A stronger squad, a better manager, and 5th straight PL, it's easier for us than at least 4 other PL teams. I don't give a continental sh1t about what others think of my opinion, Parish has a operating 'mode' where he waits and takes his time. In my view he is has a strong business personality and temperament, which is great in business as his success clearly shows, but needs to be calibrated to suit the frenetic pace of business in the PL. That's an opinion that if anyone looks at the history will be strongly supported. Parish is a legend for coming in from that environment and taking the reigns at CPFC and saving our club - should get a stadium named after him. But everyone can improve and not just the players. Parish can improve. He's great - should have a statue of him in Croydon - but he can improve.

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Why was that the most important signing as he was already contracted to us for another two years so wasn't going anywhere unless we wanted him to.

As a matter of interest who has suggested that's what we should be doing?

I don't know how you've concluded that his methodology hasn't worked. Of course he can improve but as far as owners go he's 100% among the best in the league, who else would even put themself up for this amount of scrutiny on the level he does? I don't understand it because even when I've doubted him, he's proved me wrong time and time again. We've secured premier league status consistently for the first time in our history and there are many times we looked down and out. He's got pretty much every major decision he's had to make spot on. He backs the club, spends what he has available to spend. Look at what he did in January and even the start of last season? We weren't the only club interested in signing a player like Benteke, look at West Ham who by all accounts should be securing targets we have easier than us.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but I just cannot understand people who randomly take pops at Parish when there really is no statistical or factual evidence to support anything negative. He's a business man, he has an ego, he'd probably get on your nerves at parties. But as far as a football owner goes in this day and age, we really couldn't ask for many better in my opinion.

We're the Arthur over ere!

Man Utd played a few youngsters against us at the end of last season and they basically tore us a new AH. We have youngsters that are good and there are plenty of others in the lower divisions just begging to be discovered. So why is it that a player in the modern game is no good unless we are paying £30m for him? I know players at the premier level already are proven but I think I would rather be buying low and selling high than competing with the squillionaires for players we can't afford and ultimately ending up with their cast offs who last one season and are then ready for the scrap heap. Time to get some decent scouts and someone with balls who is willing to give players a go.

I get the feeling the summer window will pivot around the possible Sakho deal, just like the Benteke deal, only last season we'd just taken £25 mil for Bolasie and £10 mil for Gayle, yet still only really bought Tomkins and Townsend. But apparently rikz et al thought we couldn't sign anyone else, yet signed 4 players in the 3 high priority positions that were there to begin with.

Let's just hope we know who we want and have our money, negotiations and people ready to actually get the deals done when we either decide to let Sakho slip away (which I don't argue against), or Liverpool agree a deal. Add in the sale of 1 or 2 in the design of that action plan. Let's hope it is a clear plan because last season it wasn't.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (12 Jul 2017 9.19am)

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