We always seem to be planning for a future that never quite arrives!
This goes back to Malcolm Allison and his plan to reinvent us as a South London Benfica, through to the Venables team of the Eighties, Coppell’s top 3 team denied Champions League Football , the flirtation with big money purchases of Benteke, Sako and Cabaye to ‘get us there quicker’ and then where we are now.
Something always seems to hold us back.
A few posters observing the current situation say it’s fine , sell Guehi too and we will the spend more than £100 million on new players.
Does anybody seriously think this will happen?
We’ve just sold one of best players to Fulham , a rival club who also by the way reputedly beat us to the Smith Rowe signing.
They are a comparable club to Palace in size and we should at least be able to compete with them.
We’re linked with Carney of Chelsea, but that immediately makes me think are we contemplating the sale of Eze too?
I genuinely don’t see how we can fix matters in the remaining few days of the transfer window.
Where’s the plan?
Somebody said we were taken aback by Zaha’s decision to leave last summer as we expected him to stay.
This makes no sense - we had years to prepare for that day.
We knew there was a strong chance that Olise’s release clause would be activated this summer .
These are not easy players to replace, but at least you expect to have a succession plan.
JRS is not deemed ready and Franca does not seem the answer, at least at this stage.
If there was a genuine plan why are we supposedly scrambling around in the last few days of the window trying to secure a Sterling loan?
This may seem over critical taking into account the very good job on the whole that the executive leadership has done.
It’s just that in the summer we seemed to have the opportunity to make genuine progress and yet again we seem to be falling away from taking the final step.
This goes back to Malcolm Allison and his plan to reinvent us as a South London Benfica, through to the Venables team of the Eighties, Coppell’s top 3 team denied Champions League Football , the flirtation with big money purchases of Benteke, Sako and Cabaye to ‘get us there quicker’ and then where we are now.
Something always seems to hold us back.
A few posters observing the current situation say it’s fine , sell Guehi too and we will the spend more than £100 million on new players.
Does anybody seriously think this will happen?
We’ve just sold one of best players to Fulham , a rival club who also by the way reputedly beat us to the Smith Rowe signing.
They are a comparable club to Palace in size and we should at least be able to compete with them.
We’re linked with Carney of Chelsea, but that immediately makes me think are we contemplating the sale of Eze too?
I genuinely don’t see how we can fix matters in the remaining few days of the transfer window.
Where’s the plan?
Somebody said we were taken aback by Zaha’s decision to leave last summer as we expected him to stay.
This makes no sense - we had years to prepare for that day.
We knew there was a strong chance that Olise’s release clause would be activated this summer .
These are not easy players to replace, but at least you expect to have a succession plan.
JRS is not deemed ready and Franca does not seem the answer, at least at this stage.
If there was a genuine plan why are we supposedly scrambling around in the last few days of the window trying to secure a Sterling loan?
This may seem over critical taking into account the very good job on the whole that the executive leadership has done.
It’s just that in the summer we seemed to have the opportunity to make genuine progress and yet again we seem to be falling away from taking the final step.
