If we get relegated Doucoure and Lerma will be off, so Ozoh will probably be playing every game.

The Standard reports that West Ham are very much in the game here.
They play better football and are higher up the table and in Europe.
They are likely a better option for him sadly.

In todays Times it was reported that the loan fee plus wages amounts to £10m.

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Hopefully West Ham get it done quick so Palace can move on and find another option. The worst case scenario is we have a Lewis Hall situation where we are left with no-one. On that, how is it the club deemed we needed another left-back in the summer but seemingly have done nothing to address that in January? Similarly, we supposedly were pushing hard for the PSG lad but so far we still haven't got another forward. I appreciate it's not easy to get deals done in January, but what has been happening in the last four months since the summer window shut? Were no other plans being made? Could they not, for instance, have sounded out Genk on Munoz before January? Roy has shown no desire to involve Franca or Ebiowei so why is there no news about us looking at wingers, especially given Olise can't stay fit for more than five minutes.

I think Philips would be a good signing, but I think more pressing is our need for some creativity and goal scorers in the squad. When we kick off at Arsenal tomorrow we will in all likelihood have no recognised wide players on the pitch with others having to fill in.

can't believe people think this may happen. Too expensive and he will not be interested, even if we could afford him.

Surely we desperately need attacking options - LW in particular

I actually think our attacking midfield is the most important. It's good with Ayew, Eze and Olise. Take out 1 and we look ineffective. Take out 2 and we may as well hand over the points before we even travel. The lack of depth is frightening. Who is next in line? Schlupp? Barely averages 1 goal in 10.

We can muddle by in games with our current defensive midfield options. Phillips would make us better but he'd had to make us astoundingly better to get us far enough up the league to pay off the cost and without a stronger attack, I don't think we'd achieve that league rise.

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