BTW can we have compensation from Mr Multiclub Textor for stealing Big Jake O’Brien who has starred for Lyon this season including a cup final goal. How on earth could we have sold one of the few final product success stories of the academy and Irish speculative buys for £1million. And why do we now need to spend £12 million for a similar kind of player to replace Guehi? So who benfits from multiclub directors?

The critique of multiclub model is the potential to asset strip as in the OBrien case if multiclub owners have the opportunity to influence decisions in favour of their other clubs. Lyon now have the gain in value that should have accrued to Palace after the two years in U21 squad and out on loan.

Yeah but it's straight out of the Textor playbook isn't it? Have a look at this, these are the transfers in and out for RWD Molenbeek (RWDM), Botafogo and Lyon, there's free transfers and loans all over the place between the clubs, in fact Palace has the lowest number with just Adaramola, Ebiowei and O'Brien ending up getting caught up in it all.

I agree that Parish should have done more to stop this and who knows why it was allowed, but this is the kind of thing I've always been worried about with this multi club ownership and the potential for asset stripping talent (especially from the academy) to whatever club is the favourite at the moment. Perhaps that was the plan for Textor? Use our world class academy talent to prop up his other clubs?

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The multi club model only works where the owners hold majority shareholdings.

I have no sympathy with Textor - he is in the position he put himself in. He probably took whatever deal he could so he could boast about his piece of a premier league club. It will have helped him raise investment for his other purchases. But its backfired in that he hasn't been allowed to do whatever he wants with Palace when its suits him.

I think we will be better off without him. He doesn't have money, its all smoke and mirrors sadly and no, Glasner is not his man. Oli turned him down at OL.

Parish isn't perfect but in this day and age its good to have someone in a position of influence who actually has some feeling for the club.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Textor quite probably did suggest Glasner - given that he needed new managers at all his clubs last year I would expect him to have done his homework particularly on available managers.

I think though that if Glasner was tied to Textor in any way he would be managing OL now not us.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

I have nothing to base this on other than a gut feeling but I think there may have been more behind the Jake O'Brien transfer than we were told. Maybe a favour returned but like I said I don't know.

When Textor joined I was really pleased. He made all the right noises. The reality has been a bit of a disappointment in my opinion.

Harris & Blitzer have spent a lot of time sniffing around other clubs (Chelsea, Liverpool, Man Utd that I have heard about but could be more).

Is it too much to hope they are now looking at Palace with fresh eyes and seeing that if we are backed a bit we could be a force next season?

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.