I do not believe we will be spending any serious money this year or next either on players or the new stand .Covid is the perfect excuse for owners who despite being exceedingly wealthy both individually and corporately are reportedly known in the States to be one of the most frugal in the NBA and were when they bought 60% of our shareholders shares for approx £60 m with the deal as reported being for them to loan back that money to the club to help finance the build of the standThat could well be why we have no stand and ongoing “issues” of 106 agreements with the council and difficulties in buying car park off Sainsbury’s etc etc
Unlike other premiership smaller clubs whose Chairman and directors are unpaid our chairman appears from our accounts to have a salary of £2.5 million plus 1mill bonus for staying up plus other possible related commercial agreements for head office property and marketing etc.A lot of money over 8 years of premiership life!
Who is going to buy the club with these expenses,a stand to be built and an ageing squad to rebuild when our owners would in press reports value the club north of £200 million.?Despite our catchment area for young players and existing fan base etc there will be plenty of other more cost effective clubs available post COVID for very wealthy owners to purchase.If we remain with our existing shareholders who do not want to invest their own money and indeed take out what they can we will almost certainly be relegated despite the sterling efforts of the last 8 years to cling on.The academy will not produce stars to sell quickly enough to stop this inevitable process.Of course this is only an opinion but if you look at our recent transfer windows despite selling Wan Bissaka it could unfortunately be the truth of the matter.

The main reason why Palace is unsaleable is that Parish wants to hang on to a minority shareholding and continue to run the club and anyone that is willing to fork out a couple of hundred million will want total control

I have said for ages now we need investment and this lack of will be our downfall I am sorry to say. Previous bad windows have now left us with little or no money. Great shame for a club with our potential, a lot of promises and no end product!!

The gate painting would be written off in one year. It’s not a capital asset.

I always struggled with girls, it’s a mystery why.

i agree SP has let wages, including his own, get too high. Most 1st teamers are now on £60k plus per week and we know top 4 are on over £100k. If all 20 came down by an average of £10k less per week that's £200k a week saving and £10m per year.

These wages would still be very competitive at £10k less a week e.g. Jimmy Mac on £50k per week rather than £60k etc

I think the issue is that our strategy has been to sign experienced PL players and these carry higher wages. Other clubs of our size have with varying degrees of success signed foreign on lower league players who they can tie down on smaller contracts. 8 years in the PL has shown that however much we might complain our strategy has worked so far, with that experience coming in handy at key moments.

If we were to sell Sakho, Bentenke and Wilf then that would make a huge dent in our wage bill, providing we don't sign new players on similarly high wages.

The one thing that Roy repeatedly stated was that the club are looking to invest in youth, and that in theory should help to bring down the wage bill while also having the potential to create more saleable assets (I don't like talking about players in this way, but as this is a "business" thread).