Benteke gets 13 times his wage a week! Only so long people in any walk of life put up with that, if Benteke had gone to China we could have made AWB an offer & he might have accepted it for another year. Once his head was turned best to let him go & hopefully use the funds to improve the team.

I can beat you by 20 years and I agree. When I first started supporting there was just the main stand and 3 terraces. You could walk from the Holmesdale to the "Sainsbury" end at halftime. We were a small club about to become a founder member of Division 4.

Since then it's been a roller coaster, but one which is now going up and shows no sign of plunging to the depths again. Someday we will slip into the Championship for a season or two. That's inevitable but the base we now have will enable us to recover. We may not yet be a big club but we are now one to be reckoned with. We are taken seriously and respected by others. To go from the bottom tier to being a regular member of the top one is quite an achievement. To do it without an infusion of unlimited funds from a super rich investor doubly so.

So those carping about what SP has overseen need to take a step back. You cannot please all the people all the time but this old supporter is pleased.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Yeah, lets get a billionaire in, no guarantee he'll invest anything other than the original stake though. No love for the club, we'd be no more than another investment, something to fill the w&*k bank with, "Oh, I own a Premier club".
Rather someone running the ship with genuine interest & a passion for the club as opposed to making a quick buck or looking Johnny big balls in front of the boardroom.

Having watched Palace since 73 I'll never forget how close we came to losing everything, to make light of the work that SP & Co did is ignorance, are you even Palace ?

Red & Blue since 73'

Bit childish to question if the bloke is a fan. He's entitled to his opinion.
I actually agree with him. Parish did save the club, So did the 3 other investors and Lloyds who agreed to do a deal on the freehold of Selhurst Park (you might need reminding CPFC2010 had no interest in saving the club unless they could get their hands on Selhurst).
Since then the club have done very well. You could say we have been lucky (to have been promoted so quick) and even luckier (to have stayed up and thrived). But Parish has made mistakes. Big ones. And he repeats those mistakes which is unforgivable in the unforgiving world of football/business. Are we not allowed to critise him because he was a quarter of an investment group that managed to purchase something very very cheap that had the potential to be worth ten times what they paid and is now worth probably 100 times what they paid.
Maybe there should be a time limit. Will it be alright to criticise him in say 10 years? or 100 maybe? or never?
You need to grow up mate. We are all flawed, all of us. You, me AND Steve Parish.

Your giving Parish no credit for the position we’re in which is our best ever, that’s just down to luck ? Yeah he’s made some mistakes, who doesn’t (I’m sure he’d probably do some things differently with the Benefit of hindsight). He’s the decision maker though and he doesn’t have the luxury of analysing from afar and offering opinions of how things could be done differently (like us fans). If your going to analyse his every mistake though you should also give credit where credits due. In my opinion if his stint as chairman was over today the history books would show him as our best ever chairman. I’m not saying people shouldn’t criticise him, nobody’s above criticism. I think it’s unfair though he’s criticised on every decision that doesn’t turn out to be for the best without balancing this with everything he gets right and my opinion he’s got far more right than wrong. like for instance getting the ground in the deal for the club which as Goldberg found out would’ve been a massive mistake not have insisted on this.

It was a gamble, regardless of what it cost them & what it may be worth today there wasn't anyone else breaking their necks to pull us out of the pit, yeah he's made mistakes but there's always a minority quick to throw him under the bus everytime someone with a few quid in their a*se pocket shows any interest.
We could be 'bigger', maybe with our own Mike Ashley or Arabic equivalent but at what cost, plenty of cash but unwilling to put any out in the transfer window.
We all want some level of success but not at the cost of boom & bust, I'll trade the misery of Goldberg & Jordan's occupation for the stability of Parish, even with his errors.

Red & Blue since 73'