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Palace should never have been where they were. A few of their squad would improve us ridiculously.

Seen the managers the squad has had coaching them in recent years?

Nah not noticed. Assuming they were canny like.
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Plucky underdogs with their £55m strike force.

 

Exactly. You know that if they get anything from this game, it'll all be "ooh little Palace gave Arsenal a game, Newcastle didn't even try last night"

 

Arsenal's strike force is probably worth thrice the amount. 55m gets you Lacazette only.

 

Don't let the fact we don't even want to compete blind you from what is still a significant gap between the top 6 and the rest of the league.

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Plucky underdogs with their £55m strike force.

 

Exactly. You know that if they get anything from this game, it'll all be "ooh little Palace gave Arsenal a game, Newcastle didn't even try last night"

 

Arsenal's strike force is probably worth thrice the amount. 55m gets you Lacazette only.

 

Don't let the fact we don't even want to compete blind you from what is still a significant gap between the top 6 and the rest of the league.

 

There is a massive gap obviously from the top 6 and the rest, but (on paper at least) there is a sizeable gap between the likes of Everton, Leicester and Crystal Palace and possibly West Ham to the rest. Obviously Burnley are currently sitting in 7th but you have to ask yourself how many of our players would get into Palace's side? 2 of their players are arguably the best that we've had in the Ashley era and then Benteke and Sakho cost more than £50m between them - our first team is primarily dotted around with £4m or £5m players (Yedlin, Manquillo, Lascelles, Elliot/Darlow, Diame, Joselu, Atsu, Clark, Hayden) - figures we were paying more for 15 years ago signing the likes of Titus Bramble and Carl Cort well before the current vast inflation. Even Warren Barton cost £4m 22 years ago for some perspective. Palace have 2 left backs that they paid more than £25m for. They are definitely operating on a different financial level to the likes of Newcastle, Swansea etc.

 

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Plucky underdogs with their £55m strike force.

 

Exactly. You know that if they get anything from this game, it'll all be "ooh little Palace gave Arsenal a game, Newcastle didn't even try last night"

 

Arsenal's strike force is probably worth thrice the amount. 55m gets you Lacazette only.

 

Don't let the fact we don't even want to compete blind you from what is still a significant gap between the top 6 and the rest of the league.

 

There is a massive gap obviously from the top 6 and the rest, but (on paper at least) there is a sizeable gap between the likes of Everton, Leicester and Crystal Palace and possibly West Ham to the rest. Obviously Burnley are currently sitting in 7th but you have to ask yourself how many of our players would get into Palace's side? 2 of their players are arguably the best that we've had in the Ashley era and then Benteke and Sakho cost more than £50m between them - our first team is primarily dotted around with £4m or £5m players (Yedlin, Manquillo, Lascelles, Elliot/Darlow, Diame, Joselu, Atsu, Clark, Hayden) - figures we were paying more for 15 years ago signing the likes of Titus Bramble and Carl Cort well before the current vast inflation. Even Warren Barton cost £4m 22 years ago for some perspective. Palace have 2 left backs that they paid more than £25m for. They are definitely operating on a different financial level to the likes of Newcastle, Swansea etc.

 

 

Huddersfield & Brighton both spent 40m net in the transfer market.

 

Crystal Palace are the norm for a fairly established PL club. Watford 20m on CM's. 30m on attackers. Bournemouth 30m on a defender and a GK.

 

There's us and Swansea - everybody else has tried to invest (Burnley are an anamoly). That's why you look at the league table and apart from Swansea, every other team has some proper quality. West Ham, Palace & Stoke probably have too much to go down with any decent management.

 

Then you look at Bournemouth, defensive signings not been brilliant so far. Don't score many either. WBA big signings have barely scored in the league. Then you're hoping Brighton and Huddersfield go on a terrible run or Stoke, Palace or Wham suffer from terrible management.

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