As I mentioned a few days ago Puncheon will ultimately be a permanent deal as is out of contract in summer so Huddersfield basically are just taking over his remaining contract.

Williams will leave to Charlton and Kirby is off to Blackpool however been told another league 1 Club have made a late bid to take him on loan.

Sørloth will be going more likely to Gent trying to do a loan with permanent at end of season, need to agree fee and terms.

In regards to Palace we are talking to Niasse again but we have other choices one being Batshuayi despite press saying we are not interested this will come down to how many players we can move on to free up wages.

This is also the reason holding up the Moses potential deal as we are pretty much up to our limit on wages so hence we need to move players on.

As I also said Solanke deal is not completely dead we may revisit this at end of window depending who we have got in.

This was an unexpected collapse as Parish himself at the Chelsea game thought the deal was as good as done so please don’t shoot the messenger.

If and when I get more I will post it,

Thanks Dazza

Kirby permanent if the new loan deal doesn’t come off, or also loan?

No only a loan deal definitely will not sell as they have high hopes for him just hope he fulfills his potential.

I said around several players will leave this window so far 2 have been confirmed:

Williams
Mutch

Likely to go:

Puncheon
Kalikai
Soure
Sørloth
Ward - Possible
Ayew - Possible depends who we sign
Reidewald

Getting rid of all these of the wage bill will free up the best part off 400k per week in wages allowing us to complete our deals.

Cheers
Darren

With Puncheon out, I really can't see Riedewald going. There is no cover in central midfield for Luka or Kouyate. Even if Macca is withdrawn there, you still need one more defensive minded one. Replacing Riedewald with another defensive midfielder would mean too much business this winter for a club like Palace, which really doesn't do that many transfers.

We should be happy if the winter transfer business means we do get a center forward and an attacking midfielder. That's 2 players max.

Souare I can see leaving to get more playing time because Hodgson doesn't seem to rely on him. But I doubt another left back comes in. This would mean that Schlupp will cover for 2 positions in the second part of the season: left midfielder AND left back.

One of Wickham and Jordan Ayew will go, one will stay. I thought Hodgson prefers Wickham from the last games cause Ayew didn't even come in. But last night he started Ayew and he scored. I think he'll be the one to stay. Benteke and a new striker will make 3 options up front, which is enough (at least they will consider it enough). Zaha, Townsend, Meyer, Schlupp and another winger (Herrmann or Moses) will be the other 5 men up front. With the 3 strikers that makes 8 (4 starters and 4 covers). Luka, Kouyate and Macca will fight it for central midfielder, Riedewald as 4th option there.

Basically like this:

...............Guaita..............
..............Hennessey............
...................................
AWB.....Tomkins.......Sakho......PVA
Ward.....Kelly........Dann.....Schlupp?
....................................
.........Luka........Kouyate........
......Macca/Meyer....Riedewald......
....................................
Townsend......Meyer/Macca.........Zaha
Moses/Herrman...J. Ayew...........Schlupp
.........................................
.................Benteke................
................New striker.............

Edited by mattteo (04 Jan 2019 12.04pm)

I would be gutted to see Kirby leave on a permanent. Surely we should be trying to ship him on to a Championship club though.

It is good to see us moving people on. It feels like there is a plan.

It hasn’t been announced Kirby is being sold, only a loan deal for experience.