It’s fine to take the decision that we can’t turn down the money and let him leave on a free, but what’s baffling is deciding that on the last day of the window without a replacement. That’s the sort of thing that HAS to be decided at the beginning of the window so we can get a replacement

Yeah totally agree. It’s just baffling that it seems we’ve only just decided that we can’t afford to lose Guehi on a free. That’s the sort of thing that HAS to be decided at the beginning of the window to allow proper planning. The real question is why we didn’t know what our own position was sooner

Sensible move - European squads need 4 out of the 25 to be homegrown at club (not just in England) and Clyne helps us with that

If you can’t dream then what’s the point

Mark (Bright)

Anything to get him off co-commentary

Thanks so much for sharing! Was just curious so I could have a play around with it myself :)

Really interesting thread - thanks for putting this together! Shows that ‘tactical flexibility’ goes a lot beyond changes to formation.

Just wondering where you get the data for average positions and heat maps from?

I think Glasner said as much as well - earlier in the season he talked about at Palace they can’t sign players that do ‘all’ of the things they ideally want for a given position, but have to go for players that do some/most of that profile and then improve the weaker areas of their game

Can also see Sarr has improved throughout the season operating in the more central natural ‘10’ area of the pitch - no doubt because of the coaching too

Why has the club switched from Diouf / other names on their shortlist for LWB to Chilwell who only became a possibility to sign after Chalobah got recalled? Feels like they have abandoned the long-term plan for the LWB position they had going into the window - can’t see the logic behind this

Interested to see what the bench is

4 minimum really tbh, our backup CB options are now Clyne (our backup rwb AND lwb) and Lerma (one of two available CMs). Our squad is so thin and needs so much work to even compete with other squads in the league - Edouard doesn’t even make the bench for Leicester most weeks but would always for us

The only silver lining is this gives us time to react. Can only imagine scenario in which this happened after the window has closed. But underlines how thin our squad really is - realistically we should be getting 4/5 players in but that’s never gonna happen