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I would get Alzate back in straight away, and get him in the team. He's an excellent footballer who will inevitably be a solid Premier League player. He's got an excellent football brain, good feet and deserves a run.

Really really strange why he's dropped out of the picture. I hope he has an excellent loan spell and comes back knocking on the manager's door.

I think Alzate is an excellent footballer who should be very much in our first team this season. He offers a lot more on the pitch than Lallana does and with Bissouma gone, I hope to see Alzate really cement his place in the team and not be dropped after one (arguably) bad game.

I would start him over Lallana every day of the week and twice on a Sunday. I think he's a fantastic player and his absence has really frustrated me. He can do everything and I think he's the successor to Bissouma. For such a young player, he plays with such a high level of intelligence and ability.

He is the biggest loser this season I think. He was such a key part of the team early on, but for some reason he lost his position and since then Gross has had a spell in his place and now Lallana is ahead of him. It's such a shame, I think he's a brilliant midfielder with the drive and passing...

I think he's been incredibly unlucky. He's been brilliant in the centre of midfield when he's been in the team but he went away on International duty and has been out of the picture ever since. There must be more to it, but Gross has been good in that position and offered us genuine creativity...

I'm a big fan of White and I thought he did a very functional job in there. Playing passes, wining tackles - easy stuff but effective. I wouldn't criticise him in the slightest but you get different things from different players. If we'd have had an attacking player in that position I think we'd...

100% agreed. I think you see the difference between having him buzzing around winning tackles and playing passes. Ben White did a good job but he was shoehorned into a team which didn't need him. If Alzate couldn't play, then Gross should have started. It was obvious Palace have nothing in...

He didn't pull up many trees during his loan at Swindon I don't think - so I think we can argue that this one has been developed by us! With a nod to Leyton Orient out of courtesy, given he started playing League football with them.

On the contrary, as neat and tidy as he is, I wouldn't say the team has been weaker for his absence. If we want the team to perform better, we need to expect more from the players in terms of taking responsibility for scoring more goals and keeping the ball better in games where we don't see as...