100% agree

for those who dont understand it, in a nutshell

2014 - 2018 - Broke even in the PL
2019- sold AWB made 5m profit
2020 - didnt sell a player + covid, lost £54
2022 - release 250k a week, dont sell wilf - £40m loss.

we are looking for freebies or cheap young players this summer...if the owners would personally put in £50m for transfers we would be fine with FFP...lets see what happens.

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

I take on board all your points but what I suppose I’m getting at is that we shouldn’t feel as though we should just accept we’re ‘little’ Crystal Palace who are always the underdogs and cannot have a go at moving onto the next rung of the ladder.

Someone mentioned the Venables era but for me that’s like chalk and cheese when comparing how the club was run then to now. The De Boer effort clearly didn’t work but I think there were evident significant personality clashes early on and credit to Parish for rectifying his mistake. However, credit also to Parish for brining in the name and calibre of De Boer with his philosophy. Turns out the 3-5-2 free-flowing attacking and entertaining football is what a lot of Palace fans are after now!

For me, Benítez seems like a realistic shout and would be an appointment I’d happily support.

Change the direction from what to what?

We’ve had be incredibly stringent with our finances in order to prioritise building our infrastructure over recent seasons, including the present, for the overall long term gain. This includes the brand-spanking new academy, upgrading the stadium and (I assume/hope!) a new stand.

I suppose this is the difference between us and other clubs who already have their infrastructure in place and can look to spend larger sums of money on players whilst we’ve been scraping around for loan and freebie deals such as McCarthy and Butland. That said, we did splash £20 million in Eze and there were strong reports of a £25 million bid for Sarr only in October.

The direction of the club, I believe, will be to focus on seeing fruit from the academy through effective, top quality coaching. It might however mean we need to sell some products along the way for the sake of the bigger picture. If we can bring in a top quality coach to do that and oversee the process then great.

I’m not convinced the likes of Dyche or Howe would be good enough to oversee such a fragile moment in the club’s history.

Not so as the last time we went for a big name manager was the ex England manager Roy Hodgson and the time before that was ex England manager Sam Allardyce both of whom were successful here.

Leaving aside Tony Pulis it was actually the small name managers like Holloway and Pardew that have been less than sucessful here so by that token we should be going for Jurgen Klopp or Pep Guardiola

We currently have a top quality coach. People can hanker after Benitez as much as they like but he's not coming to Palace. He has already said as much - he wants another shot with one of the big teams who can afford:
a) his wages and
b) to provide the transfer kitty he would demand.
He will want to mix it with Guardiola, Klopp and Tuchel etc. He can't realistically do that at Palace any more than he could at Newcastle.

Dyche will stay at Burnley if he's given a reasonable transfer kitty by the club's new owners (the jury is out on that one)

I wouldn't be too upset if Howe came. I reckon he'll have reflected on where he went wrong at Bournemouth and will address those shortcomings

like you said, im happy to be corrected by my understanding is that the owners could inject money via a share issue to overcome ffp, thats what usmanov (?) at everton seems to be doing. and i think that would circumvent ffp rules.

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway