The American businessman John Textor, 43 % owned by the Crystal Palace, considering the sale of its shareholders so that the English club can participate in the next edition of the Europe League.
The Palace, who won its place in European competition thanks to achieving the FA Cup by defeating Manchester City at the final 1-0, has not met the policies against multiipropities established by the UEFA since Textor He is also a shareholder of Olympique de Lyonalso qualified for the Europe League.
According to The Times, the textor is willing to get rid of his part of the palace for 170 million pounds (199 million euros) and an American consortium led by Josh Harris and David Blitzer, Currently those with 36 % of the club, including Woody Johnson, Have -owned New York Baseball Jets, They are interested in their purchase. In fact, according to the BBC, they have already shown a first offer.
In this way, the palace adheres to the UEFA regulation and can play this competition. The Textor, at a meeting with the Nyon agency, offered to put his actions into a trust, but UEFA told him that the deadline had expired, so a sale of his actions seems to be the simplest outcome to this problem.
Nottingham pressures
The Nottingham Forest is the club that will benefit from a hypothetical exclusion of the palace and therefore written days ago in the UEFA to express anxiety about the current situation.
Its owned, Evangelos marinakis, He also owns the Olympiacos, and, when there is a possibility of both playing the Champions League, he puts their actions into a confidence to avoid destroying policies against UEFA multiprises.
Nottingham wrote to UEFA to hit them to make a decision summarized by the European agency by the end of this month.
If not included, the palace can go to the sports arbitration court. For Londoners this is the first time in their gaming history in Europe, beyond two games playing in the 1998 Intertot Cup.
Source: La Verdad
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