Recent content by ThePaddy

There have been several of those displays recently, none of them mention Roy by name & even that one is largely directed at the ownership as I said.

The banners, whether you agree with them or not, have largely been targeted at our dysfunctional ownership structure. Roy hasn't been the problem this season, he's merely a symptom of the problem.

Roy can get wins against bottom half sides when he's got Eze & Olise playing together. However, I suspect most of the members of this forum could do the same. Without players who can produce a moment or two of outrageous quality in every game, he doesn't seem to have a plan. Our goals in recent...

I am very pleased to see Graham Potter leave Brighton. He's an excellent coach, and he was doing a fine job with your team. The total dismantling of your coaching & recruitment staff at the hands of Chelsea is an objectively good thing from a Palace POV, and an objectively terrible thing for...

We were hardly going to be able to pick up the phone and steal a key first team player from Liverpool, were we? Unless they had always dreamed of playing for Allardyce's Palace, of course. Last season, sure. This season we're already working on it. The signing of Chris Richards from Bayern...

You're right. I'd even Googled it to check and somehow still got it wrong :whistle:

It's not an approval of brilliance, it's a sign that the transfer fee would be large. Maguire made his England debut in 2017 and was sold for £80m in the same year.

No, thankfully. They've got "matching rights", i.e. if we accept a bid from any other club, Chelsea have the option to make the same bid and we're obligated to accept.

I'm glad you're slightly more sensible than Mr. Arse, but I wonder if the blindness to the brilliance of Marc Guehi on this website isn't based entirely on one rather unfortunate bounce... He made a couple of mistakes last season (as is to be expected) but had an extremely impressive debut PL...

Sakho was an excellent defender. A seriously classy footballer. You don't play 200 games at PSG + Liverpool unless you've got talent. In his first season he was the most obviously gifted defender I'd ever seen at Palace. The issue was that his ligaments were made of silly string, which is the...

We were doing so well :( Benteke's new contract had wages nowhere near £100k/w, never mind north of it. Olise was signed for £8m when we activated his release clause. Eze was signed for ~£16m. Guehi was signed for ~£18m. Even the most conservative of estimates would put their combined value...

You'll have a hard time finding a Palace fan who doesn't speak highly of Dougie. We had been spending an awful lot of money on players approaching the end of their careers as a sort of 'quick fix' under Pulis & Allardyce, but spent very little under Hodgson due to our wage bill being so high...

All of that seems true to me. What isn't true, however, is that without Gallagher we'll immediately revert to Hodgson-style bus parking. He'll be a big miss, but I've got every confidence in Dougie Freedman's ability to recruit & Vieira's ability to coach his way out of the problem Conor's...

Gallagher is an excellent player. He presses relentlessly and intelligently, has a fantastic first touch and can finish like a center forward. He is not, however, a particularly gifted passer of the ball. He's not the sort of player you look to when you want to dictate possession, and he's not...

I'm assuming you're fishing here but just in case you're not, we had 57% possession in our loss against Arsenal last week. We'll probably surrender possession against Liverpool & City and play on the counter, but we'll try to dominate possession against pretty much everyone else, for better or...