Simon Jordan, the Crystal Palace chairman, says he has taken the Coca-Cola Championship club as far as he can and is hoping to find a new buyer this season.

Jordan, who took the south London team out of administration in 2000, says he has grown disillusioned with the game, especially after the decision by a Football League transfer tribunal to award Palace £700,000 for John Bostock, the 16-year-old midfielder who moved to Tottenham Hotspur.

"Without a shadow of a doubt, this is my last year," Jordan said. "I've taken the club as far as I can.

"It's my specific intention to find a buyer this season. I will do nothing to affect manager Neil Warnock and I will be absolutely committed to the club and I will find a responsible buyer.

"I am not demotivated by the team, manager or fans. But I have been disillusioned with football for a long time.

"I kept my sanity by pumping millions of pounds into my academy, feeling the saving grace of my club was finding players who would be chomping at the bit and honoured to play in the first team.

"But that's been taken away from me as well. Bostock was one of the best players my academy has produced in the last ten years - and he has been sold for a packet of crisps."