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Dream on. I wish I had your optimism. I'd bet some weird outside chance, like Dennis Wise, Michael Appleton or Alan Curbishly at very best :(

 

Given that PULIS walked out on Palace due to lack of control over transfers, would he really be able to work with Ashley ?

Like Moyes, Laudrup and Hoddle, he is a very wealthy bloke, knows his value, and doesnt need to take a job where the shit is going to be flying at least 50% of the time. Bruce is probably in that category too, only he isnt very good.

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He's a Cardiff supporter from boyhood, nailed on for that gig..... If he fancies working for another chairman who wants a yes man to coach players brought in by scouts/agents, which was apparently his problem at Palace. So perhaps not. See also any possible coaching role at NUFC which may or may not be available in the near future...

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It is going to take a huge about turn by Ashley if any of the multi millionaires like Pulis, Moyes, Laudrup, Hoddle, Sherwood, Lennon and even Curbishley [how long has been out of football now ? } are to be attracted to SJP.

 

Is he they type of guy to do that is the question ???????

 

Normally my answer would be NO but, IF he is panicking about losing out on the big money in the PL {the parachute payments are big now but nothing compared to the real deal of having PL status} which he will eventually be, then perhaps Pulis and Moyes do genuinely have a chance ???

 

That would then mean that he'd have to abandon Carr as I just cannot see Moyes, Pulis etc, having foreigners pushed on them and told to work with them.

 

Views ??? Can he change ????

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Leaving Palace has just cost him £3.7 million and has had his reputation tarnished.

 

 

Given that PULIS walked out on Palace due to lack of control over transfers, would he really be able to work with Ashley ?

Like Moyes, Laudrup and Hoddle, he is a very wealthy bloke, knows his value, and doesnt need to take a job where the shit is going to be flying at least 50% of the time. Bruce is probably in that category too, only he isnt very good.

 

 

Tony Pulis’s reputation has been shredded in a High Court judgment against him in which he stands accused of acting fraudulently in engineering his departure from Crystal Palace immediately after receiving a £2million bonus.

 

In a damning judgement by Sir Michael Burton, Pulis has been ordered to pay Palace a total of £3,776,000 - £2,276,0000 for the repayment of the bonus plus liquidated damages of £1.5million. It is understood that costs could push that figure to more than £5million.

 

In a 32-page ruling the judge concluded there was no evidence to support Pulis, who challenged the findings of an independent mediation tribunal, set up under Football Association rules, which had declared that “his conduct...has been shown to be disgraceful” and he had “deliberately misled” Palace chairman Steve Parish so he could eventually find a better job.

 

The acrimonious dispute stemmed from August 2014 when Pulis, now the West Bromwich Albion manager, was due a £2million ‘survival’ bonus after guiding Palace to safety in the Premier League. Under his contract the payment was to be made at the end of August but Pulis asked Parish that he paid it early because he needed the money to purchase a plot of land for his daughter.

 

The tribunal suggested that Pulis "sought to play on Mr Parish's goodwill by referring to the land as being for his family (Mr Parish having recently attended the wedding of one of his daughters)."

 

The day after Pulis received the money he told a stunned Parish that he wanted to leave Palace.

 

It later transpired there had been a heated meeting with the players over bonus payments for them which Pulis had said took place on August 12 – the day before he said he wanted to go and the day he received his bonus – but was actually proved to have taken place four days earlier on August 8 after which the manager was said to have told the chairman he remained committed to the club.

 

Pulis called three players – Barry Bannan, Lewis Price and Stuart O’Keefe, all no longer at Palace – who gave evidence that they remembered the meeting as having taken place on August 12. However the judge found that Parish was not at the training ground that day and that they must have misremembered. Palace additionally had telecommunications evidence, taxi receipts and rival statements to counter the claim, plus Parish was able to prove that he had a hairdressers' appointment that day.

 

Pulis cited the meeting as a reason for him wanting out, believing his relationship with the club had broken down, but the judge backed the findings of the panel – compromised of three eminent QCs – that Palace were right about the date of the meeting.

 

The panel added that Pulis was “not willing to concede that the heated players’ meeting did not occur on August 12 because he otherwise had no explanation [for his departure]”. It went on that it was “more likely that he intended to seek more lucrative employment with another club” and that there was no evidence of an "imminent property transaction” – the reason why he said he needed the money in advance – and that “he deliberately gave Mr Parish the impression that he had a pressing need for the money”.

 

 

 

In one of the most damning passages of the tribunal’s findings, quoted by the judge in his ruling, it said that Pulis’s “conduct has been shown to be disgraceful”.

 

It added: "It is simply not credible that he [Pulis] could honestly say that he was happy and committed to the Club on 8 August and have changed his mind so completely by 13 August, when nothing had happened other than him having received £2million from the Club."

 

Judge Burton said he dismissed Pulis’s application to challenge the tribunal’s findings and ordered him to repay the bonuses, damages and legal costs “for deceit”.

 

The case was brought after Pulis challenged the findings of a tribunal which was set up under FA Rule K Arbitrations which is a legally sanctioned alternative resolution proceedings (under the Arbitration Act) and so is recognised in law. Palace can now enforce the right to be paid the money in the courts.

 

Pulis did a remarkable job at Palace when he took over from Ian Holloway in November 23 2013 on a two-and-a-half year contract as he guided them away from the threat of relegation, with just four points from 11 games, to 11th place. The 58-year-old was named Premier League manager of the year at the end of the season. After leaving Palace he joined West Brom the following January.

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Apparently the only reason Berahino is still at west brom is because Pulis will trouser a large wedge from the deal due to some sort of relationship with the player's agent. The club chairman point blank refuses to sell the player to prevent Pulis lining his pockets :lol:

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