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Sage's Leadership: Can He Inspire this team ? · Team of the eighties

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  Taylor.
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  Oh, what a goal by Peter Taylor.
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  Welcome to team of the 80s.
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  My name's Gary Spencer.
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  Yeah, so now I've had time to calm down, take the emotion out of it and have a look back at that Everton game.
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  I really feel that first of all we can't have another season like last year with the finishing.
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  We just can't.
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  But it looks like that we're gonna.
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  And one of the things which upset me about the lineup yesterday was you're not telling me that Mateta and Eddie are only bad on a Saturday.
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  I mean they're finishing in training.
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  Can't be that great.
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  It can't be Eddie a little bit unlucky with the Pickford save because it was a, it was a world class save.
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  Mateta's tapping at the near post where he side footed it just widen.
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  I don't know, I don't know how he missed that.
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  But then he side foot where he puts it against the post.
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  I mean come on like we away from home, we cannot afford to give up these chances.
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  You know we could have been 2, 3, 0 up and it's a completely different game but we lose our confidence.
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  Everton get back into it and then in the second half we listen in the second half we were dreadful.
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  And if you look at the second goal that Everton scored, our defending their attacker gets between Richard's ear.
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  I think Cambo's here, he gets in between them.
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  Richards doesn't get a jump.
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  Cambo doesn't get in front of the attacker and he scores.
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  And it's just really bad.
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  I, I actually feel that for that second goal Richards is at full, Cambo's at full.
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  And I don't know what Anderson was doing because Anderson didn't come out and grab it either.
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  And he's like what, three or four yards out?
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  Just very, very bad.
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  Our whole performance in the second half was rough.
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  Was rough.
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  I would have liked to have seen Gozo involved at least in the squad, at least on the bench.
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  He probably needs a few minutes.
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  He's, you know, he hasn't really played this season because for three or four weeks his future was getting sorted out.
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  And so I get it, I get why he was in the under 21s but he's a player and he's going to give us a different option.
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  And I think he's certainly a better finisher than Eddie or Mateta, Australian Larson for that matter.
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  I like Eddie because I think technically Eddie in catches a good footballer.
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  If Mateta's not scoring goals for us, he's He's a waste of time for me because he hasn't been the same player since the head injury against Millwall.
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  Before then, he used to put himself about a lot more.
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  Doesn't put himself about as much anymore.
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  So therefore, if he's not finishing, he's not really doing much for us up there.
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  And if you think about it, he scored that very lucky goal against Brighton, which bought him a lot of time where it went between two Brighton players.
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  Legs.
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  He didn't know where the ball was.
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  And then he went, what, 18 months.
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  Two.
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  Two years.
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  Terrible.
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  Then he had that very good.
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  And it was a very good 18 months.
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  12 months.
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  18 months period where he couldn't stop scoring.
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  But since then, he's been very, very poor, and his finishing's been poor.
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  He doesn't seem to want to play for us, and if we can get some dough for him, then let's get some dough for him, because for me, he's not.
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  He's not doing it.
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  I'm excited to see Gozo.
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  I think Gozo will give the team a lift.
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  I think he'll give our forward line a lift, and let's get him involved as soon as possible.
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  What else?
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  Wharton, A lot of people.
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  You know, listen, I said this yesterday.
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  I can understand why Wharton didn't go to the World Cup.
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  He's.
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  He's good when he's good, and he's good when he's got time.
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  And he can, like, dink it in there, and he can dink it in there and, yeah, he puts a nice.
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  All that stuff great when he's closed down, when he doesn't have that time.
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  He's very ordinary.
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  Very ordinary.
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  And he gives the ball away a lot.
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  And we never see those clips, even the club.
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  Yesterday he said, oh, Walton, like, yeah, great.
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  Well, we can all do that when we've got 10 yards, but it's not about that when you're in midfield.
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  It's about making those things happen when you don't have the time and space and.
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  And he needs to be better at that.
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  I always like using midfield for us.
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  I always do.
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  You know, he's no frills, but he wins the ball and he gives it to somebody that can play.
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  So, yeah, I.
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  I just didn't get our lineup yesterday against Devon.
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  I really didn't.
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  But hopefully this is a big.
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  Hope we get a little bit better against Man City.
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  Disappointed to hear the conflicting views about sa.
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  It looks too much of a coincidence to me that he suddenly got an injury and the rumors are Spreading that he wants to leave.
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  I can see why he wants to leave.
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  Going to Galatasaray.
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  He's going to be on Mordo.
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  He's going to be playing Champions League football in front of a very passionate crowd.
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  So I can understand why he wants to leave.
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  Maybe Zaha got in his ear when he trained with us and said, you know what, that's a big club.
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  You should go there.
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  Galatasaray is a big club.
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  You know, we forget.
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  Although it's out in there in Turkey, the players and managers have been through Galatasaray.
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  Big club, big club.
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  So, you know, and football's changed.
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  It's not like it was in the 70s and 80s.
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  Players have no loyalty anymore to a club back in the 70s and 80s.
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  And I spoke about this in the Steve Lovell podcast.
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  Fans had a lot more of an affiliation with the players and vice versa.
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  You know, players didn't want to leave London.
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  Players didn't want to play for anybody else than Crystal Palace.
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  Those days are gone, particularly with the European and the foreign players.
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  They couldn't care less where they play.
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  They want to play where they get more dough than anywhere else and the chance of a bit more success.
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  And I think realistically, and I'm always saying this on Twitter, palace fans have to be more realistic all the time.
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  Like, I think the worst thing that could have happened to us is that we won three trophies.
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  Really?
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  Because now the.
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  The fans expect us to be in the top six.
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  Top four, Europe.
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  Oh, man.
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  How many times in on Twitter is somebody going to tell me we've won a European trophy?
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  Okay, yeah.
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  Europa Conference League is a trophy you win in Europe, but that's where it ends.
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  You want to start talking about European trophies.
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  This season is going to be a good, good start.
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  The Europa League, it's going to be light years away from what we just played in.
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  And the way we're playing, we're going to last two minutes.
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  We have to, like, really liven up.
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  If.
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  Well, I've said all along, forget playing in Europe and forget playing in the Premier League for Crystal Palace.
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  It's nigh impossible without depth to play in both.
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  Both competitions.
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  Nine.
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  Impossible.
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  So you're dreaming.
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  You're dreaming.
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  Yet we could do well in one of them.
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  And by.
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  Well, if, if, if Crystal palace finish in the top half of the Premier League, that's good for them.
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  That's a good season for them in the top half.
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  But I finish, I feel we'll finish a lot closer to the bottom than we will the top and in the Europa League we're not going to do very well at all.
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  There's some good teams in that, in that cup and we're going to suffer in that cup for sure.
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  Not only in squad depth but just in games, you know, we're not going to do well.
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  So don't be too expectant as far as the manager's concerned.
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  It's going to take me a long time to, to think that he's the right man for the job.
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  Glasner, when he left, would probably have fancied Newcastle over Forest, but he jumped, he saw the opportunity, went to Forest and I'm pretty certain Steve Parrish would have preferred Eddie Howe over Sage or Sarge, whichever, how you ever
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  you say it.
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  I get 0 of Assad and I always feel that Parish has always made the right choices for Crystal Palace.
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  He had a bit of a blip when he appointed Frank Debur, but he got, he, he stopped it very quickly, he stopped the bleeding quickly and he changed within four games.
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  Sarge, Sage, zero.
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  Charisma zero.
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  I see no presence.
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  I, I, I can't imagine going in at half time and getting anything from him which is going to inspire me to go out and do better.
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  It's just flat bland.
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  I, I just don't see it.
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  And yeah, I'm sure if Parish had waited, I mean, hindsight's a wonderful thing, but I'm sure if it'll wait, he would have preferred Eddie Howe.
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  And for me, if we're not doing it in four, five, six games and we haven't got a victory and we haven't got any points, which is, you know, that's highly likely, I would make a change, I would make
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  a change.
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  If Eddie I was still available, I'd go and get him because this team needs some inspiration, it needs an arm around them, it needs some guidance.
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  It needs leadership badly needs leadership.
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  That's why I like using the team.
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  Yeah, it needs a spine and we don't have that at the moment, so yet I need to see more from size.
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  I, it's going to take me a long time to warm to him.
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  Took me a long time to warm to Glasner.
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  Most of that from me was because of the way the fans treated Hodgson, because I felt Roy Hudson did a great job for us.
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  He didn't have much money spent in, in the squad, in the team.
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  He always kept us in the division.
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  Nobody wasn't pretty.
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  But I don't care if we're pretty or not.
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  I just want us to stay in The Premier League.
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  And every time it looks like we're going to fall out of it, I start to get a little bit concerned because I'm a realistic person in support Palace.
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  I don't romanticize about what we're going to do and what we're not going to do.
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  I look at it and I think, you know what, we're not very good and we have to liven up.
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  And a lot of critics said that we'd go down this year.
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  I didn't think that that was possible for us to go down.
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  But when I see the way we performed in the second half against Everton and I can see the problems we're going to have of scoring goals, yeah, it is a possibility.
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  We're going to go down.
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  So, yeah, hopefully sir doesn't go.
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  Hopefully he stays.
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  I'm recording this on Sunday, so who knows what the news on Monday is going to bring.
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  Mateta, I don't really care if he goes.
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  I mean, for me I'd get the money for Mateta, I don't think he.
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  Well, first of all, he doesn't want to play for us, so that's not a good, good, good start, is it?
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  And second of all, when he does play for us, he misses golden chances.
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  Chances that a club like Crystal palace, especially away from home, cannot miss.
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  We have to take our chances away from home at least one in three and yesterday we missed four.
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  And that happened so many times last season.
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  It cannot keep happening.
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  It cannot keep happening.
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  So let's get Gozo in the squad.
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  Let's not romanticize about Franca as well because Franca, he's never going to be strong enough for the Premier League.
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  So forget about him.
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  He's not going to be good enough.
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  And let's see what happens against Man City on Friday.
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  Hopefully it'll be a better performance.
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  It's going to have to be a better performance because they'll turn us over heavily, heavily if we do not liven ourselves up.
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  So onwards and upwards.
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  Let's hope Sar stays.
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  Let's hope Gozo getting involved.
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  And Sage Sarge, whatever your name is, let's find a bit of fire in your belly somewhere.
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  A little bit of charisma, a little bit of inspiration where you can give people something to hold on to.
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  All right, all right, I'll speak to you soon.
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  And come on, you Palace.
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  Sa.