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Do you have any evidence to back that up?

QPR, Hull, Cardiff, Fulham etc all have parachute payments that give them a £20 million head start over the Albion. Do you see the disconnect in our income?

Fulham spent £10.5 million on McCormack, Rovers spent £9 million on Rhodes. Where did it get them? A £7m signing on a five year contract is £1.4 million a year. Add to that wages of (say) 25k a week and it works out at a cost of about £2,5 million a year. FFP loss is £13 million, which is an...

That's Tony Bloom's decision, it's his money, not 'ours'.

He's had one and a bit windows. The club progressed when we had stability at the top.

So where is the money going to come from?

Having experienced it 1979-83, it's not all that it's cracked up to be. We ended up with sub 10,000 crowds at home and sub 100 travelling to some away matches.

He didn't fall over at the Amex

Agreed, Palace were helped by a club gifting them a 30 goal a season striker on a Bosman to help them to promotion. (Opens old wound, gets salt shaker)

I agree with your second point, but small clubs such as Palace get 90% of their income from TV rights, and so attendances and facilities are a non-issue in terms of being able to recruit players, as their main focus is wages, which are determined to a large extent by the division in which the...

What's stopping you then?

We didn't panic in the last January window either and ended up with Leon Best.