We need players in every position. A chronic lack of recent investment has left us short in every department. Thats down to the board, I doubt they’ll address the situation in January

Edited by jimruss (28 Dec 2019 9.09pm)

We don't need any, we need players back from injury and for Wickham to stay free from injury.

We have adequate players available to play in all these positions if necessary and anyway where is the funds for this

personally i would rather we blood a kid before spending money on a striker, that wont happen tho...if we can sell bentekkers or wickham then thats fair game tho get another striker in.

personally, we cant sign players because we have
injuries...we have kelly & jairo playing because we have multiple injuries, if we sign players it will bloat the squad.

we havnt faced these selection problems since pardews days, tho if signing players meant roy stays another 2 years its worth the investment.

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

thats not true one bit.

we actually have a well balanced squad, we are however, missing a 20 goal a season striker bit we cant afford one so we may aswell go with what we have.

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

Agreed but we don’t have good squad depth, we need to invest in a squad not a 1st team. We’re performing far beyond expected

People stop with the we need a 20 a season goal scorer doesn't every one this is just silly.

What is the point in having that if they dont fit in to Roy style and dont have player around to provide the service which is the case now.

Right back is a must
Another winger is a must

nothing else really needed until summer

i expect we will loan a bunch of players with maybe 1 full signing could be more if others leave but in Palace fashion right at the end of the window and reject from another club.

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Depends who leaves and if we can cut away some of the dead wood.

Caramassa (?) has not been a good signing and it may be time to cut our losses on Tekkers. I would have said sell Jairo but his performance on Boxing day makes me wonder. Maybe sell one of our two spare keepers.

If Wilf goes then maybe get the Batsman back, especially if he ends up at Chelski

I agree if players are moved out then it is a different scenario.

1 right back to challenge Ward (who os the only right back by trade)

Maybe 1 central attack oriented midfielder (not found since Cabaye left and playing both Luka and Kouyate seems too much for a team which scored just 18 goals). Camarasa was meant to be him, but is he staying? And can he prove himself? Trouble is that all his goals for Cardiff came from a more advanced position, not from central midfield, which is his natural position.

Definitely 6 attacking players, as there should be 4 wingers, 2 attacking midfielders/ second strikers and 2 center forwards capable of scoring and creating. At the moment there are only 2: Jordan Ayew and Zaha. If we could get 15 million for Townsend, 10 for Benteke from China or Russia or whatever and 10 for Meyer, I'd buy 6 others (also send Wickham to get playing time and pull Schlupp back to left back position cause he sure isn't a competent winger).

A team with only 2 attacking players who actually do something is really weak. Just compare this Palace to when is had Zaha, Bolasie, Dwight Gayle, Murray, Puncheon, Townsend in good form, all competing for a place.

Most PL team have at least 6-7 good attacking players. We're in a decent league position cause of the defence, but it won't hold on forever. Without goals we'll get close to relegation zone in no time. Just 8 points clear, table is still open.

Edited by mattteo (28 Dec 2019 11.38pm)