They do seem to have made the actual first team tactical role a totally disposable job. The role of the manager seems to be part political, part band manager of Oasis?
Terry Flewers (a Man Utd fan) and his guest a Tottenham fan discussed us around the16:40 mark Interesting the perspective on us.
And Glasner has confirmed he will definitely be leaving Palace at the end of the season. Boy, they had a great couple month run, didn't they.
That FA Cup win was a farce, their GK blatantly handled the ball and shoulda been sent off. With that said, he's an okay manager, I don't buy the hype. Most of these midtable managers are where they belong and once they get to a bigger club they get exposed as being exactly who we thought they were. I'd take Mateta and LaCroix immediately though.
To be fair, Glasner put Palace in an impossible position: He was offered an extension in October but didn't sign it. He also wanted Guehi to stay until the end of the season; however, his own decision not to re-sign sort of made it easier for Palace to sell Guehi now IMHO.
And this will cue a mass exodus as Palace needs to just capitalize on their top players. Wharton, Kamada, Mateta, LaCroix, et al. They gotta listen to the offers. And probably gotta take some of 'em.
I'd take Wharton if he's fine being Zubi's understudy. Kamada would be the Yossi Benayoun of Ray Parlours.
Just suffered through tonight's BBC Football Daily pod, which had Noel Gallagher on, who apparently is mates with Darren Fletcher. Two gents I have very little time for. BUT that said, it was interesting that Noel said he's quite sure Arsenal will win the title, partly because Citeh aren't quite ready for it yet. I think he might just be right about the former but I'm not sure about the latter... I'm not sure you can ever right off those blue meanies... under Pep. He also said he thinks Pep *really* wants to win the EFL Cup... the reason for that eludes me (either I didn't hear it or it didn't ring true). Anyway, if we can face them at Wembley it could be a right old battle. Bring it on! And he was crowing about how they're able to attract the brightest current talents like Semenyo & Guehi... because they wanna play for Pep. So, how long's that gonna last then?
Don’t worry, when the points deduction hits them in February the poetic justice of having spent big in this window with no chance of winning the title will feel really good.
I don't see it either. I've heard about these 115 charges and imminent points deduction for a while. If it was actually coming to fruition as soon as next month, it would be front page news or more accurately, headline on the sports backpage in British sports sections. I think we will end up 8 points ahead anyway. How, I think we will beat Forest and Leeds and City will drop points away to either Man Utd today or Spurs on the first where they have a bad record. Both would be nice, but the football gods aren't that friendly.
Didn't they bump the number of charges up to 130? Man this makes Liverpools summer look even worse. Guehi was a done deal, they bottle it and now he is off to City half a year later. Over spend on under delivering players when really Guehi should have been their #1 or #2 target.
Got it this reminds me when the fed gov engaged in litigation against Scientologists. IRS basically got papered to death and gave up. i
Because Guehi was going into the last year of his contract, Liverpool were trying to get him at a bargain price by waiting until the last minute, which didn’t give Palace time to find a replacement. If Palace had been more proactive, i.e. bought in a new CB, because they knew Guehi was leaving sometime this year, he would be a Liverpool player right now.
1st half of the manchester derby has been entertaining. Slabhead missed from point blank range . . . so that was not ideal.