Interesting point re Jedinak. Yes, he's a potential disciplinary nightmare waiting to happen for Palace- but then again he'll have to get close enough to opponents to foul them, and that may not happen a lot, especially when they come up against teams with high class midfielders (as opposed to...
With the greatest of respect, even Hull are proving to be a more attractive proposition than Palace (for example, as somebody has said, Huddlestone should have been right in your ballpark, especially as he was already London-based).
So I reckon we could compete with Hull, and Cardiff, and at...
Except it's not "chosen", it's more a case of one team being made to take him because all the other players had been picked & he was the only one left.
It's not a question of choice, is it? It's more a case of what they're left with after every other Premier League club has picked the players they want.
The fact is, if you're a player looking to move to a(nother) PL team, then Palace will be the 20th choice out of 20. That's why they either...