January Transfer Window 2026

[Brett Angell Delight]

I agree with a few exceptions. The teams that went into the championship or teams that have spent heavy for Europe but don’t look like they’ll be getting promoted/Europe next season need to start trimming the fat now.

Yeah, that's a good point. I guess there still has to be an element of marrying up those specific opportunities with what we need, though.

 

[jazzy]

When people say there is no value in Jan, this is exactly what they're talking about. I would have been up for us taking a ~£20m flyer at this lad in the Summer when they've gone down, but a team sells their main striker and is desperate to replace him and all of a sudden they're coughing up £50m??

Which begs the question as to why we are unable to get a half decent fee for Beto.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

They'd want that kind of money whenever they sell him, be it now or in July.

We just need to be far better at finding players before they reach Premier league level. There is value available in both windows if you are able to scout properly and then develop players. I dont think we do either particularly well.

Agree on the second point for sure.

On the first I maintain there's a Jan tax in there. I know footy maths is a mug's game, but just the very nature of Palace paying ~£10 more for JSL than they're getting for Mateta is bananas, and can surely only be borne of a *need* to replace him in the next few days. If this same scenario played out in the Summer once a) Wolves are down, and b) the market is in full flow, they don't pay much, if any more than £30m IMO.

All of which is why I make my peace with us doing our business in the Summer.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Which begs the question as to why we are unable to get a half decent fee for Beto.

I think our overall improvement in performance has worked against us, there. JSL is seen as the striker who would bang them in were it not for the restrictions of playing for an all-but-relegated team. Beto was well positioned to attract buyers after a purple patch last year, and then has looked so hopeless in a better team than last year, that said patch has been exposed for what it was.

 

[Lanolin]

Which begs the question as to why we are unable to get a half decent fee for Beto.

Because the money is in the PL, and nobody in the PL is going to buy Beto.

 

[Nymzee]

Makes Barry look very smart now

Or just shows how there is zero value in strikers these days

 

[Swartzy]

Our fan base are desperate though, because we see that our forward isn’t scoring loads & so the easy (and incorrect) solution is buying another one … but the issue is that we don’t support our striker enough/have runners that break the lines and go beyond the forward enough/vary how we get the ball into him enough/put a good cross in often enough.

No i'm happy with Barry, just i liked what i saw in Strand Larsen last season, and i cant hold this season against him..
A massive upgrade on Beto, and his 60m release clause has already dropped because of relegation worries.

I didn't realise it was 50m that he's going for now.

I think he would suit our play, but that is an expensive punt..

 

[Paul Rideout]

No i'm happy with Barry, just i liked what i saw in Strand Larsen last season, and i cant hold this season against him..
A massive upgrade on Beto, and his 60m release clause has already dropped because of relegation worries.

I didn't realise it was 50m that he's going for now.

I think he would suit our play, but that is an expensive punt..

Tbh you’d be an upgrade on Beto
but I totally agree with you both on him being a decent ish fit for us and also being hyper inflated price wise

 

[nevsonlymate]

Our fan base are desperate though, because we see that our forward isn’t scoring loads & so the easy (and incorrect) solution is buying another one … but the issue is that we don’t support our striker enough/have runners that break the lines and go beyond the forward enough/vary how we get the ball into him enough/put a good cross in often enough.

We also look at the 2 lads we have who cant play the system Moyes seems to set out to play well i think thats the plan as most of the time i have no idea/plan we have of whacking the ball up to the solitary forward to hold and bring players in to the game neither Barry or Betto are any good at this to weak and easily knocked off the ball, poor first touch etc but Pickford continues game after game to just hit it up the middle

 

[hoppy]

No way that striker from wolves is worth 50 million going to palace

 

[blackie_jones75]

why would you want to join Palace with all the turmoil going on around there? may as well sit it out ill summer for a better option

 

[MACCA75]

Agree on the second point for sure.

On the first I maintain there's a Jan tax in there. I know footy maths is a mug's game, but just the very nature of Palace paying ~£10 more for JSL than they're getting for Mateta is bananas, and can surely only be borne of a *need* to replace him in the next few days. If this same scenario played out in the Summer once a) Wolves are down, and b) the market is in full flow, they don't pay much, if any more than £30m IMO.

All of which is why I make my peace with us doing our business in the Summer.

Wolves turned down £50 million for the exact same player last summer though.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Wolves turned down £50 million for the exact same player last summer though.

Fast forward another year, with a year less left on his contract, a poor individual season behind him and the team in the Championship. I maintain he'd be £30m and maybe a bit of change if he went in the Summer.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

No way that striker from wolves is worth 50 million going to palace

He’s scored one goal this season, which by my crude maths makes Barry worth 250 million.

 

[davids]

Which begs the question as to why we are unable to get a half decent fee for Beto.

If Moyes doesn't have someone to replace him in mind that we could realistically get there's no chance he'll go.