It wouldn’t surprise if Palace., let Mateta go ,if only on loan. And if they do then surely with the Butland move to United and the long list of under twenty ones out on loan there has to be more than enough room to bring in first team improvements.
As , Benteke, was not replaced in the summer letting Mateta go would need a replacement , but it might lead to a more suitable replacement, hopefully not just a striker as Palace are also short of another combative mid fielder.

We are hoping to get Ings..............Oh wait!

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Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Shaping up to be the expected crappy window.
At a time when are so short of depth and need a fair amount of strengthening, why are we loaning out Butland, Ebiowei and now today Mateta ? (apparently in talks with Galatasaray). I guess that along with Benteke, that will be another forward not being replaced.
Players we were allegedly linked with lol, (Ings, Semenyo etc) are going elsewhere.
Would love to know what or if anything is going on - Cannot understand why there is so much complacency (Parish seems only to want to reduce numbers).
After all, we won't get any injuries !!

I was more concerned at the bit that said that Parish and Textor met on Thursday to discuss transfer targets. The chairman should be responsible for the running of the company and not deciding on player transfers. Likewise Textor is a non executive director and the pair of them should be discussing funding and not footballing matters that neither are qualified to discuss.

I would be happier if I read that the chairman was meeting up with the Sporting Director and Manager to discuss forthcoming transfers

Well said.