There will be no replacement for Zaha. We cannot bring a player of his quality to the club, just as with Wan Bissaka.

I do not believe that Wilf should be sold in January or indeed next season. His value to us as a player far exceeds the 80 million we might be offered.
It was a disaster to sell AWB and I can only assume that was a measure of the clubs financial situation.

We can survive without AWB, albeit exposing the limits of our ambition as a club and sentencing fans to seasons of no excitement or improvement, however, we will not survive without Zaha.

Sure we need to strengthen the team generally and find some more goals, but selling once in Palace generation players like Zaha and replacing them with over priced mediocrity is the way to oblivion.

Although you’re probably correct we can’t recruit equal quality to Zaha, although small teams can and do, saying we can’t on AWB is absurd. It’s more that we didn’t than we can’t. Remind us how effective AWB was over the halfway line.

It wasn’t a disaster to sell AWB, but the recruitment following his sale was. We had a few attempts but seemingly weren’t prepared to spend £20’mil on a right back, which you can partly see the logic, but it’s a position you either hope to get years of service from, or sell for a good profit to go again if there’s serious interest from high spenders.

You do not believe Zaha should be sold next season. You seem to ignore that’s a full year after a big problem this summer that isn’t going to go away next summer. Again, the selling of him isn’t the disaster waiting to happen but the dealing with it straight after that may or may not be. There were some quality players being bought by our lower half competitors and indeed we were interested in on deadline day up until we announced Zaha wouldn’t be leaving.

Sarr signed for Watford after our announcement and we were interested in the Russian striker.

The world does not end when Zaha leaves. He cannot play at 40 and it’ll be the start of a new chapter. At least cpfc might realise the true reality after the summer of all the shenanigans and how serious Zaha is about wanting to leave, however much I’m disappointed with him and his team of tw@ts.

Live in your over optimistic fantasy if you must.

Wan Bissaka was the best young right back we ever had so don't tell me it's not a disaster to sell him.

Fans who kid themselves and attempt to extract some positivity about everything bore me to tears.

You don’t ever go into any analysis or detail on this subject. You just keep saying it’s disastrous and we’re doomed and nothing else. Whenever you’re presented with a discussion on it you close down on wanting to discuss it. AWB wanted to go, Parish didn’t want him to (so it’s said), but aside from the money, there are arguments against stopping a move to Man Utd happening for one of our players, which is the stance (apparently) Roy and DF took and (apparently) persuaded parish was best in the longer term.

So when Man U sold Ronaldo, making them a less capable team, were they going nowhere?

Edited by stuckinbristol (16 Aug 2019 9.31am)