Crystal Palace could offload Andros Townsend to Leicester in January in order to fund new striker

[Foxes1]

1 hour ago, MPH said:

straight swap for Musa.... I'd take that!

Well I wouldn't

[Sublime_Coatsworth]

Ive been watching him in a few of the Palace games.

 

Absolute passenger. 

 

Yeah we'll leave it thanks.

[volpeazzurro]

6 hours ago, Fox92 said:

I take your point but you're talking about players like Musa who cannot be compared to Albrighton or Drinkwater etc. The latter were, as you rightly as, "unfancied players" but the likes of Musa and Slimani weren't. We paid £15mill-£30mill for these players, players with Champions League experience. We absolutely failed last summer - in fact, even now we haven't improved the squad at all (our "best players" are still from our Championship days) - which is why people criticise.

You are of course right but in Slimani's case, he was being played by a particular team in a particular way and was scoring plenty of goals. We buy him and instantly play him in a different role that clearly doesn't suit him and guess what, we get suprised at his indifferent performances!  Why did we buy him if we don't play him in the role he excels in? He was never going to get picked ahead of Vardy. 

 

Musa is a mystery to some extent but we were warned on here what he was like by their fans in fairness who turned out to be right. They also warned that their manager learned the hard way that he is not a successful player on the wing, he needs to be played down the middle. So with the exception of Everton where he scored two goals when played down the middle, where have we tried to play him on his cameo appearances?

 

Likewise Iborra, known for his play in a midfield 3 but Shakespeare will play him in his 2. Again square pegs round holes. Can anyone else see a pattern forming? Good luck to Iheanacho,  Shakey's already got Ndidi to regress.