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It's nothing. SP just telling a fan to pipe down whilst not giving anything away, whatever the thing is.

'very one else sounds' like a stripper or escort.

COYP

I hope this is just a smokescreen, however as the season drags closer, can see us ending up with 2 average championship players. My money on guestede and Chris Martin , hope I wrong though.

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A BBS poster has asked some LFC fans if @thefirmBL is a good source for LFC transfer rumours and apparently they are not.

COYP

I am more than happy the way Palace do their transfer dealings. Just because we aren't being splashed about every back page with signings doesn't mean nothing is going on.
Look what happened with Wickham last year, no one heaerd cooey of that then next thing we know he is holding up a palace shirt. Considering the length of time we were linked with Tomkins, Townsend and Mandanda in the press and the time taken to get them to sign suggests to me that these deals were a fair way down the track before the press got wind of them.

We are an easy target. It is clear that we are in teh market for a striker and Pards is on record saying that he wants to add at least 2 more to the squad. We are cashed up so it isn't hard to use our name.

The Batshuyai offer, I am sure was one to help Marseille out. Loads of clubs linked with him, none bidding, we say we are happy to pay 30mil they release that, no one else comes in for him we have a quality striker or we do them a favour and get them a bit of much needed cash no worries.

The problem we are having is that the numbers being reported (30mil bids for both MB and CB) are now making it easy for agents to get their players in the shop window. All they have ot do is say Palace are in for their player and see what happens. The world knows we have the money, so it wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility. I am sure it p!sses of Parish and co, they may well be in for a striker and trying to keep it on the DL but their agent wants to bump their payday. It also may help them with all these other names being banded about and then in a weeks time we are linked with a Slimani type and a few days later he signs.

There is obviously no smoke without fire when it comes to Benteke, I would love him at Palace but I am very confident that we will have at least one top drawer striker coming through the door.

I'm not sure there is injury insurance that's worth buying.

We are unlikely to go down but a poor start could be fatal and a poor start feels possible after the 2H of last season.

I agree he'd probably leave if we did go down but if he failed to perform next season then the haircut on the transfer fee would be brutal.

Quite a few years ago, I saw a documentary on TV that said it was almost impossible to insert relegation clauses into top players' contracts. I remember they interviewed executives at Birmingham City so it must have been really long ago. But has that definitely changed (and how much wage premium do you pay for that?)

It's that achilles injury when he was at Villa that bothers me slightly.

Bottom line is that Benteke is the striker with by far the best CV who we could actually realistically buy. But he's anything but the best value and would surely restrict our future spending if 30m and 140k a week is true.

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