenities at me remember we gave new contracts to Delaney and Speroni, two players I love to bits but are no more deserving of a new contract than the ones we released.

But, even worse, we gave a new contract to Jonny Williams. A player who last played for us in January 2015, if memory serves. Then what did we do? Ship him our for a season to Sunderland.

These contract dealings do not make any sense. I'm sure they do because smarter people than myself have made the decisions.

To close I'd like to remind you the players we released were released. They did not turn down new contracts. We did not have a manager who might have kept them around.

With any luck we'll sign 4 free transfers but if they are without a club we can imagine how good they will be. Sometimes it's better the devil you know. Resign your dead wood than ship them out and sign other dead wood.

Alert a moderator to this post

chateauferret 01 Sep 17 11.44am
I was f*ing incandescent when the Niasse transfer fell through. We had all the time in the world to sort this out and we'd already seen how the agent fees and other admin can hold things up yet we pi about until late into the night and then it is realised that the agent fee declaration isn't sorted out. The player was in our office FFS. With that level of competence it's hardly surprising that we haven't addressed our problems properly. Is this not what Freedman was supposed to do? WTF is he here for then? ============ The Ferret ============
Alert a moderator to this post

chateauferret

01 Sep 17 11.44am

I was f***ing incandescent when the Niasse transfer fell through. We had all the time in the world to sort this out and we'd already seen how the agent fees and other admin can hold things up yet we pi** about until late into the night and then it is realised that the agent fee declaration isn't sorted out. The player was in our office FFS.

With that level of competence it's hardly surprising that we haven't addressed our problems properly. Is this not what Freedman was supposed to do? WTF is he here for then?

============
The Ferret
============

Alert a moderator to this post

Rudi Hedman Caterham 01 Sep 17 12.04pm
Freedman was probably planning the team v Southampton. Palace f up admin. Wow. Not like them. TBH I'd let all of those leave. Doing that doesn't mean you won't get a 2nd striker in. We've brought in 2 quality loans and signed 1 question mark. The problem further down the line is replacing 2 loanees worth £40 - £50 mil combined. COYP
Alert a moderator to this post

Rudi Hedman

Caterham 01 Sep 17 12.04pm

Freedman was probably planning the team v Southampton.

Palace f up admin. Wow. Not like them.

TBH I'd let all of those leave. Doing that doesn't mean you won't get a 2nd striker in.

We've brought in 2 quality loans and signed 1 question mark. The problem further down the line is replacing 2 loanees worth £40 - £50 mil combined.

COYP

Alert a moderator to this post

Part Time James 01 Sep 17 12.36pm
Didn't our fax machine run out of paper one year during a transfer window and we missed out on someone good? I can't remember who it was. I know it wasn't George Boyd, he turned out to have his eyes in upside down.
Alert a moderator to this post

Part Time James

01 Sep 17 12.36pm

Send a Private Message to Part Time James

Didn't our fax machine run out of paper one year during a transfer window and we missed out on someone good? I can't remember who it was. I know it wasn't George Boyd, he turned out to have his eyes in upside down.

Alert a moderator to this post

Previous Topic | Next Topic

Crystal Palace FC Supporters' Website - The Holmesdale Online

I know I am missing something, but what?

Site Map

New users

Existing users

Sponsors