Don’t think it odd at all. Chris , for me would be the most realistic candidate , if only limIted changes can be made to the make up of the squad. This alone would give him a better chance than the squad he has at Sheffield.
He is an absolutely solid football man, able to adapt a limited squad , which is an absolute requirement for Palace.
Eight years of slow progress, some say none. Would suggest progress for Palace, will be slow, and we need a man that can over see slow progress. He certainly likes his teams to get at the opposition, so that might please the folk who want a bit more aggression in other peoples penalty areas. The proviso is even he would need some new faces to work with.

You didn’t say you had a discussion you said you overheard, which implies listening in over a distance. So you either stopped your walk to listen to their conversation (a bit weird), or you knew them in which case the context of your post is all wrong.

Understood, and I certainly wasn't calling you (or anyone else) out individually, just expressing my great surprise that what seems to be a fair few posters on here think the club can 'aim high' regarding the next manager and actually achieve anything other than looking foolish, wasting time, and making it clear to the world that whoever we do end up with was not our first choice.

This has nothing to do with 'lacking ambition', whatever that means when applied to a supporter. As tempting as the Premier League and London are, any serious manager who has either been used to, or has already earned the right to have a crack at, Champions League football will not come to Palace. We are a world away from somewhere like Everton, who have done very well to attract Ancelotti, but on the basis that they have the money and will to have a crack at the top four.

We might be able to attract someone who can do well enough for us to get a chance at a club who could compete for a top four place - in other words, someone who is a clear level beneath the likes of Tuchel, Pochettino, Nagelsmann, and Gerard (who has not only just won the league in style, but also earned a run at the Champions League).

I would be hugely concerned if Benitez came. He is wholly unsuited to life outside of the elite, demands money all the time, throws his toys out publicly when his club don't spend lavishly, and played very negative football with a Newcastle squad I wouldn't say is any worse than ours.

For me it all boils down to the same conclusion as it has for a long time: Unless we get another pragmatist (Dyche?) then whoever we get will be a gamble, partly because the squad might not be capable of playing any way other than very defensively, partly because even if they are we might not get enough points to stay up playing anything other than defensively, but also because whoever comes in will, by nature of our status and who we can attract, be of the level where the big clubs aren't interested in them (yet). Whoever we can get will have significant question marks over them - that's why we can get them.

No worries, clearly a case of crossed wires. I hadn’t seen the Palace website interview otherwise I might have realised what had happened with our posts and differing interpretation. Thank you for clearing that up as I was genuinely a bit puzzled by it all.

One can only hope.

The other thing in relation to this is if Roy doesn't know about contracts etc as he states, then it doesn't sound like he's planning for next season at all. Surely, if was hugely interested in staying, he would be asking questions himself? Just conjecture really, but there's something not quite right about having so many out of contract and the manager knows nothing. I guess it could just be that he didn't want to give any information out?
The whole thing sounds very short term.

Red and Blue Army!