The Crystal Palace Courier
Market17 Aug 2026
Tyrick Mitchell moves on
Nottingham Forest pay $14.7M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market17 Aug 2026
Crystal Palace turn down Chelsea for Jørgen Strand Larsen
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market17 Aug 2026
Abu Kamara is a Crystal Palace player
The fee is $5.2M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Hull City drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Crystal Palace
Evann Guessand was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Dean Henderson falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Crystal Palace
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Daniel Simmons joins the Crystal Palace first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Simmons is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The ground is getting bigger
The plans are signed off at a capacity of 34932. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Benji Casey signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Benji Casey commits to Crystal Palace for another 4 years.
In brief
- Squad Ismaïla Sarr has company in his position
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Dodô