They probably should have gone up last year after smashing brighton in the play-off semis but blew it in the final.
They only lost 2 games at home all season
They scored 66 goals (4th highest in the league)
Hooper & Forestieri scored more goals between them than our entire team managed last season. They have added Steven Fletcher & Alman Abdi (Played with Forestieri at watford) to that attack since then.
3rd favourites for the league? They are insane.
Hell we are 3rd favourites in a 3 horse race for Sundays game
Sheffield Wednesday 6/5
Draw 11/5
Aston Villa 12/5
When RDM was appointed he said Villa were like a house that needed to be knocked down and started over. We haven't even broken a window or kicked a door in yet, 2 or 3 in and out isn't anything like the wholesale changes needed and we still have just about all of the absolute crap from last year that got us here in the first place.
For those that hadn't noticed our season starts in 5 days and in trying to completely overhaul one of the worst teams ever to grace the premier league we have signed a young keeper who could be great or could be useless, a defender who was injured for nearly all of last year and a young midfielder who again was injured for most of last year.
Holloways prediction of 16th is a damned sight more realistic than the bookies 3rd.
It isn't very professional is it.
If it was a player posting the same you would expect an FA fine and the club to at least have a strong word with the individual.
2 nice kits from norwich & then they do this...
Norwich City unveiled their new third kit for the 2016/17 season this morning, inspired by one of the Canaries’ most iconic shirts.
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/norwich_city_reveal_third_kit_inspired_by_famous_1990s_strip_for_the_2016_17_championship_season_1_4627764
I suppose the one concern about leaving it late is the scheduling. We are no longer in the prem where teams usually only play 2-3 games in august so by the time the transfer window closes at the end of august we will have played 5 league games already and 11% of the season will be gone.
Said this earlier, The premier league is going to be a very different place if we are out of it for more than one season. This week alone Palace have bid 31.5mil for batshuayi, they missed out so bid 30 mil + for Benteke, In the meantime while they were waiting round for answers they have paid 13 mil for Andros Townsend & 10 Mil for James Tomkins, Oh & they have also bought Steve Mandanda the marseille ligue 1 goalkeeper of the year & french international just for good measure.
They are also supposedly in for Roberto Pererya from Juve..
This is Crystal Palace, They won 11 games last year & finished on 42 points, 3 places above relegation. So bad that even we managed to beat them.
100 mil+ for simply staying in the league makes spending 50-70 mil on players and another 20 or so on their wages seem like nothing
Guess that's partly why they signed Townsend, He would get some service next year with Zaha & Townsend whipping balls in to him and wouldn't be a bad bet to be in the top goalscorer running.
Given his position at Liverpool he would be crazy not to go for this.
Looks like palace are properly going for it next year, even bidding over 30 million for players.
If we don't get back up this year the premier league is going to be a very different place in a couple of years when even average mid-table sides are in a position to think nothing of spending 50 mil+ every window and going for players like Benteke
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