On a brighter note , Andros is looking for a game

And we still need a striker

Don’t joke, that would be such a Palace thing to do.

It was widely reported weeks ago that he had already agreed terms, it’s been pretty much signed & sealed since then if that’s not tapping up I don’t know what is, you are supposed to get written consent from the club before engaging in dialogue.

I don't see anything happening. Parish is too smart to make it official (we need Chelsea), and also I don't believe it would go anywhere, Firstly, a release clause gives the player the right to leave anytime for a set price. So long as this is secured by Palace, we haven't been short changed as we set the price with Olise. Secondly, Chelsea like Man City are now just too big for the Premier to fight. Forget FFP, Man City have already shown that they can run rings round our spineless officials.
In my opinion, the Super League is just round the corner. That's when football is going to really change. What we are seeing now is just the top top clubs positioning themselves to be sure they are part of it.
Our only chance of joining that club was to get a huge arab investor, build a big new stadium at Crystal Palace but probably go beyond the reach financially of our fan base.
So it probably wouldn't have worked.
We need to start preparing for the top tier of football in this country without the big teams and therefore without the big money. To even consider building that massive lnew stand now is way too ambitious and unless we get that elusive investor, it won't happen.

Of course there is, this interest in our squad is hard for many to accept at the moment. In main I suspect because we are not used to it, we never really have anyone that is worth buying.

That should be it in simple terms. If we didn’t give permission they couldn’t talk to Olise. and that’s not likely as Chelsea only now call on the clause. Yet the world has known that Chelsea were going to have the boy for the whole window. That being the case it’s not likely Olise did not have a better than most idea of what Chelsea had in mind. The naughty bit for me is Chelsea waiting till now to pull the trigger, in that respect they have definitely taken the piss, only now can Palace stop guessing , and as Chelsea always knew this deal was as good as done, from day one, and Palace didn’t , their motives have to be questioned. Palace should be annoyed. But they won’t get anywhere the Premier league is completely in the hands of the mega money, and I mean completely.