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Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has revealed he regrets allowing Fraizer Campbell to leave Selhurst Park in summer.

Campbell was allowed to leave on a free transfer at the end of last season before joining up with Leonid Slutsky’s Hull City , where despite failing to score in six appearances he has impressed.

Despite letting Campbell go, the Eagles were unable to bring in reinforcements over the summer transfer window and a failed attempt to sign former Tiger Oumar Niasse leaves Christian Benteke the club’s only fit striker.

As such, new boss Roy Hodgson now has no option to persevere with a side that is still awaiting its first goal of the campaign until at least January and in hindsight Parish has admitted letting Campbell go in summer was a mistake.

"I would personally not have let Fraizer Campbell go and that is something I wish I had overruled on," Parish said in an interview with Holmesdale Radio.

"Fraizer struggled for goals at times but he came on, made a difference and gave us an option.

"The striker market is very difficult, and I won't talk about too many individual decisions, but I certainly thought we should have kept Fraizer.

"In an ideal world you have three fit strikers at the club – in the point of view of [Palace sporting director] Dougie [Freedman] you can never have too many, but it is rare to find a striker who can score goals in the Premier League and do the rest of it, so that you are not effectively playing a bit handicapped.

"In the Premier League you can't play with nine-and-a-half outfield players, you need a goalscorer who will work hard for the team, and certainly I felt that Fraizer gave us that."