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Edited by Tickled pink (21 Jan 2023 7.53pm)

I can’t pretend to understand the complicated ownership/ executive structure of the club.
What does seem clear though is that the various parties don’t have aligned objectives which can’t be a good thing.
1) Parish is obviously committed to the club and sees the way forward as the establishment of the academy (achieved) and the building of a new stand to increase capacity.
2) Harris and Blitzer appear to be passive investors with little interest in the club and an objective to invest in a larger Premier club (first Chelsea and now apparently Man Utd).
3) Textor has an objective to establish multi club investments around the globe with players moving around the various clubs presumably to enhance value ( perhaps some parallel with the Watford model).

The only party who appears to have a primary objective dedicated to Palace is Parish. From the outside it looks confused.
Both Harris/Blitzer and Textor came in with a fanfare and subsequent investments in the transfer market, but now there appear to be issues around future direction and mixed messages from the key players .
You have Parish giving an interview saying it’s a difficult market with perhaps one or two loans at most.
On the other hand you have Textor dismissing the story from Nixon the journalist that Palace will not be spending any money in this market.
You also have the Palace fan and Guardian journalist , Ed Aarons, reporting of the tensions between Parish and Textor.

Against this backdrop you have Vieira after every game talking about the need for additions to the squad which I think must be evident to everybody.

I’m not sure how much longer we can continue to operate successfully with this confused structure which appears to be hampering our future direction as each party pursues their own objectives.

How do you know that Textor's objective is to move players around his clubs as I've never seen that quoted. In fact he has denied that apart from youngsters

One wonders if we do strengthen the squad by buying that much needed central midfielder whether Vieira would actually play him as he seems to think that the sun shines out of Schluppy's bum

On that we can agree although we don't know what is the truth and what is media spin.

Did Parish know about Textor's multi club dream when he first came on the scene as he may have been so blinded by the prospect of Textor funding the squad renewal that he ignored it.

Harris & Blitzer are a bit of an enigma as we don't really know what they are up to and if the rumours of them buying into Manchester United are true then what will happen to their shares. Presumably Parish knows

As long as Vieira gets the players that he wants I don't suppose that he is worried whether they are purchases or loans but I do wonder what he will do if he doesn't get any new additions at all.

There are rumours that Textor has stuck a further £20m into Palace but we don't know what it has been used for

Bang on, I think.

The fact that Harris and Blitzer now appear to be interested in Man Utd., hot on the heels of their failed bid for Chelsea, underlines as far as I can see their determination to divest themselves of Palace. I wonder if we're not more openly in play than we know; while newspapers haven't publicly put up the "for sale" signs yet, it is hard to reach any conclusion other than we're on the market. You thus have to think Parish's latest remit includes prospecting for a buyer for the club.

Maybe the fallout between him and Textor is partly based on the latter being neither fish nor fowl. Textor lacks the funds to buy out Harris and Blitzer himself (given his ambitions, you have to think he'd buy Palace if he had the wherewithal to do so) but his share is significant enough that he could make a sale to another party difficult. It's not hard to imagine that Parish's and Textor's interests would almost certainly conflict if we are up for sale, and that tensions between them would run high.

My guess; significant change incoming, probably sooner-ish rather than later.

Edited by sydtheeagle (22 Jan 2023 12.33pm)

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.