S-Clarke

Not sure what their strategy is this summer. Rubbish buys galore. Jos is a great lad though, will be a miss in the dressing room if he goes.

Love jos, wouldn't begrudge him a move to another PL team. Amazing move in all honesty. Not quite sure what Burnley's strategy is. If it happens, would potentially indicate we have another CB/RB type lined up.

2 games.

What a ****e draw this is so far by the way.

Well, there goes another year. Jeez.

You have to look at Leeds and then realise how bloody lucky we were to find Markus. A mental head owner and no investment in the first team and no real sign of any short-term success, let alone long-term.

I think he was actually officially proven as 18 as well!

I take it you're utterly oblivious to Guan 2.0's ITK knowledge then? I wasn't meaning anything to come across as fact, just putting my spin on what I felt could happen based on a post from someone who is proven to be very much ITK. Sorry it seems to have bothered you so much.

What the hell? When did i say anything I said was fact? I was replying to Guan and I'm having a debate in a normal civilised way. What are you doing? Randomly shouting down and throwing insults for no reason at all. What exactly have I said that has offended you so greatly?

International loan is interesting, suggests there may be legs in the Gaston talk. Sounds like we're after someone who can float between the lines in the attacking third, but who has the pace and power to carry the ball forward....not a cheap area to recruit to it has to be said.

We are your typical stepping stone club, I've pretty much accepted it! Attract and recruit young players who are being monitored by the elite clubs - but as you said, not yet ready for them. But get them performing in the PL and you then sell them for double what you bought them for. Financially it's a genius model, but as a football model it's pretty depressing.

He's not a bad player, never a £10m+ player though. So much more value out there in other leagues. He's a pretty big damning indictment of English football. Hit it....run.....

That's Guan. Any chance for a update on where we stand? Lots going on! Cork/Gaston/Morgan 'potentially' out.......Toby/Classie/Townsend/Redmond in......do you think we'll see 1 or 2 players by the weekend? anything really close?

For what it's worth, if Gaston does leave you'd have to assume that it's a fairly large % taken off the wage bill for the season. I like Gaston and feel he has ability, but you must admit, he gets better by not playing. . I think we're all a little guilty of bigging him up, when deep down we probably know he'll miss a lot of the season with knocks and injuries and frustrate as he always has done. I think he's just a fairly injury prone player, and maybe the club feel they can get someone more worthwhile to the squad as a whole whilst trimming the wage bill significantly.

In my random FM game the other day, I signed Belhanda. Based on what he did in that game in 1 season, (13 assists, 18 goals) then I think he'd be a great signing!

Just imagine if all 3 go....and we only bring in Redmond in the last minute for £15m or something! I predict a chaotic meltdown!

Abel Hernandez.

Lol, wow.

Warnock is the new Palace manager.

If he shows signs of becoming anywhere near Buffons level, then he will not be here for any more than 18 months.

If people think it was unintentional, then they clearly are just in a negative mindset. It was clearly a clever bit of audacious skill, that could have left him on his arse (Like David Dunn all those years ago!).

You have to admire someone who keeps going, and going and putting themselves on the line. He could have easily sunk back into a shell, but from last night you can see he's a confident lad who believes in his own ability. And it was a pretty handy finish, if we're honest. Clean strike. I saw a lot more in that 2nd half that made me a hell of a lot more confident about him, ok it was Millwall, but he showed real desire which had since then been lacking.

I have a feeling it's a Les Reed call, and that he feels he's blocking Harry Reed's path. But that theory will be blown out of the water if we go and sign Clasie!

It would be an incredible sale that wouldn't make any sense. We were **** in that first half, brought him on and immediately we showed a lot more composure on the ball. Why get rid of a reliable, experienced premiership player in this summer of change? Especially when he's happy to be here. I just don't get it at all. No sense. It screams of Fitz Hall all over again to me. And if the club don't see Palace as a rival, then they need to wake up.

I think he's a definite upgrade. He looks like a very confident and solid goal keeper who will give the back 4 plenty of confidence. I certainly don't worry when the ball swings in the box as he has a real presence and seems to claim it 90% of the time. He reminds me of Joe Hart in many ways, I don't think he's too far away from him ability wise. Let's hope he keeps it up, I think he's one of the best keepers we've had in a long while. No disrespecting Boruc as he was brilliant for us, but prone to a lapse now and again. Forster seems more grounded and reliable in his early showings. It's the one area we have definitely upgraded in this summer of change.