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The Summer 2024 Transfer Thread.

Assuming Podence leaves permanently and Chiquinho goes out on loan again it's still 5 players for one position too.

Didn't we have an offer for Sarabia earlier in the window. He's on massive wages so wouldn't be averse to letting him leave either.

Bellegarde would assumedly backup the central midfield along with Traore as an attacking sub.

That makes it a more manageable Gomes/Hwang/Guedes for that final attacking spot, which Gomes should take with Hwang/Guedes covering the other two.
 
If Podence were very close to a move and knowing how much our owners/chairman simply love receiving a novelty oversized cheque for any player, he would not have played 90 minutes and risked an injury à la Bouba.

He might end up leaving but I don't think he's clearing out his locker at 9am tomorrow morning.

If Sarabia were going to go then it would have happened by now and no-one else is paying his wages.
 
I'd be quite happy to see Sarabia, Bellegarde and Podence leave this week.... "loads of money"...or not.
 
So, it seems that Andre is it for our business? Madness that, having sold a CB & RW, our only significant signings are a GK, LW & CM.
 
Deutsch Wolf said:
As Johnny has alluded to - an issue with 4-3-3 is if fit, Cunha and Strand Larsen are taking two of those front three spots pretty much every time (our best player + our only actual striker). Which only leaves one space for a LOT of players (R Gomes, Hwang, Sarabia, Bellegarde, Chiquinho, Podence and Guedes). It's a pretty inefficient use of the squad.
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That’s a big if though. Cunha will likely miss around 10 games through injury. Your point still stands though.
 
sycophantia said:
Why would Cunha be injured so often?
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Slight exaggeration on my part, however last year he played 32 games. Started 29 and was a sub for 3. Given we were always very cautious bringing him back from injury (assuming he wasn’t ’fully fit’) that’s 9 games he didn’t start. 1 was missed through suspension, so 8 games injury impacted him.
 
I know some Palace fans preferred him to Henderson, I think he’s fine but just not really what we need considering how tight we’re being
 
Well yeah if Sa goes for similar or more money then it’s fine I guess, a possible slight upgrade, home grown player and a little bit of profit but we still have gaping holes in the squad
 
Carsy said:
Slight exaggeration on my part, however last year he played 32 games. Started 29 and was a sub for 3. Given we were always very cautious bringing him back from injury (assuming he wasn’t ’fully fit’) that’s 9 games he didn’t start. 1 was missed through suspension, so 8 games injury impacted him.
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That was more to do with GoN flogging him and most of the first XI to death and not using his already thin squad properly.

That was a learning curve I hope he's got to the top of.
 
Johnny75 said:
That was more to do with GoN flogging him and most of the first XI to death and not using his already thin squad properly.

That was a learning curve I hope he's got to the top of.
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Yeah fair point. Maybe having the copious amount of wingers/wide forwards mean he won’t be flogged to the death.

However if we’re struggling which a lot of people seem to think we will be, isn’t he more likely to keep leaning on his best players and ‘flogging’ them?
 
Carsy said:
Yeah fair point. Maybe having the copious amount of wingers/wide forwards mean he won’t be flogged to the death.

However if we’re struggling which a lot of people seem to think we will be, isn’t he more likely to keep leaning on his best players and ‘flogging’ them?
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I think we have a stronger squad now and I'd hope he has learnt to use his squad better as you get better results.

Starting Bellegarde, Doc and Hwang in a formation that suits none of them suggests he hasn't.
 
Hereford Wolf said:
Palace fans really like him.

“A professional player and a premier league keeper”

“Too good to be sat on the bench, someone will get a top keeper, hope we can replace him”
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Johnstone had one of the worst sets of metrics overall last season for keepers in top leagues in many categories and he seemed to reflect that when I saw him play, so not sure what Palace fans are defining as a top keeper.

My big concern is that included his starting position being very deep and almost never engaging with the ball or the play outside the box. For me, I felt we needed a keeper more aggressive than Sa that will push up, not someone who is less comfortable doing that. I am a big Roy Hodgson fan and appreciate he plays an extremely compact system that will have impacted the opportunity to do so for SJ, but recent history would indicate you are unlikely to improve on your keeper spot for the money we have paid, when purchasing within league. Hope to be wrong, and overall if this is the keeper situation come the end of the window that is an improvement overall as Bentley and King was a clear concern in preseason and the biggest worry as backups for any of the positions.
 
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