Crystal Palace news: Opinion – Fan scorecard on 2024-25 season

Season rating: 10/10. Winning the FA Cup felt like an unattainable, lifelong goal for fans, and the team delivered that. That would have overridden any failures in the league, but the squad rallied well to finish the season.

Happy with your manager? Absolutely. The FA Cup win alone makes Oliver Glasner one of the greatest managers in the club’s history. The squad’s mentality has shifted from survival first to the pursuit of success, and it is clear that he wants more.

The 12th-place finish in the league, despite a club record points tally, was still below his standards, courtesy of the slow start. A big summer is ahead, and there is a sense that Glasner can take this team as far as the board is willing or able to back him in the transfer market.

Unsung hero: Chris Richards. Nobody expected Trevoh Chalobah’s loan to be terminated early so that he could return to Chelsea in January. This could have been unsettling to the team but, if anything, the back trio has been more resilient since Richards took over the right centre-back role.

Player you would most like to sign: Logical hat on, attempting to get Ben Chilwell back on loan would simplify the summer’s transfer tasks.

With European competition ahead for Palace, they desperately need wing-back depth. Tyrick Mitchell and Daniel Munoz played over 40 matches, which feels like an unsustainable workload. Chilwell is already settled into the squad and system. Signing him permanently would be beyond the club’s finances, but Chelsea will still seek to offload him in any form.

Right now, my overriding emotion from the season is: There is still a sense of shock and disbelief about how this season ended. Winning the cup, the parade at Selhurst Park, the prospect of European games. It feels alien, but it is something we could get used to.

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