would be interesting to know how much of a say SP has on transfers.
I do believe we are controlled by the American investors and SP is just the go between man has no power at all.

But i don't know for just my feelings and view.

But we have to be positive and believe this will be an okay season, get Ben ticking again play to his strengths and get Max playing where he belongs and i think Sakho and Cahill will be awesome.

Sod what the board are up to lets do what we do best support our Palace

I tend to agree there is trouble looming IMO. Before we all go crazy let's give it 3/4 games to gauge the mood of the team. If all is not as it should be we will soon get a clear picture. So, here is hoping all is well......

A lot of fans haven’t heard of plenty of our foreign targets. It doesn’t stop them saying we should or need to buy them.

COYP

One of our biggest problems is the wage bill as we all know it is compared to income one of the biggest in the EPL. Some players have left but not the very high earners. Thus we had and contine to have problems keeping within FFP rules.

We also paid out some high transfers that have not been fully paid (they are normally paid over contract length) ie Sakho. Since Benteke is in his final year that debt may be paid off

If you look at who we targeted they were young and not top earners but with a potential. AWB was not on a high wage so his sale released capital we could spend on players but did little to free wage money.

I think we were willing to spend a lot of the AWB money on the right players hence the bids that were made.Good strikers are top money both in transfer fee and also wages hence looking at people like Chavlov who are cheaper to pay.

I think it unlikely that the owners will have pocketed the AWB fee as this would reduce the finanacial position of the club and hence its sale value. It appears that the Americans do not wish to invest more in the club. This could be short or long term and could be for a variety of reasons.

1) The club needs to be closer to balancing its books before they invest further
2)They find working with SP and his team difficult
3)They have financial restraints themselves
4)They are worried about political situation Brexit etc which will possibly effect value of club.
5)They disagree with way club is being run on a day to day basis but feel unable to change this.

Only they know

Edited by Palace in the Blood (09 Aug 2019 4.03pm)

This is the bottom line really but for every John W Henry there's a Venky's or Carson Yeung.

The rest of the football league outside of the Premier League is on its knees financially and the only likeable thing about the Premier League sh!t show is that an unfancied team like us occasionally f***s things up for our friends who support plastic teams.

Difference is that the Man U Americans own the club 100%. our Americans onlt own 36%