Mile Jedinak - Released

[sickbeggar]

bit of a rip-off paying 4m for a 32 year old in the last year of his contract. Just hope he's not injury prone/past it

We need a short term fix or two to get us up! And £4m is a bargain for a player of his quality anyway.

if he's fit and his legs haven't gone yeah. looking at his career you wonder why he got to 27 only playing 200 games

Have you the right player? He is 32 and played almost 400 games. He was also virtually an ever present for two season for palace a couple of season ago and made 34 appearances last season.

If you are talking about before his England debut, you do realise they play less games in Australia?

Look at his record. half his games are since he signed for palace at 27. That bodes well i guess but he's the same age as Lescott was this time last year and he was shot to pieces when we bought him. I just hope we've not been mugged off again

Well given his age, just under half his games coming from the age of 27 is about right, better than only 10% of them.

Have you looked at his career?

Slow start before establishing himself with Sydney in Oz 82 Appearances in 6 years, most of which came in the last 2.
53 appearances in 3 seasons for Central Coast Mariners in the Aussie A-league
41 appearances in 3 seasons in Turkey
177 appearances in the last 5 seasons for Palace.

Hardly someone who's falling apart at the seams?

well yes, i was wondering 17 games a season is not many. Was he injured? Mebbe that's all they play? 13 a season in turkey? Again not picked or injured. He's obviously picked up at palace, it just worries me that there's not many 32+ year old midfielders in the premiership, a few more where we are but still. I realise the transfer market has gone banana's but 4m seems steep

I think it's a case of not picked. Particularly in Turkey it's not unheard for foreign signings to not settle / fall victim to 5 managers before Christmas syndrome.  Other than that he was building his career in Oz or playing the vast majority of Palace's games.

To be honest if he gets us promoted by playing an important role in 10 or 12 key games for us, then it's money well spent, even if his "minutes played" stats look shite.

well, yeah, if we get jedinak from his time at palace i don't think anyone will complain. If he's been shifted because he's shot his bolt, and they're cashing in, well........

[themossman]

Parker (there are other examples) showing that a player can boss games in the championship for a few years after they have shot their PL bolt.

[Matt Collins]

If there are many more teams like Rotherham I reckon we could have kept Stan after all!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

He'll be able to provide us with some force in midfield. Good mind games with the opposition too...

By all accounts his passing ain't great but to become such a cult hero at Palace he must have done something extra special.

I'm imagining he's going to become a very important player for us, just what we need to make a serious bid for automatic promotion. Nothing else matters.

[sickbeggar]

Parker (there are other examples) showing that a player can boss games in the championship for a few years after they have shot their PL bolt.

yeah there is, just not that many.  The problem is you just don't know if he'll do a job till 35 or that's it. Again Lescott,  praised all through his last season for the barcodes, totally gone legswise when he turned up here. They knew...

[LukeJames]

bit of a rip-off paying 4m for a 32 year old in the last year of his contract. Just hope he's not injury prone/past it

We need a short term fix or two to get us up! And £4m is a bargain for a player of his quality anyway.

if he's fit and his legs haven't gone yeah. looking at his career you wonder why he got to 27 only playing 200 games

Have you the right player? He is 32 and played almost 400 games. He was also virtually an ever present for two season for palace a couple of season ago and made 34 appearances last season.

If you are talking about before his England debut, you do realise they play less games in Australia?

Look at his record. half his games are since he signed for palace at 27. That bodes well i guess but he's the same age as Lescott was this time last year and he was shot to pieces when we bought him. I just hope we've not been mugged off again

Well given his age, just under half his games coming from the age of 27 is about right, better than only 10% of them.

Have you looked at his career?

Slow start before establishing himself with Sydney in Oz 82 Appearances in 6 years, most of which came in the last 2.
53 appearances in 3 seasons for Central Coast Mariners in the Aussie A-league
41 appearances in 3 seasons in Turkey
177 appearances in the last 5 seasons for Palace.

Hardly someone who's falling apart at the seams?

well yes, i was wondering 17 games a season is not many. Was he injured? Mebbe that's all they play? 13 a season in turkey? Again not picked or injured. He's obviously picked up at palace, it just worries me that there's not many 32+ year old midfielders in the premiership, a few more where we are but still. I realise the transfer market has gone banana's but 4m seems steep

I think it's a case of not picked. Particularly in Turkey it's not unheard for foreign signings to not settle / fall victim to 5 managers before Christmas syndrome.  Other than that he was building his career in Oz or playing the vast majority of Palace's games.

To be honest if he gets us promoted by playing an important role in 10 or 12 key games for us, then it's money well spent, even if his "minutes played" stats look shite.

well, yeah, if we get jedinak from his time at palace i don't think anyone will complain. If he's been shifted because he's shot his bolt, and they're cashing in, well........

Just go on there forum for 5 minutes, this is not a player that has 'shot his bolt', the majority want him to stay and are questioning Padews judgement.

[Toronto Villa]

What Palace fans loved about him is that he brought steel and a very determined lead by example attitude. I said we needed a  Tommy Elphick type player in the middle and Jedinak will be that player. Someone who will remind those around him to play with our heads held high.

[LukeJames]

I think he'll be our most important signing of the season, a big bastard in midfield with a great beard is what we've been missing, Aussies attitude, esoecially when it comes to sport, is usually spot on  too.

[Lastfootstamper]

Parker (there are other examples) showing that a player can boss games in the championship for a few years after they have shot their PL bolt.

yeah there is, just not that many.  The problem is you just don't know if he'll do a job till 35 or that's it. Again Lescott,  praised all through his last season for the barcodes, totally gone legswise when he turned up here. They knew...

True. That buy should act as a warning towards all over-30 purchases. However, it should also serve as a model for doing our research properly beforehand, which I'm much more confident is happening now as opposed to twelve months ago.

[SoccerHQ]

Bizarre to me how some aren't rating this signing.

Our midfield has been lightweight for years. In a funny way I think Jedinak will be our most important signing of the summer. It won't sell season tickets but we need a leader in midfield who won't get out muscled or overpowered like Westwood, Veretout, Gil all were last season.

And if we go up...he can revert to being a squad player so would give us decent strength in depth then.

[themossman]

True but think the biggest factor with lescott was that he didn't/doesn't give a shit, rather than the legs going. If jedinak has leadership qualities that should go a long way as we're still crying out for that in the middle.

[sickbeggar]

bit of a rip-off paying 4m for a 32 year old in the last year of his contract. Just hope he's not injury prone/past it

We need a short term fix or two to get us up! And £4m is a bargain for a player of his quality anyway.

if he's fit and his legs haven't gone yeah. looking at his career you wonder why he got to 27 only playing 200 games

Have you the right player? He is 32 and played almost 400 games. He was also virtually an ever present for two season for palace a couple of season ago and made 34 appearances last season.

If you are talking about before his England debut, you do realise they play less games in Australia?

Look at his record. half his games are since he signed for palace at 27. That bodes well i guess but he's the same age as Lescott was this time last year and he was shot to pieces when we bought him. I just hope we've not been mugged off again

Well given his age, just under half his games coming from the age of 27 is about right, better than only 10% of them.

Have you looked at his career?

Slow start before establishing himself with Sydney in Oz 82 Appearances in 6 years, most of which came in the last 2.
53 appearances in 3 seasons for Central Coast Mariners in the Aussie A-league
41 appearances in 3 seasons in Turkey
177 appearances in the last 5 seasons for Palace.

Hardly someone who's falling apart at the seams?

well yes, i was wondering 17 games a season is not many. Was he injured? Mebbe that's all they play? 13 a season in turkey? Again not picked or injured. He's obviously picked up at palace, it just worries me that there's not many 32+ year old midfielders in the premiership, a few more where we are but still. I realise the transfer market has gone banana's but 4m seems steep

I think it's a case of not picked. Particularly in Turkey it's not unheard for foreign signings to not settle / fall victim to 5 managers before Christmas syndrome.  Other than that he was building his career in Oz or playing the vast majority of Palace's games.

To be honest if he gets us promoted by playing an important role in 10 or 12 key games for us, then it's money well spent, even if his "minutes played" stats look shite.

well, yeah, if we get jedinak from his time at palace i don't think anyone will complain. If he's been shifted because he's shot his bolt, and they're cashing in, well........

Just go on there forum for 5 minutes, this is not a player that has 'shot his bolt', the majority want him to stay and are questioning Padews judgement.

meh fans are fans. if he'd done well for them last season of course you want to keep him. Doesn't mean the manager hasn't seen his come back in pre-season training blowing a bit and decided to move him on. If it was up to the fans lescott would have been shit for the barcodes last season instead of us

[themossman]

I think I'll put pardew's judgment at around the same level as that of palace fans on message boards and watch jedinak play a few games for us before I decide if this is a good deal.

[PeterWithesShin]

I remember Liam_baggies saying on here when we signed Lescott that his legs were going.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

True but think the biggest factor with lescott was that he didn't/doesn't give a shit, rather than the legs going.

I think the opposite. He knew he was shit and nothing could change it. Jedinak is neither shit nor have his legs gone. We may need to sub him on 75 minutes to save his legs with so many games this season but what important 75 minutes those will be.

The other really important thing for me is what a brilliant mentor he will be for our younger players. He could be the making of Tshibola.