Don't think that is true.
Wharton was apparently 18m upfront.
Mac Allister was around 7.6 upfront, Caicedo around 4 and Buonanotte around 6, so Wharton's fee pretty much matches those three.
Barco was around 7.8m.
(This ignores sums to the original selling club that became payable once we...
Here's another video you'll find of interest:-
By the way, when will the Crystal Palace academy start teaching their defenders how to defend properly? :shrug:
Fun fact: Rak Sakyi was in the youth system at Chelsea, but wasn't offered a scholarship. He trialed with Albion and actually scored in the U-18 PL South meeting with Reading in February 2019.
Presumably we didn't offer him a deal; he moved on and trialed for Watford, and eventually earned a...
I think there is a very good reason Palace needed to sign a new crop of U-23s :)
From the same announcement on their website detailing the signing of eight U-18s:-
Risky? :shrug:
As signings go, it was probably one of the least risky signings in the history of the Premier League. Lampard was extremely keen for Lamptey to sign a new deal (which is almost certainly why he gave Lamptey his PL debut just a month before he left, along with two FA Cup...
The Free Transfer List is a list of players who are out of contract and who haven't been offered a new deal. Of course, the club could subsequently change its mind and offer that player a deal after all, at some later date, but what sort of a tinpot outfit would do that?
Welbeck isn't on the...