Marc Guehi

[Kid Icarus]

13 minutes ago, Max Cherry said:

Who's this Schrodinger? Right winger?

Box to box midfielder 

[r0cafella]

Just now, Zero said:

that’s why I said it’s Howe who is pushing the deal. 

We don’t know this and I’d rather not assume. We know that plurality will be needed to go forward so we shouldn’t just say it’s x pushing. 

[Gallowgate Toon]

Mitchell's job is to build strategies to meet the club's goals. He's not going to implement the same exact blueprint at every club.

[Ben]

I think it gets done, Palace will need time to bring some players in themselves 

[Zero]

Just now, r0cafella said:

We don’t know this and I’d rather not assume. We know that plurality will be needed to go forward so we shouldn’t just say it’s x pushing. 

you can say so. I just think as the one who knows the squad best at this moment, Howe has the right to push for the deal and Mitchell gotta respect this. I ain’t blaming Howe for the pushing.

[Rocker]

8 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

Box to box midfielder 

God, that's good. 

[polkaDot]

12 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

Box to box midfielder 

a real cat in the box apparently 

[Shadow Puppets]

22 minutes ago, Unbelievable said:

Wasn't there talk of a Chelsea clause coming into effect after the first game of the season? That would make any deal look even less appealing. Think we'll look elsewhere. Hope so too for the fee mentioned.

Yeah, that’s what I was told. I was expecting us, based on that info, to have gone all out to tie up the deal before Palace’s game 🤷‍♂️

 

That info came from a fairly well known agent by the way, whereas the info about how keen he is to join and how he expected the deal to be done imminently came from much much closer to home. (And as of Saturday they still expect it to get done)

[ExiledGeordie]

2 minutes ago, Shadow Puppets said:

Yeah, that’s what I was told. I was expecting us, based on that info, to have gone all out to tie up the deal before Palace’s game 🤷‍♂️

 

That info came from a fairly well known agent by the way, whereas the info about how keen he is to join and how he expected the deal to be done imminently came from much much closer to home. (And as of Saturday they still expect it to get done)

Thanks for the info as always. Will be interesting to see what happens. I still think it might happen based on absolutely nothing other than gut instinct and snippets of info such as from yourself 😂 I think there’ll be a few outings maybe Trippier and that will mean we bring a RW in. I think it’s about to get very hectic.

 

 

Edited August 19, 2024 by ExiledGeordie

[SUPERTOON]

23 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

It’s kinda of strange though, in that article from Waugh all of the alternatives also were PL based. Mitchell’s reputation at Monaco was based upon trimming the wage bill and bringing through talents so it’s quite surprising to me we are after such players. 
 

That’s of course unless we intend to ship out someone Schar maybe? 

A lot of talk that the targets for this window where already decided and Mitchell’s appointment wouldn’t change that. 

[r0cafella]

Just now, SUPERTOON said:

A lot of talk that the targets for this window were already decided and Mitchell’s appointment wouldn’t change that. 

I took that one with a pinch of salt tbh. 

[GeordieDazzler]

20 minutes ago, Unbelievable said:

Wasn't there talk of a Chelsea clause coming into effect after the first game of the season? That would make any deal look even less appealing. Think we'll look elsewhere. Hope so too for the fee mentioned.

Is this the sell on clause? 
 

Seems mental for Palace to allow that if they actually want to sell as don’t see that his value ever being this high again (post Euros, perfect age, media hype). 
 

I feel their preference would be that he signs a new deal with a buy out clause / gentleman’s agreement that he can go next summer. But if they have a poor season that’s still a gamble. Plus it looks like Guehi has no intention of signing a new deal at the moment. 
 

I’d still like him here, think the deal has a combination of being a statement (young England player, just had a great Euros) and has a lot of quality about him even if he didn’t have the greatest game yesterday.

 

People get caught up in a binary player good vs player bad mentality. I think he’d great here and I’m sure the recruitment and coaching team have thought about how he compliments our style. Plus Howe has shown he can improve most players if they are fully bought in. 

[Sibierski]

I’m resigned to this transfer not happening now, and at this point, despite being a fan, rather it didn’t how it’s gone.

 

Just got to hope the back up option turns out to be a gem and we don’t look back.

[gbandit]

I’m the opposite, I’m resigned to it happening and I’m not that happy about it given how much it’s going to cost and what that means for us strengthening in other areas 

[ExiledGeordie]

Just now, Sibierski said:

I’m resigned to this transfer not happening now, and at this point, despite being a fan, rather it didn’t how it’s gone.

 

Just got to hope the back up option turns out to be a gem and we don’t look back.

It certainly hasn’t played out how they usually do but both Caulkin and Douglas have said club would dispute how many bids there’ve been. All the noise seems to have come from the Palace end.

[GeordieDazzler]

Yeah think we will be reticent to do business with Palace again after this is done one way or the other. We seem to prefer teams like Forest and Chelsea who seem to deal with much less fuss. 

 

 

Edited August 19, 2024 by GeordieDazzler

[gdm]

17 minutes ago, gbandit said:

I’m the opposite, I’m resigned to it happening and I’m not that happy about it given how much it’s going to cost and what that means for us strengthening in other areas 

Im the same if we are sacrificing getting a RW I’ll be very disappointed 

[Nucasol]

I think it’s gone. Palace have overplayed their hand, intentionally or not. The club should be looking to max out that right wing slot now.

[Fezzle]

1 hour ago, Max Cherry said:

Who's this Schrodinger? Right winger?

Hes good in the box

[CallumG6]

20 minutes ago, GeordieDazzler said:

Yeah think we will be reticent to do business with Palace again after this is done one way or the other. We seem to prefer teams like Forest and Chelsea who seem to deal with much less fuss. 

 

 

 

Totally agree.

Having this saga drag out through the media is not in our culture at all. Just look at the way the Isak, Bruno and Botman deals were done.

[bobbydazzla]

Come in here to see if this cunt has signed yet, end up down a quantum mechanics thought experiment concerning quantum superposition rabbit hole

 

Fucksake

 

 

Edited August 19, 2024 by bobbydazzla

[KaKa]

52 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

It’s kinda of strange though, in that article from Waugh all of the alternatives also were PL based. Mitchell’s reputation at Monaco was based upon trimming the wage bill and bringing through talents so it’s quite surprising to me we are after such players. 
 

That’s of course unless we intend to ship out someone Schar maybe? 

 

I think the transfer strategy for this summer was already pretty much set prior to Mitchell coming in.

 

It's also increasingly clear, rightly or wrongly, that the aim for now is to fill in the remaining weaker positions in the first team with players that can come in straight away and perform in the league with no adjustment period.

 

This may well mean we are better positioned to attack the league and other competitions this season with less potential growing pains, at the cost of not getting in players with a potential higher ceiling further down the line.

 

Going forward I fully expect Mitchell's influence in the market to be more apparent.

[r0cafella]

1 minute ago, KaKa said:

 

I think the transfer strategy for this summer was already pretty much set prior to Mitchell coming in.

 

It's also increasingly clear, rightly or wrongly, that the aim for now is to fill in the remaining weaker positions in the first team with players that can come in straight away and perform in the league with no adjustment period.

 

This may well mean we are better positioned to attack the league and other competitions this season with less potential growing pains, at the cost of not getting in players with a potential higher ceiling further down the line.

 

Going forward I fully expect Mitchell's influence in the market to be more apparent.

Is Schar weakness? Moment of madness aside he’s been one of our best players since Eddie came in. Of course he lacks pace as is getting on but I think he’d be fine for this season. 

[Terrymac1966]

Walk away

Get Logan

Splash on a goalscoring RW

simples

 

or not....

[KaKa]

3 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

Is Schar weakness? Moment of madness aside he’s been one of our best players since Eddie came in. Of course he lacks pace as is getting on but I think he’d be fine for this season. 

 

The weakness is not having our other starter Botman. 

 

And then going into next season I do think the plan is to have the new centre back then take over from Schar.