TruckMan71

Beavo had no choice but to go home after no one showed up to his nightclub appearance, resulting in the owner cancelling on him 😬

This is something I feel very strongly about, so allow me to go over the usual 280 character limit. “Keeping on selling our best players” is an act of necessity for a club in Palace’s position. We didn’t sell Zaha, he left at the end of his deal for free, we had to replace him with nothing. We signed Olise, he insisted on a release clause of £35m, we managed to renegotiate that at the last minute before a move to Chelsea and get it to £50m, still well below going rate but the only alternative, if we hadn’t agreed to either release clause, we’d never have had Olise at Palace at all. Eze, was signed for £16m, played for us for years, helped the club grow, won us an FA Cup and was desperate to move to Arsenal, we sold him for £50m of profit, if we hadn’t, he wouldn’t have signed a new deal and stayed for his whole career, he’d have run it down and left for free. Guehi, signed from Chelsea, became out captain, was huge for us, was offered massive wages to sign for longer, never said yes. We turned down £35m in the summer because the manager asked us, the same manager tells the club in October that he’s leaving anyway (his words not mine) should the club willingly let our captain run down his deal until May and get £0 for him knowing the manger is off or should they turn some profit and ensure that they can help a new manger next season or sooner? The reason Arsenal are where they are with Arteta is because they’re a destination for players, Saka signs new deals, Rice leaves West Ham as captain to sign because it’s where he wants to be. They can build because they are a “big” club; players won’t sign deals like that over and over again with us, so the only way we can continue to compete is by selling high and reinvesting, building with what we have is impossible because as sad as it is, clubs of our stature are and always will be a stepping stone; even more so in the era of PSR where clubs are severely limited in what they can spend anyway.

Crystal Palace (2.24) 0-3 (1.32) Man City