I can confirm that having spoken to a few supporters last night some of them had also read this somewhere

And I can confirm I overheard it being spoken of in a local bar by more than one Palace fan who appeared to also mention that it could have been £40m, 50m, or £80m, or none of the above. In fact after several minutes I came to the conclusion that as per the rest of us, no-one has a clue!

Do you actually read what others post on HOL or are you confusing us with "the few supporters who you have spoken to outside of this forum who you claim are underwhelmed at the appointment of Vieira."

For your information HOL (which you may have forgotten are ALL Palace fans) were decidedly underwhelmed at the prospect of hiring Lampard or Dyche and also had reservations about Nuno and Favre

He is a great signing for us. People are saying another FDB, but no comparison, FDB had no Premier experience at all and by all accounts was an arrogant git. Vieira captained the unbeatables and had a long successful career in the Premier. He has been coaching and managing for 9 years, so has experience. If you compare him to Cooper, who we nearly ended up with, who do you think the players would have more rspect for Cooper or Vieira?
By all accounts he is a modest down to earth bloke, he needs to be given a chance to build his team. A change was needed, thats what we have got.

I said to my wife over a tipple the other night that in my humble opinion, Vieira will not last the entirety of his contract.
Either he will be a failure and be relieved of his duties or he will prove a real success and be prised away by a bigger club.
My instinct of course might be proved wrong.