It ought to be reasonably obvious that we are not going to stock our whole squad with players costing between ten and forty million pounds, say, and demanding wages between say sixty and over a hundred thousand pounds a week. We don't have the money, there aren't enough players like that available, and we would breach FFP.

We certainly should have some players like this because of the experience and leadership they provide and because there's little risk of non-performance (but then look at Benteke); however, we need the capability to spot players who can be brought to the Premier League on much less money and make an impact there despite not having been there before. That this is possible is demonstrated by the examples of Milivojevic and Riedewald, who (now) both look like PL-standard players to me. The former was a find, and the latter has started to perform on that stage because of the input of Hodgson.

To do that you need the experience and expertise of appraising players and understanding what they will be capable of under your management and Hodgson and Freedman between them should have the skills, contacts and knowledge to do it. They are bound to land some duds but then we have a £30m, 100k-per-week dud sitting in our dressing room right now.

Having said that if we have say £20m or £30m available (e.g. money we didn't spend in the Summer) we should use it now.

Edited by chateauferret (21 Jan 2018 6.34pm)

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"Get your cheque book out, Noades!" was a common cry around these parts back in the day. Haven't heard cries for the ol' cheque book production for a while though!

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Very strange opinion.!!
We had Yannick before promotion.Yesterdays Prem Team have all joined since promotion other than Wilf .

Palace 13th 2017/18.

The bottom 10 clubs won't sell us anything if there is a whiff of a possibility that they will do anything. The top 6 won't be releasing an awful lot who have played much this season, unless the Beast Mark 2 is available. We need to look abroad like last Jan. Of the 3 permanent signings, Luka has looked by the far the best over PVA and Schlupp. All were similar price.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

Luka, Dann and McCarthur were all signed from non PL clubs and all hit the ground running perfectly and are up there with our best players.

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League 1 was obviously a bridge too far

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