Yep agree, he might be a Palace fan like us but that doesn't make him a good PL chairman. Most of us saw this coming, but not as quickly for sure! IMO he has only appointed 2 decent managers Pulis & Sam the rest well ..........

Apparently, the appointment of FdB was not Parish's choice alone - the 2 Americans also had input intothe selection and interview process. Might be a bit unfair to put all the blame on his shoulders alone, as it beggars the question were they overawed by the possibility of appointing a renown international manager?

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It wasn't about de Boer at all, it was about Cascarino, who I already thought was a bit of a bellend.

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Interesting. Birmingham only appointed Zola because of the pressure of US investors wanting a "big name" and got rid of an excellent manager in the process. Zola turned them into a total joke and nearly got them relegated.

Moral: if you get involved with American finance make it clear to the shareholders that they know f*** all about football in Europe and that people they think are "big names" very often turn out to be muppets, chancers, bellends and tosspots.

Hopefully de Boer will get his s*** together.

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I am amazed that people on here seek to criticise Parish after his record with us. He is categorically the best Chairman we've ever had, because he has the genuine interests of the club at heart - as all of us do.
Having said that this transfer window has been difficult and my suspicion is it is to do with salaries. We have a number of high salary players and we will break FFP rules if we bring too many high salary players in. I suspect that at the same time as Liverpool etc are pushing up the price of Sakho etc we are also finding it difficult to sell some the squad players we don't want such as Mutch, Bakary Sakho, Chungy etc. We may also be looking to sell off someone like Andros to free up wages, but are also trying to maximise his value.
This happened last summer when we got a lot of money for Bolasie which allowed us to buy Benteke. The problem is that all these things need to wait until the vinegar stroke of the transfer window until they happen.
Only two things will change this issue - transfer window closing before the season starts and/or the ground gets redeveloped and increases our income considerably which in turn will give us more funds in the transfer market. If you want to vent your frustration try Sainsbury's and the idiots on the planning committee of Croydon Council.
Have faith - we will get Sakho and a few others over the line in the next few days and then it will be down to whether FDB is a good hire or not. If not we will replace him in good time as we have done before, but FFS lay off Parish - he really is our biggest asset.

Sainsbury's do not owe CPFC a living. We sold the land to them and, if we've now decided we want to buy some of it back, we either pay what they're asking or come up with an alternative plan. As for Croydon Council,they have nothing to do with our lack of progress on the infrastructure. We haven't submitted anything to them for consideration, save for a new club shop and offices, which they approved, but we failed to build. We can't blame others for our own failures and the fact that we have nothing tangible to show in our fifth consecutive season in the PL.

Bexley Dave

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