I couldn't agree less.

Being in the Championship will only achieve an exodus of our best players, a massive loss of revenue and set us back a decade in taking the club forward on any level.

What the owners need to do is use our current status to sell the club on while it is somewhat attractive.

We absolutely must redevelop the ground to a modern standard to at least have that to show for our record stay in the PL.
If we go down, the rats will leave the sinking ship and take all the money.

I can't see Parish selling out as he enjoys the kudos of being a football club chairman as it enables him to pull posh totty amongst other things

I do not think times are worse than they were; it is just I have reached the point where I am not enthused by the play, espically at home, & Benteke is the icing on the cake.

It’s also about the precedent it sets; announcing to the world that we’ll offer you a contract regardless of performance is really going to attract the best of the best to join us and stay motivated.

On the wider topic of the thread; this will be my second year opting out of buying a ST - impossible to justify the costs attached to watch 5 wins a year, and even those we do win are s*** games decided by a penalty.

You’re looking at coming away from Selhurst in a good mood 2 or 3 times a season at the moment.

Edited by EverybodyDannsNow (23 Aug 2019 10.16am)

That was after bringing Batshuayi in. Before that we were dross. Oh and the right back debacle as well.

We’re being taken for mugs, and actually the players who have to carry Benteke will see it that way soon as well, and as mentioned by EverybodyDannsnow in this thread and not the Benteke thread, the precedent of accepting and rewarding and keeping failure this sets has long term consequences and in trying to sign good players. We’re becoming more of a joke.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (23 Aug 2019 10.51am)

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They certainly will be in the same or worse position. Whether we loan another forward in is another matter. But I am talking about extending Benteke’s contract until he retires because the owners cannot accept the reality of the player Benteke isn’t. They’re being stubborn on a losing trade, and that’s rarely a good thing.

Yes, I said we were good with a decent loaned in striker, but we are now proposing to do that for 5-6 seasons in a row. Can you honestly tell me that extending Benteke’s contract, doing that for another 3+ years (being shocking until Xmas with the same garbage and hoping for a very good loan striker being available), hoping to satisfy a manager, current and potential players is a good idea when all you’ll be doing if he does get sold is recouping the wages of the extension, meaning what’s the point financially anyway?

If anyone was thinking of signing him next summer so we get our money back asap as has been mentioned then they’d be on the phone to his agent to advise him not to extend.

This is so moronic I’ll be done with CPFC Parish, josh and blitzer. We also have a manager who doesn’t play to this striker’s strengths (although he can’t read a simple tap in ball), and we no doubt either have no idea who will succeed Roy if he leaves next summer or it’ll probably be someone who doesn’t play to Benteke (like FDB and Roy) or Freedman because anyone talking any sense with financial needs will be ignored.

Parish is clueless on football, is advised by inexperienced people and former players and now acting out instructions off a spreadsheet or from shareholders with even less of a clue or sh1t as to the consequences of it.

Fvcking joke. It won’t be a difficult decision after this season anyway, watching Ward get pulled to bits as well as the wardrobe upfront scoring his one goal for the season, cupping his ears to us to say ‘what’s your problem?’

Edited by Rudi Hedman (23 Aug 2019 11.10am)

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