Kamada

Has became after us waiting a long while a big part of our team. Took a while to adapt to the premiership and didn’t deserve that salary for a long time. However, he Certainly was instrumental in us winning the FA Cup as well as our long winning run. I suppose being such a high earner that would be the reason why we aren’t offering him a new contract? Perhaps under a new manager he wouldn’t be as good as under Glasner’s way of playing which is why he is going. Wouldn’t surprise me if he ended up at whatever team Glasner ends up at?
 
No big loss if you're looking to improve the first team, him and Hughes would be the first players id be looking to replace.

Was only because we were so desperate for creativity after losing eze, that we looked to kamada for something to happen. I doubt there will be any other interest from other prem clubs.
 
In my opinion our poor performances were more to do with the absence of Munoz and Sarr and the dereliction of duty by Mateta than they were Kamada being injured.

We are a team that needs to threaten down both flanks to pull the opposition out of shape and once we lost Munoz/Sarr it was like everyone playing on one leg. We were relatively easy to shut out and the chances that were created were not taken.

Kamada is an ok player but as someone else has pointed out, his stats are pretty poor.

Yes he needs replacing by a decent player but I don’t think we will miss him.
 
We can't continue to carry central midfielders who don't contribute goal wise.

Wharton
Hughes
Kamada
Lerma

None of them have any PL goals this season (albeit Lerma has played some games at the back)

Add long term absentee Doucoure to that list, who has never scored for Palace in any competition.

During the summer we could easily lose

Kamada - confirmed at this point
Lerma - out of contract
Wharton - no doubt we will see numerous bids

Not sure Doucoure will recover either.

We need to find players who can contribute from centre midfield with goals and assists.
 
Crystal_Clear said:
We can't continue to carry central midfielders who don't contribute goal wise.

Wharton
Hughes
Kamada
Lerma

None of them have any PL goals this season (albeit Lerma has played some games at the back)

Add long term absentee Doucoure to that list, who has never scored for Palace in any competition.

During the summer we could easily lose

Kamada - confirmed at this point
Lerma - out of contract
Wharton - no doubt we will see numerous bids

Not sure Doucoure will recover either.

We need to find players who can contribute from centre midfield with goals and assists.
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Yes exactly i would swap Kamada for Connor Gallagher in less than a heart beat,Two players that are as opposite as it can be.
 
Crystal_Clear said:
We can't continue to carry central midfielders who don't contribute goal wise.

Wharton
Hughes
Kamada
Lerma

None of them have any PL goals this season (albeit Lerma has played some games at the back)

Add long term absentee Doucoure to that list, who has never scored for Palace in any competition.

During the summer we could easily lose

Kamada - confirmed at this point
Lerma - out of contract
Wharton - no doubt we will see numerous bids

Not sure Doucoure will recover either.

We need to find players who can contribute from centre midfield with goals and assists.
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We probably need to change the way we play for that to happen. We play with 2 DMs, so only really expecting them to score 1 or 2 a season (granted thats more than they currently do).
 
MrRobbo said:
We probably need to change the way we play for that to happen. We play with 2 DMs, so only really expecting them to score 1 or 2 a season (granted thats more than they currently do).
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With 3 central defenders there should be lots of opportunities for our midfielders to pick up the ball on the edge of the opposition box for shots and we have all seen them take up those positions. The big problem is that none of them get close to the target.

Even a blind squirrel finds the occasional nut but ours appear to be both blind and crippled and ‘nutless’.
 
My opinions on Daichi are well documented, so I won't bore everyone with them again.
Will be forever grateful for the role he played in our FA cup win (where as was decent, along with everyone else), but in general is a weak player at this level and just not suited to english football tbh. Perhaps a bit like Pino.
 
MrRobbo said:
We probably need to change the way we play for that to happen. We play with 2 DMs, so only really expecting them to score 1 or 2 a season (granted thats more than they currently do).
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Bang on. People expecting goals from those two holding mids are misunderstanding our patterns of attack and how we're instructed to score goals.
 
sprites said:
Bang on. People expecting goals from those two holding mids are misunderstanding our patterns of attack and how we're instructed to score goals.
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Instruction or not the stats aren't impressive.
Wharton
19 shots/4 on target
2 assists

Kamada
12 shots/ 0 on target
0 assists

Hughes
15 shots / 0 on target
0 assists.
 
sprites said:
Bang on. People expecting goals from those two holding mids are misunderstanding our patterns of attack and how we're instructed to score goals.
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It is a sad day for football if our midfielders are instructed not to try and score. I’m not sure I fully get your point here. Are they told to pass out to the wings when they have an open shot on the edge of the box?

As the stats state, the record for both assists and goals is poor. So their passing to strikers is obviously poor as well, which kind of begs the question why don’t we just play with 5 centre backs and 5 forwards.
 
His contract is up at the end of the season. He is on over £100k a week, due to being a free transfer, I doubt we want to extend at that rate, as will be 30 years old by next season.
I expect he will return to the J league or look for another free transfer and getting an inflated wage. We will be looking for a younger replacement.
 
rikz said:
No big loss if you're looking to improve the first team, him and Hughes would be the first players id be looking to replace.

Was only because we were so desperate for creativity after losing eze, that we looked to kamada for something to happen. I doubt there will be any other interest from other prem clubs.
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I’m sorry but Kamada and Hughes have been key to the system Glasner plays. When you only have 2 DMs in midfield often up against 3 Kamada’s positional awareness and Hughes tackling are vital and allow Wharton to play. If you watch Kamada he is always looking to see where the opposition runners are and how best to position himself to block passes giving Wharton time to tackle, win the ball, and play telling pass. He’s not built to tackle but this aspect of his game has improved. He’s also technically good on the ball. When Hughes plays in his place we rely on the fact he is a busy player who will chase the ball and harry opponents to win the ball, more often than not making a simple pass to Wharton or our attackers.
Both have been encouraged to get forward a bit more and while neither will bang in goals from midfield on a regular basis, I’d fancy Kamada to get one before Hughes.
My guess is Parish is leaving Kamada’s contract as a decision for the new manager this summer assuming Kamada is prepared to stay.
 
Eaglecoops said:
It is a sad day for football if our midfielders are instructed not to try and score. I’m not sure I fully get your point here. Are they told to pass out to the wings when they have an open shot on the edge of the box?

As the stats state, the record for both assists and goals is poor. So their passing to strikers is obviously poor as well, which kind of begs the question why don’t we just play with 5 centre backs and 5 forwards.
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Well I guess it's in the same way a CB's main role in the team is not to score goals. It's to prevent them. The double CMs' role in this team is to simply connect the back three to the attacking five, while offering a degree of protection too. That's why you'll never see them run beyond, as some CMs do. Of course I'm not saying they'll never be in a position where they couldn't take a shot on goal...but we saw in the last game Glasner blow up at Hughes for trying to. It's simply not what he wants from them. An awful lot of emphasis in this system is put on that front five to score and create...trouble lately has been that too many of them have been bang out of form (Mateta / Pino / Johnson etc).
 
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