[punky]

He should have stayed at Palace another year or two but its not all his fault. We have our own decent academy and youth players and you wonder how they'll break through. Cheap foreign imports don't help but when you are chasing a top 4 place it hard to see how they can jump from being a talented youngster on loan to playing in the EPL where every point matters. The gulf is huge. I think the new squad limits should help that though as teams are limited to 25 with unlimited kids.

However he isn't innocent in this. He does have a poor attitude (like a lot some others of his age that think he should be a first teamer). Apparently his dad and Redknapp had a conflab in the summer so we'll see if his attitude is any better. Likewise with Giovani Dos Santos.