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New Main Stand

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  Now that academy is finished. Parish and co can go “hell for leather” for the new stand. Let's look into what it will mean for the club.  Increase in seats in the main stand of 7,873, reduction in Family stand of 594 and filling in the corner of Arthur Wait to add 683 seats. That would put the ground at 34,259. It would make Selhurst Park the 14th biggest club ground in England. Looking through the plans, It looks like the club will really increase its corporate facilities with two floors of the five-floor stand just being for corporate. It looks good for all budgets of hospitality. Watching padded seat on TikTok, I have noticed very different levels of hospitality. Before that, I used to think it was all very high-end. Actually, there are more affordable packages but still expensive.  New landmark I remember in the early days of cpfc2010 they replaced the gates to the stadium car park. Before that, if there was a news story about Palace. The go-to picture was of the ta...
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Marquee signings

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Marquee signings Does Benteke leaving mean the end of Parish's Marquee signing era? Back in 2015 Palace signed Cabaye, next year brought in Benteke, then the season after it was Sakho. Could argue that this era was finished when Roy was in charge. We have changed the transfer strategy after getting a bloated wage bill and high amortisation. Since the club has slimmed down. Even though Palace’s current strategy of buying younger players with high resale value potential. I kinda miss the old days.  I am not going to included Wilf Zaha and Steve Mandanda as marquee signings. Zaha resigned as 22. He was still a player that was developing. Definitely a major signing buy not marquee. Steve, I am very close to adding as he was a very high profile player for football hipsters, FIFA, and Football manager players. The lack of transfer fee makes it harder to include him and Marseille isn’t the same level as PSG or Liverpool. Cabaye I remember the day that he signed and I was constantly refres...
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