Was sat opposite Dougie Freeman on the train to Piccadilly after the game on Saturday. He said he’s a Sporting Director at Palace now and involved in their recruitment and was at the Forest Swansea game. He was very knowledgeable about our squad and didn’t fall for my dangling of the carrot of Tyler Walker!
Freeman mentioned Gyokeres by name, and that he was on several clubs lists. He didnt seem that bothered about Hamer and said there’s plenty of that role of player out there. Said that Palace have a transfer pact with several other PL clubs (only naming Villa saying it happened with Ollie Watkins) where they won’t bid against eachother on agreed players and he will have to see how Gyok fits into that.
Eitherway it left me with the impression that Gyokeres is the one that clubs are really interested in, not COH or Hamer. I really hope we can keep him.