If you insert release clauses into players’ contracts I suppose you can’t complain too much if they ‘escape.’
I wonder if there are similar clauses for some of our other better players?
It is difficult to put a positive spin on this.
Palace have apparently been blindsided by Zaha’s potential departure and opposing clubs will be less fearful facing e.g Ayew and Gray in the wide positions as opposed to Zaha and Olise.
We already struggle offensively in terms of our strikers so these departures certainly wouldn’t help.
I also think the departures of such key players would have an unsettling effect on the rest of the squad.
I’m old enough to remember er the Team of the 80s fall apart and also the effect of Ian Wright’s departure.

It was widely reported last year that he signed a longer and more lucrative deal with us. Part of the terms which he agreed was the scrapping of the £35m buy out clause.

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Olise himself is a former Chelsea youth team player.

If he goes then I'll be disappointed in him. He's young enough to wait for a bit longer for a big money move, while continuing to get regular first team football with Palace.

Joining the mercenaries at Chelsea might be tempting financially but he'll struggle for game time there.

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Will be very disappointed if he goes, more so than Zaha leaving, but will teach us a lesson about adding in ridiculous release clauses.

For what it's worth, there was an article a few months ago linking him to Arsenal that claimed at the time that he was intending to stay with us for another season at least to continue his development.

Of course that could be bollocks or he might have changed his mind, however you'd hope we could convince him to stay for another year with a guarantee that we sell him next summer, giving us enough time to get Rak-Sakyi more experience.

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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

By '' big money '' in that context I was referring to the transfer fee.

Actually I thought that the release clause was increased after Olise signed a new contract a few months ago ?

I guess it's similar to MacAllister leaving Brighton for a fee well below his market worth.

From a player perspective ( and perhaps a supporter one too ), Palace are displaying all of the signs of a club with no more ambition other than to stay in the EPL. While some fans accept this, which I largely do, that's fine. But some of the more ambitious players in the squad will be questioning if they could do better than that, Olise being one of them.

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