As I said before Hemed's ban, I'm not going to laugh at Palace's striker issue when we're in exactly the same boat.
There's something bizarre that our two clubs, awash with Premier League millions, both find themselves without an available senior striker before September is even out, but at least they left a squad place free so they could look at bringing in a free agent.
Hindsight is great but with it looking very unlikely that Jiri Skalak is going to feature, could we not have done the same?
We would have had to have loaned out or sold Jiri as you can only leave a squad place free if you have less than 25 players in total.As I said before Hemed's ban, I'm not going to laugh at Palace's striker issue when we're in exactly the same boat.
There's something bizarre that our two clubs, awash with Premier League millions, both find themselves without an available senior striker before September is even out, but at least they left a squad place free so they could look at bringing in a free agent.
Hindsight is great but with it looking very unlikely that Jiri Skalak is going to feature, could we not have done the same?
Surely it's more a sign of the weakness of the academy, Man U had to play Rashford though a combination of injuries, suspension and having nobody else and that didn't work out too badly. Ideal time to throw a youngster in and see if they sink or swim
We would have had to have loaned out or sold Jiri as you can only leave a squad place free if you have less than 25 players in total.
As Ahannach is also over 21 then a 2nd player would also have to have gone, as moving out Skalak would have meant Ahannach having to take the place in the 25, rather than leaving the 25th place free.
Yes. You can only leave a space free in the 25 if you have less than 25 players who are over 21.Is that right? If you have an over-21 and a space in your squad he MUST be named in it? You can't leave him out so that you have the chance to fill it later?
Yes. You can only leave a space in the 25 if you have less than 25 players who are over 21.
We currently have 26, so 2 would have had to have gone to leave 1 space free.
As I said before Hemed's ban, I'm not going to laugh at Palace's striker issue when we're in exactly the same boat.
There's something bizarre that our two clubs, awash with Premier League millions, both find themselves without an available senior striker before September is even out, but at least they left a squad place free so they could look at bringing in a free agent.
Hindsight is great but with it looking very unlikely that Jiri Skalak is going to feature, could we not have done the same?
Yes, I didn't realise this either until recently.Fair enough.
So Palace didn't intentionally "leave a space" they just had a space.
Every day is a school day.
I totally agree. If you have been in the PL for five years or so, the level of your strikers in your Academy should be at least good enough to cover a 6 week period.
Carlton Cole FFS - He couldn't hit the net of a 50 foot fishing trawler
We do have Izzy brown who has played as a forward many times in his short career. So we are not quite as desperate!As I said before Hemed's ban, I'm not going to laugh at Palace's striker issue when we're in exactly the same boat.
There's something bizarre that our two clubs, awash with Premier League millions, both find themselves without an available senior striker before September is even out, but at least they left a squad place free so they could look at bringing in a free agent.
Hindsight is great but with it looking very unlikely that Jiri Skalak is going to feature, could we not have done the same?
Yes, I didn't realise this either until recently.
Palace could of course have left the space free tactically rather than by incompetance of course...