"The January transfer window opens in two days. Can you give us any indication of your plans?"
"We're always looking to improve. The window is an opportunity. That's all I'll say."
"There are reports linking you with JJ Johnson at Brighton."
"I don't comment on speculation about players at other clubs."
"Danny, the Champions League. Your fans were singing about it after the Southampton match. Is it realistic?"
I paused. This was the question the whole room was waiting for. The question that every journalist in England wanted to ask the twenty-eight-year-old manager of Crystal Palace, who was sitting second in the Premier League and whose supporters had been singing about Barcelona at Selhurst Park on Boxing Day.
"I'm focused on the next match," I said. "Leicester at home. January the second. Everything else is a conversation for another day."
