About time he got a pay increase. The powers that be bring in a number 2 Goal keeper for 20 mill and put him on 100k per week and one of our best performing players last season and this is on 30k per week . My nose would be slightly of joint .

Great news. My take on it is that we should probably sell one of our top six every season (one of Guehi, Andersen, Doucoure, Johnstone, Eze or Olise) and try to discover two players to replace them. We bought each of them for or their value was roughly £10m-£20m when we signed them and there is no reason why we can’t find others for similar amounts.

The fact shouldn’t be ignored that a decent player from the Championship or other league that performs in the PL will almost definitely double or treble their value within a season or so. The secret to success of course is to attract them and in some cases take a bit of a risk.

Lerma probably has a decent value now, Mitchell too and Henderson will with fitness become valuable. These players along with Franca can become part of that high value group. We have to be realistic enough to realise that to get in more bodies we may have to lose one or two of our better players. If we can replace them with academy players then we’ve hit the jackpot but I reckon we are a few seasons off doing that just yet.

I would hope or suggest:

- Greater chance of first team football than at 'bigger' club
- PL football quite likely for the foreseeable
- Unlikely to be involved in a relegation battle (too sincerely)
- PL wages
- London base
- Family club/good support

Not saying that with any conviction BTW, just quite an off the cuff but direct response to that question. Does/should place us well for those players perhaps just a cut below those that would sign for your City, L'pool, Uniteds (plural), Arsenal, Chelsea etc.

Olise/Eze prime examples. Would either have received the playing time and therefore recognition they now have at a top 6 team? Perhaps, perhaps not.

If you were a young championship player now, Palace would not be a bad shout at all if you really thought you had the potential to establish yourself in 'the best league in the world' and played anywhere but GK or CB (right now).

A typically long post but also; Johnstone, Andersen, Guehi, Doucoure, Lerma, Eze, Olise, these are all very good players we have 'scouted' well for and not in a singular instance. That should provide some belief that it is 'doable' and we should continue in this manner.

There will always be a few duds, the odd Ferguson/Henderson who may never play a full game etc but even from here on in, if we unearth a couple of gems each window, we could be laughing going forward. I sincerely hope the next few are a RB, Winger and Striker.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

According to the Beeb, Eze has now signed new deal till 2027

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I wish they would update the club website, they are so slow.

One more point

Yep just to be clear I was somewhat piggybacking off your post SNH as opposed to contesting anything you'd written.

I'm thrilled, it's great news - [Link]

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!