Who knows? Maybe it’s our turn for some billionaire money. Most of the parties bidding for Chelsea won’t be successful.

I think this is the Holy Grail BUT the question isn't would it be nice (obviously, absent of context it would be) BUT what price would the nice come in at? Nice is wonderful, but it's not free of cost or responsibility.

If we got those things from Harris and Blitzer it would be (or would have been) wonderful because a). they could afford to do it without leverage, and b). we know they'd do it in a responsible way because they've proven to be responsible investors. If, say, their Chelsea bid didn't go through and for whatever reason they decided to go "all in" on Palace, that'd be cause to break out the champagne. Abramovich was "nice" for Chelsea because he could afford to what he did. Glazer hasn't been nice for Man Utd because even though he's supported a large transfer budget, he's leveraged the club to do it and they're paying a high price for that.

The danger is that we that we get all you describe above, everyone starts popping the corks, but the source of it is Simon Jordan/Mark Goldberg version 2. And I fear football supporters being what they are, would just celebrate. No one would ask questions about the provenance of the investor, they'd just see a couple of new players and a new stand and think mannah from heaven had arrived. Two years later, when we're back in administration, they'd claim never to have seen it coming.

The thing for me with any investor who buys into Palace is that first and foremost, I want to know that they have a track record of successfully running businesses over a long period of time. Not a single, quick high-value success (a la Jordan or Goldberg) but real, demonstrable, serious pedigree. Then, I want to know that they're sufficiently capitalised to run the club for a long-ish period of time; not just spend money one summer or one season. That means they need to be pretty high net worth (not just rich).

Personally, I want investors in Palace to be COMPETENT INVESTORS. I want them to be brilliant at what they do (supporting and running a business). I couldn't give a toss if they're Palace fans or not because as we all know the last time we were owned by someone passionate about the club (before Parish), we ended up in administration. And the same the time before that. Of course, if the competent investors are also passionate about Palace so much the better but you can't always have your cake and eat it.

At the end of the day, more than anything else I want Palace to exist. So the first litmus test I apply to any prospective owner/investor is "are they likely to run the club in a manner that ensures that is the case?" "Are they likely to make us more successful on the pitch" comes a distant second. Plus, if they run the club in a way that provides a satisfactory answer to the first question, sooner or later a satisfactory answer to the second question is likely to follow. As Harris and Blitzer have proved. Look at where the club is now.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

I'm very much in agreement with Syd on this subject. Also, I worry about Textor getting a majority holding so hope (perhaps against hope) that he isn't looking to pay another £40m to buy out H & B. Ideally, we do want new investors who see Palace as a good medium to long term investment opportunity and are willing to be minority shareholders happy to leave Parish to carry on as Chairman.

We just have to wait and see who H & B have lined up to buy their shares and then either give a big sigh of relief or begin to be concerned (or even somewhere between the two).

Meanwhile, let's just enjoy the football whilst we can. Roll on Arsenal on Monday!

I seriously still feel that some kind of European Super League isn't so far away, be that under the guise of UEFA or as an independent organisation, if that happens we almost certainly dont have the financial clout / past Champions League pedigree to be part of it (at least in the early days) but it would leave us in an attractive position with the remainder of the PL.

If we suspect that the really serious money would be in this ESL format (whatever shape it comes in) then we could be an attractive proposition for a kind of Tier 2 investor.

Another big question would be , what happens to the TV coverage, do they focus just on the ESL format where all the big money is or does some of it filter down ?

The ground unquestionably needs work / investment but if we were then trying to keep pace with the other fish in our pond maybe our modernisation plans could be seen as more realistic & as I think Syd says above, hopefully dosent detract too much from the team investment.

If it was it would have been ring fenced externally otherwise it would have shown up in the accounts

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Not sure if this appears elsewhere (apologies if so) but an interesting take on things

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