I’ve been a season ticket holder for yonks and I and those in charge will see the reasons for selling a right back in our financial and on field creative predicament.

COYP

If our current net spend budget is £10 mil and we sell AWB for £50 mil and sign two players for £15 mil each then we are doing the right thing being £30 mil up on net spend. Even if we came out £20 mil up on net spend we’d be better off than losing £35 mil plus whatever lost on net spend.

The two wages wouldn’t eat up that money and there’s a long term strategy to reduce it anyway.

I can’t believe this discussion. And from a conservative.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (13 Jun 2019 1.53pm)

COYP

Lots of opinions on the AWB question. The fact is in effect we're circa £50mio better off than we were 18 months ago if we sell him, let's not forget he only got in the side cos Wardy got injured, would be have got a chance otherwise ? No one wants to sell our best players, that is obvious, but needs must and in the financial position we find ourselves we cannot look a gifthorse in the mouth...we simply have to take the cash if it's anywhere north of £50mio. Unpalatable maybe but that's unfortunately how any club outside the top 6 would see this. I'd be a lot more worried if Wilf goes bearing in mind everything seems to go through him. AWB we can replace, Wilf we cannot.

Opinions are like Assholes everyone has them, and some stink.

My opinion, is that is we will get labelled as a selling club and never be anything else. AWB is a young lad with the world (literally) at his feet. At this stage in his career I think going to a big club would stifle his development, but I'm guessing the big bucks are calling.

However as per every season we have been in the prem, we will be last off the blocks in the window, probably sell AWB for 50 million on deadline day, and leave ourselves short of a decent right back, or end up paying over the odds for a replacement or make do with Kelly at right back until the Jan window.

Typical Palace transfer activity awaits is my gut feeling. The media dept at Palace pushing Sortloth did nothing to quell my fears, nor did Luka turning down his offer.

Edited by Dannyh.V2 (13 Jun 2019 2.06pm)

Very valid comments, but we're not seen as the selling club that we used to be. We have no reason to sell to anyone outside the top 6 and if we do it'll only be for serious wedge. In days gone by (and not long ago) if someone like Everton for example wanted a Palace player, we'd have to sell him. Now we'd tell them to f*** off. Progress of sorts !

As explained before, the net transfer spend was £40m but only about £10 of that would have been recognised in those accounts as the value is ammortised over the duration of a contract. We are not running at a profit and are being propped up by director loans.

Not at all. The money could easily be reinvested to buy players that could avoid relegation (which you were prophesying) and ,if wisely done, improve our position

And that is obviously where you think we belong.

There you go. Words in the mouth again

You really are flailing because what I understand is your case - that not developing and retaining our home grown talent is a precursor to relegation - just has no basis in facts

In the past six years, we have finished between 11th and 15th every year with hardly any use of home-grown players. I'm sure you can enlighten me but who else is there other than Wan-Bissaka that hasn't been purchased? And he has played effectively one season

We have attracted international players - albeit at high prices and wages - and are currently just 9th favourite to be relegated

Wan-Bissaka wants to go.

If you're not happy, harrass him on Twitter instead of being a sulky girlie on here.