Its insane. Jairo will be a far better player than ayew for the future. So short sighted.

It will be a shame if he goes, but we knew that we might have to move on one or two. Jairo is quite far down the list of players that we wouldn't want to lose.

With Meyer & Kouyate coming in how much was he likely to play this season?

Can I have his big shirt ?

Would this count as a marquee leaving? Or the leaving of a marquee sized shirt?

Massive mistake. I think he's a future star. Would rather Ayew stayed at Swansea. Can't we ever just get a rose without losing some of the bloom?

60k is plucked figure. He was at Ajax so was on nothing, why would we quadruple his wage. Complete BBS bs.

Agreed ...this is ridiculous...I like Jairo and had high hopes for him...showed up really well pre season.

Against very poor sides. You can't draw many conclusions from pre-season games. Mutch had at least one excellent pre-season for us. I would rather have Kouyte personally, and that is who is replacing him (not Ayew).

He may well come good but I'm not sure he suits us or the Premier League.

But it is Kouyate who is taking Jairo's place not Ayew.

I'd replace the word 'will' with 'could', which is why I think it's not a terrible move even though I'd prefer a loan switch.

This. Will and could are very different things.

Sounds like Jairo may not be keen on the move anyway so may need some persuasion either from Swansea or us.

Dont agree..he is younger than Williams..and only a year older that AWB
He's still learning his trade...
And if we could only have one I'd have JR over JW right now.

He isn't Edgar David's, and has shown little of improving, if Roy dosent think he is good enough than he is a better judge of player than we are so be it.

Should we be surprised if JR was to leave? he was a FDB signing that never quite caught the eye of Roy, who obviously has a greater knowledge of the player than we fans have seeing him first hand on a regular basis. It maybe that Jairo may make it, but the reality is he was never going to break into the First team any time soon and our needs are Now, so we have to be pleased that he is being used in an exchange deal for a very decent player that will add far more to Palace than JR would currently.

We should remember that Jairo came in as a CB and was pitiful.

He played once that doesn't tell us much. His last manager at Ajax seemed to think DM was his best position.

Actually I'm slightly concerned that some ITKs on here think Meyer is an AM and not a deep lying playmaker.

I think Roy would know better than most whether riedewald could improve enough

The crux .

If he's earning $40k per week, let alone $60k pw, he aint worth it. That is not young player wages that is senior squad member money