What can I say - Jordon Mutch still here. Several clubs showed interest, why didn't somebody drive him to Burton, Leeds or Birmingham and say: "Here he is!" and get whatever they paid - at least to cover for petrol.

The point in your post concerning Sakho is revealing. Although he is a Palace hero, for the moment, and may have been bought to assuage the frustrations of the terraces, this is not the complete picture.
There can be no denying he was almost single-handedly responsible for Palaces recovery last season. He has been capped and he is tenacious. And this is not a last minute buy. Palace have been chasing Sakho for longer than the window.
But there are concerns. He doesn't do the modern defender thing, as last season proved. Liverpool obviously don't trust him to do that job. He is injury prone and he will not play until October. Is this injury too?
The rest of your comments are succinct and good. Palace need to change from a club who will forever just scramble for safety points, to a class affair. And Palace need to take the game back to its English roots and develop our own. There's no good reason why someone born on these shores should nt be able to play the modern game as well as any other foreigner.

Agree with Puncheon. But cabaye makes a huge difference when he plays. Look how the game changed when he came on saturday. He is probably the one player who 'passes and moves' something you have to do if you want to play possession football. Neil some of the others do it, well get nowhere.

SP has a record of backing his managers so I can't understand why he hasn't recruited the players FdB had said he wanted - primarily GK, striker & CB. The CB he has bought is the one that FdB repeatedly said was too expensive. The way I read it was that the manager wanted a cheaper CB so that more could be invested in other areas.
The comments and body language in SP's interview in the early hours yesterday suggested that all is not well between CEO & manager and I wouldn't be at all surprised if FdB leaves before the Burnley game or, if not, soon after.

None of us know who did our didn't have a good window at this moment. It will be down the line that we find out how many Jordon Mutch's have been signed this time. None of us know how the window works or the budgets of the clubs or who's breaking FFP rules, if anybody?
For all we know we may have been talking to 4 players who all wanted 4 year 65k a week contracts and our negotiating team were worried we may end up with a new bunch of Chunky, Sakho, Mutch's which would hinder us down the line. Problem is the three I mentioned were championship gambles that didn't pay off. Good players but not quite prem standard. Now there are probably plenty of championship clubs that would like these players, but they just can't afford their wages? Unfortunately for us these types of players are well within their rights to sit tight, as we probably all would.
Us, West Ham and Bournemouth all picked up three player's early and did practically nothing else and we don't know why? Maybe the price of targets went up massively once the Neymar deal was done? This scuppered any chance of other deals because of FFP, who knows. Personally I think all three have got players in that are good enough for the prem and will help them out this season. Like I said earlier how many Jordon Mutch, Ravel Morrison's have been signed?

Edited by Dangermouse (03 Sep 2017 11.18am)

That's Life
And as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks stompin' on a Dream.
KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!

According to Observer we're tenth highest spending club this window. If the Niasse deal had been completed we'd have been 7th highest.

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