Why we will always be a "selling club"

[Lancspalace]

Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ are raiding poorer clubs at record levels as wealth gap grows wider

Arsenal signing Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle has taken recent 'Big Six' spending on players from other Premier League clubs to £1.2bn

www.nytimes.com

(NB I have shared this article so you don't have to be a subscriber to The Athletic to read it)

A really depressing article about how the "big six" richest clubs in England continue to poach the best talent from the "other 14". The current SCR means that this will continue for the foreseeable future and "making the next step up" for clubs like ours is impossible.

 

[MrRobbo]

Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ are raiding poorer clubs at record levels as wealth gap grows wider

Arsenal signing Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle has taken recent 'Big Six' spending on players from other Premier League clubs to £1.2bn

www.nytimes.com

(NB I have shared this article so you don't have to be a subscriber to The Athletic to read it)

A really depressing article about how the "big six" richest clubs in England continue to poach the best talent from the "other 14". The current SCR means that this will continue for the foreseeable future and "making the next step up" for clubs like ours is impossible.

And the 2 best clubs in Spain poach from everyone else.

I know everyone gets angry about it, but we should be happy that we are relatively close to the top of the food chain

 

[Lancspalace]

And the 2 best clubs in Spain poach from everyone else.

I know everyone gets angry about it, but we should be happy that we are relatively close to the top of the food chain

As one of the "boring old farts" who has watched Palace since 1963 I completely agree. The last thirteen seasons, and especially the last two, have been completely magical. I can understand however the frustration amongst those supporters who have only known the current Premier League phase and not suffered for decades like some of us.

 

[crvenaeagle]

The premier League is a business after all, and to have unpredictable results is a massive risk to profits. It will always be protected.

 

[Save Dwindlehurst]

Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ are raiding poorer clubs at record levels as wealth gap grows wider

Arsenal signing Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle has taken recent 'Big Six' spending on players from other Premier League clubs to £1.2bn

www.nytimes.com

(NB I have shared this article so you don't have to be a subscriber to The Athletic to read it)

A really depressing article about how the "big six" richest clubs in England continue to poach the best talent from the "other 14". The current SCR means that this will continue for the foreseeable future and "making the next step up" for clubs like ours is impossible.

Actually until we had to let Olise go we hadn’t been a selling club for 20 years mostly due to Wilf making us a one man team.
Back in the day we had to let players like Peter Taylor, Kenny Sansom and Ian Wright go but it was the exception rather than the rule. Now that’s been made much worse by players being able to run down their contracts and go for nothing. I’m afraid it’s a fact of life now that any young player we sign on a 5 year deal that turns into a great player will be sold in 3 or 4 years.

 

[BromleyMonkey]

Because we are a small club with a small ramshackle ground and compared to the big clubs we haven’t got a pot to piss in

Close thread 🤣

 

[Palacesince64]

Nothing wrong with being a selling club if you continue to find gems at a decent price. Given our current predicament re PSR having spent big in January I hope we’ve learned our lesson and go back to finding talent under £29 million to develop. That’s our model surely.