Full on Rococo, no expense spared

Do you script Roy's press conferences?
You've literally said nothing.

Roy finally changes the formation and brings Reidewald on and we start looking much more solid and win. It's taken far too long for that to happen, yet you've never said anything to justify Roy's choice of playing 3 holding midfielders for a year, which didn't work, and 4-4-2 for 6 months, which hasn't worked.

Yes fair enough but the win wasn't hugely convincing for me as you clearly viewed it and I feel you've jumped on it because the formation suited, but yes we did defend a lot better but this Wolves side were a lot less impressive then the one we've seen in the past, our manager is well known to be more cautious on and off the pitch with his players but having said that we have missed creativity pace and adventure and totally failed with our handling of Zaha by laying everything at his door, we have created a player who feels ha has to do everything because simply he does, the huge amount of frustration he must feel is and has done the damage to him we witness every single time he's hacked and tripped down, Eze or someone similar should've been introduced years ago, now our squad as a whole is basically completely knackered especially with the amount of games with little time to recover, but I do understand where you're coming from.

Roy is here to just get us by, I have never seen his task as one to re-build our squad and to be one that is seen to be playing in the way you say, that will be our next manger hopefully.

Or, going flat out with a lot of very committed people running the club giving it their all, defying economic gravity, having to regularly break records and make club history in order to 'just get by'.

Would be how I'd put it. But then I lack the requisite 'ambition' apparently.

Anyone who buys the club can't just throw their own money at it. Whatever Palace spend must be attributable to what it earns. What we earn is connected to TV money, player sales, gate receipts and commercial income.

Even if the world's richest man took over they'd end up following pretty much the same blueprint Parish has: Develop the academy and the stadium to boost revenue for the team. Even Abramovich can't just write a cheque to cover Chelsea loses anymore. The days of a rich individual bankrolling a club as happened at man City from 2008 are gone.

How so?

This from Forbes:

Chelsea recorded an after tax loss of £96m ($126.3m exchange rate 1.31) for 2018/19. This is a swing of £156m from the previous 12 months when the club generated a record profit of £60m.

From 2014 to 2018 the club essentially broke even with 3 profitable years vs. 2 loss producing years.

Chelsea spent a lot this past 12 months rebuilding their team, but that is them starting a new FFP phase - they won't be able to do it again for two or three years whilst they pay off this spending.

Forbes concludes:

Assuming that the balance of Turnover vs. wages and other operating costs remains around the same Chelsea has a good chance to return to a break-even position in 2020.