Simon Jordan has told talkSPORT that if the Crystal Palace board had allowed Tony Pulis free rein with transfer funds, they risked letting the boss “run havoc” with the club.

Pulis suddenly left the club by mutual consent on Thursday evening, after failing to bring in a number of key targets and reportedly clashing with co-chairman Steve Parish regarding transfer policy.

The former Stoke boss performed brilliantly to keep Palace up last season and finish 11th in the Premier League, having taken over from Ian Holloway in November with the club sat rock bottom of the table.

And that led Pulis to feel he deserved more backing in the transfer market, something which resulted in his departure and criticism from Eagles supporters for allowing the 56-year-old to leave.

But former Palace chairman, Jordan, vehemently disagreed with the majority of fans, and told the Sports Bar: “Football managers are incredibly difficult people to deal with because they believe their own hype. They are an employee like any other member of the club. They might be a very, very important employee but notwithstanding, they’re still an employee and they have to do as they’re told within reason and they don’t like it.

“Whether Parish is a difficult character or not, he makes the decisions and the football club has prospered under his management, so I think he’s earned the right to make certain decisions.”

Parish and Pulis held crunch talks on Thusday evening which led to the latter’s departure and Jordan lent his backing to the Palace co-chairman not bowing to the manager’s demands.

“If you’re put in a position where you’re the chairman and you’re called out by a manager, if you lose that battle it’s like a manager having a go at a player in the dressing room and then not putting that player down when the player gets up.

“I know what managers will do, they will put you to the sword. If you don’t stand up and you don’t manage your football club properly, they will run havoc in it and then they will disappear into the ether when it least suits you.

“Pulis is an established Premier League manager and a very, very good one. But by the same token, he was at Stoke for a few years and he was used to writing big cheques for Wilson Palacios or Peter Crouch.

“Palace isn’t at that stage yet. If it is about transfer policy, I’ve got to go with the Palace guys because they’ve got a bigger picture to look at. Maybe they think staying up last year was a very admirable thing to achieve and lightning doesn’t strike twice, maybe they want to build a new stadium, maybe they’ve got a bigger picture.

“But you can be sure that when it suits Tony Pulis or any other football manager, they will leave when it suits them and football club owners like these guys have got to deal with the aftermath.”