Parish went on hol radio to say we were losing and going to keep losing £5 mil per year as a championship club but he was going to cover that with player sales.

To begin with there was Nathaniel Clyne, Ambrose and Scannell sold to almost cover one year and then Zaha covered just over 2 years. That’s very normal and sensible football and business management. Please tell me how it isn’t.

Zaha likely to go at the end of that season at the probable latest was why there was pressure on Freedman from Parish and co in the Bristol car park. We brought in cheaper players like Bolasie and Murray and Jedinak and Delaney and Moritz and used Garvan as a quarterback in a league he could handle the pace.

Again, tell me what is so bad about that compared to the many players Jordan signed in the championship for the usual £1 mil. Paul Ifill and Nick Carle stick out and Alan Lee at £750k or 800 wasn’t that good either.

Jordan made the mistake of not investing enough in the prem and instead throwing more and more money at promotion in the championship although the Cahill transfer we were used as a pawn and Dean Ashton took Dario Gradi’s advice and chose Norwich over us and arguably would’ve stayed up with us so Jordan was a little unlucky although we did rely on one trick or two with AJ. His injury the following season, a poor 1st leg vs Watford and a young Ashley Young was exactly when it started to go belly up with chucking money about he should’ve held back on to wait until it was worth it.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (01 Jun 2018 2.06pm)

I seem to remember him having a few issues with Agents fees. I got the feeling that he would have spent more money had he not been so (and rightly so) incensed at their greed.

I guess haters are always gonna hate and nothing anyone says here or anywhere else will ever change that.

For me it's quite simple, Palace were screwed by successive owners/chairmen and had SP & CPFC2010 not stepped in we probably wouldn't have a club to support.

Given the mess we were in and where we find ourselves now, SP et al deserve some credit rather than continual slagging off.

Palace are now one of the best run clubs in the country and I for one am a keen SP supporter. SJ on the other hand can jog on.

define 'best run' and how we qualify as being one of them?

I personally think we waste money in some areas and penny pinch where more should be spent in others. We leave transfers till the last possible moment to save on wages, which is fine if it wasn't for the fact that we often miss out to clubs that are willing to get their business done early. I think our wage bill is too high (6th highest in England?)

yet we often baulk at fees quoted for players that other clubs our size would pay in a heartbeat to get the deal done. The Benteke deal was pretty much on the insistence of the Americans. SP himself admitted he wouldn't have paid it.

I have not a lot against SP personally but a well run club we are not. Definitely room for improvement imo.