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Styopa

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Sarr needs competition and we need a rotation option. It’s not a case of one or the other. I am sure they will both get plenty of minutes assuming Gallagher joins.

Players get injured (Bentancur), lose form (Kulusevski) and expect to be rotated (see the match the other night). There will also be lots of times when we need to change things in a match or just freshen things up.

It’s nice thinking about who our best eleven is but in reality a team is badly exposed if the difference between the best eleven and rest of the squad is significant- we saw that against Fulham.
 

lobob8

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I've decided I really want Gallagher just to screw over Poch. The sooner he leaves/quits/gets sacked from Chelsea the better.
 

jpascavitz

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I actually think (predict) that if Gallagher doesn't leave this window than we could revisit this one. Seems Ange is a huge fan and I also wonder as the Chelsea signings bed in further does Gallagher start featuring more off the bench.
 

Silky Skills

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I spoke to CG's brother (Dan who worked on our extension) after he had helped Dorking beat Southend the week before last, he said his brother did not want to leave Chelsea - the whole family are massive Blue's fans
 

homer hotspur

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I spoke to CG's brother (Dan who worked on our extension) after he had helped Dorking beat Southend the week before last, he said his brother did not want to leave Chelsea - the whole family are massive Blue's fans
Yes, I would be amazed if he ( personally) would fancy the move to us. It's always felt like a non starter to me but you never know I suppose.
 

Ghost Hardware

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Yes, I would be amazed if he ( personally) would fancy the move to us. It's always felt like a non starter to me but you never know I suppose.
Surely we would be wise enough to have talked to him or at least his people to find out if he would actually be happy to come before trying to make a move or diverting any serious time and attention to him.
 

BD3

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It's all well and good to play for your boyhood club, but that team has spent hundreds of millions on players in your same position and generally treat their youth like crap constantly sending them out on loans. He's got to see the writing is on the wall that they don't want him despite the early playing time under Poch. If not now, maybe in Jan and most likely next summer.
 

Guntz

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I spoke to CG's brother (Dan who worked on our extension) after he had helped Dorking beat Southend the week before last, he said his brother did not want to leave Chelsea - the whole family are massive Blue's fans

I reckon a conversation with big Ange might change that.

Also if Chelsea force him out after not selling Maatsen/Chalobah.

They need to balance the books somehow.
 

Silky Skills

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It's all well and good to play for your boyhood club, but that team has spent hundreds of millions on players in your same position and generally treat their youth like crap constantly sending them out on loans. He's got to see the writing is on the wall that they don't want him despite the early playing time under Poch. If not now, maybe in Jan and most likely next summer.
I hope you are right as long as he brings his Palace form to us
 

Misfit

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Don't be a grump, Pierre. Euros next summer. You need regular playing time.

It's not you, it's us. We've met someone else.
 

bbunc

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Just sign Gallagher and then tell Hojbjerg he doesn't have a squad place this season. Then he'll accept his loan pretty damn quickly.
I know it’s not how we work, but honestly, if Gallagher is the one Ange wants and it solves HG issues going forward, you just have to do the deal.

Other consequences be damned. The squad is only bloated if you let it be.

send PEH to the beach. So be it. It’s a painful rebuild.
 
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