OK. Happy to accept I might fall into fan boy, love affair territory, and also I'm only 41 so haven't seen the full pantheon of Palace talent over the years - but with each passing game I'm finding it harder to think of a player we've ever had as talented as Olise.

When he's not ice cold from the spot, he's scoring belting free kicks, to some beautiful passing to the chest and volley from the other day. Likewise his dribbling highlights are top tier Bolasie levels.

Maybe I'm going mad, but to me I find myself saying he's the best we've ever had more often than a few times in the week. No doubt he'll be gone in the next window or two but could easily be our first 100m player.

Is it just me?

With you all the way. On current form he must surely have a value of at least £150m if he is looked after.
His recorded rankings are currently right up there in the prem.
We won't keep him long and while we do our manager should respect his body and not wear him out which is currently happening. In the modern game, players bodies are their temples. Listen to what Galatasaray doctors said about Wilf. Run down, overplayed, worn out etc etc.
We really need to wake up and embrace the modern approach

But we aren't Manchester City.

We have to play our best players to give ourselves the best chance of winning games.

The Sports Medicine People recently advised Hodgson to rest Olise while he was still recovering from a serious injury, which he duly did.

Old, Ungifted and White

Kenny Sansom and Ian Wright broke my heart when they left and it hurt seeing one of my first hero’s Barry Silkman playing against us for Man.City at Selhurst. But I think with age over the years you learn just to enjoy the occasional gem we get while it lasts because you know they’re going to be snapped up by someone else soon. You sort of get numb to it.
But one thing I will say is at least these days we don’t sell quite so easily as we’ve had to in the past and Parish does put up a fight to keep our best players for as long as possible

Not just you IP4Eagle - me too. I started a "Let's talk about Michael" thread in April for the same reason as you.

This boy is a wonderful player who is now smiling as well as scoring. His deft touches and his fast running at defenders is a delight to watch. If he stays fit and stays at Palace he will become much more of a cult hero than Zaha. He is less selfish.

Seeing Thomas Frank congratulate him at the end of the game was quite something. I suspect there are many other managers who have him in their sights, but we really do need to keep him.

Undoubtedly our Star Man.

Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

Sadly Olise will leave us sooner reather than later, but hopefully a buyout clause waas removed completely so as a bidding war can start and Steve can control it. and lets face it he wont be cheap and rightly so. I haven't seen a young player with so much quality and ability for a long time bar Jude Bellingham . I would even go as far to say he is better than Jude. At the end of the day we are a selling club or feeder club as some call it . We also have a new stand to build .Lets face it every player at our club is for sale if the price is right .