Would have liked to hear about the current relationship with the Americans and how it's all working out with our major shareholders?

Slowly slowly catchy monkey

As someone already said, I expect he can’t talk about the Americans, or getting future money from them ahead of tv money, cos that’s all it’s going to ever be if we’re being honest, is going to be even more difficult.

Stadium redevelopment? If we were serious we’d have bought the land already after 2 or 3 years is it of nothing. We need new owners and I haven’t heard or read anything to change my mind.

COYP

I'm not disputing that we get offered lots of players and as a club we have to separate the wheat from the chaff, but I'd argue that is the job of the scouting team and that we should already know the majority of players offered to us.

To say that the DoF role is to reject players and praise them for it, especially after having the record he has for the last few windows, is ridiculous.

The DoF role should be much more advanced and strategic than stopping us signing players not right. They should be putting together an overall strategy and vision for the club, finding the right management team and players that can work in harmony to deliver on their end goal. If you've hired a DoF and the main positive you can say is he stopped us from getting someone we were offered who wasn't right, then something has clearly gone wrong.

Sometimes it feels that Parish is too starstruck by players of yesteryear and would rather hire players he supported growing up than people who know what they are doing.

Edited by JohnB (21 Feb 2020 10.47am)

Well put Willo as it is true that we supporters do NOT know what is actually going on in the background and some continue to slag him off as if they know it all. SP came across as a Palace fan that wants only the best for our club and I honestly believe he does know what he is doing. I agree with him on the fact "You do not just go out and splash the cash on players just to appease our fans. That is not the way to run a football club and he knows it. Many fans are too eager to throw insults his way and also at Dougie who in my opinion is doing a good job by not just going out and buying players we do not really need to buy. SP stands by him and so do I as I think they both know what they are doing.

Supported Palace for over 69 years since the age of 7 and have seen all the ups and downs and will probably see many more ups and downs before I go up to the big football club in the sky.

What some fans probably want to know, although Parish is under no obligation to divulge such information, includes among other things
- do Harris and/or Blitzer want out?
- what has happened to the £100m supposedly ring fenced for stadium development?
- are there contingency plans if agreement can’t be reached with Sainsbury’s ?
- the transfer strategy moving forward taking into account the likelihood that Hodgson signs a one year deal ( we can buy players for the long term, but in the short term Hodgson may not be inclined to use them)
- in the light of Sorloth’s successful loan period is there a right of recall or, if not, at least a sell ion clause?
- why has our spending in recent transfer windows been less than even the majority of Championship clubs? (Perhaps this is more evidence of the success in Freedman keeping players out!)
Of course the fans don’t have the right to answers to the above, but it would be interesting nonetheless to discover more.

It was to secure a decent sell on if it happened.
I did not agree with his extension either but realised there was a reason for their madness Rudi.

Supported Palace for over 69 years since the age of 7 and have seen all the ups and downs and will probably see many more ups and downs before I go up to the big football club in the sky.