The situation with Textor will have an effect in my view. He will be unwilling to loan or underwrite loans on a personal basis if he is selling. This will also have an effect to an extent on incoming transfers too. He has in past been more interested in football side of things with other 2 Americans more interested in infrastructure. I suspect that Glasner has been made promises on recruitment and that the transfer budget may now receive priority over infrastructure until Textor situation resolved possibly by other 2 loaning or underwriting the commercial loans.

He will not want to put any money in and will want his loans repaid when he sells. It will make no difference to price of his shares if it has started or not. Planning permission has been granted and that will help his price. If the rest of the shareholders want to start without him that is fine I just don't think they will. I don't think he will make life difficult but if he is buying Everton he can not currently have interest in both clubs. They need money urgently so press are reporting he is asking for permission to start process while shares in Palace are sold. If EPL agree then he must not be part of decision making processes at Palace in interim in particular infrastructure projects and transfers I wonder if current Everton owner may be willing to buy his Palace shares so Everton processes can start. His interest and ours is that if he is going the quicker it happens the better

Edited by Palace in the Blood (03 Jun 2024 6.33pm)

According to The Athletic, preliminary work has started in preparation for the new stand. This work involves:

1. Temporary buildings housing the Away dressing room and offices are in the process of being dismantled.

2. "The away dressing rooms will move to underneath the Holmesdale, where £1million (.3m) is being spent on water retention tanks to drain water away from the flooded basement"

3. Space under another tier of the Holmesdale could well be used as a car park given that the existing car park will disappear when building work starts later this year. Part of that space will also house a new kitchen.

4. New offices being relocated to back of Whitehorse Lane stand where Crystals Nightclub was.

Edited by doombear (14 Jun 2024 9.33am)

The housing situation needs sorting but this is encouraging.

Should be great.

Lads, I rarely post on the site, more of a daily observer of everyone else's great posts but felt the need on this occasion to drop a post.

From my perspective I wouldn't worry at all about the process of the main stand on how long it's taking etc. As a qualified architect and having worked on a few stadiums globally, the process for these types of buildings are so difficult on several levels from planning to the construction complexities of the site specifics. Given selhurst park is bang in London in a dense urban environment will only add to the long drawn out process to make sure we have complied with all pre start conditions and there's also the added complexity of finding the right tier 1 main contractor for the job which is a limited pool in the UK.

In the background I'm pretty sure it'd been chugging along daily with developed drawing material in the background and various discharges of planning conditions. I could be wrong but for me there's nothing that's come to light which I thought would be a non startedr to the project.

From what I've read/heard my undestanding it was kicking off around September this year. Hopefully 2026 season we should see tenstand in all it's glory (par no major delays once site works commence!) Which should align nicely then we start are road to European glory 😉 COYP!

Edited by BritofQatar (15 Jun 2024 8.20am)

B cause of ill health I haven't been able to gone SP for ages, but to sit in the new stand once completed will be brilliant and definitely something on my list of things to do and enjoy

"Preliminary building projects relating to the first stages of construction are underway". Wow that's a relief, hooray!!! We still haven't bought those six houses and we're looking for which supplier can sell us the concrete, glass and steel. This press release looks like it's been written by Grant Schapps, or another skilled BS artist. Hopefully they are genuinely reorganising the ground so they can start the building work - but that press release looks like a sop to us impatient fans, impatient to see the back of that cow shed we laughably call the main stand.

It's been so quick that it's all a blur.

Red and Blue Army!

How are Fulham getting on. Theirs has been going for 4 seasons

Glad I wasn't the only one who thought this. As I understand it from the PR we have done some minor preliminary work to clear certain key areas however we do not yet have a builder or start date?

One more point