I would rather have someone else, a real football man, run the transfer side of it, without his input

You forgot to bold the important bit. Would also rather have someone who actually has some experience as a director of football (or whatever DF is) than another "jobs for the boys" move by SP. He said his favorite Palace goal ever was scored by Freedman, then goes and hires the guy. I wonder if he hired him because he was the best man for the job, or for a different reason, waddya reckon?

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I would have someone other than Parish running the club if I could choose, I can google people running football clubs well around the world, as can you, I would have one of them (as opposed to someone who makes awful mistakes all the time, like Parish).

Freedman is fine but he should be autonomous and not be beholding to Parish for transfer decisions, or he should report to someone who knows what they are doing. Correct, we all only have the insight of what we can see with our own eyes (1) and what the people say (2). re 1 - we are in the midst of a massive injury crisis, on the back of the most mismanaged transfer window in the history of the club, on the back of the longest, most protracted and painful manager search I can ever remember, which yielded the worst managerial appointment in the history of the club. So Parish is really on a roll. Re (2) he basically admitted he never likes to sign a player except on the last day of the window because he thinks you cannot get value otherwise.

Firstly why reveal your thinking to people you are negotiating with, and secondly how about putting that nonsense aside for once and doing what is so blatantly obviously needed that a 3 year old could figure it out - we need more first team options NOW. Here we go again though, no urgency, no decisiveness, players linked all over the shop, this one having a medical, that one in a meeting with the club, blah blah blah. We should have signed at least 1 player by now to give the club a shot in the arm and give our manager something to be happy about.

Edited by Maine Eagle (20 Jan 2018 9.34pm)

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Life is not so simple. You clearly have not listened to the latest podcast. It’s really worth a listen and I defy you to not like Steve Parish more after hearing him speak at length about the club he loves.

Vive le Roy!

What successes? The only good hires he has made are well known names, anyone could hire Warnock, Allardyce, Pulis and Hodgson. The one time he tried to do something different he totally fouled it up with FDB. He has the right intentions on the business side of the club, but at the football side he is hopeless. Could you please list his successes, other than staying in the league, which has mostly been despite Parish rather than thanks to him. What other premier league chairman would have allowed us to walk out of the last transfer window with no keeper or strikers signed? We then sacked off a young keeper to make a squad space and didnt bring anyone in. Its amateur hour time and again.

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Dont mean to be glib but what makes you be so sure of that, have you signed any players? Please check Southampton's squad depth compared to ours, and their current injury list.

Yes you list all of the things that are hard about getting transfers done. They are the same factors which exist for every club, in every league, on the first or last day of a transfer window. Parish SHOULD have paid over the odds for Niasse or Tosun, and paid their high agent fee requests or whatever it was, because allowing us to only have 1 fit premier league striker is absolutely scandalous and negligent in the extreme, its real schoolboy stuff.

We have no clue when it comes to squad management or cohesive long term planning regarding transfers. Far too many players have no competition and that breeds complacency. I dont have a personal vendetta against Parish, I just want to see someone competent and capable to run the club properly. The last transfer window, and the FDB manager searches were not run competently or with any nous whatsoever, they were calamitous and amateurish.

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Maine, I concur with a lot of your criticisms of Parish and it's true that his escape artist managers have dug him and us out of the sh1t. I also agree that the money should've been paid out for either Tosun or Niasse, and looking at it Tosun was more acceptable to Parish going by the cheek of the relatives acting as Niasse's agents.

But the problem is that that was the traditional and conventional summer window and the January window is quite different. You're right the summer was a shambles, as it was the summer before, but it's unlikely it can be corrected until 2 days or 2 hours before the window closes.

By all means moan like a p*** star if on the 1st February we have only Benteke as a forward plus other vulnerabilities.

COYP