Is that just blind belief?

im no expert & know no more than anybody else, just putting together bits of infomation read over time and yes, i do worry about us living within our means.

i am sure as long as we stay in the PL we will be fine, but i also think we beed to tighten our belts like we have done.

this article on the late accounts is interesting.

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‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

I was about to say that too. Financially if we're already on shaky ground it'd be disasterous if we went down this year. The Fulham result hasn't done us any harm that's for sure.

Our net debt in the 2017 accounts was about 2.5 million.

In the now unlikely event of relegation, we have massive asset value in our players let alone parachute payments. The fund for the new stand is unclear but it was stated the Americans would fund it albeit no doubt on an attractive loan.
Based on Saturdays game we have got an increasing number of options re players and finance. So long as we have a continued clearance of dead wood this summer then we should be good for mid table for the foreseeable. And we should be good to keep Wan and Wilf. More will depend on them.

I seem to remember one of the major things SP said when he took over Palace is that he would make sure we lived within our means and not `gamble` with the clubs future as others have done before him, something that seemed core to him at the time and ive seen nothing really that seems to contradict that.

given we have not really sold big players suggests to me the last few windows are of us being more prudent than desperate with money in order to keep things balanced and level.

If we were in real problems we would have been a little more willing to listen to offers for our biggest assets like Zaha.

So all in all I think we are in safe hands financially and are just being prudent. suspect the finacial trouble is like a gossip or whisper that is taking a life of its own and feeding itself.