Ideally the club needs a good relationship with Sainsbury's.
But if they are being uncooperative in our efforts to upgrade the stadium, which it appears they are , perhaps some sort of demo outside/asking shoppers to sign petition might be worth considering. Saisburys (like lloyds) will not want any bad publicity. particularly any that suggests they are at odds with the local community they serve.

Very few 'locals' are the slightest bit interested in CPFC or it's problems with Sainsbury's. As already mentioned, who is going to have any sympathy for a PL football club, arguing about the price of a bit of land, that it sold in the first place, when everyone knows that the PL is awash with money. If anyone is looking like they stink it's us, with our £550m turnover since promotion.

CPFC2010 bought the club and the ground on the cheap and couldn't, in their wildest dreams, have expected the kind of return that they've received on their investment. We had a windfall from the Pulis case, ending with us not having to pay his £3m bonus, despite his keeping us in the PL. We've had a £50m injection of cash from the US investors, so £53m, without having to dip into our TV cash. It's difficult for any outsider to see why we're making an issue of this.

Parish seems to have an almost pathological desire to squeeze every last penny out of every deal, but he needs to accept that there are occasions, and this is one, where he doesn't hold the strongest hand. If Sainsbury's are quoting a price, and they're not prepared to move on it, then we either pay it or we come up with another plan. It's no skin off Sainsbury's nose if we don't want to deal.

We will get very little sympathy from the wider football community. It's not like we're one of those really hard done by clubs that are under threat of or have actually lost their grounds. We're beginning to look like a bunch of nouveau riche boys having a sulk because we can't get our own way in a predicament that our great grandfather got us into in the first place.

I agree with most of your post but the statement that they bought the club and ground on the cheap is untrue. The club was bought at a value that was agreed with the administrators who were legally obliged to get the best deal. If the club was being sold on the cheap there should have been multiple bidders. Remember that when they bought Palace, it was a loss making company and continued to be so until the promotion season and only make a profit that season due to the sale of Wilf to Manchester United.

Tis true....When you take emotion for Selhurst out of it.

I think long term it's the only sensible option, if we were ever going to become a big club.

Will it happen with all the wealthy nimbys living there?

Time will tell.

I agree with most of your post but the statement that they bought the club and ground on the cheap is untrue. The club was bought at a value that was agreed with the administrators who were legally obliged to get the best deal. If the club was being sold on the cheap there should have been multiple bidders. Remember that when they bought Palace, it was a loss making company and continued to be so until the promotion season and only make a profit that season due to the sale of Wilf to Manchester United.