People moaning about this being a typical Palace window promising progress and failing to deliver.
However, I suggest it's been an unfortunate window to date for the club involving events which were beyond their control.
We started the window looking for two players to fill specific positions. We've got one of them in Esse and have failed so far to get the other (presumably a LWB given our interest in Diouf).
What the club wasn't expecting as the window opened were:
- Chelsea recalling Chalobah from his season-long loan and
- serious injuries to two 1st team squad players late in the window
Freedman and his team monitor potential purchases over a period of time. They don't simply wake up one morning saying "we need a CB back-up. Let's go and get one today".
We are in a difficult position now but I don't want to see us making panic buys. We almost certainly have enough to see us safely to the end of the season. We won't get as many points as we would have had the three players lost in this window been available but we should have enough to survive.
As for recalling Ozoh, I doubt the club will go that route. The lad had a very good start at Derby. He's been out for four months injured and only just coming back. Asking him to suddenly get up to the level of match fitness to cope with OG's demanding pressing game in the PL is, IMO, unrealistic. The lad (and Palace) are better served by his regaining match fitness where he is and playing himself back into the Derby starting line-up.
Let's get behind our club and support it through this difficult period and leave Freedman and Parish to get on with their jobs which I'm sure they are trying to do to the best of their abilities.
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