So many people seem to think Steve and Dougie are just sitting by the fone on baited breath waiting on Wilf to say yes or no before they go off and deal with any transfer business.

Truth is that the palace board already know if his leaving or even if hes still just considering the contract and ploughing on regardless.
The explanation for the lack of transfer business is gonna be the same as always.

Steve's said on many occasion that at the level we are doing business most of the main targets will be waiting on the dominos to fall in other deals before we can make ours. If you agree with him or not it will always be the way he does business while he's writing the cheques and balancing the books.

How do you know? Parish is well aware of what Zaha is up to and is (hopefully) taking the appropriate action.

Don't forget that Parish never tells the fanbase what he is up to

He also knew AWB needed replacing . that didnt work out too well did it , cover for left back ? Think you answered it yourself with ( hopefully ) knows what hes doing

Agree all round there.

I am also not inclined to believe Parish or anyone else is awaiting some sort of grand announcement from Wilf. They probably already know the score even if it is not definite. Doesn't make it true of course just my opinion.

We have been linked with all manner of winger which does suggest he may be gone however we do need one in any instance. Might also be worth noting if he did truly intend to leave perhaps he would have said so. Would seem strange for both him and the club to allow his departure without really marking it in any way, there's also a mural of him that has just gone up which would be bizarre if he were an opposition player next season would it not???

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

It's fairly obvious to me whats going on.

Zaha has told Parish he wants to leave. Parish has said he wants him to stay, and has made a (very good) offer, but understands that he wants to and has earned the right to look for one last big challenge.

what I hope is that we SP is not waiting for definate decision on Zaha, because as long as that offer is on the table, then he cannot spend the money!

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

I don't think anything is obvious here and it is still 50-50. It's hard to know exactly what is holding things up but I'd hope we'll get a decision on Wilf shortly and perhaps other plans can then be pursued, one way or the other. One thing is for sure, whatever the Wilf outcome, we still need a new, decent striker and I hope we see some action here soon.