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title: "Crystal Palace: Fans react as Benteke and Wickham could leave in January"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/crystal-palace-fans-react-as-benteke-and-wickham-could-leave-in-january/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Luke Seychell"
section: "Crystal Palace"
published: "2020-11-03T08:21:19Z"
modified: "2020-11-03T08:21:19Z"
---

# Crystal Palace: Fans react as Benteke and Wickham could leave in January

**Crystal Palace have a big squad, and as such, two forwards currently aren’t getting a look in – Christian Benteke and Connor Wickham.**

This is due to the fact that Wilfried Zaha is in [great form](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/wilfried-zaha/profil/spieler/145988) and it looks like Roy Hodgson prefers [Michy Batshuayi](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/michy-batshuayi/profil/spieler/179184) to the duo.

Benteke scored 17 goals in his first season for the Eagles [(Transfermarkt)](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/christian-benteke/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/50201/verein/873) but has struggled ever since and only managed six goals in the following three campaigns.

Meanwhile, Wichkam’s biggest issue is his injuries. He has eleven goals for the South London side but he has missed[96](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/connor-wickham/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/95435/verein/873) games in total due to injury, with a cruciate ligament rupture causing him to miss 470 days of football at one point ([Transfermarkt).](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/connor-wickham/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/95435/verein/873)

[The Sun](https://www.thesun.co.uk/) are reporting (via [@cpfc\_xtra)](https://twitter.com/cpfc_xtra/status/1323310280286343174?s=20) that both players could leave Crystal Palace in the New Year despite recently signing new contracts at Selhurst Park.

### Here is how fans are reacting to this Palace news:

https://twitter.com/cpfc\_xtra/status/1323310280286343174?s=20

> Nah keep benteke, get rid of paper thin wickham
>
> — General Tomkins (@cpfc\_sean) [November 2, 2020](https://twitter.com/cpfc_sean/status/1323322749650087937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Who will score all of our goals now?
>
> — Adam (@Adam\_Palace) [November 2, 2020](https://twitter.com/Adam_Palace/status/1323310372116451335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Ok bye cheers for 1 good season chris Connor thanks for scoring against Watford at Wembley in 2016
>
> — Joe Knight (@CPFCknighty) [November 2, 2020](https://twitter.com/CPFCknighty/status/1323311942082138113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Great it will reduce the payroll and we have some youngsters coming through who can take their place we do not need to replace them
>
> — Amul Naik (@NaikAmul) [November 2, 2020](https://twitter.com/NaikAmul/status/1323312900354777093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> There’s goals in them two, I’m certain of it 🧐
>
> — Danny Collins (@collind6) [November 2, 2020](https://twitter.com/collind6/status/1323327529797750784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> About time
>
> — Osian Davis ➐ 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@osian\_davis) [November 2, 2020](https://twitter.com/osian_davis/status/1323310364772175878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

***In other Palace news, have a read of a bizarre statistic about the club which fans aren’t happy with [here](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/crystal-palace-news/crystal-palace-fans-react-to-crazy-stat-about-the-club-since-hodgson-took-over/)!***