PARDEW ON INJURIES
Connor Wickham suffered a cruciate ligament injury in the 5-4 defeat to Swansea last weekend, to add to the growing list of injuries at Palace...with Pape Souare admitting he is not sure he will play football again.
There's more bad news around Steve Mandanda too...
"We've got a couple of problems in the squad. Connor's is a massive problem for us.
"The injury Pape's had is so unique to football. There aren't many situations where someone in the game has had this.
"That makes it tough to put a time on the recovery. He's in great spirits, has a positive personality. We love Pape.
"Steve Mandanda's going to have an operation on his knee this week. We think he's out for 6 weeks. His knee locked up in training."
Palace have shipped 17 goals in last 5 matches?!
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/dec/01/alan-pardew-january-transfer-plans-doubts-future-crystal-palace?CMP=share_btn_tw
He didn't. Even in an interview after he said something like "another couple of years". Who knows if we will even see that extra year.
When he signed the 6 year deal, I just thought we at LEAST get him for this season. Which I'm fine with. I love watching him defend.
So far, it's been about goals so far hasn't it? Not scored enough & some of the worst moments from this season: Inter Away / Prague Away / Hull Away have been about not taking chances.
There is light at the end of tunnel though. Boufal getting fitter. Tadic still to return. Sims a live-wire from the bench.
Will be interesting to see what January brings in terms of the window & our striker line-up.
Interesting to see Wimmer linked. Pretty sure the price quoted isn't right as Levy normally gets top dollar.
But Wimmer fits our profile. Left footed too.
I didn't watch it, but this quote is quality:
Southampton FC @SouthamptonFC
Puel on Dušan Tadić: "We need him to come back on his level, that's important. He will wear a mask, but it's a beautiful mask!" #saintsfc
Keep on bumping those threads.
I expected him to have done something stupid, so was interested to see that he has (hopefully) sorted himself out.
Time will tell.