Florian Marange is not happy. And understandably so. For those who haven't been keeping abreast of this one,
the French defender was signed in the summer by Holloway, but was then promptly left out of their 25-man
squad, meaning he, erm, can't play in the Premier League. "I'm disgusted," Marange told L'Equipe. "If I had known this rule, I would have a clause in my contract. But my
advisor did not tell me and now I am told that it is almost my fault. "We lost [at Bristol City] but I was not at fault for the two goals. I have only had seven or eight training sessions.
How can you judge a player after 10 days?" "No one intended for it to happen that way," chairman Steve Parish told The Evening Standard this week. "We
are trying to sort it out as best we can. "We will resolve it. We are mindful of where we've not covered ourselves in glory and other people just maybe
need to be mindful of where they've not covered themselves in glory. If everyone is sensible, we'll reach a good
conclusion, I'm sure." Quite what that conclusion is we're not sure, but it does paint an image of a manager who, quite frankly, isn't
entirely clear what he's doing. At the very least it suggests a manager with a very muddled plan. To sign a player
with no intention of playing him is at best a dicey way to treat a person, at worst a manager who shambles
through life signing any mediocre forward that enters his peripheral vision without really bothering with the rest of
the side. This, one might say, is how much Holloway cares about signing defenders - even when he does, he
forgets they're there. Of course, if Palace somehow beat Manchester United this weekend, nobody will care...