Two days to go, and our current (possible) marquee signing is a 33 year old centre back that hasn’t played for about 6 months ...

We still have not addressed our striker situation, have not got a right back in and still hold onto this stupid notion of leaving it all to the last minute in the transfer window.

We just seem to have zero transfer strategy.

We seem to now have zero money (the 50 odd million we got seems to be being invested in other areas, like unpaid transfer bills)

Our billionaire investors seem to want out and Parish for all the incredible outstanding work he has done seems obsessed with the new stand (that work still hasn’t started on !!) and (based on what I have seen) is a bit of a micro manager.

Roy seems to decent a chap to walk like other managers have.

It’s all just so frustrating. I think this is the season it all catches up with us.

Sorry for the doom and gloom .. but there just doesn’t seem to be any forward planning long term in team building management.

If Zaha goes in Jan, then that will be that.

All that we can hope is the likes of the newly promoted clubs don’t adapt quickly to Premier League football, and that the likes of Newcastle and Southampton have a stinker of a season. Because this season doesn’t feel it’s in our own hands already.

The way SP/Dougie look at this.

RB: Ward, Kelly, or Tomkins (Tomkins played RB twice for us I think).
CB is covered by cahill so we could line up Tomkins-Cahill-Sakho-PVA if needed.
we have no back-up DL, but riedewald and schlupp at some point in their careers have played DL, so they'll cover. Kelly played DL too, remember? So we actually have 4 DL on our books!
ST: we have Zaha, Wickham, Ayew, Benteke. More than enough given we only play with one.
Wingers: Zaha, Townsend, Schlupp, Meyer, and McArthur can play in a limited right midfield role (he has done so several times in the last few seasons). I'm sure that if Camarasa comes in, he'll find out he can play on the wing too.
I'm thinking Chelsea will throw Kennedy (spent two seasons at Newcastle) on loan, so wing is covered.
I'm thinking we're currently looking for an extra goalie too.

Think you might be forgetting that they have double the capacity at St.James Park.

yes

if only we would spend half their transfer outlay then. Meanwhile, we spent 2.5, they spent 60 just in the last week or so.

Newcastle have been low spenders for years. Shearer never shuts up about it. Us in comparison? That’s the thing about when we’re compared to other clubs, which Palace fans have little memory of their activity.

COYP