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I can’t really remember who was all in it, but I remember having a midfield as we headed towards relegation which could barely move. Sure Butt and Smith were in there.

True. It even took a while to get Kelly ‘over the line’. Tosin dragged on, as did the boy who ended up at PSG. We were after Slob who went to Liverpool for a while. Even Gordon was linked 6 months before.

Some really wild takes here. People seem to be taking up arms and manning the barricades to protect Howe in some imaginary war they’ve invented. Theres barely anything controversial in that interview.

Surely that Eales job, not his.

Not much to disagree with to be honest. He’s one of the best in the business and needs to be allowed time to put everything in place. Still baffled by the end of the window though. It felt more like zero scouting network, never mind a poor one.

In an alternative universe, Bruno goes for £100m and Tosin comes in on a free. Then they have close to £200m to spend on the Bruno replacement, a right winger and whoever else they’d identified. Shopping in England is still a bit strange though.

I didn’t say anything like that.

It’s been an absolute disaster in my opinion. A total failure. From a club with momentum less than a year ago, we now look a shambles off the pitch. The whole Gordon/PSR affair clearly left a bitter taste in the squad, and we’ve shown our top players we aren’t as interested in competing as they were no doubt sold when joining. Its pointless trying to point the finger in one direction, but I cannot grasp the approach to a window where you need to improve in a number of areas, lumping all your money on one over priced target. We don’t have a good enough squad yet to do that. A few things to add while I’m greeting on. We had the 4th oldest team in the league last year. Done nothing to address that. And we have a number of players out of contract next year, some who really aren’t up to the standard of where we are or want to be in the league, who are going to have to get new contracts unless we go crazy in the market in the next two windows. The player turnover in the next two windows is going to have to be huge unless we’re planning on taking Burn, Krafth, Murphy, Miggy, Trippier, Schar, Lascelles and Wilson into 25/26, not to mention replacing whoever we have to sell to fund the rebuild of the squad. It wasn’t a transfer window to just waste.

Exactly.

The inquest should include how we couldn’t even get this one done when we clearly wanted him.

Yes, but not sure what relevance that has.

It’s a good article because people want it to be true. Hope and Downie had said differently.

Chalobah on loan with no obligation to buy is shit tbh. And why would Chelsea accept it when there’s more chance of us being around them the league than Palace?

Is it only us who it gets ‘too late in the day’ for? Why bother considering him if that’s the case. Lots of clubs do late deals.

It’s his first window, which he joined half way through. Howe made a power play in Germany. I don’t think it’s beyond the realms of possibility that they agreed to go with Howes targets for this window.

More embarrassing for us obviously, but I wouldn’t exactly say it’s been a success for Palace not taking £70m for him.

Don’t agree with this. I think they should give an explanation regarding every transfer window. It’s basic communication for a football club. We can then decide if we’ve been ‘hard done by’ or not. It’s probably the perfect time of the year for the Sporting Director to give an update.

What, the win with 10 men for 70minutes, the away draw to a team who are comfortably midtable, and a pen shoot out win at Forest? Yes. We weren’t great for long periods of the games, but in spells we were good. Were not on top form yet, but we’re not ‘clueless’.

I’m inclined to agree that by limiting your targets to a tiny pool has the manager putting himself under pressure, but to say the team is stale and clueless is ridiculous.

They need to carry bags of coins between the centre back room at the stadium to the right wing room at the training ground.

We have one decent keeper.

Who do I hate as a snake? This is news to me.

What, that we didn’t keep bidding higher and higher for Guehi? We’ve had the piss ripped out of us.

Howe

Because we’ve wasted weeks on it.