804 days injured in his career... 2 and a half years with injuries occurring pretty much every season and we are paying £8million...

What a joke, let’s just hope he fails his medical.

I’ll believe it’s real if it happens or if he’s in talks/having a medical. The press come out with rumours. 99% of them are untrue and then we usually sign a few players with 1-3 weeks left that nobody knew we were interested in. But still people get sucked in by this sh1te every summer.

Enjoy your Saturdays peeps, we’ll start putting bids in very soon.

COYP

Agree with Rudi, we virtually always get deals done without leaks and have no idea about the players coming in until it’s done or almost done.

Being on Sky doesn’t make it true, but it does give it more weight than the average rumour.

£8m sounds like a vast sum for him imo and his injury record it seems is terrible. I just can’t see this being true. Not for those figures. But then £8m is the same we wasted on Sørloth...

Either way I expect us to sign a striker and two defenders before the windows out.

Maybe we will see Mooy or Shelvey in a Palace shirt.

Willo, you know your stuff, I respect your opinion on the above players, but I'd have Holtby 1000x times instead of Shelvey and Mooy. Lots of problems with movement and covering in central midfield with Shelvey and Mooy, as creative as they may be (Huddersfield midfield was all over the place when defending, they had to use Mooy further up the pitch cause he didn't close down spaces enough and Newcastle suffered whenever Shelvey played).

And both would cost around 10 million. Holtby is faster, works harder, just as talented and comes free

In all the discussions amongst Palace fans (including the knowledgeable ones!) nobody has suggested central midfield - where McCarthy plays - as a priority.
The consensus is that we need to strengthen at right back and in the attacking areas, and this is even if Wilf stays.
We’re shopping as if we were a newly promoted club looking at players who are ‘damaged goods’ or second hand cars, gambling that we can somehow get something from them.
If we’re genuinely in for McCarthy the only conclusion I can draw is that one of the central midfielders is off.
The only glint of light I can see is with the couple of loans available which I hope will be filled by players inject some pace and threat to the side.