And yet the club he left owns have had around eight managers since 2015. Neville is a walking hypocrisy.

The word is that Venkys will soon be gone and will be replaced by a cousin of the current Manchester City owner. His name is Sheikh Anvac. His first brief will be to put the freshness back.

I think Tomasson gave him the platform to play and Adam thrived under his style of play. Adam did an interview at the end of last season and praised Tomasson and the way he had handled him. Tomasson himself praised Adam's ability on the ball but said he needed to do more out of possession. In his interview Adam agreed and having seen him a few times for Palace his defensive work has definitely improved.

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/13140614/from-blackburn-to-england-who-is-adam-wharton No Rovers footage on this but it's a snapshot of what our more learned supporters saw.

Joe Rankin-Costello said that Adam puts a disguise on his passes that he hasn't seen any other player do. After I saw Adam play a few times in the under 21's I said he had the potential to be an England player. It's really galling to me that when Rovers sold him there was a quote from the club which said that 'Palace had met our valuation'. I said at the time what qualifies the likes of Waggott, Broughton, Suhail and the idiotic ones to put a valuation on any player?

I'm really pleased for Adam and his family and anybody with any sense could see his potential coming through the ranks at Rovers. Hearing this though only increases my intense dislike of Waggott, Pasha and the owners. The fee we got for him was well below what many thought he was worth and we were right and not with the benefit of hindsight. Of course he is playing on a bigger stage in the PL and with better players but the majority of us could see what he had playing in an average Championship team. Palace completely took advantage of the financial situation that the owners have put themselves in through their questionable business dealings. Unforgivable.

I believe that will be the brief to Eustace next season. The budgets will once again be trimmed and the extra revenue from Sky will be used to keep the lights on. I too was told that Broughton was effectively made redundant and as such cannot be directly replaced under employment law. There could be an appointment but it won't be like for like. It's a real mess.

And cheap.

I saw both games against Franchise FC and was impressed with several Crawley players. Kelly was very good but Orsi and Lolos also took the eye. I have seen Raith play several times this season too and really like the look of their goalkeeper Kevin Drabrowski. He is about 6' 5" and dominates his penalty area. Good shot stopper and with the ball at his feet. I don't get to snobbish about where the player comes from and use Szmodics as an example. If they are hungry and have some attributes that we can work on to make them Championship standard then I would go for them.

De Zerbi is leaving Brighton they have announced. Interestingly I read a few days ago this was going to happen and that Brighton would be trying to bring Kompany in. It makes sense to me given the way they want to play.

Alex Baker and Isaac Whitehall both have similar injury records and have both been offered new deals although Whitehall did come back and play a few under 21 games towards the end of the season. I don't know how much each of them earn but it seems strange that Sam Barnes is being released yet two others aren't. Throw Fleck into that equation and once again questions are being asked.

He thanks lots of people but omits the likes of Waggott, Suhail and the owners. To me that speaks volumes and indicates who the real problems at the club are.

According to President Nixon there was a clause in his deal which triggered a new contract offer if he played fifteen minutes or more. 😁😁 It is absolutely insane though considering what he has already cost us.

I'm really surprised Saadi has been offered a new deal. He is 22 and has spent time in loan at the likes of Marine. If he accepts I think he will be on peanuts but given our financial situation I think it's money wasted. Isaac Whitehall has been offered a new deal but I think he has something to offer despite spending nigh on two seasons injured. Similarly Alex Baker has been out injured for a long time and like Whitehall is clearly being offered a deal to prove his fitness. In light of these two I really don't understand letting Sam Barnes go. Surely he too should be given a chance to prove his fitness. Frankly I'm amazed that Fleck has been offered a deal.

My take is that there was a typically arrogant belief from them that the authorities would allow money to be sent and this was relayed to Waggott. Not getting the permission to do so set off the chain reaction of selling Adam. Given the haste with which that deal happened it's more than feasible that this is true.

Re the last sentence the Indian authorities have adjourned the case until August with no mention of any interim agreement. I'm taking from that that no money could be sent. That is why speculation is rife that the first tranche of the Adam Wharton few has enabled us to keep going.

At least Silvester got the 'thanks for your endeavours' line. What have we become?

Waggott and Suhail will not want anybody coming in who will rock their cosy little boat. Why did Mowbray last five years? I believe it was mainly due to him acting as subservient and accepting all the background noise. I think Eustace is similar to Mowbray in that respect and was hand picked by Waggott for this reason. Him and Mowbray are good at playing down the supporters expectations and this suits Waggott, Suhail and the errant ones. Tomasson has the temerity show some ambition and to publicly challenge them both and the result was that he left after they were afraid that he would out them to the media. I don't know how much of a fight he put up but in my view he didn't have the ear of the owners, I'm not sure if he ever even met them. Likewise Broughton who I've heard left as part of a 'cost cutting' exercise. Add that to Silvester's 'taken early retirement' and you can build up a picture of how Waggott and Suhail really work in the cosy little, unchallenged environment. However this rotten stink will never leave until the owners do.

Congratulations to Leeds on their promotion to the Premier League tonight. I know it's not true but the way they celebrated and the way Sky treated them you'd think they got there tonight. Actually I never thought I'd agree with the Leeds fans but I completely concur with their three minutes of 'Ashley Barnes is fucking shit' chant.

Another player who was the victim of our botched player dealinge. Fortunately for him he dodged a bullet.

When we were kids and probably through to the mid nineties pretty much every First Division or latterly Premier League clubs had several Scottish players in their team (not squad). The riches that Sky brought meant that rather than looking at players from Scotland the player influx became global. I watch quite a few Scottish games and there are definitely players there who could make the step up to Championship or even Premier League. It's almost snobbery from the vast majority of clubs who look down their nose. For a club like ours it should be a real area for recruitment given our constraints.

The irony is though that offside judgements from VAR are the only truly accurate decisions because they are a matter of fact. The only positive from that would perhaps be that it would take less time than the current inordinate amount it takes.

And as of this morning they have sold 30,000 tickets for their playoff final against Oxford on Saturday. I shudder to think how embarrassed we would be with poor ticket sales if we ever got to Wembley under this shower.

'But we could be another Bolton' has been a favourite saying of some of our more myopic fans. Well with a CEO like this I'd take that in a heartbeat.

It is sometimes conveniently overlooked but the majority of our big signings under Dalglish were sold on for significant profits (although we didn't want some to go). I'm thinking of Shearer, Sutton, Le Saux and others. The converse happened under Kidd and Hodgson when we bought average Joe's for big money and pretty much gave them away. The likes of Carsley, Blake, Dailly, Davies and others were disastrous signings. The success of managers is sometimes determined by the quality of their signings.