Welcome Patrick, hopefully exciting times ahead. Needs to crack on sorting contracts / transfer targets!

We’re gonna need em. PV very good choice. Builds on the french speaking theme.

Any news on who his coaching team will be?

Kristian Wilson was with him at his previous clubs, so he may well be coming. The Athletic also reckons there'll be at least one other coach. But no announcements yet as far as I'm aware.

Great that this saga has finally ended. The timing is just about OK considering we are told the club is supposed to be engaging in some form of transformation. Don’t see why Viera, shouldn’t do all right , as long as he is given a decent squad to work with.
It’s going to be interesting what the mix of signings will be, how many resigned, how many new, and as always the quality of. Good luck to Pat, he will need some, we are Palace, after all.

Really pleased Patrick Vieira has finally been confirmed as manager. A leader and a winner as a player, and held in the highest regard by many in the game. Any appointment was bound to divide opinion and be seen as a bit of a risk by some, but with what he brings to the table it's a risk I'm happy for the club to take. Hope he does really well.

COYP!

OK, but it's all we have at the moment so we have to get behind him.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Thanks for this Willo, but personally I'm never sure how much weight to attach to these analytical articles. Even if they are a good account of the tactics used at Nice, only time will tell if Vieira is married to those tactics wherever he goes, or if he devised them specifically to suit the players he had at that time and will use very different ones here.

I cant see that making us the lowest crossing team in the league for instance (as the article says he did with Nice) will get the best out of Benteke, and whilst I'm sure the short passing game can be coached into the players, that doesn't make it the best fit for any of the squads we've had, not just recently but for as long as I can remember.

If there was one single aspect of the recruitment process I'd love a bit more insight into, its whether the club ask the manager to explain his tactics in depth before they appoint him, or whether they accept that he will need to work with the players (and see who we can sign) before settling on a system of play.

If it's the former then I'd love to know what Vieira told the club he would plan to do.

I really hope SP & Co, have got this right. I will of course give PV all my support. I have my doubts but hope to be proven very wrong. COYP

im hoping its his knowledge of french / euro players, outside the prem spectrum that will prove a winner.
All get behind PV.
A fresh start & change from usual names.
COYP.

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