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nickyf

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After years of jokes that we will never get into Europe the Eagle has finally landed
how will it affect us ? will players join us to make us stronger? can we keep the players we got ?

Hoping this cup win will make us Stronger.
 
I believe this win will make a couple players who might have been tempted by offers in the summer, to stick around for European football. I think Guehi is 100% out the door.

A successful Europa cup run can net you 20 million just in prize share, not to mention the additionals. Not to be sneezed at.

But the other possible big benefit here is gaining investment interest to get rid of Textor and avoid woody johnson.
 
PalazioVecchio said:
European Football. A wonderful and terrifying prospect.
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You can certainly imagine the Management meeting on Monday morning starting with - Holy fxxx what have we done!!!

A number of times I have been in a group of people who would have been talking about the European football situation, where quite frankly as a Palace supporter I had very little to add to the conversation, well now perhaps I will learn something about it.
 
Our best players were in a shop window yesterday. Our win means they get 'European football' next season, ok not Champs League, but hope they stay for that - under a recent Europa League manager (hope he stays, too). BTW grest day for Austria all round!
 
After the euphoria, now the reality.

At some stages this season we had 2 goalkeepers, 2 veterans and 3 untried youngsters on the bench.
This is unlikely to be sustainable for the future.

Next season we face more fixtures, more travel, more Thursday/Sunday fixtures, the potential for more injuries and suspensions.

It's not presently clear who's leaving other than Ward, but we need more strength in depth and ideally more players who can play more than one position (like Lerma, Clyne and Sarr).Versatility could be a real asset.
We can't just assume our long term injuries will be able to return in pre season.

The club will know all this and hopefully will address the matter whatever the background uncertainty surrounding the club.
 
PatrickA said:
After the euphoria, now the reality.

At some stages this season we had 2 goalkeepers, 2 veterans and 3 untried youngsters on the bench.
This is unlikely to be sustainable for the future.

Next season we face more fixtures, more travel, more Thursday/Sunday fixtures, the potential for more injuries and suspensions.

It's not presently clear who's leaving other than Ward, but we need more strength in depth and ideally more players who can play more than one position (like Lerma, Clyne and Sarr).Versatility could be a real asset.
We can't just assume our long term injuries will be able to return in pre season.

The club will know all this and hopefully will address the matter whatever the background uncertainty surrounding the club.
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Hear Hear !
I garland your comments with approbation, there are rooted in sound judgement.
 
We'll just need a cup squad and a league squad - we've currently got five defenders if you include Lerma and Riad, we'll need six or seven, we've got five central midfielders (inc Lerma again) so no probs there - perm two from five, Esse and Franca are ready made replacements for Eze (if he stays) and Saar, and we've got Eddie for JP, so not that far off. It's back up wing backs where we are seriously lacking.

Europa/FA/Carabo XI atm:

Turner, Kporha, Chilwell's replacement, Riad, Lerma, new centre back, Devenny, Hughes, Esse, Nketiah, Franca.

Looking at our best second XI tells you where we need to strengthen, we'll no doubt get a Ben Davies type player who can play full back or centre back - a Joel Ward replacement basically who can do wing back as well, two of them actually, a leftie and a righty, then Lerma can be more midfield then cover for defence - Hughes and Lerma in the middle is strong, and if we have to replace Eze we need someone like Sarr who can also play centrally. So if we get players with a bit of versatility we may only need three of four added to what we've got now to make it work - that's not taking into account those who are probably leaving.
 
ex hibitionist said:
We'll just need a cup squad and a league squad - we've currently got five defenders if you include Lerma and Riad, we'll need six or seven, we've got five central midfielders (inc Lerma again) so no probs there - perm two from five, Esse and Franca are ready made replacements for Eze (if he stays) and Saar, and we've got Eddie for JP, so not that far off. It's back up wing backs where we are seriously lacking.

Europa/FA/Carabo XI atm:

Turner, Kporha, Chilwell's replacement, Riad, Lerma, new centre back, Devenny, Hughes, Esse, Nketiah, Franca.

Looking at our best second XI tells you where we need to strengthen, we'll no doubt get a Ben Davies type player who can play full back or centre back - a Joel Ward replacement basically who can do wing back as well, two of them actually, a leftie and a righty, then Lerma can be more midfield then cover for defence - Hughes and Lerma in the middle is strong, and if we have to replace Eze we need someone like Sarr who can also play centrally. So if we get players with a bit of versatility we may only need three of four added to what we've got now to make it work - that's not taking into account those who are probably leaving.
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Turner’s on loan.

According to the PL Injury Table, Chadi Riad’s expected return date is 1st January 2026, which means he won’t be back before our last 2 Europa League fixtures.
 
Nketiah is going to have an amazing season next season. He will get plenty of game time and I'm sure he bang in a few in the European games!
 
braunstoneagle said:
glanser mentioned something about the stadium being ready for eufa competition? cant think what we would have to do to be compliant?

looking at the other teams in the comp, we should be competitive!
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Our pitch is only 101 metres long. It has to be 105 metres, which has been approved by losing a few rows in the Whitehorse. So this will no doubt be our first part of ground redevelopment this summer. ( It is already wide enough 68m. which we have Malcolm Allison to thank for. He persuaded the board to widen the pitch and improve the playing surface on his arrival, as well as turning us red and blue and giving us the Eagles nickname.)
Also Glasner was saying he needs three more players.
So our board has some hefty decision making.
We need to hold onto our manager, coaching staff and players.
Considering we are in Europe now, coupled with the fantastic support and atmosphere around our club, it is hard to see why anyone would leave if we build on our success ( other than money of course).
After everything Parish has achieved for our club (which is already massive) I am very confident both he and our board will find all the necessary solutions to launch us higher than most of our dreams.
Bring it on!! We have arrived.
 
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