There's little doubt that Sakho on his day is decent. However, you cannot simply ignore his regular clangers, which often cause goals. This is why your post isn't being taken seriously.

If you had to rely on Palace to get a result on the final day of the season to stay up, Tompkins, Cahill, Dann & Kouyate are all more reliable and would give most fans more confidence. The Sakho time bomb goes off roughly one in three games. This makes him a liability.

The downer is not weird and wrong. He's our highest paid defender so should be our best and he's not living up to it at the moment. That's part of the territory when you're earning over £100k per week.

Sakho

Positives: the best ball playing centre half we have. Negatives: he is poor in the air given his size and the position he plays.
Always liable to make a mistake (probably because of the positive mentioned).
His wages are high.
He's always injured.

On the balance the negatives far out weigh the positives.

I would say our best pairing at the moment is Kouyate and Cahill or Kouyate and Dann.

Kelly very underated and has never let us down.
Tomkins - the injuries are mounting up but an excellent centre half when fully fit.

We are lucky to have such experience, quality and depth in this position.

Absolutely bang on with regard to each player. Hopefully Woods steps up in the next year or so as a decent replacement for one of the older players otherwise we might as well release him.

Tomkins and Cahill top it for me, assuming Cahill can return to full fitness.

Kouyate has done a great job filling in and is next up - he doesn't really deserve to lose his place although he can play elsewhere. As for the others, Dann okay a but but slowing up a bit. Kelly still good cover, and Sakho, excellent one moment but a disaster the next, and his blunders are becoming a little too frequent to overlook.

I haven't seen enough of Woods to comment.

On their day and when fully fit, I reckon Cahill and Tomkins are our best and most consistent performance wise pairing.

Sakho should either be sold in the Jan window, otherwise be gone Summer 2021. 30 plus, injury-prone, high wages and above all else has too many clangers in his locker that almost inevitably leads to us conceding a goal.

Kouyate has been deputising brilliantly since making the transition and I see no reason why he can't make that his main role in the team and squad going forward

1. Cahill
2. Tomkins
3. Kouyate
4. Dann
5. Sakho
6. Kelly
7. Woods

Roy definitely has a dilemma on his hands now most of the players are fit, Sakho won’t even be in the squad very soon which I for one will be over the moon about. He is awful nowadays.

It will be interesting to see what Roy does with Kouyate. In my book he’s been our best player so far this season,