Samba to Palace

Say no more

 

Totally incredible that we somehow got our money back on him,

I suspect that both sides of that deal with us was some sort of money laundering thing.

Rumour: Crystal Palace take Chris Samba on trial
By Jeorge Bird

Posted on January 24, 2017

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Crystal Palace have taken Chris Samba on trial as manager Sam Allardyce seeks to improve his side’s defence.

Allardyce is hugely familiar with Samba, with the pair having worked together at Blackburn Rovers.

Samba, a powerful presence at the heart of the defence, is a free agent having had his contract with Panathinaikos terminated by mutual consent last week after he had struggled with injuries, as reported by the Guardian.


Allardyce is determined to preserve Palace’s Premier League status but recognises that his side have to defend far more effectively if they are to survive. Palace are currently languishing in 18th place in the table having conceded 41 goals.

http://www.squawka.com/news/report-crystal-palace-take-chris-samba-on-trial/886424

 

Never forget Fulham away, horrendous performance.

 

Horrific wasn't it!

 

Yes ccj

 

Oh joy. You can all go to Selhurst Park again. They're down. Then again he might be fit this time. It's Big Sam after all not Harry Redknapp who is splashing the owners money.

 

The stuff of footballing nightmares. I sat open mouthed at our abject capitulation.

 

He must be so big now that they'll just put him on the goal line to fill the goal......

Nice to see some other club spending recklessly......Hopefully they'll have the same result as we did......

 

The biggest disappointment EVER to pull on a Rangers shirt. (And god knows, we've had a few)

 

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One of life's great mysteries,whatever happened to him when he went to Russia. Before he left I thought he was one of the best centre-halves in the world. When he came to us I thought we'd pulled off a massive coup,unfortunately he had become a complete liability and looked a completely different player. Strange that we bought both him and Hoilett from Blackburn,and neither of them truly fired for us. Something definetly happened to Samba in Russia that affected him badly !

 

I don't know which was the bigger surprise - how monumentally crap he was for us (he was brilliant for Blackburn) or the fact that we managed to get back about as much as we paid for him (is he our record transfer in both directions or have I made it up)?

 

No your correct I think. They paid the exact same amount to get him back,amid lunatic spending by them. I'm pretty sure they went into administration or something similar,just a week or so after they bought him !

 

I read articles indicating that he was racially abused in Russia, and when he came to us it was their off season so he hadn't trained for a couple of months, and totally unfit when thrust in at the deep end, so really not surprising how poorly he performed for us.

 

He's probably about 35 (not officially). Big fat Sam's setting them up for a big fat relegation at this rate. Hopefully Zaha will go and then they really are ****ed.

 

He still looks very big...or to put it another way....out of condition.
This is just laughable....Fat Sam is having a laugh. You cannot bring in an out of conditions player in the January window and expect him to immediately take control of the defence and sort it out.... There is actually very little time left to get it right....

If I was a Palace fan I would be calling for his head

 

Isn't he just there on trial? Presumably to find out if he is ok and near fit or not. If he's not and his trial finishes with no deal with him, Palace fans won't have a worry, on him anyway.

 

Didn't we lose half a million

 

Not quite Stainesy. Not quite.

That accolade falls to the one & only "now we've got Vic Mobley, we're gonna win the league"!

Back to Samba, I was always told by the few Blackburn fans I know, that he wasn't very good for them defensively. Brilliant in the attacking penalty area though. They all said that Ryan Nelsen nursed him through every game & covered for him all the time.

Easy for me to believe having seen both in a Rangers shirt!

 

Amazing that in 4 out of 6 games against Fulham we managed to be 3-0 down at half time; both teams probably changing personnel completely for each of those games. However, that game with Samba was particularly dreadful for defending (two Bob Malcolms, and two Gus Ceasars at the back), as opposed to Fulham inexplicably turning into Brazil 1970 like they did for the other games.