No I am not a moderator. I just have sufficient respect for your opinion to actually seek to understand your point before I overlay my own.

I thought the point that you were making was that we had chased after an unrealistic target to replace Joel Ward, only to settle for what we had. Which confused me because I thought Fosu-Mensa was an early signing in the summer, which would suggest that it wasn’t chasing an unrealistic target that was a problem in this position, but perhaps identifying realistic targets that are much better than what we have.

It seems to me that our recruitment policy is the problem. There must be targets that are better than what we have, but don’t cost £30 million.

What does RTFT mean?

I cited the goalkeeper position as an example of where we had begun the window with hopes of getting a strong upgrade and ended up with less than we had before.

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We didn’t.
TFM signed on August 10th.
Made his debut on August 12th against Huddersfield.
One of many of Frank’s schoolboy errors.

Palace 13th 2017/18.

one of my favourite players

decent PL quality full back, no world beater but we cant afford world beaters.

says a lot hes our mosr capped player since promotion, cant beleive the stick he gets from a lot of uninformed fans on here

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

Benjamin Mendy who can get up and down on the left is out injured for a while.
Danilo can play on the left but he is right-footed.He has played in both full-back positions and in midfield.

Ward is proving to be a very good purchase indeed. Might not be the fastest full back in the Premiership however he doesn't break down injured often, has been playing very well lately and has made some cracking blocks as well.
Doesn't sell himself to early either these days and stays on his feet.
Huge player for us at the moment which is why he just racks up the games.