Or he could go to Brighton, sit in a new stadium, watching great football, In a European home tie against ajax and talk to their fans about ambitions and priorities.

Plus Gillingham owners don't mouth off about the huge income and sponsorship deals you can generate being a London club or the huge catchment area and being a sleeping giant.

Edited by rikz (02 Sep 2023 6.42am)

or he could be the best thing since sliced bread your glass is always half empty never half full , we needed GK and CH we also got midfield attacking player

With our squad so lacking in players what is your opinion of where we will finish in the league?

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

Let's see now...Mike Ashley said in 2021 ''I am just not wealthy enough to own Newcastle," said Ashley two years ago. "I genuinely believe you need £1bn. People say £500m but I'd bet anyone that these days you can't do it for that. Not to compete at the very top."

In July last year it was reported that Ashley is the 59th wealthiest person in the UK with an estimated fortune of just short of £3 billion.

Karl Oyston and his father Owen, were both found guilty of asset stripping Blackpool FC while in the Premier League in 2010/11.

Your comparison of those people to Steve Parish is risible.

Parish doesn't get everything right, but he doesn't get too much wrong.

Critisise him all you like, I'm not trying to change your mind, but your post is wide of the mark.

Old, Ungifted and White

The full back situation has already been debated at length. But, to reiterate, when you have a budget you have to assess and prioritise how you spend it. You and I may see the full back positions as in desperate need of an upgrade, but clearly Palace don't.

I'm not going to pretend that I foresaw major expenditure on another goalkeeper, but given Guaitas departure, we needed another senior player in that position.

Lerma is already proving to look like a shrewd signing.

Holding is an upgrade on Tompkins as cover at centre back.

I'm as disappointed as anyone that we didn't land a striker. Ekitike apparently wanted to come but PSG only wanted to sell and not loan. So the question is could we have used the Henderson money to pay for Ekitike....I think that money had already been committed on the assumption that we could get Ekitike on loan - who knows ?

On a positive note, we still have Franca to come into the equation and Olise. And we didn't lose ( as I thought we surely would ) one of our major playing assets.

Old, Ungifted and White

Who is "Palace" I wonder. Is it the manager who was quoted as saying that he needed several more players or did the chairman decide what was needed and the priorities.

But we still have Tompkins and even extended his contract. Do we really need five central defenders?

It was known for a while that PSG wouldn't loan Ekitike but would only sell him to avoid problems with FFP and why were we negotiating a loan with the player without speaking to his club as that's exactly what we were complaining about Chelsea doing with Olise