A Guardian journalist who covers Palace says that the reason Igor Julio didn't go there was due to an issue with his medical. If true you have to wonder what kind of medicals we actually do at our club. Do we just count the number of hands and feet or what?

That's proper wound you up 😂 Don't take it too seriously, son. Even I'm wrong sometimes. LOL. You're the one who dragged up a conversation from 6 weeks ago, Dreerie son. You know, you've become as obsessed with our defenders as Sir Alf with our midfield. It's very boring. Still, at least you have a...

Aguerd didn't have an injury. He had the flu, which a lot of people get in December. It doesn't last for weeks, so yeah, he made a "miraculous" recovery. FLU again? I doubt it. Not sure why you're bringing it up, except as a desperate embarrassing attempt to prove you were right all along.

We were fucking shite for the first 80 minutes.   Bollocks.  It was a textbook away performance. Looked good at the back for a change, and looked the much more likely to score throughout the game. And eventually did. I guarantee you wouldn't have said that if we hadn't won, as looked likely until a...

Great to get a win, but some people here are going way over the top that there's some kind of renaissance here. We were fucking shite for the first 80 minutes. The only good we've seen from Potter has been the first 45 vs Fulham on his debut and the last 10+ today: ie Summerville's only time on the ...

He's wasting Fernandes out wide. Should take off JWP,  put AWB and KWP as the full backs and push Diouf up at LW. He won't though.

All any opposition manager needs to say is: keep it tight at the back, watch out for Bowen, hit them on the break. When you do counter attack, do it in numbers, because a) they won't press you until you're well in their half and b) even if they regain possession they take so long progressing the bal...

It's not like he said that about managing a bottom English club because he wants a new challenge. He just said it as he's fed up with the referees in UEFA competitions not giving decisions his way. Do you really want a manager who DOESN'T want us to get into Europe? Some of you need a word with your...

Sully ain't shy about hiring foreigners. Or firing them either. British managers have been given far longer in charge and in all cases too much longer, I'd say. Moyes & Allardyce because of the deathly dull football and Potter because, well, he was utter shit on every level last season and he wa...

For those wondering about what this guy brings, a good article analysing him on the offical site: https://www.whufc.com/news/clearly-special-talent-mateus-fernandes-analysed All them stats give an indication of his potential but doesn't necessarily mean that he'll be allowed to bring it, even if he...

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Sully declared himself defacto director of football months ago when we binned off Steidten...getting these deals done has been his responsibility since then. Macaulay is essentially head of talent identification. If deals are for players we've identified for months and are only just getting done, t...

Leave it out you melts, I only come on this thread for the scoops.

Ffs, I've Logged in to see transfer news and everyone is doing Cornet puns.. 

Sullivan is not a majority shareholder any more. He may be the major shareholder but that is not the same thing at all. Kretinsky & Gold could oust Sullivan from his role as CEO/DoF whenever they want, as together they own 52% of the club. They all share the blame if they let things go to shit, ...

There's a clear message to be gleaned from this.

Guns don't kill people. Trannies kill people. 

Of the managers currently out of work the number 1 choice for me would be Marco Rose, ex of Leipzig and Dortmund. Mentored by Klopp, he adopts a similar style of play: press hard and high, and use an attacking, quick, forward-moving style when in possession. It's completely the opposite of Potter an...

He's been called up to the Denmark squad pretty much every time for the last 2-3 years, without ever getting a game. I doubt he will this time either.

When you look at Potter's actual record it Brighton...pretty reading it does not make. Season 1....41 points, 39 goals.  Season 2...41 points, 40 goals Season 3....6 games....departs for Chelsea.   I'm sure it's not deliberate but you seem to have missed out his one actually decent season at Bright...

About the only possible positive spin I can put on things is looking at Szczesny last year. He went to Barcelona having retired, with no training all summer and not having played for months and he was absolute gash in his early games there, getting sent off vs Real Madrid, letting in 4 vs Benfica, e...

I would have taken him like a shot if we'd sacked Potter in June and given Ange a pre-season and involvement in transfer decisions, which is what we should have done. I'd still take him now to be honest, although it would make things more difficult, he's still a better option than most of the out of...

6 foot 2, most sources say. Taller than Pickford and plenty of other top keepers. Maybe when he had the groin surgery they chopped a couple of inches off him by accident, cause he don't look it.

It's true that we did finish 7th in Roeder's first term but it was a huge anomaly in a very strange season when the Prem table was extremely condensed from 7th to around 16th place. We had a decent end of spring run which propelled us to that lofty position but we were 15th/16th place fodder for mo...

It's not about him being a new player. It's about him having had barely any pre-season training after his surgery and not having been fully fit since December. If it was an outfield player no-one would have expected him to start playing immediately on arrival given these circumstances, so why should...

This would be so typical of the board, again ping-ponging to a manager with a COMPLETELY different style of play to the last. Anyone who doesn't see that Nuno is about as close to a carbon copy of Moyes as you can imagine just doesn't get football. In terms of how they set up they're both about fors...