It goes without saying that the news that came in earlier tonight was gutting for everyone associated for the club. Just when we seemed to be heading forward having risen from bottom place to 11th with the manager of the season in charge, we have not been plunged into chaos less than 48 hours before the new season.
Whilst we do not know and will not know the full details of the events that happened in a meeting between Pulis and Parish there are no prizes for guessing what the bulk of the discussion was centred around. This is of course the transfer window. In previous jobs Pulis has spent big money and evidently wanted to spend big this summer with Palace.
On his shortlist were presumably Gylfi Sigurdsson and Steven Caulker who we spent a lot of time trying to buy. They went on to leave for expensive fees to Swansea and Qpr respectively and its hard to see how we can compete financially with a club that has recently been in Europe and one that has a wage bill comically larger than that of Borrusia Dortmund. We as a club are not going to splash big sums on mediocre players as all it takes is for Pulis to leave in the midst of a crisis and we are left stranded like many other clubs have been.
For sure Parish is partly to blame but he owns the club, he runs the club and ultimately Pulis wanted to leave and he couldn’t stop this. If Pulis wanted to stay he would have continued working with the squad and made compromises but ultimately he thought he was bigger than club. This may be true but it is not the way it works and to be honest with you we do not need a manger that walks on us at one of the worst times possible.
I would like to thank Tony Pulis lastly for an incredible season he gave us. What he did for the club was exceptional and will not be forgotten.
Puncheon above our weight 