With the news of JA likely off to Fulham (an absolute sideways move for the player and can only be about the money). The continuing saga of MG. Olise long gone, what are the feelings towards this season and moving forwards?
I had such high hopes going into this season. The way we played those last couple of months, the way OG got us at the opposition. It was amazing. We all thought if could just keep that team together, we could have had a real crack at a top 6 finish this season. But slowly and surely the hopes drain away, Olise leaves, big blow, then looks like MG is off, Eze is off. To be fair, so far that hasn’t happened.
This news of JA leaving surprised me. I understand the financial thinking behind it but it does give me a rude awakening that we are ‘just Palace’ a small south London side.
Is last season magic couple of months as good as it gets for us? Can we really expect OG to stick around if every time a player does well, he is sold off. How long will Wharton last.
Or, is this an absolute master plan and OG knows we need more speed in which case he is happy to let JA go and maybe MG too because he had identified his targets. Riad looked good in pre season. If another CB has been identified then this would explain letting JA go. He did look slow on Sunday to be fair and all 3 centre backs did not do themselves justice.
I guess we will know in 11 days time when the window closes.
I had such high hopes going into this season. The way we played those last couple of months, the way OG got us at the opposition. It was amazing. We all thought if could just keep that team together, we could have had a real crack at a top 6 finish this season. But slowly and surely the hopes drain away, Olise leaves, big blow, then looks like MG is off, Eze is off. To be fair, so far that hasn’t happened.
This news of JA leaving surprised me. I understand the financial thinking behind it but it does give me a rude awakening that we are ‘just Palace’ a small south London side.
Is last season magic couple of months as good as it gets for us? Can we really expect OG to stick around if every time a player does well, he is sold off. How long will Wharton last.
Or, is this an absolute master plan and OG knows we need more speed in which case he is happy to let JA go and maybe MG too because he had identified his targets. Riad looked good in pre season. If another CB has been identified then this would explain letting JA go. He did look slow on Sunday to be fair and all 3 centre backs did not do themselves justice.
I guess we will know in 11 days time when the window closes.