honeybradger

Crystal Palace win rate with Ayew starting last season: 20% Crystal Palace win rate without Ayew starting last season: 70% We need Ayew to start over Buonanotte so we can grind out wins though

Ayew is horrible defensively though. He gets gassed after 25 minutes and cant keep up with his man.

I was actually feeling positive about the game before this. What is the obsession with Jordan Ayew?

You might be right, seem to remember this account telling porkies in the past.

Our best performance of the season against Man City and he changes the lineup? Hopefully this is not right.

If we weren't trying to play out the back I would agree that having a player who defends first and knocks it forwards would work. We do try and pass out from the back though and it doesnt matter how well you defend if you're going to pass it straight to the opposition in your penalty box.

We're not selling Hermansen for a good fee whilst he is out injured.

Was he Wout Faes's replacement at Reims? Will be interesting to see how he compares. He certainly looks a lot better than Faes.

If we can get him on a permanent - yes If we can only get him on a loan - no He's not going to be ready for PL football (as a starter at least which is what we need). Look at Carreras at Benfica, barely played whilst on loan from Man United due to not being at the right level but was bought permanently and is now one of the best left backs in Europe. Amass will need time which we cant afford.

He would be fine if we didnt try to play possession football as he's a good tackler but that's the style we're going for so he's not good enough. Just shows how bad the scouting is that the average Serie A fan said we were making a mistake paying so much money for him but the so called professionals at the club could not see it.

Looks good enough. Hopefully we stick to the £12mil valuation and dont get bullied into paying £20mil+. ( I dont think he's worth any more than that first bid)

How sad is it that a player who couldn't start for us in the championship is better than our £25mil PL signing.

Winks has already played nearly as many league minutes with us as he did for Tottenham. Don't get me wrong he's good enough but not so good that we shouldn't/can't improve on him. Dewsbury Hall would provide us attacking threat as well as the ability to carry the ball up the pitch whilst El Khannouss could play the Winks role with better passing and more physical presence/workrate.

Players develop and change as they get older. Dewsbury Hall didnt offer as many goals and assists with Luton in the championship when he was with them as he did last season with us. I would play him alongside El Khannouss and Buonanotte and perhaps playing him instead of Mavidi or player El Khannouss deeper instead of one of Winks/Soumare.

It's insane that people are saying Dewsbury hall, who go 26 g+a for us last season, would not start for us. Even though it was in the championship this side needs goals and creativity and he would offer that for us.

Because we consistently overpay for average players. Udinese wont care who he goes to as long as they get £16mil for a player theyve barely used this season.

Is he actually that good? He's got similar passing stats to Okoli who has been very shaky on the ball for us. There isnt a guarantee that he will come here from Argentina and suddenly discover how to pass the ball accurately.

I think the only issue is that he seems to have worked his way back into contention for them recently. They might not be as willing to let him leave as they would have a month ago.

Lamptey is a defensive disaster. He is only good when playing as a wingback.

Any good centrebacks? Ideally better than Wout Faes/Conor Coady/Vestergaard. I've heard Rein Van Helden and Emin Bayram might be good options but it's hard to tell whether players are Premier League level or not.

Jerry St Juste at Sporting FC could be worth a look. We were linked a few years ago and he's had loads of injury issues but he's very talented and has been great for them recently. With Sporting's first choice centrebacks coming back from injury he could he available for transfer. Fastest centre back in Europe as well which is much needed in our backline.

Personally I think of the three I would go for Esposito the least. Of the two physical options (Ivanovic and Esposito) I would much rather Franjo Ivanovic. He's the Croatian replica of Victor Gyokeres. It just depends whether the Brighton/USG setup would be wary of making the same mistake again and not wanting him to go. I see you point regarding Kroupi but he is so good at everything apart from being physically dominant that I cant imagine he wouldn't be a success here.

He better than our fullbacks due to his quality on the ball but he gets bypassed defensively pretty easily.

Ideal striker I'd go for is Eli Jr Kroupi. Others I've seen mentioned are Franjo Ivanovic and Francesco Esposito. Surely anything is better than a striker with one goal in the Greek league unless we get him on the cheap?

Literally any striker in the top 5 leagues. This guy is being outscored by Tete in his own team.