The Crystal Palace Courier
Squad28 Jun 2027
Remi Shittu damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market28 Jun 2027
Business is business: Jørgen Strand Larsen goes
Fulham paid $24.5M and Crystal Palace took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market28 Jun 2027
Standard Liege come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Crystal Palace did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Real improvement from Justin Devenny at Crystal Palace
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Justin Devenny is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Chris Richards has improved at 27, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Market28 Jun 2027
Brennan Johnson wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
In brief
- Squad Cheick Doucouré falls out with a teammate over standards
- Market The Tyler Dibling question follows Crystal Palace around
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Abdul Ouédraogo