I am very envious of Leicester. They have a modern ground and very wealthy owners who love football and are not there to make money unlike our owners who dont seem interested in 'soccer' at all and are now looking for a way out because the Prem was not the goldmine they thought it was

Stoke 10 years

In the whole scheme of things this is pocket money for them and we would be self sustaining if we invested in decent youngsters which we could sell on when needs be, instead of journeymen at the ends of their careers. They just have no interest it seems in investing in a sport and a league system they don’t understand.

This is now a simple equation IMO - if we lose tomorrow and the performance is as bad as it has been over the last few games there's no hiding place - Roy has to go..!!

Tomorrow is D Day for me.

Before I say anything else, Plaistow, I should make it clear that I'm NOT in the Roy must remain brigade. I am one of those who hope he'll be going at the end of the season or earlier if:
1) he wants to leave before then and
2) we are safe from relegation (or relatively safe) and
3) Parish's preferred replacement is available

With the injury crisis we currently have (nearly half our first choice 11 unavailable), there's unlikely to be a replacement manager the club can call on who is going to make any difference to our results in the coming few games if things go badly tomorrow night. Any such replacement will still have to work with the same depleted squad with its limitations.

The players are saying that they haven't performed and must do better, so let's give them the chance tomorrow to show they can do better. If we can avoid defeat then that will be a decent result.

The only director salary shown in the accounts is for Parish. The Americans don't seem to take a salary. Parish is well paid, earning between £1.5m and £2.9m each season, though an interesting note in the accounts says that anything he gets paid above his base salary goes to the academy. Not sure what his base salary is, or why he's giving what must be very large chucks of his own money to the academy, but apparently he is. He stuck his own money in to buy the club 11 years ago, and so would have made money selling shares to the Americans of course, but it seems he might have given as much or more to the academy somehow, though the figures are not clear. Not sure why he doesn't just pay himself less and give the money to the academy directly.

The world wide web reckons that..

Overall ownership is Steve Parish 18%, Steve Browett 5%, Jeremy Hosking 5% and Martin Long 2.5% with the remainder being owned by Palace Holdco LP (a limited partnership registered in Delaware) 67.5% and Palace Parallel LLC (a company also registered in Delaware) 1.5%.

Both Palace Holdco and Palace Parallel have 180 preference shares each. As the Delaware companies do not have to reveal their owners the exact ownership of the club is therefore unknown but Steve Parish confirmed that each of Harris and Blitzer had an 18% share to match his own.

Palace borrowed a f*** load of money to try and pay going rates for players over the second half of our stay in the Premier league so far. Palace’s debts were listed as £37 million due to an external lender and £45 million to the owners, which I presume is the Americans, but might include Parish. The AWB money saved us from some sort of FFP bollocking as it allowed us to clear the external debt and finally record a minor profit, though we've borrowed more money since then to cover the covid shortfall. That loan is from the owners, so again could be the yanks or the yanks and Parish.

Overall it seems that the Americans have helped us out as far as FFP allows and aren't taking anything back yet, though some of the details are unknown.