The window more broadly

MrRobbo said:
Now before I start, I know we have (so far) made a bare minimum of signings, and am well aware Glasner wanted bodies in early.

But things do feel a bit a little different/harder in this window.

The big teams have spent big, as usual. City and Chelsea in particular getting most business done early. But then looking across the rest of the league

Promoted sides – have all brought in lots of c.10m players, but no idea if they will improve the them. Sunderland have gone a little bigger.

Then you’ve had Glasner, Silva, Moyes, Howe, Nuno all admitting that they are struggling with squad size and/or too passive etc.

Bournemouth and Brentford have been decimated.

Prices being paid for average players feels well out of kilter.

Not new themes, but broadly it feels much worse/harder than usual
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You called it. Goldrush times.Big 6 clubs throwing around silly amounts of money and hugely overpriced average talent being fought over. The bubble will burst soon, no doubt.

I'm glad we bought very sensibly and carrying on with sustainable recruitment policies. Don't like rumours about the manager kicking his heels though.
 
Agreed. I think it's a much harder job being done than anyone understands and there's also so much big club power and player power Steve has actually used that to advantage at times, but you can't win it all.

Overall we can't stop top stars going to other clubs, we had great use from them, and we acquire well. Looking at this window it's been an awful experience but we've done bloody well.

- Lost Eze, signed 2 who can play a 10 role, Pino and Uch
- Kept Guehi, even if by accident, and signed a promising youngster in Canvot
- Got rid of a highly paid Édouard who didn't cut it
- signed a better backup keeper in Benitez
- signed LB cover that looks decent in Sosa
- made a profit

I may even have missed something, I'm on hols with limited web access.

I'm happy.
 
It's been a bonkers window. The Athletic has a review of 155 transfers, 155! Thats not including all the minor loans, U21s, offloading frees etc So the average number of moves per club is 7, so much disruption. It will be interesting in a years' time to see how many have maintained their value. Good article by Barney Ronay in the guardian on it, for all that money only 2 players in the Balon D'or top 25, Ekitike has yet to win a cap etc
Chelsea bought about 280m worth and sold about 270 and I think lots of clubs are trying to emulate this mass trading model. I am glad we sit in the other bucket with Fulham and others of steady as she goes progress. Mass change sucks at the soul of the club, the A-League does this and every season our first few games are spent trying to identify who is who. You need some player continuity to maintain some sort of identity to cling to.

If one person's saga sums up the status quo it is Ishe Samuels Smith.
 
To be honest on reflection we dodged a lot of bullets,wether the management truly considered a bunch of has beens or wether click bait went on overdrive we never got the likes of Sterling( no longer quicksilver).
 
It’ll be very interesting to see if we got those players in that Ollie referred to in his press conference as “wanting to come” to Palace - or whether their clubs stood firm on valuations (which I think has been pretty clear had gone absolutely mental - even for unproven players) and those that brought in were “alternative targets”.

I think we’re still a couple light and I am surprised we didn’t go for Axel Disasi from the Chelsea bomb squad - instead of Igor.
 
Elphers40 said:
It’ll be very interesting to see if we got those players in that Ollie referred to in his press conference as “wanting to come” to Palace - or whether their clubs stood firm on valuations (which I think has been pretty clear had gone absolutely mental - even for unproven players) and those that brought in were “alternative targets”.

I think we’re still a couple light and I am surprised we didn’t go for Axel Disasi from the Chelsea bomb squad - instead of Igor.
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It would be great to know

Maybe we should suggest that OG and SP do a post window Q&A evening 🙂
 
Elphers40 said:
It’ll be very interesting to see if we got those players in that Ollie referred to in his press conference as “wanting to come” to Palace - or whether their clubs stood firm on valuations (which I think has been pretty clear had gone absolutely mental - even for unproven players) and those that brought in were “alternative targets”.

I think we’re still a couple light and I am surprised we didn’t go for Axel Disasi from the Chelsea bomb squad - instead of Igor.
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That'll be the loans?
 
StrangerThing said:
It's been a bonkers window. The Athletic has a review of 155 transfers, 155! Thats not including all the minor loans, U21s, offloading frees etc So the average number of moves per club is 7, so much disruption. It will be interesting in a years' time to see how many have maintained their value. Good article by Barney Ronay in the guardian on it, for all that money only 2 players in the Balon D'or top 25, Ekitike has yet to win a cap etc
Chelsea bought about 280m worth and sold about 270 and I think lots of clubs are trying to emulate this mass trading model. I am glad we sit in the other bucket with Fulham and others of steady as she goes progress. Mass change sucks at the soul of the club, the A-League does this and every season our first few games are spent trying to identify who is who. You need some player continuity to maintain some sort of identity to cling to.

If one person's saga sums up the status quo it is Ishe Samuels Smith.
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Probably, because if players are that good, their teams don't want to sell them.
I agree with you about the identity, It's nice to have players who hang around for a few years even if they are not the first names on the team sheet. And the focus on money takes away from the fact that players like Eze provide a lot of entertainment by the way they play. I hope he doesn't play well against us, but it is so good to see Grealish escape from Pep's clutches
 
One point that hasn't been touched on much is Rak-Sakyi. There appears to be an issue with Glasner, who seems reluctant to give him any minutes. I find it hard to believe there were no offers of permanent or loan deals. Maybe they got ignored for more pressing issues, but it seems to leave him in limbo, a bit unfairly
 
pssguy said:
One point that hasn't been touched on much is Rak-Sakyi. There appears to be an issue with Glasner, who seems reluctant to give him any minutes. I find it hard to believe there were no offers of permanent or loan deals. Maybe they got ignored for more pressing issues, but it seems to leave him in limbo, a bit unfairly
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Just got told there were offers but Palace refused them unless it was a permanent (asking 12 million) ot loan with obligation to buy. His contract expires in 2 years
 
Elphers40 said:
It’ll be very interesting to see if we got those players in that Ollie referred to in his press conference as “wanting to come” to Palace - or whether their clubs stood firm on valuations (which I think has been pretty clear had gone absolutely mental - even for unproven players) and those that brought in were “alternative targets”.

I think we’re still a couple light and I am surprised we didn’t go for Axel Disasi from the Chelsea bomb squad - instead of Igor.
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Apparently we did but he turned us down along with a few others.
 
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