Mark Langdon

So, I mean, I understand Glasner's frustration, but I think as a club,

I think Palace might irk the supporters, but I think just looking from the outside, I think it's a really good way to run a club.

And you can show players from the EFL, somebody like Adam Wharton, come in, we will play you and we won't stand in your way when a really big club comes in.

We won't make it too difficult.

And I think that that actually then encourages players.

the next wave of player to kind of use Palace as a stepping stone.

Now that might not be the perfect solution for, for those that go to sell us every week, but I think it is, it's probably the best way to run a club at that level.

It's definitely... The Europa League and Conference League would have suffered in terms of quality by the Champions League teams and Europa League teams not dropping down a level.

And while I think that is absolutely right, because it would always annoy me when your Champions League team would suddenly get...

um you know a second chance if you think about the kind of teams that missed out on what would have been like say the top 16 as it was previously like Aston Villa would have had a tougher run and then even in terms of the Europa League like into the conference league that would have been harder as well

I think it's difficult to manage.

The Premier League is just the strongest and wealthiest league at the moment.

It doesn't mean it'll always be the case.

When everybody used to love Italian football back in the Gazetta days, Italian football was dominant and they would spend just sums that just felt mind-boggling to English supporters back then.

So you do go in cycles.

It is getting to dangerous levels of dominance, I think, that the stat that you brought out.

But I also think that next season, I was just having a look, it feels to me like the right teams are in the right competitions almost next season.

So you've got somebody like Atalanta in the Conference League.

That will be a tough test for Brighton.

And I'm sure Ed will say the Conference League doesn't matter anymore now that Brighton could win it.