In South America, it’s normal business for players to be owned by several entities. Normally multiple clubs and sometimes agencies…but that is not allowed over here. So it’s impossible that it can happen.

I think what’s more likely, is that they know Textor with his links to Botofogo and will be aware he’s a shareholder at Palace, and it’s nothing more than a spurious link…so it’s BS.

The only person I’d give either credit or blame on our transfers is Dougie.

All gone very quiet.
Apparently,in the UK and has undergone his medical.
Waiting patiently for his unveiling as a Palace and not West Ham player!!

It’s hard to be positive on this one . This story has gone forward ,and backward far too often. Usually the selling club will clearly let it be known the player is going and where, that hasn’t happened officially .and then only confusion reigns over all aspects of what should be a well used path to him ending up in a Palace Shirt. Unraveling the ownership of South American players can be very complicated, and maybe that is a problem not yet resolved., whatever something does not feel right.

Apologies if this has been mentioned already, but I'm assuming a player like França is going to need a work permit.

Could that be a reason for the delay?

Yes he will require a work permit but you have to sort out the other parts of the deal first.

It's typical Palace take forever and wonder why we end up paying more in the end or missing out on people.

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This probably explains the lack of clubs queueing up to pay a big fee for him. It is difficult for a club our size as if we pay more than £15m for a player we kind of need them to hit the ground running given the limited resources. Given Roy's reluctance to take risks I doubt we'll see more than the odd 10 or 15 minutes here and there, but who knows, maybe he'll take to the PL like a duck to water.