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Indeed - and with two years left on a contract that he's not willing to renew, we'd be better off selling for ~£60m now while the market is hot.

I think you'll find that it was actually Brighton who played Liverpool after they faced United and went to a gruelling extra time. They still managed to beat you 2-1.

It’s hard to argue with the suggestion that we played Villa at a good time, likewise United given their injury issues. Villa certainly started the game well, but they gave up after the second goal went in and it could have ended 10-0 if we hadn’t started rotating players. Liverpool however were...

Well, I'd rather we didn't sell any of them and just keep winning every week instead. 🎶 3 points again ole, ole... 🎶

Like Olise, he's going straight to the very top. We've had Blackburn's pants down at £18m - he'll be going for Declan Rice money in 12 months if he has another season like this one.

We've been excellent since Glasner came in, and I've really enjoyed our recent run. It's some of the best football I've ever seen Palace play, and I sincerely hope we get a full season of 'Glasnerball' next year with the squad he wants. I think we'll almost certainly lose Guehi (if he isn't...

How do you know this? Nobody at Palace has ever heard of it. Chelsea have a "matching clause" and a sell-on percentage but there has never been any mention of a release clause. I'd be stunned if he was sold for any less than £60m.

There have been several of those displays recently, none of them mention Roy by name & even that one is largely directed at the ownership as I said.

The banners, whether you agree with them or not, have largely been targeted at our dysfunctional ownership structure. Roy hasn't been the problem this season, he's merely a symptom of the problem.

Roy can get wins against bottom half sides when he's got Eze & Olise playing together. However, I suspect most of the members of this forum could do the same. Without players who can produce a moment or two of outrageous quality in every game, he doesn't seem to have a plan. Our goals in recent...

I am very pleased to see Graham Potter leave Brighton. He's an excellent coach, and he was doing a fine job with your team. The total dismantling of your coaching & recruitment staff at the hands of Chelsea is an objectively good thing from a Palace POV, and an objectively terrible thing for...

We were hardly going to be able to pick up the phone and steal a key first team player from Liverpool, were we? Unless they had always dreamed of playing for Allardyce's Palace, of course. Last season, sure. This season we're already working on it. The signing of Chris Richards from Bayern...

You're right. I'd even Googled it to check and somehow still got it wrong :whistle:

It's not an approval of brilliance, it's a sign that the transfer fee would be large. Maguire made his England debut in 2017 and was sold for £80m in the same year.

No, thankfully. They've got "matching rights", i.e. if we accept a bid from any other club, Chelsea have the option to make the same bid and we're obligated to accept.

I'm glad you're slightly more sensible than Mr. Arse, but I wonder if the blindness to the brilliance of Marc Guehi on this website isn't based entirely on one rather unfortunate bounce... He made a couple of mistakes last season (as is to be expected) but had an extremely impressive debut PL...

Sakho was an excellent defender. A seriously classy footballer. You don't play 200 games at PSG + Liverpool unless you've got talent. In his first season he was the most obviously gifted defender I'd ever seen at Palace. The issue was that his ligaments were made of silly string, which is the...

We were doing so well :( Benteke's new contract had wages nowhere near £100k/w, never mind north of it. Olise was signed for £8m when we activated his release clause. Eze was signed for ~£16m. Guehi was signed for ~£18m. Even the most conservative of estimates would put their combined value...

You'll have a hard time finding a Palace fan who doesn't speak highly of Dougie. We had been spending an awful lot of money on players approaching the end of their careers as a sort of 'quick fix' under Pulis & Allardyce, but spent very little under Hodgson due to our wage bill being so high...

All of that seems true to me. What isn't true, however, is that without Gallagher we'll immediately revert to Hodgson-style bus parking. He'll be a big miss, but I've got every confidence in Dougie Freedman's ability to recruit & Vieira's ability to coach his way out of the problem Conor's...