All the money we are earning as a club seems to be going into players' pockets and apart from anew training ground under soil heating and some new lights what have we got to show from our income generated in this league, not much!

Paying underperforming players vast amounts of money who have little or no affinity with the club is it any surprise we are in the position we are in? Despite having a player like Kai Kai on the periphery he is still not being given a chance instead Palace opt to stick with Puncheon why?

Taking a beating at home every week is not fun st least in the championship we will be able to blood our youngsters and okay players who want to play for the badge.

Relegation to the championship will not be all bad. The premier league is not the land of milk and honey everyone makes it out to be. 99% of people currently at palace just want to get as much money out of club as possible and if we are relegated will simply move on to another club to bleed dry.

Players,managers, owners, relegations, promotions and cup runs will come and go but the fans will remain do not lose sight of they!

I couldn't have put it better myself. As I've posted previously, if we are relegated it won't be like previous occasions, with a benevolent owner prepared to throw good money after bad. We now have multiple owners, at least two thirds of whom are in it to make a profit and, let's face it, three out of the original four weren't slow to reduce their holdings when the Americans came knocking. We wouldn't have the investment to 'do a Newcastle'; we'd be in real trouble with a League One infrastructure and I fear what the future would hold.

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

Lets be fare here, Parish and the owners have invested into the playing squad. They are all assetts. Some will of course go down but others will go up. Parachute payments will kick in so they will have the oney for the wages. Hardest part will be the majority of the team will probably be sold and we would need to rebuild. Pretty much like Villa and other relegated teams have to.

We would still have, on paper, a far stronger squad than most teams. We'd need to find about 40m (I would guess) to balance things out a bit, and Wilf is going regardless this summer, in my opinion. So that's 25m-30m right there.

The yanks are rich enough and smart enough not to accept a fire sale, or to accept players' requests to move just because they want to get back in the PL. They would act in their own financial interests, which would not include selling assets below what the otherwise could.

So it would come down to management of that squad. A few years of mismanagement and things really really could get hairy to the point of deep financial trouble.

If you want to live in a world full of kindness, respect and love, try to show these qualities.

i agree that the premier league may sometimes be a poisoned chalice.

but when you reflect upon our population base, our wealthy housing market and hence wealthy fans buying season tickets ( compared to Stoke/middlesboro etc) and the demise of Millwall and Charlton.....

we deserve to be as big as West Ham / Newcastle / Sunderland / Everton etc.

North London manages to support 2 big prem clubs.

anything less than this and we are underperforming.

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

There are plenty of greedy players in the Championship.
As for the Premier League it of course has plenty of faults but I would much prefer to stay there.
What is the alternative? To play in the Championship for eternity and avoid getting promotion every season.