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Our most exciting youngster, pre-Meyer. Not saying he'll ever cut it in the Premier League but it'd be foolish on Palace's behalf to cut him off already.

Why don’t you re read the post again instead of talking s***. He’s a 21 year old. Of course he’s not ready to replace Luka. We have absolutely no need to replace Luka at this point in time either. Stop trying to twist things.

Problem with you Rudi, is we’ve had debates before. Including on the FdB debacle. And you keep biting, but when someone lays it out for you on a plate and in detail, the only thing you can come back with is strawman nonsense.

You need to learn how to disagree with other people like an adult rather than resorting to playground antics when someone offers a well reasoned and balanced alternative to the position you’ve taken up. Usually because that’s the position most other people have taken up too, therefore you see it as gospel.

In an ideal world, a loan move to Swansea would be perfect.

A chance to play a full season in an intense English league for a good team.

It remains to be seen quite how good he is, but if he was an academy/home-grown player I think the reaction to this potential move would be very different.

Our most exciting youngster, pre-Meyer. Not saying he'll ever cut it in the Premier League but it'd be foolish on Palace's behalf to cut him off already.

It must be really tough for young fringe players hoping to break through in PL teams. I thought Riedewald played quite well against Reading and afterwards he was talking enthusiastically about playing in a DM role – presumably as cover for or alongside Milivojevic Can’t think this was without some discussion with the management. A few days later we sign Kouyate. Shortly after it appears he’s offered the opportunity to play in the Championship with a relegated side with an unproven manager and owners who seem prepared to sell off their better players. How suddenly high hopes can be dashed.

Yep, the whole of England came with the exact same rhetoric about Pep and his style of play for years. He got more points in England than he did with arguably the best team of all time in Spain. And if not certainly one of the best, with Messi, Xavi & Iniesta all in their prime. The English superiority, and the notion you can’t play a certain style in the Premier League is just this strange myth spouted by people who are so desperate to cling onto a football that doesn’t exist anymore. And people are actually starting to clock onto this, albeit agonisingly slowly.

I have no problem with us doing what we have to do. Or the deficiencies we have as a bottom half team that mean we need the “destroyer” type players in midfield. What I have a problem with is the proportion in which we seem to nearly always favour these type of players. It’s something I’ve ranted on here about many times, and it’s what I truly believe. Unless we re rig the balance of the squad in a more progressive fashion, in my opinion, we will be fighting relegation more often than not until a point in which we go down anyway. And because of our reluctance to adapt our philosophy, find it very hard to come back up.

For me the sale of Riedewald is the definition on undermining the type of progression we should be targeting. I don’t think it’s about the league he’s playing in at all, I think what he lacks in brute strength he makes up for in his reading of the game and could quite easily develop into an excellent anchor to a back 4. Regardless of the country he’s playing in.

As I said earlier, it’s a game of opinions. But I’m just stating the reasons why I’m personally disappointed we’ve deemed him surplus to requirements and would be even more disappointed to see him go.

Edited by Mstrobez (05 Aug 2018 12.30am)

People can have heated debates on this subject but the fact is the club are prepared to let him go and use him in an exchange for Ayew.
In central midfield he has Luka,Jimmy and the two players signed last week ahead of him.
There’s also Puncheon,Williams and young players like Kirby competing for a central midfield position in the unlikely event one is available
He won’t get an opportunity at full back or centre back either, so at best he is a fringe squad player.
He’s a good player but surplus to the current needs of the squad.