Hughes put Quansah and Elliott out the door purely to balance the books. I don’t believe they actively wanted to leave. Elliott didn’t even have any proper talks with Emery, so how the fuck is that about leaving for playing time? They left because we pushed them out.
No matter how you rate Quansah, seeing a truly homegrown player play for a rival is truly a shame. Thank fuck Richard is fucking off after this summer.
Rodri says hi!
After todays news…
Who would you buy?
Mbappe
Haaland
Olise
All of them! Power! Unlimited power!
Barcola, Isak, Olise and Wirtz as a front four wouldn’t be fair.
Put me down for that!
I don’t know how Elliott balances the books when we got fuck all for him going on loan for a year.
Equally, if Quansah was just about raising cash why would you a) negotiate not one but two buy back clauses and apparently a contract with the player should you exercise either one and b) then go out and spend almost the same money on Leoni six weeks later and another great whack on Jacquet another 6 months down the line.
I’d say the fact the manager barely used either of them in the title winning season would suggest he didn’t have either in his plans and we had no plans to sack said manager at the point those sales were made.
Statistically it is Wharton, though, especially when it comes to offensive passing.
Wharton or Rodri, Rodri everyday proper 6
Rodri is overall much better, but of course he won’t come here.l.
I like Wharton but he doesn’t solve the problem we had last season in midfield which is the defensive/controller type of midfielder.
I am hoping that Andoni can i prove us in this aspect and feel Nyoni should be given a chance as the 6.
Rodri also might be very close to be done physically at the highest level.
Not if the World cup is anything to go by.
He saves a lot of energy with how he plays.
We had a lot more midfield issues than just that, to be honest.
I don´t think our midfield functions well in any area. Nyoni is the one shining light.
I mean, replacing our equivalent of John O’Shea with an elite talent is a big net gain.
And if Grav really becomes a bench player for Nyoni, he should be sold - because a bench player should not be paid 280k per week.
That was last season, we have looked far better in preseason progressing the ball through midfield.
But when Nyoni is off we look too open as he is the one holding his position.
He does, since he is a great ball controller and passer. On top of that, his long-range passing will allow us to actually bypass the midfield, which we can no longer do after Trent left.
Yet Palace ranked 15th in possession stats in 25/26 so how does he control and where is the proof that he can control a game?
