Quiet honestly, Dazza, as with all of us ,has been led up the garden path throughout this. Essentially that’s not purely his fault or possibly even his so called source
Throughout this whole saga, we the fans have been feed absolutely nothing confirmed by those that that actually matter. It has all almost certainly been guesswork by various small time journalists occasionally picked up briefly by main stream simply because it’s all over the internet, and they don’t want to appear left out of the frenzy.
Palace, will have talked to any number of potentials, that never had been virtually in the bag, it would seem for much of this small time media, guessing who got talked to is enough to claim an advanced negotiation . That is all we have ever really had a drip feed of other peoples guess work.

I appreciate all of this. I’m just a little fed up with fans expressing disquiet about the time taken and the silence from the club, only to be told that makes them “entitled” when they seek news.
To be fair, unless you are a season ticket holder or subscribe to other clubs as a member it is unlikely that you would recall such an event?
As I said before, fans invest a lot of time, sweat, money and tears into their club and when there is some disgruntlement amongst the fanbase it is perhaps not rocket science to suggest that a message may well soothe some ruffled feathers.
Personally I don’t consider that request as making me entitled but this is all about opinions.

Edited by Helmet46 (03 Jul 2021 10.47am)

Be fair Willo, Can you recall to many other Premier league clubs that have appeared to be in such a state of disarray ,with just six weeks before the start of a new season. Those about to go broke excluded? The club is not displaying a stable stance by any stretch .
I think there is not just concern for a lot of fans in this situation, but fear.

While I understand people's frustration with the manager situation and exasperation with the players contracts, just because the Club have said little officially does not equate to nothing being done.

If the players list currently in circulation is accurate then I think most would agree that the right decisions have been made.

What Parish has said is that identifying a new manager has been a '' challenge ''. That comes as no surprise - look at the pages of debate on here about the merits or otherwise of the media reported candidates.

I don't have Blind Faith in Steve Parish but I do believe that by next week we will have a manager in place and a group of players that can start preparing for the new season.

I will however need some convincing that Palace have a £80m transfer budget !

Old, Ungifted and White

But it’s not just the manager is it? The time we take to get transfers across the line does rather suggest that we will struggle to hit the new managers targets. Do we procrastinate a little too much? From the not ITK outside it does rather suggest we do. (But that’s just my opinion, of course). We would/could never sign over 20 players in 6 weeks. It takes us about that time to get one done.

Edited by Helmet46 (03 Jul 2021 11.28am)

Agree with all of this and would add that "we" bought the club for pennies as we had gone bust (is it just a rumour that one of our directors had a hand in the club going bust by calling in a debt or is that what you were alluding to)

Enjoying getting up later and not having someone who knows better than me (apart from the missus of course).