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Next For Crystal Palace?

By Leicesterpool, in General Football and Sport

Next For Crystal Palace?  

31 members have voted

  1. 1. Next For Crystal Palace?

    • Owen Coyle
      1
    • Steve Coppell
      5
    • Steve Cotterill
      3
    • Gary Megson
      2
    • Karl Robinson
      3
    • Billy Davies
      2
    • Phil Brown
      0
    • Mick McCarthy
      3
    • Sean Dyche
      3
    • Darren Ferguson
      0
    • Alex McLeish
      0
    • Gareth Southgate
      0
    • Other
      9

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kingfox

kingfox

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I have gone with Coppell.

But he is one of those who rejects jobs all the time.

So I think it will be Coppell, McCarthy or Popovic(Who isn't listed :( )

davieG

davieG

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Three games into the new Championship season, Crystal Palace found themselves alongside Peterborough, sitting rock bottom of the league table with zero points after three straight defeats. But after winning six of their last nine games, Palace now find themselves in the playoff positions, neatly poised in 4th place behind Cardiff, Middlesbrough and Leicester.

Thus, right now I ought to be considering if this remarkable run of form consequently means The Eagles are now genuine contenders for promotion. Instead, the talk of the town at Selhurst Park is all about who the club’s next manager might be, after the shock departure of first team boss Dougie Freedman, to their Championship rivals Bolton Wanderers.

To your average football fan, Freedman’s move to Bolton appears to simply be a progressive move upwards, a move to further his career, leaving behind him a club with limited resources for one with a bigger budget and higher hopes.

Crystal Palace fans however, will tell you that in terms of ambition and potential, this is simply not the case. The club possesses a remarkable crop of young players, including the likes of wing magician Wilfried Zaha and midfield dynamo Jonathan Williams, as well as in-form elder statesmen such as striker Glenn Murray and goalkeeper Julian Speroni. Based on some of their recent performances, should the current squad all remain at the club come January, the team could still be well in with a shout of promotion.

Freedman’s doubts over the club’s ambitions, as his departure suggests, are thus rather confusing. Freedman after all had said he could not understand why Palace weren’t considered as favourites going into games against the likes of Cardiff and Bolton, who were both defeated by Palace earlier in the season. Furthermore, surrounding speculation that Wilfried Zaha might leave for the Premiership come January, Freedman’s response was to suggest that both he and Palace may well be in the top flight come 2013.

Read more at http://thisisfutbol.com/2012/10/blogs/why-did-dougie-freedman-leave-in-form-palace?#btf6kBBERoqX3PiA.99

Club Chairman Steve Parish nonetheless is certainly sure of his views regarding the club’s ambitions, having stated that the club remains just as ambitious as its former manager.

Parish told Sky Sports News, “I had a very good relationship with Dougie and I wish him every success in the future. Dougie feels his career can be served elsewhere, I don’t feel betrayed and now we have to find a new manager. He had a good offer on the table from us.”

“Dougie is not hugely motivated by money but maybe I could be proved wrong. It is more about ambition. I feel that we have got ambition, we want to get into the Premier League and stay there.”

The question of ambition is a difficult one to comprehend, however, if Palace and Freedman both see their future’s in the Premier League, then why could the two parties not agree upon a new deal for Freedman? The Scot is after all a Palace legend, having kept the side in the English second tier as both a player and a manager. In total, Freedman scored over 100 goals for The Eagles, making over 350 appearances and is subsequently adored by Palace fans everywhere. Clearly something went drastically wrong behind the scenes, for surely nobody connected to the club wished to see Freedman leave.

Money, however, in football, is so often the decisive factor. Freedman was understood to have been at the lower end of The Championship’s manager pay scale, and thus the attraction of a bigger, long-term contract at Bolton Wanderers must have heavily influenced his decision to leave South London. Parish’s supposed ‘good offer’ was apparently not good enough to keep Freedman it seems.

So although the story of Palace’s brilliant start to the season must go on, it will continue without Dougie Freedman at the helm of the club. How then can Palace replace a man of such stature? With another man of such iconic status, of course. Therefore in this regard, although former Wolves boss Mick McCarthy and Freedman’s assistant Lennie Lawrence are being linked with the vacant post, there is only one possible replacement that Crystal Palace fans would be satisfied with; Crawley Town director of football, Steve Coppell. Having already been at the club for two spells, as manager between 1984-93, in which he took Palace to the FA Cup final and as director of football for a season in 1995, could Coppell be prized away from the Sussex club for a third spell at SE25? Palace fans will certainly hope he can.

Read more at http://thisisfutbol.com/2012/10/blogs/why-did-dougie-freedman-leave-in-form-palace?#btf6kBBERoqX3PiA.99

Guest

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Where is Holloway on your poll LeicesterPool.

Nowhere shocking.

We're all still waiting for the 'Who gives a ****?' option. Holloway can get in line!

purpleronnie

purpleronnie

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I don't think its strange considering you got blackpool into the premiership with little money, palace are pretty much in the same situation, they could have done much worse.

Fox92

Fox92

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Has he actually gone? I can't find any information suggesting he's moved. Anyway, I agree with purpleronnie, I doubt Palace's ambitions are that big and he worked that to an advantage at Blackpool. He would be leaving a good squad that he has built up though.

Ric Flair

Ric Flair

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This astounds me really, Blackpool and Holloway are a great match. He learnt his lesson by coming to us when he'd got Plymouth doing very well with a good, young squad. Palace have some good youngsters, but so do Blackpool. I don't see how Palace have anymore to offer right now? Freedman left because they haven't got much dough and it would take selling Zaha to buy anyone for more than a nominal fee. My only thoughts are that Holloway might be concerned with the impact he is having on his Blackpool squad and whether he's struggling to get the desired results and therefore leaving before it goes tits up? Very odd.

Leicfox

Leicfox

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This astounds me really, Blackpool and Holloway are a great match. He learnt his lesson by coming to us when he'd got Plymouth doing very well with a good, young squad. Palace have some good youngsters, but so do Blackpool. I don't see how Palace have anymore to offer right now? Freedman left because they haven't got much dough and it would take selling Zaha to buy anyone for more than a nominal fee. My only thoughts are that Holloway might be concerned with the impact he is having on his Blackpool squad and whether he's struggling to get the desired results and therefore leaving before it goes tits up? Very odd.

I think it's more to do with the greedy Oystons and their broken promises.

All that money from the Premier League and he's not had a sniff of it to get players in, there was also a new training ground promised which hasn't come plus the fact Karl Oyston is not bothered about the footballing side of things as he'd rather sell players to keep the money himself rather than invest some of it back even if it's against the managers wishes, this happened with Charlie Adam and I reckon it's happened again with Tom Ince as all the talk of Ollie being linked with other clubs has only started after scouts galore have been to watch him, So maybe he's off in Jan and Ollie doesn't want to sell his best players.

Also Ollie contract is on a rolling basis and KO won't give him a new one over a longer time which Ollie wants.

Maybe this is Ollie's way of getting that contract and them promises kept by holding KO to ransom or maybe it's just personal reasons as The Mail suggest.

http://www.dailymail...-Blackpool.html

Fox92

Fox92

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People seem to forget about families. Holloway's daughters all work in London so maybe that's the influencing factor? Probably is. In the case of Eddie Howe as well, he stated himself about his mother, and that influenced his decision to be back near his family again. Sometimes it's more than footballing, and money, reasons.

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