Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has promised his ambition will not change if his co-owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer quit Selhurst Park for Chelsea.
‘We’ll be fine, we’ll carry on doing what we do,’ said Parish as he vowed to keep Palace moving forward and flying the flag for those clubs locked outside the Premier League elite.
‘It’s not like we were trying to buy our way into the top four and that’s suddenly going to stop. If some people choose to do other things, we’ll manage that.’
Harris and Blitzer are a key element to one of the three groups still competing for the right to buy Chelsea from Roman Abramovich, and the US investors will have to sell the stake they bought in Palace in December 2015 if they succeed.