Indiantoffee75 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2026 7:50 am
Or in the case of Sunderland. 11/12 players have come in one window.
Palace lost Eze and then Guehi in January. Glasner made it clear there were short on numbers going into the season.
Has Glasner had to build a squad over the last two seasons to pick up three trophies?
Sunderland, based upon their underlying numbers, should have finished 18th this season - if they don't trade considerably well, and have a similarly huge overperformance/amount of luck that they had this season, then I suspect they'll run a similar course to West Ham or Leicester.
Two additional cups for Palace, essentially due to winning the FA Cup on the back of Eze on a 3 game streak, lets not overcook it. Wigan won a cup once too.
Eze and Olise, almost all profit at over €120m. Only Gordon goes close to that sort of profit for us unless you go back a decade. That should say something about what we've had to do to our squad. Their squad is still valued at 25% higher than ours. Palace.
They've also spent about 80m more than we've had the capacity to in the time Glasner has been there, and they certainly haven't had the purge we had to have including the 3 seasons previous - the 5th largest in world football at the time.
They've been sailing along and have bought quite well in Sarr, Wharton and Lacroix, despite losing those 3 headline players that Glasner was perhaps lucky to have in his team when he arrived. (Crazy the way those sales unfolded, I empathise with Glasner)
Palace have spent the last dozen or so years in the league never finishing outside 10th and 15th. Ho hum. We've had one of the craziest of uncontrolled financial and sporting roller-coaster rides (mainly downwards) a club could possibly have over the same time period.
And if what is being said is true, we have only just hit the bottom. There were critical payments apparently due going into this season, hopefully this summer we'll enter a rebuilding phase proper.
I'm a fan of Glasner, I actually see him as 60/40 as my preference over Moyes, if I had a choice. I admire his ways but am also conscious of what we lose as well in that hypothetical transaction. It's unlikely anyway.
