Guehi

[Ragatino]

I think we should have walked away 2/3 weeks ago as soon as Parish started to play his silly games by upping the asking price each time a serious offer was made.

That way we would have had a bit more time to negotiate for an alternative. There must be quite a few out there adequate to do the job we need.

Palace buy well and sell well. Not quite Levy Spurs level but always difficult to get a bargain out of old melted welly head.

2 ways of looking at it.

1 - Olise going to Bayern should have been the warning that they would stone wall and play hardball over the Guehi transfer. Essentially, they don't need to sell and why would they let go for anything less than the absolute top dollar? We wouldn't
Currently they're enduring a defensive injury crisis and are down to the barebones at the back. They're almost forced to play Guehi.

2 - We as a club are currying favour with other clubs in the league by lining their pockets and the addition of Mitchell will smooth the transition from Hated financial bully to establish league benevolent big boy with deep pockets who do good deals for respectable prices with the lesser clubs in the league.

We have to remember that 20 clubs in the prem, are all in competition with each other. The rules are shared however the game is still competitive and everyone wants their piece of the pie.

What is this post trying to say?

We're a club who has gone from 'also ran' to 'race leader'. Misery loves company, the other also rans are jealous and will need to be placated as the young duckling of the north becomes a majestic swan of international club football.

It's extremely frustrating for us fans and as usual we're the last to be considered in the grand scheme of things. We're just gonna have to suck it up and keep on cheering the lads (miggy, Murphy et al) to victory.

More games we win, more money we earn the sooner we get to hoist the silver and reach the promised land of title winners!