I wouldn't hold your breath about compromise on that front. He was trained as a manager at City and it is a core belief apparent from pretty much every interview he's given on his style.

When he went to New York I think I'm right in saying that he was prepared to ride out a really sticky start in his first season in the belief it would come good. There he was brought in to replace a manager who was "pragmatic" and had to work within a strict salary cap system where he was unable to go out and buy players who suited his beliefs.

Think there may well be compromises made but that is more likely on formation than style - that is the message from his time at Nice where he was far from predictable in how he set up.

It's more a reasonable presumption than a guess, based on what Vieira, the players and various people to have worked with Vieira have said in the media, along with the limited highlights I've seen from preseason. If even a mediocre championship side can have great joy disrupting your passing from the back then you probably aren't that good at it, or at least not yet.

The Watford game will tell us more. I remember leaving Selhurst after watching us draw with Schalke in De Boers final preseason game, and feeling extremely concerned that his ideology had nothing in common with our club and players. Hopefully we'll see a more pragmatic streak in Vieira.

I'm not saying we'll be crap or that Vieira will fail - I very much hope for the opposite of course. Every hope is coupled with a fear though, and mine is that if the manager introduces too great a tactical change too soon, the wheels will come off and not go back on again.

I suspect that at that early point in the season there wasn't a suitable replacement and Parish didn't / doesn't want the reputation of being a "quick to fire" chairman after the FdB fiasco.
I expect Parish realises that with Vieira this is very much a work in progress no matter how we start the season. Plenty to look forward to!

Sky Sports is today quoting Vieira as saying that he has has a “good conversation” with Wilf and hopes he will stay at Palace.

Meanwhile The Athletic is quoting Nuno as saying this about Kane “I have not spoken to him yet”.

I think we have the right manager!

I'm really hoping this goes well. Vieira comes across really well and seems to have a calm almost father-like quality about him, which hopefully gives the youngsters the confidence to grow. Of course it will come down to results and performances, but with patience I think we're at the start of something exciting.

He does seem to have the human touch and read an article about his time at City and this was what stood out apparently. People obviously respected him but he was able to delegate and listen and get people on board. Definitely a smart move to promote Derry as his Palace ears and eyes.

As you say it's a results business but this "feels" very different to FdB which is after all a really unhelpful precedent.