Time to start doing Business Steve..!!

[RubinsCube]

You seriously think SP doesn’t love the limelight - think it’s you that needs to get a grip..!!

Yes there are only 25 seniors in the squad - but that squad need to have depth and quality in those 25 at the moment that is not the case..!!

Look at this way - after Chelsea took Chalobah back in January - we had 3 centre backs playing in a system that required 3 centre backs for the rest of the season - we were fortunate in that we had no serious/long term injuries in that position otherwise things would have been very different.

Munoz never got injured - we had no back up..!!

You just cannot rely on that again..!!

That’s why we need to recruit in depth quality..!!

COYP

That's a bit harsh on Lerma, Clyne and Ward. Not first picks for sure at CB, but all did ok when called upon last season.

Agreed we do need more depth at CB and on the right. As I see it, the (nice to have) problem is:

1. Who is good enough and available
2. Prepared to challenge one of the current back 3 / Munoz (or join knowing they are a squad player)
3. At a price point which works for us?

Maybe there are players in the academy who are closer than we think. And maybe there's a thought process that backups for squad depth can be done with loans (Chillwell, Turner, Chalobah - although the latter forced his way in and did great).

 

[rob1861]

Five days now until the start of the season and still nothing other than £3M on a back up left back and a free transfer keeper..!!

We’ve purportedly been chasing Guessand, but now going to Villa..!!

It’s the same season after season - this time Parish using the Europe thing as a smoke screen, despite in reality making no real difference in terms of available/transfer funds..!!

Removing the Conference draw details from our official club website - was nothing more than childish petulance..!!

So what you actually doing Steve - absolutely naff all by the looks of it..!!

Despite what some may think I don’t dislike Parish - he’s done brilliantly for us - but this same scenario window after window is getting infuriating - when will he ever learn..!!

OG must be pulling his hair out - I would be..!!

Just saw a link with us and Sterling - that would be typical Parish..!!

It’s going to be the same nonsense, late signings no time to integrate with the squad / OG to work with them = rubbish start to the season and playing catch up again.

It’s like bloody Groundhog Day..!!

Any momentum we built by winning the FA Cup just down the toilet because of Parish and his procrastination of getting deals and Business done..!!

I’m dreading Sunday..!!

😡

We have the same team that beat City and won the FA Cup, who were also close to beating Liverpool on the last game of the season. We'll be ok Sunday!

 

[PALACE_ENJOYER]

We have the same team that beat City and won the FA Cup, who were also close to beating Liverpool on the last game of the season. We'll be ok Sunday!

That would be the Liverpool game, where they were already celebrating the league, great reference point. Oh and they have just spent 300 million a 100x more than us at the moment

 

[rob1861]

That would be the Liverpool game, where they were already celebrating the league, great reference point. Oh and they have just spent 300 million a 100x more than us at the moment

That new Liverpool team hasn't played together much and has had defensive issues from set pieces in pre season, As for the end of season game we'd been celebrating the FA cup win before that game vs Liverpool and still put a performance in. Cup half full?

 

[Plaistow Eagle]

We have the same team that beat City and won the FA Cup, who were also close to beating Liverpool on the last game of the season. We'll be ok Sunday!

Really - Liverpool just spent c.£300M we’ve spent £3M..!!

If you seriously think we can be competitive on Sunday against that - I’ll take some of whatever it is you’re drinking..!!

Just can’t believe this blind faith in Parish - there is no plan, no strategy - it’s all just rhetoric..!!

 

[rob1861]

Really - Liverpool just spent c.£300M we’ve spent £3M..!!

If you seriously think we can be competitive on Sunday against that - I’ll take some of whatever it is you’re drinking..!!

Just can’t believe this blind faith in Parish - there is no plan, no strategy - it’s all just rhetoric..!!

I would like us to buy players too, but having a stable squad vs a newly constructed one that needs to learn patterns of play, build relationships with each other etc...

I agree that Liverpool by the end of this season will be hard to beat if they gel properly, however we are playing the first competitive game of the season against them, their manager has come out and said they need defenders through the door and they have conceded goals from set plays. We play a defensive on the break wing back system. I think we have a chance, but yes we are underdogs.

 

[PALACE_ENJOYER]

I would like us to buy players too, but having a stable squad vs a newly constructed one that needs to learn patterns of play, build relationships with each other etc...

I agree that Liverpool by the end of this season will be hard to beat if they gel properly, however we are playing the first competitive game of the season against them, their manager has come out and said they need defenders through the door and they have conceded goals from set plays. We play a defensive on the break wing back system. I think we have a chance, but yes we are underdogs.

Any team would be us at the moment, regardless if they have new players or not, we are a mess at the moment

 

[Plaistow Eagle]

I would like us to buy players too, but having a stable squad vs a newly constructed one that needs to learn patterns of play, build relationships with each other etc...

I agree that Liverpool by the end of this season will be hard to beat if they gel properly, however we are playing the first competitive game of the season against them, their manager has come out and said they need defenders through the door and they have conceded goals from set plays. We play a defensive on the break wing back system. I think we have a chance, but yes we are underdogs.

I applaud the positivity - but really you’re clutching at straws..!!

Didn’t need to be this way and we have Parish to thank for that..!!

 

[rob1861]

Any team would be us at the moment, regardless if they have new players or not, we are a mess at the moment

Given you joined the site on the 29th July i'll just say this and it will be my last response to you as i'm pretty sure you're here to spread trouble amongst the Palace fan base...

Parish and co have a plan and it's working, we are mid table, financially stable, best squad and manager we've ever had, we'd like more, but we're up for more silverware this weekend.

We've never had it so good, £3m means we don't risk going bust when another team tries to pinch our place in Europe and means we are ok whatever the outcome.

Parish built the club from scratch, reunited the team with the ground, built a state of the art academy and training facility and slowly built a team of people who could progress our club to a point where we could win the FA Cup.

If you are a Palace fan, gain some perspective, but i suspect from your recent joining date - you are not.

 

[rob1861]

I applaud the positivity - but really you’re clutching at straws..!!

Didn’t need to be this way and we have Parish to thank for that..!!

I think we have a lot to thank Parish for to be fair. He's done a lot for the club and community in Croydon by generating wealth, the owners are investors at the end of the day, but remember us in 2010 vs now. We just won the FA Cup! We were still underdogs but close enough to bridge the gap, that's never been the case before.

 

[Fanofzhiyi]

Any team would be us at the moment, regardless if they have new players or not, we are a mess at the moment

How are the fa cup winners a mess and any team will beat us?
If you are trolling fine but If not that is one enormous exaggeration.

I agree our transfer window needs to be better but life could be worse, we could be Millwall or Brighton

 

[sprites]

Given you joined the site on the 29th July i'll just say this and it will be my last response to you as i'm pretty sure you're here to spread trouble amongst the Palace fan base...

Parish and co have a plan and it's working, we are mid table, financially stable, best squad and manager we've ever had, we'd like more, but we're up for more silverware this weekend.

We've never had it so good, £3m means we don't risk going bust when another team tries to pinch our place in Europe and means we are ok whatever the outcome.

Parish built the club from scratch, reunited the team with the ground, built a state of the art academy and training facility and slowly built a team of people who could progress our club to a point where we could win the FA Cup.

If you are a Palace fan, gain some perspective, but i suspect from your recent joining date - you are not.

Top post. We're in the best position I can ever remember - and it's mostly all thanks to Parish.
Moaners are boring. We don't need to overhaul the squad with six players...it'll lead to disharmoney.
A couple of extras to help and we'll be right - and I'm confident we'll get them.

 

[Plaistow Eagle]

Given you joined the site on the 29th July i'll just say this and it will be my last response to you as i'm pretty sure you're here to spread trouble amongst the Palace fan base...

Parish and co have a plan and it's working, we are mid table, financially stable, best squad and manager we've ever had, we'd like more, but we're up for more silverware this weekend.

We've never had it so good, £3m means we don't risk going bust when another team tries to pinch our place in Europe and means we are ok whatever the outcome.

Parish built the club from scratch, reunited the team with the ground, built a state of the art academy and training facility and slowly built a team of people who could progress our club to a point where we could win the FA Cup.

If you are a Palace fan, gain some perspective, but i suspect from your recent joining date - you are not.

And there we go the root of the problem - we are living in yesteryear still thanking Parish for saving us - what now 15 seasons ago..!!

So anyone that questions his actions is berated and questioned about being being a tribe Palace fan to the point of being accused of being a troll..!!

Frankly how pathetic..!!

Look our transfer window to date has been woeful - we had a chance of building on winning the FA Cup and being in Europe and Parish has blown it - you only need to look at OG’s comments for validation of that..!!

Parish himself kept saying it’s about taking the next step - now we’re here he’s more interested in fighting with UEFA than maximising the opportunity we have - be that Europa or Conference - it’s irrelevant. On the latter we have a real chance of winning - if and only if we grasp the opportunity which includes and requires improving the depth and quality of our squad..!!

ATM - we’re going backwards whilst others are improving their squads - can’t you see that..!!

This blind faith and eternal gratitude in/to Parish is quite mind boggling given this season in and season out procrastination in transfer dealings - meaning that we are always starting the season on the back foot..!!

So are you now going to question my credentials as a “true Palace supporter” just because I dare to question Parish and disagree with you..!!??

As I said unreal..!!

 

[rob1861]

And there we go the root of the problem - we are living in yesteryear still thanking Parish for saving us - what now 15 seasons ago..!!

So anyone that questions his actions is berated and questioned about being being a tribe Palace fan to the point of being accused of being a troll..!!

Frankly how pathetic..!!

Look our transfer window to date has been woeful - we had a chance of building on winning the FA Cup and being in Europe and Parish has blown it - you only need to look at OG’s comments for validation of that..!!

Parish himself kept saying it’s about taking the next step - now we’re here he’s more interested in fighting with UEFA than maximising the opportunity we have - be that Europa or Conference - it’s irrelevant. On the latter we have a real chance of winning - if and only if we grasp the opportunity which includes and requires improving the depth and quality of our squad..!!

ATM - we’re going backwards whilst others are improving their squads - can’t you see that..!!

This blind faith and eternal gratitude in/to Parish is quite mind boggling given this season in and season out procrastination in transfer dealings - meaning that we are always starting the season on the back foot..!!

So are you now going to question my credentials as a “true Palace supporter” just because I dare to question Parish and disagree with you..!!??

As I said unreal..!!

No, i'm not challenging you as a fan, just the person who joined 5 days ago and all posts are negative from them. I believe you are a fan and you are entitled to your opinion, but i disagree which is what these boards are about. Anyway have a good evening.

 

[Plaistow Eagle]

No, i'm not challenging you as a fan, just the person who joined 5 days ago and all posts are negative from them. I believe you are a fan and you are entitled to your opinion, but i disagree which is what these boards are about. Anyway have a good evening.

You said previously was your last response on the matter - so why are you responding again..!!??

You say all posts are negative - what exactly is there to be positive about ATM..??

Some people that are not members read this forum and feel the need to join to voice their own opinions - they may seem negative to you, but that was the reason they joined - has that not crossed your mind.

My point is just because their opinion differs from yours - does not make them any less a fan than you or I and they should not be vilified for only joining recently.

As you say everyone is entitled to their point of view irrespective of how long they have been members..!!

COYP

 

[Plaistow Eagle]

Top post. We're in the best position I can ever remember - and it's mostly all thanks to Parish.
Moaners are boring. We don't need to overhaul the squad with six players...it'll lead to disharmoney.
A couple of extras to help and we'll be right - and I'm confident we'll get them.

Are you Parish incognito hiding in New Zealand..??

 

[Runningman]

In terms of spending we cannot compete with the Liverpools of this world. We have to spend wisely and not just spaff all our money on players past their prime or wonderkids like Franca & Mayer.
As I’ve said before Palace are at the back end of the chain for transfers. Let the state owned boys do their business and then see what falls out of that.
Don’t panic.

 

[sprites]

Are you Parish incognito hiding in New Zealand..??

No, I'm simply someone who's been following this club for 35 years and am beyond ecstatic with the position we're currently in. I honestly can't for the life of me understand negativity at a time like this.

Parish has overseen the best years of the club's history - he's helped bring gems like Guehi, Olise, Eze, Wharton, Munoz, Mateta to the club. He's brought Glasner to the club - arguably the best manager in our history - and all of this has seen us finish consistently mid table in the world's best league - AND win the first major trophy in our club's history.

Then, instead of taking a well earned holiday...his entire summer break has been spent working night and day on trying to keep us in Europe. No doubt he'll be leading the charge on our response to CAS. And with all this up in the air...because we haven't gone and signed 94 players, some on here vilify him and have the nerve to say we're a club going backwards. Are you serious? We couldn't have more momentum as a club if we tried. The reality is, we only need a couple more players - and I believe we'll get them.

It's not 'blind faith' in Parish - as you state. It's informed and educated faith, based on years of successful and prudent management of the football club.

Long story short....calm down. It's going to be fine.

 

[Casual]

Agree with what you say mate.
We’ve improved year on year.
Just won the FA Cup, qualified for Europe.
The only problems that I see are if we get big late offers for players and that’s not in our hands. We can’t buy ‘like for like’ replacements on big wages for players that are still currently here.
Since we’ve been up how many players have we lost that we’ve wanted to keep?
Bolassie, Olise and Wan Bissaka (might have missed a couple), Anderson had to gon, for the money and was upgraded.In 15 years , hardly a selling club. Look at Brighton/Brentford etc, they’ve sold bundles.
We’ve currently got the FA Cup winners that beat Fulham away, smashed Villa and beat the best premier league team of the last 10 years to win it.
No new injuries. We signed someone to push Mitchell, who many say needs upgrading. Reckon we will get 1 or 2 in and hopefully a loan or 2.
Liverpool could smash anyone , on their day, but no reason we will get beat Sunday.
I’m currently happy and looking forward to the season and Europe away (whatever cup it is.)

No, I'm simply someone who's

been following this club for 35 years and am beyond ecstatic with the position we're currently in. I honestly can't for the life of me understand negativity at a time like this.

Parish has overseen the best years of the club's history - he's helped bring gems like Guehi, Olise, Eze, Wharton, Munoz, Mateta to the club. He's brought Glasner to the club - arguably the best manager in our history - and all of this has seen us finish consistently mid table in the world's best league - AND win the first major trophy in our club's history.

Then, instead of taking a well earned holiday...his entire summer break has been spent working night and day on trying to keep us in Europe. No doubt he'll be leading the charge on our response to CAS. And with all this up in the air...because we haven't gone and signed 94 players, some on here vilify him and have the nerve to say we're a club going backwards. Are you serious? We couldn't have more momentum as a club if we tried. The reality is, we only need a couple more players - and I believe we'll get them.

It's not 'blind faith' in Parish - as you state. It's informed and educated faith, based on years of successful and prudent management of the football club.

Long story short....calm down. It's going to be fine.

 

[PALACE_ENJOYER]

Given you joined the site on the 29th July i'll just say this and it will be my last response to you as i'm pretty sure you're here to spread trouble amongst the Palace fan base...

Parish and co have a plan and it's working, we are mid table, financially stable, best squad and manager we've ever had, we'd like more, but we're up for more silverware this weekend.

We've never had it so good, £3m means we don't risk going bust when another team tries to pinch our place in Europe and means we are ok whatever the outcome.

Parish built the club from scratch, reunited the team with the ground, built a state of the art academy and training facility and slowly built a team of people who could progress our club to a point where we could win the FA Cup.

If you are a Palace fan, gain some perspective, but i suspect from your recent joining date - you are not.

Been a palace supporter for 20+ years mate so the date that I joined is pretty irrelevant. So do you think that it’s acceptable that we have spent 3m in a summer of which we are going into a European season? It’s actually amazing how a lot of people say the same stuff for example “we aren’t going to go bust” and “parish saved this club” of which both are true, however when the best manager we’ve ever had has just won us our first ever major trophy is saying that we need players in early and we only have as he describes it 17 outfield players, which is sixteen now because Eddie is injured for 2 months, maybe the board should back him and give him what he needs. Let’s get it right here parish ain’t no mastermind he’s an average chairman that says he supports palace, and all the credit of winning that fa cup is glasner and the players. One last thing all because someone has a different opinion doesn’t mean they ain’t a palace supporter