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[Mellotron]

Two decent players. Give me Williams and Zaha over them anyday though.

WHY AREN'T YOU HIGHER IN THE LEAGUE IF YOU HAVE SO MANY AMAZING PLAYERS?

EVERY team has injuries
EVERY team has "tough" runs of games etc
EVERY team has weak areas (lack of quality keeper, striker, etc)

These aren't valid excuses. Your team are 17th because that's EXACTLY how good they are (i.e. not very).

 

[Frutos]

Two decent players. Give me Williams and Zaha over them anyday though.

You'd seriously take Williams and Zaha over Bridcutt and VICENTE? Really?

If, between the two of them, they achieve half as much in their careers as Vicente alone, I'll be amazed.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Neither did yours.

You got him aged 14 or 15 from ASEC Mimosas on the Ivory Coast.

Shhh. Don't dispell the FABLED Academy myth.

Next you'll be saying that Victor Moses arrived as a refugee, was developed by Whitgift School, under the tutelage of Colin Pates, and was then introduced to the Palace Academy as a teenager, rather than being MAGICALLY 'produced' by the Palace Alchemists.

 

[Eagle_83]

Williams and Zaha, over Bridcutt and VICENTE. Yep. Good call.

Which player is attracting bids of around £6 million (and getting turned down)?

 

[Mellotron]

You'd seriously take Williams and Zaha over Bridcutt and VICENTE? Really?

If, between the two of them, they achieve half as much in their careers as Vicente alone, I'll be amazed.

A quarter, more like; 1 UEFA Cup win and 10 International Caps for a top International team.

Don't see it happening, somehow.

 

[Mellotron]

Which player is attracting bids of around £6 million (and getting turned down)?

By that logic, I'm sure you will acknowledge that CMS is a SUPERB Championship striker, due to his price?

 

[Eagle_83]

WHY AREN'T YOU HIGHER IN THE LEAGUE IF YOU HAVE SO MANY AMAZING PLAYERS?

EVERY team has injuries
EVERY team has "tough" runs of games etc
EVERY team has weak areas (lack of quality keeper, striker, etc)

These aren't valid excuses. Your team are 17th because that's EXACTLY how good they are (i.e. not very).

We are weak in 3 or 4 positions, very strong in others. Lets see how we go next year if these positions are filled with new, decent signings.

 

[Eagle_83]

You'd seriously take Williams and Zaha over Bridcutt and VICENTE? Really?

If, between the two of them, they achieve half as much in their careers as Vicente alone, I'll be amazed.

I'm not talking about Vincente in his prime! He wouldn't be at your club if he was still at that level now would he! Be realistic boys...

 

[YiddoFox]

Bring back Gary Hart

 

[Silent Bob]

Two decent players. Give me Williams and Zaha over them anyday though.

I sometimes wonder if ALL the Palace fans that come on here are actually Brighton fans doing ridiculously over the top joke Palace fan characters. Because, the things they say, I don't even.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Which player is attracting bids of around £6 million (and getting turned down)?

Have you SEEN these 'offers' in writing then, personally? It couldn't be that the truth is that Bolton offered THREE million, and all of the other hype is merely your end talking him up, for the next pay-day from Wigan?

Zaha = Emperor's New Clothes.

 

[Hillian1]

WHY AREN'T YOU HIGHER IN THE LEAGUE IF YOU HAVE SO MANY AMAZING PLAYERS?

EVERY team has injuries
EVERY team has "tough" runs of games etc
EVERY team has weak areas (lack of quality keeper, striker, etc)

These aren't valid excuses. Your team are 17th because that's EXACTLY how good they are (i.e. not very).

Mellotron you arse, we are being educated here into the Palace ideals, the ones where only they went on a cup run, only they suffered any injuries and how their academy produces talent out of thin air like Zaha who incidentally didn't learn his trade on the Ivory Coast untill he was 15, no sir, Palace made him.

Next they'll be telling us that they were the only club ever to pay their debts.

 

[YiddoFox]

Zaha = Emperor's New Clothes

Is he invisible?

 

[Guinness Boy]

I sometimes wonder if ALL the Palace fans that come on here are actually Brighton fans doing ridiculously over the top joke Palace fan characters. Because, the things they say, I don't even.

That's certainly one explanation. The other is that they're purging a guilty inferiority complex.

 

[Mellotron]

Zaha = Emperor's New Clothes

Is he invisible?

He's about a QUARTER as good as he/Palace fans think he is.

 

[Silent Bob]

Zaha = Emperor's New Clothes

Is he invisible?

Not knowing what metaphors are since April 2012.

 

[upthealbion1970]

I'm not talking about Vincente in his prime! He wouldn't be at your club if he was still at that level now would he! Be realistic boys...

Vincente plays for aldershot

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Zaha = Emperor's New Clothes

Is he invisible?

Zaha's 'exceptional talent', is like the Emperor's clothes in the story,in their fantastical qualities never existed, except in the minds of those who had been convinced to believe, and to pretend, that they existed.

(Except that he genuinely CAN run fast. that part is true).

 

[Eagle_83]

He's about a QUARTER as good as he/Palace fans think he is.

Yeah because you see him week in week out don't you!

 

[u'vebeenamexed]

I wouldn't big up Williams too much until you see how he goes after recovering from a broken leg. Some players are never the same after such an injury.

As for Zaha I cannot think why his valuation will have risen since the January transfer window. His level of play fell off drastically and he is prone to temper tantrums that lead to red cards - I should imagine that Palace may receive some offers below that previously made. If they don't accept then it will be interesting to see how he goes next season playing yet again in a pretty poor side - "second season syndrome " maybe ?