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View Rudi Hedman's Profile Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 23 Apr 14 2.39pm Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Quote fozzaisere at 23 Apr 2014 2.36pm

If anything this year has shown that the greatest strength a manager can have is to obtain more out his current set of players than to scout and buy new players.

Think back to last june and who would have though the players we currently have could be performing at their current level.

We need a top striker and a LB then the rest could easily just be squad players.


A striker is where we'll probably have to pay however high the asking club wants. We need one, score very few and everyone knows it. The rest we'll look elsewhere if clubs or agents get greedy.

 


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Quote sydtheeagle at 23 Apr 2014 10.46am

On the contrary, I'm not dreading this window at all. Last two windows, we were dealing from a position of weakness; likely relegation candidates, newly promoted team, everything uncertain. We'll go into this window secure in the Premiership, a London team (with all the attractions of playing in the capital), possibly led by manager of the year, widely recognised as having the best supporters in the country, on the up generally, and with at least one Champions League player (Ledley) having already signed up.

The last two windows we were the poor man trying to persuade our betters to take a shot on Palace. While we may never be Big Five, this time around we have a very persuasive pitch for targets we are interested in and you may well find we're suddenly the choosers and not the beggars. Twelve months ago any mid-table team (Stoke, WBA, Norwich, Fulham, even Southampton) were better options than Palace. Not so sure that will be true come three weeks time.

Love this post. Spot on. Looking upwards not backwards. We will be in a much stronger position as a club to attract talent.

 


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Quote Booted Eagle at 23 Apr 2014 7.32pm

Love this post. Spot on. Looking upwards not backwards. We will be in a much stronger position as a club to attract talent.

I totally agree.


 

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