But the rub is, who told you? was it the postman or someone in the know

You would think so looking at our results would you not

Supported Palace for over 69 years since the age of 7 and have seen all the ups and downs and will probably see many more ups and downs before I go up to the big football club in the sky.

I agree with a lot of this.

Pulis and Allardyce are the kind of managers to bankrupt a club if their chairman doesn't say no. They both had significant investment by our standards. In fairness to both managers the players they got in proved largely to be good value. In fairness to the club, they simply could not find a great deal more money once that initial investment was made.

The figures for CPFC at companies house were very helpfully reproduced somewhere on this board in the last few days and they show that Parish has given our managers everything the club can afford, plus a fair bit more in loans from the shareholders on top. A lot of that money went on big investment signings like benteke and sakho, whilst the loans went on reinforcements in the January after allardyce arrived.

The deals we've done will often be paid for in instalments for three or four years after, and so if Hodgson doesn't get the same squad investment as some of his predecessors it'll be because the club has done its load already, and the outcome of that investment is what we see running around out there keeping us in the league, which they have done so far. Some people seem to feel cpfc is failing if they don't invest significant sums every transfer window, but that's not how it works for clubs like us.

When man city buy a player they can afford for it to not work out. They did 42 million on Mangala (before wages) and decided he wasn't for them. When we spend a notable amount on someone it's got to work out. Cabeye, Townsend, Benteke etc have all had long periods of being underwhelming, but they are a bit like that old advert that said a dog is not just for Christmas, it's for life; We have no choice but to see our initial commitment to these signings through to conclusion.

There will be periods when the squad plainly would benefit from a high quality signing or two, but there simply isn't a deal out there we can afford for a player we want and who wants to come to us.

It might be that Hodgson is going to have to solider on with what we've got, because what we've got is what we spent all the money on already.

Edited by TheBigToePunt (28 Jul 2019 7.53pm)

Edited by TheBigToePunt (28 Jul 2019 8.01pm)

Looks like Roy is saying the same things as the fans about lack of transfer activity. It also seems AWB leaving has created a bigger problem than we thought. To not have a half decent replacement for him will come back to bite us in the arse big time..

Getting some rays.

Don't agree with that both are experienced managers in this league so know what it takes and we had a Championship squad.

Pullis did a great job with what he had to work with.

Had Big Sam not pushed for those Jan signings we would of been relegated it's that simple.

Why should you need people that care about the club you don't it's the same with any job you are their to do that job and get paid for it.

Again same as any job you advance that is how it should be you are just presuming they would spend lots of money and leave the club in trouble which is false and shows you know nothing about both those men they are not Harry. This is also towards TheBigToePunt comment.

Roy isn't asking for anything you can tell the manner he has he doesn't want to be involved in this stuff so he just will let the likes of Dougie go out and then tell Roy whats on offer this for me is wrong Roy should be more hands on this is what Pullis and Big Sam was doing which I don't think SP liked that he wants bargain basement people.

We have needed many players for years even last year we was all saying much bring in 5-6 did we no the season before 4-5 no again this is why the squad is so short of talent.

Wilf wont go without something being sorted even if it's loan deal for someone still plenty of time to go we always do business last two days of the window so we should all just wait until then.

Some one mentioned some lower league teams bringing in lot of players well yes Northampton do this all the time that place relies on loans and players going they bring players in its stepping stone and very toxic place.

Edited by grumpymort (28 Jul 2019 10.28pm)

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