Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish is delighted with their summer market campaign.
Parish revealed a cautious optimism for the season ahead, and expressed his satisfaction with the last few weeks:
He told the club's website: “I think in the context of what we hoped we might achieve before the window started, especially given the injuries we had at the end [of 20/21]… in the context of that and adapting to that and trying to make sure we have the options to get us through that period, I would give us probably a 9/10.
“I think there's maybe one other thing that we might have liked to get done. But as the manager quite rightly said when we couldn't get that done: 'Let's not get something else done for the sake of it, because we have good players here and we've got good players coming back.'
"I don't think it's going to be easy, but I definitely feel good about the work we've done... We got it done nice and early. We were sat here on the last day of the window pretty much done... That's not always been the case. Congratulations to the sporting department, to Dougie [Freedman], to the manager, to everybody that's worked on it.
“We've had the benefit of having a little bit of money in a market that's a little bit flatter than normal. We're not deluding ourselves, but we've taken that opportunity well and we did plan for it.
“I don't think we could have done a much better job financially for what we've got for the money. Where that gets us to we'll have to see. Like everybody else, I'm optimistic about what I'm seeing, I'm really encouraged by it, but Premier League wins are tough things to come by."
