Parish is out of his depth - just absolutely clueless..!!
As I said before we took the £150M loan against future sales - so obviously we were going to sell - which we have done - but here we sit in the last few days of the window - 6 points thrown away due to inept transfer dealings and strategy..!!
Yes we may now get an Nketiah, Lacroix and Cherki - but why has it taken so long..!!
Meantime we’re now playing catch up - following losses in two very winnable games..!!
So if all this comes to pass - don’t be telling us Steve look at what I’ve done - it’s bloody too late again - when will he ever learn..!!
As I’ve said many times over Parish is like a bloke driving a leased Bentley he can’t afford but loves the kudos too much to admit it..!!
Until this is resolved and Parish exits stage left we will continue on this path of reactive rather than proactive management of the club..!!
Meantime COYP
Not sure what you're expecting from the club with the money we have available. Unless Harris and Blitzer get visited by three ghosts overnight and start opening their welded shut purses, we've only had the money we can raise from sales to buy players or raise finance in other ways (perhaps that loan you're talking about) and as we all know, before this transfer window we'd only really raised any cash from the sale of Wan-Bissaka.
Going forward, even if a mad billionairre were to buy Textor out and sack Parish, as Newcastle have found you can't just go out and spend millions/billions anymore as that ladder has been well and truely pulled up. So we have to sell to buy. Olise was always going to leave—every pundit was practically acting as his agent by the end of last season. If Parish hadn’t convinced Olise to sign a new deal last season, he would have gone to Chelsea for £35 million instead of the £50.8 million we ultimately received, so we made an extra £15.8 million (minus salary paid) thanks to that move.
With the latest transfers apart from Olise, well the Anderson one surprised me but it looks like Fulham came in with a head turning deal, 5 year contract with a year extension, 30 mill (with add ons) that I'm sure Anderson will get a chunk from and salary up from £80k a week to £100k. It's been reported that he was disapointed Palace didn't match that, but would we? I mean if we're paying Anderson £100k a week, how many other players would have started demanding the same? Would you pay that for Anderson now if he was coming to Palace? Not sure I would.
I was sad to see Ayew going, my kind of player as just kept going, but again 8 mill (with add ons) for a 32 year old and a two year contract rather than the rolling one year we had with him. Not sure that would be a deal we'd go for if he was coming to Palace.
Johnstone wanting out is disapointing as I think he's a better keeper than Henderson and would prefer he stay and fight for his place (he'll get his chance given Henderson's irratic reliability) but that's up to him.
So far we've brought in Riad, Kamada and Sarr, but let's be honest, they've not set things alight yet, despite looking good in pre season (although to be fair Sarr looked useful on Saturday). Perhaps given time Riad and Kamada will come good, but at the moment not looking the best. We've still got some time to sign a couple more, talk of Lacroix, Gomez, Nketiah, Sterling and even Wilf being linked to the club and if we can keep hold of Guéhi for a bit longer, then that will help.
On the stadium, I went on a Selhurst Park tour at the end of last year and there was a lot of talk about the new stand. One thing that was said a lot was that the money for the stand and the team budget were two distinct pots of cash, so one didn't affect the other. Could be a load of b0ll0cks, but if true then hopefully we can spend a bit more to bring some replacements in before Friday.
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