High Five o Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Good luck Andros. Worst choice you could have done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20160701/townsend-joins-crystal-palace_2281670_5695447 Gone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 I can understand him leaving but Palace seems an awful choice. Ah well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ste Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Hard to say at this stage if Benetiz decided on a different path with Ritchie or if it's Townsend who wanted out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
U2 Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 I can understand him leaving but Palace seems an awful choice. Ah well. May well have been happy to get the cash plus Andros's wages off the books and invest that money on other players. We will probably end up stronger for this. I guess we've got Ritchie and Gayle for Townsend. We're stronger for that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Applied himself while he was here. No hard feelings personally. Hope (and expect) he fails professionally under Pardew, obviously, though I suspect Palace will have a bit of "new signings" bounce before the new recruits have been Pardewed properly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midstoon Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Good career move Andros. http://replygif.net/i/1426.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Good career move Andros. http://replygif.net/i/1426.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Good comments from Charnley about not using release clauses in future. If true obvs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 At least we found out he was a mercenary cunt early on and got our money back. No harm done, now we can focus on bringing players here who understand what this football club is about and want to be part of something great. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 I can understand him leaving but Palace seems an awful choice. Ah well. May well have been happy to get the cash plus Andros's wages off the books and invest that money on other players. We will probably end up stronger for this. I guess we've got Ritchie and Gayle for Townsend. We're stronger for that. As its stands, yeah. But I'm sure Sissoko will be off soon. So it will be tit for tat with a lot of signings, I think. It's nice that we are actually strengthening, before anyone leaves, though. Plus, it's nice to sign players that actually want to be here. Yes they'll be getting a pay rise. But they're still dropping down a division to sign. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John P Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Sad to see him leave, he was the one player who I really wanted to stay and I thought he would. But, we're getting Ritchie who has proved he can be prolific in the championship in terms of goals and assists, so it shouldn't weaken us too much. Swapping Rafa for Pardew man, he's going to get into training and realise he's made a terrible mistake. Unless he enjoys Woody's banter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunning_Linguist Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Bit dissappointed he has left after only being here for 6 months, Fair enough if he wants to play Premiership Football but he has chosen the wrong team and the wrong manager. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Prick. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
U2 Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 I can understand him leaving but Palace seems an awful choice. Ah well. May well have been happy to get the cash plus Andros's wages off the books and invest that money on other players. We will probably end up stronger for this. I guess we've got Ritchie and Gayle for Townsend. We're stronger for that. As its stands, yeah. But I'm sure Sissoko will be off soon. It's nice that we are actually strengthening, before anyone leaves, though. More than confident that we will reinvest whatever we get from the sale of Sissoko plus the freed wages Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Daft lad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-421 Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Can only echo other comments.... going to palace seems a crazy idea. But the clause was there, and had hoped he might have bought into the 'rafalution'. Another way of looking at it... we've made £1m for a 6 month loan deal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 At least we found out he was a mercenary c*** early on and got our money back. No harm done, now we can focus on bringing players here who understand what this football club is about and want to be part of something great. Is this serious? LOL what an awful post. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBG Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Good career move Andros. http://replygif.net/i/1426.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottledDog Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Fkn Nexiter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 At least we found out he was a mercenary c*** early on and got our money back. No harm done, now we can focus on bringing players here who understand what this football club is about and want to be part of something great. Is this serious? LOL what an awful post. It's from my perspective as a Newcastle fan, obviously being a Palace fan yourself you may view differently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 I can understand him leaving but Palace seems an awful choice. Ah well. May well have been happy to get the cash plus Andros's wages off the books and invest that money on other players. We will probably end up stronger for this. I guess we've got Ritchie and Gayle for Townsend. We're stronger for that. As its stands, yeah. But I'm sure Sissoko will be off soon. It's nice that we are actually strengthening, before anyone leaves, though. More than confident that we will reinvest whatever we get from the sale of Sissoko plus the freed wages I would hope so. But didn't Gayle cost around £9m-£10m? Ritchie is going to cost £12m, allegedly. Plus we signed Sels for £4.5m. We've only recouped £13m so far. I haven't factored in wages, as we don't know the details. So there is a shortfall to be made up, there. I don't think we'll be reinvesting all the fees we get back. But who knows? I still think to some degree, it will be one in, one out, and we'll be getting like for like replacements. It's just we're being proactive for once and not waiting until they've gone and then panicking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
localshop Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Probably missed London too much. I'm surprised someone like WHU didn't come in for him though. Also it's a bit annoying that we've only got £13m back considering we bought him for £12m and his stock has risen a fair bit since then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Hugely disappointing. Keeping him would have sent out a positive message. This is a setback for Rafa no doubt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 I can understand him leaving but Palace seems an awful choice. Ah well. May well have been happy to get the cash plus Andros's wages off the books and invest that money on other players. We will probably end up stronger for this. I guess we've got Ritchie and Gayle for Townsend. We're stronger for that. As its stands, yeah. But I'm sure Sissoko will be off soon. It's nice that we are actually strengthening, before anyone leaves, though. More than confident that we will reinvest whatever we get from the sale of Sissoko plus the freed wages I would hope so. But didn't Gayle cost around £9m-£10m? Ritchie is going to cost £12m, allegedly. Plus we signed Sels for £4.5m. We've only recouped £13m so far. I haven't factored in wages, as we don't know the details. So there is a shortfall to be made up, there. I don't think we'll be reinvesting all the fees we get back. But who knows? I still think to some degree, it will be one in, one out, and we'll be getting like for like replacements. It's just we're being proactive for once and not waiting until they've gone and then panicking. The likes of Janmaat, Sissoko and Wijnaldum will probably be leaving as well and we'll get good money for them if that happens. Krul too, although not sure how much he'll fetch with only a year left on his contract. I don't think we'll be out of pocket. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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