Muttley
Mitchell Thomas
This is by far the most important part of where we find ourselves.
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Next seasons squad
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This is by far the most important part of where we find ourselves.
Bissouma is likely leaving and sometimes you have to make hard decisions and get rid of decent players for the sake of the balance of the squad - would I fall off my chair if someone like Sarr was sold? Not really. We need a passer and we don't really have one.
I don't know to what extent Moore has been hyped beyond this place, but I've watched a lot of him this season and he is nowhere near the level we need. You say Odobert is one of your doubts, he is of a much higher level than Moore. Not writing him off by any means, he's obviously a young guy but he has a way to go before being anywhere near PL ready. Tel and Moore, Tel and Odobert or whatever combination - we need a quality left winger and allow Odobert/Tel to continue their development under them...
Ace Face
Bobby Zamora
But we did score for fun under Ange in both seasons. We essentially swapped Kudus for Sonny last summer but other than that not much changed squad-wise.
I agree we need to make several key changes this summer but the point that RDZ would have had us challenging for a CL spot IF he had Kulu, Madders, Kudus, Solanke, Romero and Odobert available is still valid IMO.
Bishop
Les Ferdinand
You pretty much pointed out all of what I considered flaws in squad setup. LW is terrible and LB needs sorting, in CM we need a passer and I would skip Palhinha and go for a Joao Gomes who does most of what Palhinha offers but is way better on the ball and lot more progressive with it. You could arguably even maybe skip the progressive this summer if we got Gomes in. I would rather go for both.Kudus to you for listing all that out, I agree with a lot of that but just a few things I would argue with:
- We need a new starting GK, Kinksy is good enough cover but not convinced he is good enough over the course of a whole season to be no.1
- Udogie, I question whether he is really good enough anyway but he is not consistently fit enough to be relied on as our main LB and having the right footed Spence there for a lot of the time is not good enough. One thing about Udogie is that he shows just how much better we look having a left footer there who gives balance, even when he's not playing well. We either trust in Souza to develop or as it looks like we want to do with Robertson get in another LB (not that I rate him anymore).
- We definitely need a ball playing CM, a true passer
- Our LW is weak, no way should it be Tel and Moore. I've seen a lot of Moore, he is not good enough for PL football yet and Tel I like and has potential but should be the backup option. Odobert was coming along nicely so he has to be under consideration too.
Like you say, different conversation if in the Championship though.....
No manager is ever going to have everyone available so you're living in fantasy land there. Even with all of those players available we still lack goal threat. Yes Ange got us scoring 60ish goals but that was at the expense of also conceding 60ish goals. RDZ isn't as suicidally gung ho as Ange so he's not going to attempt to overload the opposition at all times no matter the circumstances so no he's not likely to get 60ish goals from this group. He actually needs quality forwards as his game is a lot more balanced than Ange's. Scoring lots at the expense of conceding tons isn't a positive.
Welshspur60
Ben Thatcher
I dont see any possibility of Romero or VdV being here next season. Our whole strikeforce needs replacing, but i can see Solanke and Tel still with us as they arent of interest to any other clubs.
Always depends on price, Solanke would be a snap up buy for a lot of PL clubs (Everton would take either him or Richi as example)
I actually think VDV stays.
Work starts now
- Davies, RKM, Bissouma out of contract, decision to make on Palhinha
- Romero, Dragusin, Sarr, Vic, Richi, Solanke all potential for sale
- Hopefully Maddison & Kudus fully fit at start of next season
CF/RW/GK/LW/CM all needed in that order
RW over LW when we already have Kudus coming back?
And I wouldn’t mind a new CM but we already have lots of numbers there - who would you be selling or loaning to make space?
I also think we need another CB if Romero goes.
Gazza Dazzla
Les Ferdinand
Sorry for cutting your post, but these two points are huge.
We should have learnt our lesson on "players coming back" who knows
Right now, Tel, Richi, Moore can all play LW, and Odobert will be back at 2nd half of season
Right now, we have no RW, potentially Kudus and Deki can play there but we literally have no one that at the moment
Bishop
Les Ferdinand
Can play, but not play well. We need a starting quality LWF for next season. Going into that season with the frankly options we had these season would be foolhardy.
On the right we at least have the prospect of a fit Kudus and Odobert who offer quality there.
I wonder if Wharton might be available for a big fee, he might feel there's nothing else left to achieve at Palace now after the FA Cup and a European final, with a new manager coming in they could sell to rebuild the squad. He'd probably have better offers than us but I'd like to think we'd be in the mix for him.
Palhinha is a big one, he's been good for us and his goals have kept us up but I'm not sure he's good enough on the ball and definitely not for the way De Zerbi plays. If the fee isn't too big then I'd take him, with him not making the Portugal squad he'll be well rested as well. I thought he looked pretty tired in the last 2 games.
Legohamster
Nayim
Brentford didn't make Europe, should go after Thiago
It was a priority order, not me saying I'm happy with the LW.
As I said above, I'm very skeptical of the prospect of players returning, Odobert & Xavi to my understanding won't be back until 2nd half of season. Kudus and Deki haven't even kicked a ball.
Today we had a LB playing RW, no question we need players.
Moore can play there but favours 10. Richie is not good enough for us and should be sold. Tel should be a squad player.
We need to go and buy a top class left sided player. Not make do again.
monkeybarry
Luka Modric
Bedfordspurs
Bert Smith
Don’t think we can announce them as they are under contract until end of June
Bedfordspurs
Bert Smith
I think it’s ins and out that’s are key
We need to sell vucario and will get decent money for him, I suspect £20m plus
Id go for Kelleher although I’ve been really impressed with kinky stepping up
In defence we have 3 loanee CB returning that we brought and I think ah least one will be part of next seasons squad
I think Dragu and. Romero will leave and that will bring us £60m plus
Senesi seems to be done and having another left footer is gonna be so handy
The club do need to make a decision on destiny and if not..,. We get Robertson in or buy someone
I think defensive wise we can be better but also be positive money wise
I’d like us to buy palhjna especially with Biss leaving. His age isn’t great but he and does help the team
Id like us to get another CM. I think we will
Go big on Wharton. He will be 50-60m money but he is worth it
We need a plan for how we’re gonna use that 10 role. Gallagher and Maddison are very different. Xavi will be back too and the investment in him has to be remembered
At CF we need to offload at least one first team striker we own. Im
Not prescious about which one.
Woltemade is meant to be available and I did hear that they like Solanke so there may be a deal there.
Lankshear will be ready to step up. This loan has made him.
I’d love us to go big on Krupi but a lot of teams will want him. Not sure who the answer is tbh
In the wide areas there has to be a plan
Odobert is out until next year?
Kulu is alive but will he play again…
Tel is so so raw
Kudus hasn’t been seen since that recent injury
We need at least 5 options there and one needs to be Mikey Moore.
rDZ knows what he wants. I do hope he looks at the youth though as we have talent and very very capable players who just need a chance
We need to sell vucario and will get decent money for him, I suspect £20m plus
Id go for Kelleher although I’ve been really impressed with kinky stepping up
In defence we have 3 loanee CB returning that we brought and I think ah least one will be part of next seasons squad
I think Dragu and. Romero will leave and that will bring us £60m plus
Senesi seems to be done and having another left footer is gonna be so handy
The club do need to make a decision on destiny and if not..,. We get Robertson in or buy someone
I think defensive wise we can be better but also be positive money wise
I’d like us to buy palhjna especially with Biss leaving. His age isn’t great but he and does help the team
Id like us to get another CM. I think we will
Go big on Wharton. He will be 50-60m money but he is worth it
We need a plan for how we’re gonna use that 10 role. Gallagher and Maddison are very different. Xavi will be back too and the investment in him has to be remembered
At CF we need to offload at least one first team striker we own. Im
Not prescious about which one.
Woltemade is meant to be available and I did hear that they like Solanke so there may be a deal there.
Lankshear will be ready to step up. This loan has made him.
I’d love us to go big on Krupi but a lot of teams will want him. Not sure who the answer is tbh
In the wide areas there has to be a plan
Odobert is out until next year?
Kulu is alive but will he play again…
Tel is so so raw
Kudus hasn’t been seen since that recent injury
We need at least 5 options there and one needs to be Mikey Moore.
rDZ knows what he wants. I do hope he looks at the youth though as we have talent and very very capable players who just need a chance