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Jimjim Flag 01 Feb 18 8.20am

Why is everybody complaining about the three signings? Usually everyone is banging on about signing young player who can improve. Now it has been done everyone wants a Sánchez. If you put a Sánchez in the Crystal Palace football team he would be turd.

 

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View stayloa's Profile stayloa Flag Beckenham 01 Feb 18 8.37am Send a Private Message to stayloa Add stayloa as a friend

A few reasons:

We know we need a keeper and more than one striker. We have one of the latter and they're untested.

We're 6 senior players out and have replaced each one with an unproven "Hot prospect":

Dann and Sclupp --> Jach
Puncheon and RLC --> Rakip
Sako and Wickham --> Sorloth

They may be 3 inspired signings, but interesting that the new guy at West Ham went straight in to the team and performed brilliant but Roy didn't even think Jack and Rakip deserved a bench place against West Ham...

I think it is frustration more than anger.

Our squad is still good enough to stay up, but the lack of depth is worrying and our last 2 performances have showed we've lost the ability to play exciting football.

Newcastle is huge - 4 wins and we stay up. Could get one of those on Sunday.

COYP.

 

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View stayloa's Profile stayloa Flag Beckenham 01 Feb 18 8.38am Send a Private Message to stayloa Add stayloa as a friend

Originally posted by stayloa

A few reasons:

We know we need a keeper and more than one striker. We have one of the latter and they're untested.

We're 6 senior players out and have replaced each one with an unproven "Hot prospect":

Dann and Sclupp --> Jach
Puncheon and RLC --> Rakip
Sako and Wickham --> Sorloth

They may be 3 inspired signings, but interesting that the new guy at West Ham went straight in to the team and performed brilliantly but Roy didn't even think Jack and Rakip deserved a bench place against West Ham...

I think it is frustration more than anger.

Our squad is still good enough to stay up, but the lack of depth is worrying and our last 2 performances have showed we've lost the ability to play exciting football.

Newcastle is huge - 4 wins and we stay up. Could get one of those on Sunday.

COYP.

 

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chateauferret Flag 01 Feb 18 9.07am

I'm not complaining about the signings we made. I think they are the sort of signings we need for our longer-term strategy. I am complaining about he signings we didn't make - the ones that leave us with only four senior fit attacking players (Zaha, Townsend, Sřrloth and Benteke). Anything happens to any one of them and we are in the s***.

 


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View CambridgeEagle's Profile CambridgeEagle Flag Sydenham 01 Feb 18 9.13am Send a Private Message to CambridgeEagle Add CambridgeEagle as a friend

Originally posted by stayloa

A few reasons:

We know we need a keeper and more than one striker. We have one of the latter and they're untested.

We're 6 senior players out and have replaced each one with an unproven "Hot prospect":

Dann and Sclupp --> Jach
Puncheon and RLC --> Rakip
Sako and Wickham --> Sorloth

They may be 3 inspired signings, but interesting that the new guy at West Ham went straight in to the team and performed brilliant but Roy didn't even think Jack and Rakip deserved a bench place against West Ham...

I think it is frustration more than anger.

Our squad is still good enough to stay up, but the lack of depth is worrying and our last 2 performances have showed we've lost the ability to play exciting football.

Newcastle is huge - 4 wins and we stay up. Could get one of those on Sunday.

COYP.

You're basing that statement on 2 games away from home, both London Derbies, one of which was against a top 6 team at their ground where they have an excellent record, and the other away at one of the form teams in the league.

Not particularly representative IMO.

 

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