Dom Fifield
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173 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
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And in the background to the toils on the pitch, because the knee injury definitely made him less of a player on the pitch, was the controversy around his contractual situation and the fact that he wasn't going to sign a new deal.
So he wanted out.
That came to a fore in January as well.
And, you know, had Palace lost Mateta and Gueye in January, even with the amount of money they did spend on Guesson, Strand-Larsen and Johnson, it would have felt very, very difficult for Palace to recover and to maintain the spirit that had got them to the FA Cup final and to success last season.
Yeah.
But, you know, when the move to Milan broke down, as Matt charted in a piece earlier this week in The Athletic, he knuckled down, he realised that the only way that he could make that France squad for the Summer's World Cup was by regaining his place in the team.
And he had a competition in Strand-Larsen ahead of him now.
And he got stuck in.
Once he'd rested the injury, they'd opted against surgery, they rested the injury and got him back in March time around the Larnaca game.
And we introduced him gradually initially.
And then we really saw the Jean-Philippe Miteta of last season, the player that was capable of moving around the pitch and causing defenders problems all over the place and scoring goals.
I mean...
His impact was key both in the Premier League and the Conference League.
You know, the goals he scored against Newcastle to turn around that win really guaranteed Palace's survival in the Premier League at that point because there had been relegation concerns.
I mean, you'll empathise with that, Matt, given Forrest's predicament at times this season, but...
For him to then turn it around completely and do what he's done in the Conference League, as well as convincing Didier Deschamps that he should go to the World Cup in France, even as the seventh place striker in a remarkable French squad, is testament to his work rate and the way that he's won people back over and rebuilt those bridges.
It's a remarkable story of redemption.
Like Glasner's.
And it adds to it all.
And it's intriguing to see what happens with it because everybody assumes he'll probably just leave in the summer to Milan again if somebody comes in for him.
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