TheRam wrote: ↑Sat Dec 20, 2025 11:16 am
Why do you think it will be so hard?
This is just the same as don’t replace dyche because all the players are rubbish anyway.
Don’t qualify for europe because we won’t have the squad for it.
That isn’t how it works at all.
You get into Europe and make yourself competitive from there.
Palace are 5th in the league after selling their best player and having a very quiet window.
We’d be fine.
I think people are missing the point, not everything is black or white.
Some are just saying that yeah Europe would be great and it's be an amazing achievement after the past few seasons, but if you just take out the emotion and look at it logically building slowly and incrementally would probably be better for the long term plan of being a regular top 7 team.
No one is saying they don't want Europe exactly, just acknowledging that there's a high possibility we struggle with the demands if we make it too soon as the squad is paper thin, and we won't be able to address that properly in the summer.
If we made Europe this season I think everyone would be delighted, but it's worth highlighting that it maybe doesn't help us build in a sustainable way that maybe achieving it in 18 months time instead would.
After the recent turmoil at the club we need to consider how we want to change things to be less of a struggle moving forward, and pretty much everyone wanted a slow and steady sustainable progression once we survived last year... I don't think anything has changed on that front, but obviously if we made Europe this season that's also great for different reasons, and we'd all be fully in to the excitement of playing in Europe again after all this time.
