Palace have just bid £31.5 million for a player

[Blackadder]

i think thats kinda the point, its all getting a bit silly. you'd think they could put the money to use elsewhere.

Don't know if there are already plans afoot but that would build a nice stand to replace the Arthur Wait.

 

[CPFC G]

Great plan, bid big money for players that are already confirmed as going somewhere else, or unobtainable, so when they end up signing Gabby Agbonlahor and Peter Odimwenge they can at least say they tried.

Agbonlahor and Odimwenge can't cut it in the top division these days, More chance of them turning up at Bwighton IMO.

 

[Fungus]

How the **** can they justify 31m on a forward but not do up their sorry excuse for a stand, with wooden seats and a safety hazard concourse.

How long before TV money is everything, a stadium is just a liability, they are all knocked down, and games are played in TV studios without provision for fans?

 

[SeagullofMalaysia]

Now reported to be £38m. At least fix up your shambles of a stadium first :ffsparr

 

[Postman Pat]

Agbonlahor and Odimwenge can't cut it in the top division these days

Like Adebayor?

 

[doogie004]

And that is why England r out of the eruos

 

[Postman Pat]

And that is why England r out of the eruos

Agree entirely. Palace should be the type of club that are developing young English talent, like they used to, rather than spending £38m on overseas players and giving them a massive wage.

 

[edna krabappel]

Agbonlahor and Odimwenge can't cut it in the top division these days, More chance of them turning up at Bwighton IMO.

Like Frazier Campbell, Adebayor, Chamakh I imagine.

 

[Mattywerewolf]

Sums up all that is wrong with the game!

Cant think of anyone worth that money that would want to go there....

 

[edna krabappel]

It's got to be soul destroying being a supporter of a top French club (PSG excepted, as they have Qatari billions behind them) and knowing that even the relegation fodder of the EPL have the money to walk up and make an offer they can't refuse for their best players. Surprised Bournemouth haven't come in for Zlatan Ibrahimovic yet.

"Palace? Qui le **** sont Palace?"

 

[c0lz]

Yes a football topic ....... Oh palarse

 

[edna krabappel]

Meanwhile, trying to be a little more objective for a second, we have a situation now where clubs overseas can develop all the brilliant young talent they like, then sit back and cream off the cash while some English club comes along and pays them millions.

I've never objected to the best footballers being paid the going rate, and if that's £300k per week, then that's what they're worth. That's the basis of a supply and demand market. Yet equally, the same principles of supply and demand mean that even the most ordinary of Premier League footballers (and, in many cases now, Championship footballers) are being paid money that the superstars of years gone by would weep at. And youngsters are millionaires from their first PL contract. Can there truly be much incentive for a player to want to improve himself when he earns £25k per week at seventeen years old, as a couple at Chelsea are rumoured to do?

I bet even many Palace fans would admit to being hugely uncomfortable at the notion that some of their players earn in excess of fifty grand a week (and the rest). I know I would in their shoes, much as we'd all love to see the best possible players wearing our team's shirt. How easy is it to identify, empathise, even with a player- especially if he has a loss of form- who earns more in six months than many will in a lifetime of work?

 

[loz]

Meanwhile, trying to be a little more objective for a second, we have a situation now where clubs overseas can develop all the brilliant young talent they like, then sit back and cream off the cash while some English club comes along and pays them millions.

I've never objected to the best footballers being paid the going rate, and if that's £300k per week, then that's what they're worth. That's the basis of a supply and demand market. Yet equally, the same principles of supply and demand mean that even the most ordinary of Premier League footballers (and, in many cases now, Championship footballers) are being paid money that the superstars of years gone by would weep at. And youngsters are millionaires from their first PL contract. Can there truly be much incentive for a player to want to improve himself when he earns £25k per week at seventeen years old, as a couple at Chelsea are rumoured to do?

I bet even many Palace fans would admit to being hugely uncomfortable at the notion that some of their players earn in excess of fifty grand a week (and the rest). I know I would in their shoes, much as we'd all love to see the best possible players wearing our team's shirt. How easy is it to identify, empathise, even with a player- especially if he has a loss of form- who earns more in six months than many will in a lifetime of work?

I am hugely uncomfortable with anyone earning that type of money...as said before if it was not for my 45 year supporting of Palace I would walk away from the game never to look back.

 

[Postman Pat]

Meanwhile, trying to be a little more objective for a second, we have a situation now where clubs overseas can develop all the brilliant young talent they like, then sit back and cream off the cash while some English club comes along and pays them millions.

Between scratching his balls Jochaim Low said this:

Premier League clubs are now paying three times what they used to,” Low said, according to the Daily Mail. “The good thing is that money is now being ploughed back into the Bundesliga. “That helps make the German national team stronger because in the last few years £100m has been put back into youth development.

“If used sensibly and done the right way then that will work wonders for German football. “That money has been used to make the standard of young players better. It makes sense to raise your own young players and give them an opportunity.”

With expensive foreign talent being imported into the Premier League on a regular basis, the opportunities for young Englishman to play at the highest level are also being restricted. That further stunts their development, Low believes - citing that as a contributory reason why Germany were able to win the World Cup last summer as England failed to escape their group. “The English will have to face up to the fact that their young players don't get the minutes for their clubs,” Low added. “That is why the English national team haven't set the world alight in major championships, have they?”

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We overpay for their talent, they plough that back into youth development, they produce 5 more superstars, we overpay for them, they plough back.......

 

[CPFC G]

Like Frazier Campbell, Adebayor, Chamakh I imagine.

Yes exaclty like those three.

Adebayor and Chamakh have been released by Palace. (Chamakh did great for us in his first and second seasons)

Frazier Campbell has a year left on his contract he will be moved on over the summer if Palace can find a club to take him. Again a club like Bwighton.

 

[Easy 10]

Yes exaclty like those three.

Adebayor and Chamakh have been released by Palace. (Chamakh did great for us in his first and second seasons)

Frazier Campbell has a year left on his contract he will be moved on over the summer if Palace can find a club to take him. Again a club like Bwighton.

Whats this "Bwighton" you keep peddling on here ? Grow up, you utter imbecile.

 

[The red pepper kid]

Whats this "Bwighton" you keep peddling on here ? Grow up, you utter imbecile.

your not allowed to upset the enemy --however I have noticed that poster dougie the turd and one other all wearing the same light blue jacket , bag and hat--pictures look cut and pasted, they/he is desperate to get as much coverage as possible --this reply is as silly as a 31m bid by palarce -who many of there own supporters seem to believe in relegation next season

 

[Stato]

The massive TV deal has given clubs in the Premier League the opportunity to be self sustaining, profit making and debt free for the first time since the madness began. How depressingly predictable it is that they are already moving towards untrammeled competition that will see this money disappearing into the pockets of agents, players and overseas clubs.

Palace seem to have abandoned their pre-promotion model of youth development and apparently cannot afford £2.5 million a year to run a category one academy. However, they are willing to spend over twelve times this to buy a player whose wages per season are likely to exceed the cost of running a top academy. Which of these two options would be best for the future of football in the communities of South London? Which of the two options would be better for Palace themselves when the inevitable relegation season comes?

The lunatic short-termism of this approach brings to mind a Robert Winston documentary that showed that infants need to reach a certain maturity before they understood that the offer of a whole box of chocolates in an hour may be better than one chocolate now. Despite the examples of Leeds and Portsmouth it seems that those in charge of some football clubs don't care about potential consequences, they just 'WANT CHOCOLATE NOW!!!'

 

[Hillian1]

Whats this "Bwighton" you keep peddling on here ? Grow up, you utter imbecile.

It's a thinly veiled dig at Tony Bloom's speech impediment,

 

[brakespear]

Great plan, bid big money for players that are already confirmed as going somewhere else, or unobtainable, so when they end up signing Gabby Agbonlahor and Peter Odimwenge they can at least say they tried.

spot on. 'statement of intent' indeed