Should have read south London, apologies. Have amended.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

That’s a big conclusion to jump to, to suggest it’s his own money. Without the club owing him back…I think that’s ludicrous.

Just another story with negative connotations, it seems to be completely standard right now. Maybe the club should be looking at a more active PR rep.

Just to add to that, I read an article recently that suggested a player he wants to sign for Botofoga, has been sold the idea that if he plays well for them, he can be sold to Palace. So he’s sort of dangling a carrot to players, that may not exist. Which I think is wrong…if true. He’s simply not in a position to make that sort of promise.

Textor comes across as a guy who lives in fantasy land.

I do ponder whether the stereotypical American gung-hoism provides the reasoning all the commentary suggests SP is putting the brakes on acquisition of players? It does sound very ‘megabowl’ from the Americans and you only have to look at Chelsea’s recent state of being to understand hesitancy around granting them carte blanche or their dictating things.

By the same token, we need full backs, wingers and strikers before we may even lose more players.

Hard to know what to make of all this, the instinctive fan reaction is to say ‘Go go USA, spend a load of money on new players’ and ‘boo Parish’ however the flip side of it is to believe Parish has our best interests at heart, support him however he’s playing it and question the intentions and proposed actions of the Americans let alone the consequences and ramifications of that approach.

In any instance, I’d still consider us starting the season with no new arrivals and the squad either as we are now or even lighter as a massive disaster. There’s surely a middle ground between reckless spending and one free transfer for the PL’s penny pinchers?

You’d like to think each transfer window we’d identify around 3-4 players/positions the squad needs to fill and mitigation plans for unexpected departures? Time will tell though I’ve been asking that question for decades now.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

So textor wants more control over the club but SP and Co are not avin that