I don't envy being Steve Parish at the moment. So many key questions to consider and so little time:
1. The majority owners of the club clearly have no appetite for the annual relegation dogfight (and as Pards pointed out, don't really understand football). They want a quick return on their investment, then to cut and run. How do you reconcile this with making the three or four key signings which might get our season back on track?
2. Do you back your new manager in his continuing quest to change the playing culture, when it clearly either doesn't fit with the players we have in the squad, or they are stubbornly refusing to try and adopt it? Can you buy enough round pegs for round holes in 4 days? Seems highly unlikely.
3. At what point do you have to insist that we actually have a very good first XI when they are deployed to their strengths, insist on returning to a 4-1-4-1 or 4-2-3-1 with wide men and service for Benteke, and buy some decent back up in positions where there is little depth?
4. Do you play the long game, let the Americans asset strip and manage an orderly relegation, relying on Dougie Freedman's talent for identifying value in the Football League ?
5. Do you seek to sell on to a completely new foreign owner because you've poured your life and soul in to the last 7 years and could do without the thankless hassle and aggravation?
This is now a very high stakes game of stick or twist, which could have far reaching consequences for Crystal Palace. Only time will tell if decisions made over the next few days were good ones.
1. The majority owners of the club clearly have no appetite for the annual relegation dogfight (and as Pards pointed out, don't really understand football). They want a quick return on their investment, then to cut and run. How do you reconcile this with making the three or four key signings which might get our season back on track?
2. Do you back your new manager in his continuing quest to change the playing culture, when it clearly either doesn't fit with the players we have in the squad, or they are stubbornly refusing to try and adopt it? Can you buy enough round pegs for round holes in 4 days? Seems highly unlikely.
3. At what point do you have to insist that we actually have a very good first XI when they are deployed to their strengths, insist on returning to a 4-1-4-1 or 4-2-3-1 with wide men and service for Benteke, and buy some decent back up in positions where there is little depth?
4. Do you play the long game, let the Americans asset strip and manage an orderly relegation, relying on Dougie Freedman's talent for identifying value in the Football League ?
5. Do you seek to sell on to a completely new foreign owner because you've poured your life and soul in to the last 7 years and could do without the thankless hassle and aggravation?
This is now a very high stakes game of stick or twist, which could have far reaching consequences for Crystal Palace. Only time will tell if decisions made over the next few days were good ones.
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