There are reports this morning that Jim Ratcliffe has identified Freedman as the person he wants at Manchester United to shake up their recruitment policy.
I have no idea how true this is, and doubt Freedman would have the level of control and influence at United as he has at Palace.
However, if the story is true he may be tempted by the financial package on offer and I aIso think he still has a family house in the area.
I believe Parish leans heavily on Freedman on the football side of the administration of the club so it would clearly leave a void if he was to join United.

This would be a no brainer for Dougie surely? If true, it could set our recruitment back big time. Hope Stevie boy has a contingency

Of course he has, out on road trips with Roy to watch conference league games just like the good old days of Noades and Sir Steve.

Go and pinch a couple of the techno boys from Brighton or Brentford. Or start developing our own.

The way the club is structured all football matters report through to Freedman.
He's not responsible for the first team or control of the purse strings, but he does have reponsibilty for scouting, recruitment and the youth and reserve set ups.
He's worked hand in hand with the likes of Issott, Powell and McCarthy for a while.
He was instrumental in building the promotion team (think Bolassie, Murray, Jedinak, Delaney,KG,Ward) and has been key to bringing in Guehi, Anderson, Eze and Olise in the current setup.
I wouldn't underestimate his role and the void he would leave should he depart.
Ashworth performed a similar role at Brighton and they have managed to continue seamlessly despite his departure for Newcastle.
However, I'm less confident that we would be able to emulate this as we don't have a great record on succession planning.

I'm not really seeing the problem. Good luck.

Red and Blue Army!