Aston Villa 1-0 Crystal Palace - 6 Things We Learned

3. Time For Those Signings

As written on these pages last week, Palace have been linked with at least thirteen players so far this window. Pretty much every one of these rumours were fanciful but the truth is, most of them stemmed from the very simple fact that Palace have no strikers that are scoring. With Benik Afobe and Lewis Grabban heading to Bournemouth, we can see that deals are happening so timing can't be an issue. Palace have had an injury crisis; have gone four games without a goal; four games without a win and have tough games against Manchester City and Spurs up next and yet; fourteen days into the transfer window Palace have signed no one.