What? The going rate for saving doomed teams, clubs, their owners and finances from relegation is into the 1,2... millions. What you or anyone else earns is irrelevant.

The date that Pulis had to stay you could argue was to trap Pulis from leaving to another club, which it’s runoured was West Ham, but then I think they hired Allardyce due to availability. Pulis was trying to sign players he wanted and not who Parish wanted. It’s irrelevant whether Zaha, crouch, etherington or whoever else is favoured by Pulis or Parish or not.

There were issues going on because we weren’t signing anybody, and you know, because I’m sure it’s been said here plenty of times, that Pulis would’ve spent money, that was essential, especially after saving money in our first season, and Parish wasn’t spending anything but wanted to wait until 3 matches had passed. Pulis walked out just before the first match.

There are pros and cons to Parish’s handling and hiring of managers, or why we’ve gone through them, or to be precise, why we’ve had to hire emergency managers who’ll expect certain things. They lay out the home truths to Parish of why we’re likely to be relegated. It’s again why I accept Roy’s football. Parish and us are lucky Roy is here, even though the match day stubbornness is infuriating so often.

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COYP

No it isn't. He doesn't deserve it because he didn't stick to his side of the agreement.
If I sell you a car thats valued at 5000 for 3000 on condition I get to keep the car for another three weeks and you drive off in it immediately leaving only 3000 payment is that deserved or undeserved? You decide. Its the same situation. Because of the contract agreement both issues of survival AND staying with the club were joined together. You cant seperate it out just because you are very happy with one aspect and choose to ignore the other.
Business doesn't really work like that my friend.

Nothing like the same situation and Pulis left with disagreements over how we conducted and, as it turns out, always conduct transfer activity. Do nothing until until the last possible moment.

Pulis achieved what we all thought was an impossible task at the time, unless you were confident in the mess we were in putting 3 attacks over the final third each match.

There’s as much trapping a manager 3 weeks into the season when we do nothing on recruitment as there is the manager being discontented with what happens or doesn’t happen.

Great, Parish isn’t to be taken advantage of, but please don’t try to paint this image of him being squeaky clean and knowing more than any manager out there. How many times have we messed up the first half of the season, including that very season under Warnock? Only once have we been prepared. Under Pardew. Only once.

COYP

I'm seriously concerned about our ability to attract a good manager after Hodgson retires. Pulis and Allardyce leaving, with transfer activity surely playing a big part, and even in this transfer window we're leaving it late (and who knows, I wouldn't be surprised if we don't actually buy the players we need before the end of the window). FDB fired after 4 games (right thing to do, but would still deter a manager from trying to come in and transform things), and even Holloway recently said in an interview how he thought Parish had broken his agreement with him. Everybody knows we screw around with transfers and are never prepared for the season ahead.

Also, following Mauricio Pochettino's comments the other day - maybe Roy should be titled coach too, if he's not in charge of transfers.

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I think that's his name - wrote a great article a month ago re Parish and Palace - here's another - says Zaha is papering over cracks - we have no vision, our buys have no sell on value , our squad is ageing and imbalanced esp if you compare with Bournemouth

this journo seems to have a pretty keen eye and has got our club's number imho - he's probably a fan!

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