Leaving aside whether you think Pulis deserved the chants yesterday or to keep the money and have a stand named after him, can anyone explain to me why he didn't just sit tight until after the season had started, pocket the money and then resign?

I mean why risk it all to get the cash a few weeks earlier, if he could have taken it fair and square and then resigned at (for instance) the closing of the transfer window once the club had failed to sign his targets? It is clear that he didn't have a club lined up or anything.

As I understand it he was due a bonus for keeping us up, not for loyalty. I get that he lied to parish etc but what did he gain by taking the risk?

Also, parish won the case because Pulis obviously intended to resign and lied about it, but so what? The bonus was for keeping us up, not for keeping us up and then staying with us for a certain period of time thereafter. Or was it?

Does anyone actually know?

I'm not aware of there being any reporting on Pulis' motivation. It was a bizarre sequence of decisions by him to be sure.

The only thing I can think of is that he had another gig lined up that was time sensitive, but then fell through quickly after he freed himself from his Palace contract.

It would be hilarious if it turns out that his new employer binned him once they realised that he'd do something as c***ish as he did to CPFC. Karma's a bitch.

Edited by Ray in Houston (05 Mar 2017 5.21pm)

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

That's just more speculation based on nothing whatsoever. Pulis put a huge amount into that pre-season preparation, much more that Pardew's little jolly, which suggested he was probably expecting to be here at the start of the season. The only likely reason, that carries any credibility, is a disagreement on the transfer policy, the detail of which, if true, is unknown. What a pity that the board didn't have a similar disagreement with Pardew.

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Perhaps that's what it is Forest, breach of contract? Presumably there isn't a clause in managers deals to allow them to resign subject to a notice period like most of us. I suppose once you ask the club to cancel the contract you can't benefit from its terms?

Still doesn't entirely make sense though.

I agree and think that whatever steps Parish takes to enforce the judgement will make us look even cheaper as I'm sure that most people (except Palace supporters) will think that he earned the bonus by keeping us in the Premiership and look at us as the club that is happy to shaft it's managers as well as it's suppliers,

If and it's a big if Pulis had been approached by West Ham he could have just waited a week to fulfil his contractual obligations and then ask Parish to be released from his contract much as Dougie Freedman did before him which is why that conspiracy theory doesn't make sense.

We don't know the reason he left but he did put himself before the club whom had/were giving him millions of pounds. That is his prerogative. He kept us up and did an amazing job.

He left when he did and it left us in the lurch big time and I have no sympathy for him whatsoever. Felt exactly the same when Dowie left like he did.

Frankly these people do fantastically well out of football, I don't shed one tear if the reason for leaving is that great they can't wait a week or so for getting several million or however much it was. Lots of people stay in minimum wage jobs for years, hating what they do, but still turning up every day because they aren't as fortunate as TP and many others in football.

His leaving left us in a bad way and if anyone looks cheap it's him in my opinion. Screw him.