American investors see premiership clubs as cash cows rather than passion for the sport. They want to take out as much as possible on their original investments rather than re-investing. You can see why Arsenal fans are moaning about the club's American owners.

We don't know exactly the problem behind the scene that is stumbling block our progress in the transfer market. We just think that all the colourful drawings and plans on the proposed upgrade of Selhurst Park might be just a red herring.

Spot on that guy is taking and putting nothing into the club yet people want to keep blaming the Americans all the time.

It's business that is how you operate you want to make money not lose it's nothing to do with passion for the sport just look at a former owner who had passion for the club put money in.

You are just making up things look again from day one the Americans came in to invest in the training plus stadium with a large sum that was suppose to be be ring fenced to do this yet then ended up pumping in a load of cash for transfers.

Arsenal fans are just ungrateful like so many big clubs fans they all think they should be winning every season and look at their spends you will see they did spend money just in wrong areas.

Well why was so much money wasted on doing all these plans etc for stadium when it was never going to happen poor running of the club again which we all know whos in charge of that o wait forgot that blokes untouchable isn't he.

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I'm sure Parish would invest in the team if he were flying solo, but investing in the team isn't our medium term challenge.

Sure we can do that, but over time we'll find ourselves competing more and more with clubs that generate better free cash flow. So team investment sort of papers over structural cracks.

To truly consolidate, the stadium needs upgrading massively. And I am unsure some bigwig investor will come in and enlarge Selhurst and do all the grunt work involved.

That's dull, detail heavy work for the kind of investor who's rich enough to do it. They can delegate but is anyone going to do markedly better than Parish? I doubt it.

So, the way I see it, would-be investors may well still want Parish involved.

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Bill Kenwright at Everton has been at the club since 1999 and I think he was major shareholder for a number of years.He vastly reduced his shareholding when Farhad Moshiri bought the club in May 2016.Moshiri now owns 77% of the shares and Kenwright just 5%.Kenwright has continued as Chairman and they have a Chief Exec, Denise Barrett-Baxendale who was appointed in May last year.

Edited by Willo (17 Dec 2019 5.51pm)

I do more than I used to.

And I think if he could attract the right investment into the club that would give him the financial freedom to implement his ambitions for Palace.

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Whilst Parish has said that the three major shareholders hold 18% each of CPFC2010, that isn't the whole story. The unknown is the structure of the ultimate holding company HOLDCO, about which, as I've already posted, we know very little and, in particular, we don't know who holds what, and in what proportions, or even the full list of directors. As I said in another thread, it really is all smoke and mirrors in Delaware.

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I'm not sure what your comment has to do with the post that you quoted.

As I have said on more than one occasion anyone thinking of investing hundreds of millions into a football club will want 100% ownership so it's Mr P's reluctance to sell his own equity that is likely to stop any sale

Who says Parish hanging onto his shares is an obstacle? No one could possibly know that and in any case, potential billionaire owners would surely want a CEO to manage the running of the club and Parish would be ideal from their perspective and any sensible fans would be a lot more comfortable with him overseeing things.

True but dividends are payable in direct proportion to the number of shares held so if a billionaire investor ploughed sufficient money into the company that it enabled them to enter the big time then the minority shareholders would benefit to the same extent

Agreed I have said this many times. If SP as a fan, wants the club to progress he may have to consider relinquishing control