Crystal Palace FC Thread + Premiership Palaver

[horseplayer]

not seen enough of him to judge but for his age and profile that price seems fine

compared to others that is not in general any young english player is overpriced

He was loaned out to division below conference last year! He's 23 in a few months.

Ashley barnes is worth £6m then!

23 is young for a striker, so because he was loaned out to a lower league before he can never improve?

he has done more in the game than wickham had albeit a bit older

[Ant040689]

I think the fee is 4.5m max, 2.75m up front and the quoted 6m+ in the papers is inclusive of wages.

I think it would be a promising buy, without knowing too much about him.

I think Jerome Thomas will be confirmed shortly too.

[anthonyl]

I think the fee is 4.5m max, 2.75m up front and the quoted 6m+ in the papers is inclusive of wages.

I think it would be a promising buy, without knowing too much about him.

I think Jerome Thomas will be confirmed shortly too.

£8.5m per evening standard with £6m upfront. 6 goals in 20. Probably the correct price given Zaha was like £15m, but then again Hernandez was £7m at a similar age to gayle.

All will be revealed when dagenhams audited accounts are released, if their year end is 30 June we will see it the year after.

[horseplayer]

Cardiff have just spent 7.5 million on a dane with one good half season in the danish superliga

with the extra tv money the prices are going if premiership sides are buying accordingly

[Ant040689]

Palace have signed Dwight Gayle for what the Guardian reports is up to £4.5m.

"The fee for Gayle, who joined Peterborough from Dagenham & Redbridge in January for an initial £500,000, is understood to involve an initial down-payment of around £3.25m with a further £1.25m in add-ons."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jul/03/crystal-palace-dwight-gayle-peterborough

I am excited he might blossom at Palace.

In the meantime we have parted ways with our Brazilian free kick specialist Andre Moritz, as we couldn't promise him first team football, and his contract has recently expired.

We are soon to complete the deal of Jerome Thomas too, as well as already confirming recently, Stephen Dobbie.

Will be interesting so see if we continue to top up anywhere, as I can still think of at least another centre back helping. OFC generally, our side is lacking in comparison to other teams in the prem, but to have any chance of that spirited survival we need AT LEAST one more centre back.

Any topping up anywhere else would be nice too.

[luther101]

Gl in the Prembore, Ant.

At least there's gonna be one manager who's after-match interview on MoTD won't comprise entirely of, "we're taking it one match at a time".

And for those that have never heard Malky in 'full flow'   ...    it's like a high concentrate intravenous dose of Mogadon!

I hope Olly manages to keep 'em up - he'll deserve Manager of the Season with that squad, if he pulls it off.

Fingers crossed.

[Chompy]

I think the fee is 4.5m max, 2.75m up front and the quoted 6m+ in the papers is inclusive of wages.

I think it would be a promising buy, without knowing too much about him.

I think Jerome Thomas will be confirmed shortly too.

£8.5m per evening standard with £6m upfront. 6 goals in 20. Probably the correct price given Zaha was like £15m, but then again Hernandez was £7m at a similar age to gayle.

All will be revealed when dagenhams audited accounts are released, if their year end is 30 June we will see it the year after.

Who got six goals in 20?

[anthonyl]

I think the fee is 4.5m max, 2.75m up front and the quoted 6m+ in the papers is inclusive of wages.

I think it would be a promising buy, without knowing too much about him.

I think Jerome Thomas will be confirmed shortly too.

£8.5m per evening standard with £6m upfront. 6 goals in 20. Probably the correct price given Zaha was like £15m, but then again Hernandez was £7m at a similar age to gayle.

All will be revealed when dagenhams audited accounts are released, if their year end is 30 June we will see it the year after.

Who got six goals in 20?

gayle since he went permo.

jerome thomas is a decent player too Ant, turned leeds season around in the short time he was there.

anyone else rumoured to be signing? i saw the link with byram. think it is a good idea to buy these hungry players, much like norwich have done. suprised you are not going for Ince to replace Zaha.

[horseplayer]

Thought Narwichhhh were going to be in big trouble but made some excellent signings

[TightEnd]

David Villa goes to Ath Madrid for less than Gayle transfers for

I know its not like for like, age for one thing, but its not a surprise to see the Premiership clubs still going for overseas players when you see the disparities in valuations for proven international class compared to a Championship striker setting up

[DungBeetle]

I agree - think Norwich are going to shift next season.

[c4ught]

David Villa goes to Ath Madrid for less than Gayle transfers for

I know its not like for like, age for one thing, but its not a surprise to see the Premiership clubs still going for overseas players when you see the disparities in valuations for proven international class compared to a Championship striker setting up

Any reason a Premiership club didn't go for Villa? Wages maybe?

Seems a snip at the price they paid!

[horseplayer]

Villa decided to stay in Spain mainly because he really wants to stay in the World cup squad next summer and feared moving to a non champions league side abroad would scarper that

They have as far as i believe only actually paid 2.5 million for him with Barcelona still owning 50% of him.

I suspect there may be a deal going the other way of some sort before the season starts.

[KarmaDope]

Schwarzer to Chelsea.

Erm...ok. More like WTF?

[Ant040689]

Schwarzer to Chelsea.

Erm...ok. More like WTF?

I imagine the John Ruddy transfer couldn't go through then. Schwarzer would be a great no.2 and as such at a top club like Chelsea, could luck out on the chance to have a lot of game time if anything unfortunate was to happen to Cech. At 40 and possibly his last season, I would say an opportunity that couldn't be passed. Think it works well for both parties.