Interesting and exciting appointment but very pleased that SL etc. is staying on in the coaching staff. Get a couple of decent signings on board and hope to improve over last season. Stick to the Sam road, go down the Pards route he might be toast. Welcome FDB. COYP !!

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

I hope his experience at Inter shows him that he needs to be flexible in his tactics. He certainly will need to be at Palace. We will not dominate games.

The below quotes from Dennis Berkamp are the only thing I've read which are a cause for concern (taken from Skysports article):

De Boer won plenty of admirers for the manner in which his youthful Ajax side won four consecutive Eredivisie titles between 2011 and 2014, but there was also criticism towards the end of his reign. De Boer's side continued to dominate possession, but their build-up play was often slow and unimaginative.

It was more reminiscent of Louis van Gaal than Johan Cruyff, and it led to criticism from his former assistant Dennis Bergkamp after he was sacked by Inter last year. "At times, it seems like he would play a positional game just because he liked positioning, as if the whole aim was to obtain the highest possible percentage of possession," Bergkamp told Santos magazine.

"I don't care much for that kind of football, it's football without any sense. You need to seek adventure. You need to have the courage to play football, the courage to take risks and not refuge yourself in a waiting kind of football."

Here's Punch playing possession football, and taking over and finishing the move brilliantly - hopefully he can do more of this!

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