Has Parish ruined this season?

[Lanzo-Ad]

Media not making it up - we now have a very unhappy Manager and Captain.!!

How else do you explain Glasner coming out so publicly and at odds to/with SP..??

SP tried to replace our Captain and an England international - with Brighton’s 6th choice centre back - how is that even conceivable..!!

Business done too late again - leaving us with a threadbare squad - meaning players having to play too much has left us with Sarr out for 8 weeks and Wharton for a month..!!

Yeah great planning..!!

What planet are you on, i claim my 5 pounds, you are...............

 

[eaglesdare]

From grok:

Pre-Parish (2010): Crystal Palace was valued at approximately £3.5 million during its acquisition from administration.

Current (2025): The club's value is estimated at £400–593 million ($510–593 million), driven by Premier League status, infrastructure investments, and recent stake transactions

Seems parish is doing a good job overall.

 

[Casual]

We’ve got a better squad now haven’t we?
Agree it wasn’t managed well, but we are stronger now.
Eze was going, we may have a weaker starting 11 , if pino isn’t as good as Eze. But losing Eze and a few fringe players that wouldn’t have got any minutes, compared to what we’ve had come in, we’ve got a better squad, more strength in depth.
Will need that with all the games this year.

So your suggestion is - get rid of

our most successful Manager ever, as opposed to a Chairman that has just presided over a shambles of a transfer window..!!

Look I get the Parish saved us thing, and we will be forever grateful, but no one can deny this transfer window has been appalling - no strategy and no plan..!!

Added to which I truly believe that SP’s financial position - meaning that he cannot contribute funds commensurate to his shareholding - unlike the other shareholders is causing an issue..!!

So on that basis we are operating on what SP can afford - rather than leveraging the combined wealth of the other 3 Billionaire owners..!!

Before anyone says it - and I’ve said it before - I get having wealthy owners doesn’t automatically equal funds to spend - but other teams seem able to dot it with imaginative accounting - look at Everton just built a new stadium costing £800M and spent £111M in the window..!!

So why can other clubs do it and we can’t - something just ain’t right..!!

COYP

 

[becky]

Media not making it up - we now have a very unhappy Manager and Captain.!!

How else do you explain Glasner coming out so publicly and at odds to/with SP..??

SP tried to replace our Captain and an England international - with Brighton’s 6th choice centre back - how is that even conceivable..!!

Business done too late again - leaving us with a threadbare squad - meaning players having to play too much has left us with Sarr out for 8 weeks and Wharton for a month..!!

Yeah great planning..!!

I really don't get this.... they have played (ignoring pre-season) 6 competitive matches of a basic 90 minutes (assuming they played all the time in every match) between 10th and 31st August. These are supposed to be professional, fit young men at the peak of their careers.

Compare this to, say, professional tennis players, who during the tournament circuit, will play up to 4 hours, in full heat, with very short breaks between sets. If they win the match, they will be back on court 2 days later doing the same again (and sometimes fitting doubles matches in between singles) - a far harder and more demanding schedule for their bodies to cope with, but they do it almost year round, and major injuries are relatively rare compared to football.

I get that body movement is different for the two sports, although if football requires more running ability and stamina, tennis is certainly more demanding in terms of short sharp movements and twists and turns and stretches.

Perhaps, as I've said before, the answer lies in the training, fitness and preparation rather than the number of matches.

 

[Dumademption]

I really don't get this.... they have played (ignoring pre-season) 6 competitive matches of a basic 90 minutes (assuming they played all the time in every match) between 10th and 31st August. These are supposed to be professional, fit young men at the peak of their careers.

Compare this to, say, professional tennis players, who during the tournament circuit, will play up to 4 hours, in full heat, with very short breaks between sets. If they win the match, they will be back on court 2 days later doing the same again (and sometimes fitting doubles matches in between singles) - a far harder and more demanding schedule for their bodies to cope with, but they do it almost year round, and major injuries are relatively rare compared to football.

I get that body movement is different for the two sports, although if football requires more running ability and stamina, tennis is certainly more demanding in terms of short sharp movements and twists and turns and stretches.

Perhaps, as I've said before, the answer lies in the training, fitness and preparation rather than the number of matches.

Tennis players run an average of 3 miles a game. Football players run an average of 7 miles a game. It's the intensity that is causing injuries, running 3 miles spread out over 3-4 hours is much easier than running 7 miles in 90 minutes. Then you add in the fact that football is a physical sport adding an extra layer to injuries that you don't see in tennis and it's easy to see why injures are more prevalent.

 

[pssguy]

I genuinely dont know how you think that. Granted a bit messy at the end. But it is now looking like 99% of that was the media making up sh1t

Replaced Turner loan with an international
International left back
Up and coming centre back
Lost 1 starter. Replaced with 2 LA Liga starters.

Feels like our squad is 3 players better off than it was in May...

That's the optimistic take add to which Riad and Doucoure should be available sometime this season.

On the other hand, not all signings work out and it would be hard to match Eze, the only player to score the first and winning goal in the final three rounds of the FA Cup; Wharton and Sarr are already injured; Guehi may not play to his potential as even subconsciously he may not be so committed or be over wary of receiving an injury that could potentially have catastrophic impact on his career earnings; and Hughes has picked up 3 cards in 3 games - aiming for the Guiness Book of World Records

 

[Team of the (20)80s]

That's the optimistic take add to which Riad and Doucoure should be available sometime this season.

On the other hand, not all signings work out and it would be hard to match Eze, the only player to score the first and winning goal in the final three rounds of the FA Cup; Wharton and Sarr are already injured; Guehi may not play to his potential as even subconsciously he may not be so committed or be over wary of receiving an injury that could potentially have catastrophic impact on his career earnings; and Hughes has picked up 3 cards in 3 games - aiming for the Guiness Book of World Records

I’m not worried about this personally, because of his professionalism, the fact that he has said he wants to play till he is 40 (I don’t think he would write off a year) and because this is his peak World Cup year.

Matching Eze at his peak is unlikely but, considering his inconsistency the overall output may be possible.

 

[rikz]

We’ve got a better squad now haven’t we?
Agree it wasn’t managed well, but we are stronger now.
Eze was going, we may have a weaker starting 11 , if pino isn’t as good as Eze. But losing Eze and a few fringe players that wouldn’t have got any minutes, compared to what we’ve had come in, we’ve got a better squad, more strength in depth.
Will need that with all the games this year.

How do you know we have a better squad ? A young promising centre back, some Nigerian forward, none of us had heard of and was playing non league 2 seasons ago. Pino must be half decent getting 15 Spain caps but im not expecting him to be better than eze. I hope the squad is stronger but they're all unproven at this level and its far too early to judge.