Araujo studs up challenge on Mitchell - no red card
Barcola studs down on the back of Pino’s Achilles (same as Mateta v Spurs) - no red card
MacAllister studs up follow through on Wharton - no red card
I’m consistently baffled by VAR.
They look at that challenge for 3-4 minutes and decide not to send the ref to the monitor and not even give a yellow.
Mateta’s is overturned and given as a red.
I’m not saying the latter wasn’t a red but I don’t understand the process at all.
People said Palace are shit in Europe. They called us embarrassing.
Well, we just narrowly beat the 2nd best side in Cyprus. At the 3rd attempt. In extra time. After they went down to 9 men.
Think a few apologies are owed.
This is something I feel very strongly about, so allow me to go over the usual 280 character limit.
“Keeping on selling our best players” is an act of necessity for a club in Palace’s position.
We didn’t sell Zaha, he left at the end of his deal for free, we had to replace him with nothing.
We signed Olise, he insisted on a release clause of £35m, we managed to renegotiate that at the last minute before a move to Chelsea and get it to £50m, still well below going rate but the only alternative, if we hadn’t agreed to either release clause, we’d never have had Olise at Palace at all.
Eze, was signed for £16m, played for us for years, helped the club grow, won us an FA Cup and was desperate to move to Arsenal, we sold him for £50m of profit, if we hadn’t, he wouldn’t have signed a new deal and stayed for his whole career, he’d have run it down and left for free.
Guehi, signed from Chelsea, became out captain, was huge for us, was offered massive wages to sign for longer, never said yes. We turned down £35m in the summer because the manager asked us, the same manager tells the club in October that he’s leaving anyway (his words not mine) should the club willingly let our captain run down his deal until May and get £0 for him knowing the manger is off or should they turn some profit and ensure that they can help a new manger next season or sooner?
The reason Arsenal are where they are with Arteta is because they’re a destination for players, Saka signs new deals, Rice leaves West Ham as captain to sign because it’s where he wants to be. They can build because they are a “big” club; players won’t sign deals like that over and over again with us, so the only way we can continue to compete is by selling high and reinvesting, building with what we have is impossible because as sad as it is, clubs of our stature are and always will be a stepping stone; even more so in the era of PSR where clubs are severely limited in what they can spend anyway.
EXC 🚨: Crystal Palace have conducted a value assessment of the Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak transfers, to help set a price for Adam Wharton.
As a result #CPFC will demand £2.5 Billion from Liverpool for the midfielder in January #LFC
Ismaïla Sarr scored a goal and fell to the ground, the players got scared thinking he was not breathing or injured then he gets up immediately and celebrates 💀💀💀 https://t.co/pqHUiFphUt
It looks as though Ebere Eze is now very close to joining Tottenham.
5 seasons with us, 168 appearances, 39 goals, including pivotal strikes in the QF, SF & Final to win us our first ever FA Cup; all done with a beaming smile on his face.
A Palace legend in every sense. ❤️💙
First ever major trophy. First time in Europe. A South London boy scoring the winner. A goalkeeper in a hat. Fans balling their eyes out. Sun shining.
That’s the good stuff, Crystal Palace.
I FUCKING LOVE MY FOOTBALL CLUB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!