It would seem after a 9 then 10 man defeat, the easiest way to clear palace from this board is asking to a normal conversation.
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It would seem after a 9 then 10 man defeat, the easiest way to clear palace from this board is asking to a normal conversation.
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
Waxing chumps like candles since ‘75
- Oct 4, 2003
- 11,070
Yeah thats the one.
The first point is not irrelevant at all, in fact it is totally relevant. Either you don't want to see it or your brain is not up to it, commiserations.
The longer you are in this league the higher the wage bill. We had to spend big money to keep Zaha and also to try and bring in a decent level of player. It hasn't always worked but if you don't try you will l stagnate, we haven't advanced but we had a go. Not all signings work out, not all players can be adequately replaced. When Murray is too old you lot really need to hope, because strikers like him are hard to come by. We could have let Zaha just go but we could not have replaced him. Yes Meyer cost a lot but then again he was a highly thought of prospect, he's not a bad player actually. Batshuayi will be worth it if he helps us finish just two places higher, after only seeing him for ten minutes I think thats highly probable. Sakho was expensive, but I really think he was worth it. He is a brilliant defender, I'm sure you will all disagree as he plays for us but he really is.
Clubs like Palace have to pay over the odds to attract good players, especially as we have no chance of trophies.
He joined you at 17 and you lot are using him as an example of the infamous world class training facilities
Yeah Solly March, terrific player. Wanted by, erm erm, I will have to get back to you on that.
nickbrighton
Well-known member
- Feb 19, 2016
- 1,920
Just been looking for Zaha on this list, he must be on it seeing as you had to spend so much to keep him from moving on.I can see with his mighty goal tally why he is so hard to replace. I see all your other strikers seem to have been missed off it as well.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/top-scorers
Se20
Banned
- Oct 3, 2012
- 3,981
All valid points, and I’ll try to answer some.
The 70% income spent on wages is something that’s being rectified, with approximately £150 k a week being saved in this window, and I can see at least one of the top earners being sold in the summer ( Sakho or Zaha, but hopefully Benteke)
But didn’t you spend MORE on wages than your total income in a couple of seasons in the Championship? double standards me thinks ?
The academy has got a great new base opposite our existing training complex in Beckenham, so hopefully we can gain Cat 1 status in the not to distant future, and really tap into the rich vein of South London prospects.
We’re having a few hiccups with the new stand, which don’t seem insurmountable, and progress may be seen soon.p
Hope this helps
All valid points, and I’ll try to answer some.
The 70% income spent on wages is something that’s being rectified, with approximately £150 k a week being saved in this window, and I can see at least one of the top earners being sold in the summer ( Sakho or Zaha, but hopefully Benteke)
But didn’t you spend MORE on wages than your total income in a couple of seasons in the Championship? double standards me thinks ?
The academy has got a great new base opposite our existing training complex in Beckenham, so hopefully we can gain Cat 1 status in the not to distant future, and really tap into the rich vein of South London prospects.
We’re having a few hiccups with the new stand, which don’t seem insurmountable, and progress may be seen soon.p
Hope this helps
Championship and Premier League finances are impossible to compare. (unless you're a palace fan)
What are your feelings towards the new stand?
Wow absolutely hilarious. After winning a couple of games palace fans deluded into thinking they're world beaters again.
Owners blatantly don't want to spend any money on transfers and they've made a pointless expensive loan signing until the end of the season. Let's face it if he does well for you will have zero chance of keeping him next season. A bigger club like wolves or Everton will sign him. If he does badly, money down the shi*er once again. Lose/lose
Favourite post is the one where they think that someone will actually take benteke off their hands. Face it lads benteke will never in a million years go elsewhere and take a pay cut.
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Owners blatantly don't want to spend any money on transfers and they've made a pointless expensive loan signing until the end of the season. Let's face it if he does well for you will have zero chance of keeping him next season. A bigger club like wolves or Everton will sign him. If he does badly, money down the shi*er once again. Lose/lose
Favourite post is the one where they think that someone will actually take benteke off their hands. Face it lads benteke will never in a million years go elsewhere and take a pay cut.
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Sussex Nomad
Well-known member
Clubs like Palace are the reason wages are so inflated. They're saving £150k a week on wages? They just spunked that on Batshit.
All valid points, and I’ll try to answer some.
The 70% income spent on wages is something that’s being rectified, with approximately £150 k a week being saved in this window, and I can see at least one of the top earners being sold in the summer ( Sakho or Zaha, but hopefully Benteke)
But didn’t you spend MORE on wages than your total income in a couple of seasons in the Championship? double standards me thinks ?
The academy has got a great new base opposite our existing training complex in Beckenham, so hopefully we can gain Cat 1 status in the not to distant future, and really tap into the rich vein of South London prospects.
We’re having a few hiccups with the new stand, which don’t seem insurmountable, and progress may be seen soon.p
Hope this helps
I find the willy waving tiresome, nearly all clubs in the Championship have wages that exceed income due to the nature of the division.
Palace have shown some form recently and fair play to them for that. You pay considerable higher wages than the Albion because there's no wage structure as such, which is fine so long as the 'star' players deliver, but it can cause resentment when you have the likes of Benteke and Meyer on £100k a week plus and others in the dressing room who are busting a gut are on a fraction of that.
My understanding at the Albion is that they have a wage structure such that the first team regulars are on a relatively tight range within £5k a week of one another, good for team spirit but it does mean that we are not in the same market as Palace when it comes to recruiting 'star' players, and that has pluses and minuses, clearly Tony Bloom and Steve Parish have a different philosophy on this one.
I have mates who are Palace fans, we both want each other to lose every match, but we have more in common with each other than we do with the armchair bellends who 'support' United, Liverpool, Chelsea and so on. We're also mature enough to discuss the merits and demerits (most think that whilst Parish is Palace through and through his desire to be loved by the HF hoodie brigade has done the club as a whole no favours).
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Palace can carry on as far as I’m concerned, all clubs our size will be relegated eventually..........
Sussex Nomad
Well-known member
It's how a club reacts to relegation and whether they have their house in order.
He’s easy to find on goalscorer lists - he’s next to one of our centre backs.
Seasider78
Well-known member
- Nov 14, 2004
- 5,938
Not really working for you is it as for all that money you are lining players pockets with you in a comparable league position to us.
March is cheap I am sure but give me him over mercenaries like Benteke what was it £30m and picking a a fair wedge each week as well. We are all looking on with envy. Agents must love your club nobody else will pay those wages for these mercenaries but there are palace at the end of every window with the treasure chest wide open.
Ah and the Wilf myth a player with the same goals and assists as our centre half. What is it now 4-5 transfers windows and still at Palace. We all know when the big clubs come calling the top players leave clubs like ours they are just not calling are they.
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
Solly March, our player with more than double the assists that GOAT Zaha has managed this season, and, we have a centre back as many goals.
dadams2k11
ID10T Error
What about our scouting and recruitment?
The thing we have over you is our infrastructure is in place so if we will have the money for the higher wages. We are slowly growing not throwing money at journeyman after journeyman and find ourselves with a higher wages/income ratio.
Your strategy is to luck your way through the league but there is only one way that's goes when the luck runs out..
"What do you actually think about the new stand?"
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Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Absolutely laughable selective snapshot, which I can see has already been utterly ripped to shreds on here, so there's little more to add. Did you SERIOUSLY think when you tapped that out that it was in any way a cohesive or perceptive observation ?
Astonishing.