For 50 mill? A no brainer. Pay silly money for Defoe (won't be that much anyway), throw in Robbie Brady, Ashley Young and a loan player. Then we should be all right, but as anyone else is saying - today's match vs. Swansea is massive. In typical Palace style we'll probably come away with zero points.

I think Benteke will be the ideal striker for BFS, we just need another striker to complete with him.

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.

I agree with you that, to sell now, would be very short-sighted. We'll never progress, or even worse, stay up, if we keep cashing in. Let's face it, we haven't replaced Bolasie yet and we never did get proper cover for Soure, which it turned out we needed sooner rather than later. The squad is paper-thin currently and weakening it further in the, possibly vain, hope of improving it in the next four weeks won't help. We don't seem to have much of a scouting network and we've hardly been decisive deal-makers so far.

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

This.

Plus if we did sell Benteke now for say £50m we will then join the raft of other lower Prem teams desperately searching for a striker in January.

Any clubs that will sell to us will double their price knowing we are desperate and have £50 million from the Benteke sale burning a hole in our pockets. Can't see how we would come out of it better off at all.

Bentenke really hasn't been that bad. Last game he had one chance which wasn't entirely clear cut and the keeper saved it. Giroud missed an absolute sitter but he was actually given some supply and so got other chances and scored (albeit a spectacular goal).

Bentenke has been getting no more than a couple of good chances a game for a while now. If we can start delivering more balls into the box he will undoubtedly score more. Only Chelsea managed to effectively stop him from winning the ball in the air, and against Swansea we shouldn't be pushed back so deep (I bloody hope not anyway!)

He'll get us 15-20 goals this season based on him already having 8 in an under-performing team, which is what everyone has been saying we need from a striker for the last four years. £50m means nothing if we don't have another top-class proven striker willing to fill his boots.

I'd bite their hands off at 40 million altho they might get more.

Time for Zaha to go for 30 million.

Also other bench-warmers costing a fortune in wages.

Bournemouth and West Brom are 2 examples of teams better than us who don't carry on like us also Soton very much a business there.

Players can't continue to have it both ways IMO.