Jasper Judd

Right Back - Crystal Palace U20
16 Nov 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Jasper Judd

66 Edition

The Crystal Palace Courier

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Borna Sosa hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Crystal Palace can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

15 days out for Jasper Judd after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Crystal Palace will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Óscar Mingueza 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.

Match

Nottingham Forest take the points off Crystal Palace

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

Jørgen Strand Larsen is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Crystal Palace has been clear about where Jørgen Strand Larsen stands, which is more than many ever get.

Player ratings

Éderson in the eights

A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Words exchanged at Crystal Palace

Mateus Mané and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Adam Green left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Crystal Palace

Something was said to Takehiro Tomiyasu and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

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65 Edition

The Crystal Palace Courier

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Ismaïla Sarr was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 33. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

A fracture rules Jasper Judd out for 23 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Crystal Palace will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Romain Esse asks to leave Crystal Palace

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Óscar Mingueza 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Crystal Palace against Sunderland

0‑1 to Sunderland, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Adam Green answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

Words exchanged at Crystal Palace

Benji Casey and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

Babis Kostoulas gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Babis Kostoulas is on it.

Market

Jean-Philippe Mateta linked with a move away

The name of Jean-Philippe Mateta keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Crystal Palace say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief