I think we should be setting our sights a bit higher than a player who can't get a start with a relegated team in the Championship .

I know this is Palace & almost every transfer window is the same, anticipation of bringing in some talent to progress the club, but this window seems to have been worse than most.
Losing Zaha, Mac , Milo,
Possibly losing Olise & injured probably for a 1/3 of the season.
Injuries to Mitchell, Tompkins & Hughes.

Hopefully Lerma & Franca will come good, however with Franca‘s age & Roy’s track record he might not even play.

And now we are looking at Che Adams!!!!!

Something seriously wrong within the club.

I have total sympathy for Roy if it goes wrong this season!

I’m guessing this is pretty accurate. A lot of weight on young Franca’s shoulders, although doesn’t appear to lack confidence. Goals is a huge concern. Adams is not that guy. If only for an AJ

Jimmy & Luka were past it and I believe it was absolutely the right thing not to renew Zaha. He is ageing, slowing down and missing more and more game time through injury. As good as he was for us, I’m glad the whole ‘Zaha - will he stay or will he go’ saga is now over and we can look to the future having shifted by far the most expensive and overrated player off our books (look at his goal/assist stats since the World Cup).

Tompkins is fit again (in the squad yesterday) and Mitchell is rumoured to be in contention for the opening game next week - I don’t actually rate either of them as first team starters now. Hughes will be injured for longer but with the arrival of Lerma and the progress of Ahamada, I don’t see him being used as anything but a substitute or starting in the Carabao Cup games.

Olise is the only real negative and could be out for a while.

I’m excited to see França join and think he will be very good for us.

There’s still plenty of time left yet and if we can secure Lewis Hall, a new decent right back and sell Mateta and replace him with a better CF then it will have been a decent window (keeping hold of Guehi, Andersen, Olise, Doucoure & Eze are of huge importance though).

Dazza said we have £70M to spend if we don’t renew Zaha, we’ve only spent £17M of that so far on França so that leaves us £53M !!!

Edited by Phil’s Barber (06 Aug 2023 10.38am)

Yes have to agree with you there ,from what i have seen from him he definitely put in a good shift and gives his all . Good pace and good in the air , which we are lacking .

I am late 70s Croydon Trucker so have been supporting Palace 70 years. So I dont give a f**k what other fans think of my opinions. I just think SP is ruining our club by not investing in more players when we obviously need them.

When we are linked with players they are from clubs that were relegated and these players were not good enough to keep those clubs in the PL last season.

Hi Dazza, me old mucker, i know its Sunday but any news, congratulations on being first to say Franca done deal, 24 hours in front of Romano, nice

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

Really? I thought he said £30m on which basis we have £13m left for Adams plus whatever we can get for Mateta.

In the Lyon programme, our chairman stated that the club were trying hard to get ONE OR TWO more over the line (after Lerma). Franca is the ONE and I suspect Adams may be the TWO. More than that and we're looking at loans hence all the noise about Hall from Chelsea.

Got to give you credit for persistence. Some would call it a little obvious baiting but not me.

Fabrizio also said Franca deal only completed last week.. but we’ll ignore that bit.

Spot on, i cannot believe the criticism of Steve, made mistakes, but overall top top chairman