Who says that our squad is good enough to stay up and we can always bring in a few from the academy?

Certainly not the club's manager who is really the only one qualified to make such claims as he has gone on record saying that the squad needs strengthening.

"Players are too expensive in January." This didn't stop the club from buying Schlupp, Van Aanholt and Milivojevic in January 2017 without whom we were likely to have been relegated and everyone knows that we desperately need a decent central midfielder now as we are one or two injuries away from disaster, partly as other clubs have been willing to pay current prices for players that they have deemed necessary to improve their squads.

He is a minority shareholder who, on his own, doesn't have a direct say in the direction of the club (though he can venture his opinion in board meetings and try to get other shareholders on his side). He IS an employee of the club put in his position by the majority shareholders. If the majority shareholders decided they wanted another CEO, Parish would be gone though as a minority owner, he would remain on the board of the club. Once again, in his role as CEO he is an EMPLOYEE of CPFC, reporting to the majority shareholders who control the board that hired him.

I think you will find that John Textor has openly made a number of public statements recently suggesting that in his view, the club should be more aggressive in its pursuit of players but acknowledging that as another minority shareholder, there is little he can do on his own to ensure that happens.

There is a difference between being cautious and sensible with money, and downright refusing to spend it. I agree that Parish would, left to his own devices (which is NOT the case) be a cautious chairman who would spend only carefully, but I also believe he is far more attuned to the realities of football than Harris and Blitzer and would far more quickly recognise where and when spending was needed. However, at present, as CEO of the club, his job is to enact the instruction the board gives him and no one who wants to keep his job publicly undermines his boss. So if Parish is told "you have no transfer budget" then whatever he personally thinks, he doesn't make a fuss and he doesn't buy any players. That's what good employees do.

Because when eleven players come off the books, their wages come off the books too and that frees up the sum of operating capital required to replace them. Suddenly you have a million pounds a week in salary (or whatever the sum of their wages is) in your budget that you're not spending anymore. You wait until summer because the summer transfer market is much more favourable to buyers than the January one, where generally you buy only in emergency (to avoid relegation or win something).

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

I'm not sure if you are serious or not but assuming that you are I changed the order of the seven points that you made as I only wanted to answer two of them and it made things easier

Sakho as well on loan. Does show that some loan signings in Jan can make a difference, Paul Stewart did as well some seasons back, as the rumblings from SP seem to indicate that is where we are presently, although they are the minority not the norm. 2 of those players, Schlupp and Luka (Sakho and PVA have both gone) perhaps shows the predicament we might be in at the moment, as I don't personally believe they should be here after 5 seasons, based on their recent performances, both in their 30's, and contributing little of note this season and showing their weaknesses at this level now. We are probably trying to get rid of the "dead wood" before we can relight the fire with the squad but finding it difficult due to inflated wages/longish contracts in the past etc. Somebody mentioned on another thread that Schlupp was on the same wage as Gallagher this season

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Edited by Booted Eagle (29 Jan 2023 8.30pm)

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