Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has confessed that Albion's arch-rivals messed up by selling Glenn Murray.

The Seagulls' marksman was sold by next Tuesday's Amex visitors to Bournemouth in 2015, when Alan Pardew was manager.

Parish, quoted by the Croydon Advertiser, said at The Business Show in Olympia: "The fact that Glenn is not at this club is a massive regret for me. We made a mistake, simple as that.

"He did have a cruciate injury and I was told by managers he wasn't good enough and that he wouldn't make it. In the Premier League he didn't do this and he didn't do that.

"It's difficult. They are your football experts. I don't think they were doing it out of spite, that they didn't like Glenn - that's actually what they believed at the time.

"Maybe they hadn't watched him enough. Sometimes you don't realise people are good enough until they are given the opportunity."

Murray suffered cruciate knee ligament damage in the first leg of Palace's victory over Albion in the Championship play-offs in 2012-13.

He has scored four goals in the Seagulls' last four Premier League games.