The Crystal Palace Courier
Market1 Nov 2027
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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
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.
Match30 Oct 2027
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.
Market1 Nov 2027
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 ratings1 Nov 2027
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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
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 dugout1 Nov 2027
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 dugout1 Nov 2027
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
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Matheus França
- The dugout Jørgen Strand Larsen knocks on the manager's door
- Market The Óscar Mingueza talk will not go away