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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.

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...

Gallagher is an excellent player. He presses relentlessly and intelligently, has a fantastic first touch and can finish like a center forward. He is not, however, a particularly gifted passer of the ball. He's not the sort of player you look to when you want to dictate possession, and he's not...

I'm assuming you're fishing here but just in case you're not, we had 57% possession in our loss against Arsenal last week. We'll probably surrender possession against Liverpool & City and play on the counter, but we'll try to dominate possession against pretty much everyone else, for better or...

I'm going to pretend that this result doesn't count because there weren't any fans in the stadium. I hope that's alright.

Big Pat is being pragmatic. In the majority of games we'll look to keep the ball and dominate possession, and when playing away from home against superior opposition we'll look to keep things tight with 5 defenders and play on the counter. In order to be successful, we'll need to be able to do...

I wasn't playing centre half at the time, unfortunately.

He was caught napping by Iheanacho today, but he has otherwise been fantastic so far and is key to the way we're trying to play. His passing is different gravy. Leicester were possibly even luckier to leave with a point than you were! :ffsparr:

Luck? Goodness me. :moo:

Nobody else did; that was one-way traffic for 93 minutes. Not even a 90th minute Albion winner could take the smile off my face yesterday. Looking forward to our game on the 27th. Given we've been under Roy / you were under Hughton for most of our previous PL meetings, it might be the first...