Even if he did pay himself £2.125 million, so what? Someone like him can earn that money elsewhere. What’s the problem. Although I take the point that he paid it back anyway.

Please note that this is entirely reactionary, my support for Palace does not extend to trawling the company accounts, although I am grateful for the info second hand.

I think that you have added an extra nought onto the end and don't forget that those accounts were for a period ended a year ago and we have had another full season since then

We have spent far more money on players and salaries than teams Our size and income - in the prem over the last three seasons. We have even spent more our than Chelsea! Think we have a net positive balance of around 15 million.

Well now you consider that those Americans want to make money from us and unlike Steve don’t care for much else. And we are about to spend big on stadium plans next year

We have top foreign talent earning £100k pw. Burnley by comparison, don’t have any players of this ilk, yet they earn the same if not more money than us.

Yes we are based in London, players wanna play here rather than there, but ultimately we pay the same salaries as clubs in the top 6. And unless we make the top six ASAP - we can’t keep it up

We have all been spoilt with the stature of incoming players over the last three seasons.

It will only carry on if our existing first players, players like Andros, unfortunately go the other way. So to make it plausible

Edited by matthau (28 Jun 2018 1.06pm)

Very true clubs are guaranteed their money but a factor is when and that has meant we’ve missed out on serious bids, whether that was to stay within ffp or just to know we won our best hand. It seems the latter and I’m talking about a critical specialist position with zero cover.

COYP

I'm guessing striker as we started the last season with only one fit striker and were very lucky that the lack of cover didn't come back and bite us on the bum.

Serendipity Management

Wow!!

So now Newcastle are not only after Townsend but are in talks with WBA about signing Rondon.

Meanwhile,we have signed Guaita,deal agreed last Window ,the 14 year old and some would say,foolishly let Cabaye go without signing any high profile replacement.
Very sorry to see him go,as out and out quality and will blow our limited transfer budget to replace like for like.
Running a Premiership Club Steve,you are not running a firm of Accountants with a brief to cut wages down to a minimum.
Living in hope that Roy is leading negotiations as to one or two signings and not having players he does not particularly want, forced on him as per the last Window by Parish and his yes men.