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

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[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.

 

[StandbyPalace]

Every club is a selling club. What I am sure we've got under Steve Parish and co is a club that balances the books. There are rules in place we dont want any more punishments do we?
In the pecking order of top clubs in Europe, we are much further up the ladder than we've ever been but no we are not the Top6 in England or in Europe (PSG, Real, Barca, Bayern Munch, Inter, AC, Juventus).
I'm ok wth that.
Players are leaving Villa this Summer even though they are a pretty big club who is also playng in the Champions League next season.

 

[Badger11]

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

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And fo many years no one wanted to buy our players. 😀

 

[StandbyPalace]

And fo many years no one wanted to buy our players. 😀

Exactly its a sign of how well the club has done in player recruitment.

 

[Canterbury Palace]

Would say every club on the planet bar Real Madrid and possibly Barcelona are selling clubs. Even United couldn't hang onto Ronaldo.

 

[Part Time James]

This will always be the case now, but I get a lot of enjoyment from these teams finishing way outside the top 6 because the players they plundered weren't as good as they thought.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

And fo many years no one wanted to buy our players. 😀

Let's be honest - we regretted buying a few of them.

 

[eaglesdare]

It's not as if we havnt pinched talent from other lower clubs either.

Eze from QPR
Wharton from Blackburn
Olise from Reading
Zaha from Man u 😏

It's just how it is. I'm thankful that we had the right players and right manager at the right time to win somthing before they all moved on.

 

[doombear]

Let's be honest - we regretted buying a few of them.

Only a few?

 

[Putitout]

With the system as it is being a selling club merely mirrors our success. The system more or less demands we sell our best players. The Clubs demand it , the players demand it, the agents demand it. Us punters think it’s a crap situation, unless we are pulling Readings trousers down to get an Olise.

 

[BromleyMonkey]

And fo many years no one wanted to buy our players. 😀

Thats what I say to my big shot Chelsea arm chair in-laws when they tell me palace are crap, funny how everyone including them wants to buy our players though!!