Richard

Thought I'd have a look at the comments under the athletic article about this, expecting all sorts of abuse. Nope pretty unanimous support from other clubs (especially forest and everton) fans for sticking it to the PL on this one. There's more negativity towards the outcome on here "Leicester played the corrupt system at their own game and won"

Better than a 20 goal a season striker is our Nick de Marco

100% we are going to get outplayed most games before the majority of the league have far superior squads than us and we don't have the money to catch up in 1 summer. We tried overspending before to catch up and look where it got us. We got outplayed by Fulham because frankly their squad is vastly superior to ours all over the pitch.

1st one Fatawu didn't follow his man and left JJ 2v1. 2nd one Winks got overpowered by Iwobi.

Played 3rd most minutes for Palace last season

Writing a signing off before he's even signed, much like the sack Cooper threads before we'd actually played a game

He's not a fast 19 year old South American winger with 30 senior appearances

Literally every comment by a Palace fan on the Athletic article is gutted he's going and say he will be missed

Really hope we can build some momentum over the next couple of games and get the fanbase onboard because the way he talks and the type of person we're bringing in is giving me Big Nige vibes

Sounds like Vardy is at that Huth/Jonny Evans stage where they basically don't train all week to play on the Saturday

Enzo taking the "I'm just the coach, anything off the training pitch is not me" approach. Aren't there now FIFA rules on the maximum number of players a club can loan out? So this stockpiling players to book a profit in the future isn't going to work if they have such a large squad they can't all be registered OR be loaned out?

I did think maybe we're trying to sell him the 3 year deal on 40k is worth a lot more than 10 months on 60k and we can see the free agent market is slow for experienced players. And from our perspective 6m over 3 years is a small hit to the squad amortisation. But then I always assume we have some grand masterplan and it often appears that we don't

32 and 1 year left on his contract, we can't be paying £5m

This is the important distinction. If you're working for a salary (even if that's £150k+ a year) you aren't the problem and I don't think should be overly taxed. It's those that live off the cream of their assets, often passed on through generations, are the group that needs to be targeted by a wealth tax. Unfortunately a lot of them sit in the house of lords/commons, or have close friends who do.

I turned it on for 5 minutes and they played better in those 5 minutes than I've seen us do all pre-season