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'We have to remember we all love football because teams like us can get here': Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish comes out fighting against the game’s elite… as his co-owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer bid to buy Chelsea

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.’

Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has promised his ambition at the club will not change
Harris' co-owners at Palace, Josh Harris and David Blitzer, have put in an offer to buy Chelsea

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.