He is pure class and has bought into what the club is all about. He seems to really like it here. A lad from Lewisham playing for a club 10 minutes up the road. It mart be we can get him for another season with option to buy. He's like a Rolls Royce on the ball

I'd be extremely surprised if Chelsea are looking to sell him this summer

The only chance I can forsee is if Barkley turns it around, so that RLC is not getting regular first team football and he pushes for a move in January

I doubt they would want to sell a potential England player who Chelsea fans are calling the next Ballack. If they did, I am not sure we could afford him. Our only hope is another season long loan.

I just can't see us getting him. If Chelski do decide to sell, I'm sure that bigger clubs than us will be in for him. That alone may make sure that Chelski keep him.

At least we got a decent loan out of them this time!

Admire the ambition but I’d suggest it all depends on the situation with Wilf. We have a manager who encourages us to play the right way most of the time, which is the fundamental basis to long term results, but I’m not so sure our squad is anywhere near as good as we think it is at times.

I still think we are somewhat of a one man team and the stats supporting that are pretty emphatic. We may have a few other high quality and invaluable members of the team (Luka, Tomkins etc.) but are they enough to push for Europe? I’m not so sure. Burnley I think are a one off to reach Europe with a “hard work” style of football alone and I’d be gobsmacked if they got anywhere close to it again next season, without a quite big reshuffle of players and the way they play.

If Wilf wants to go (and I’m actually not so sure he does), we essentially shouldn’t stand in his way. It would seem a bit hollow for the fans to supposedly worship him down to the ground but attempt to put a halt in his desire to test himself at the very top, especially after all he’s given to the club.

If he ends up going, the recruitment process is then absolutely vital to get right. We’re replacing a game changer, so you’d hope that DF and the rest of the scouting team have left no stone unturned for replacements if the worst case scenario happens. Not overly convinced by Freedman so far, I have to say, and one would assume this is the window where he really earns his salt.

Think there are many reasons to be positive and there is no reason with a competent transfer window & Roy steadily improving us, we can’t achieve some form of stability next season. But I’d suggest, as a footballing team, we’re still quite a way off being contenders for Europe just yet.

Although, as I’ve said to many non Palace friends, Roy is by far a better manager than any of the British ones we’ve had over the last few years. More progressive and tactically astute than Pulis, Pardew, Allardyce, Warnock & Holloway by some distance and I’ve been pleasantly surprised with how he gets us to play on our day.

COYP

We're the Arthur over ere!

The reality is that we’d have to blow the entire budget and perhaps sell benteke to help pay

How about another loan or buy him for ten mil but they get first refusal for same price in two years, or less even to make it a deal worth having for them