Sources – The owner of the Jets Johnson Eyes Crystal Palace Pleed in the middle of the fears uel
Woody Johnson, the owner of the NFL New York Jets, is in talks on an investment of 200 million pounds Sterling (272 million dollars) in Crystal Palace, sources told ESPN – an agreement that could open the way to FA Cup winners to participate in the UEFA Europa League of next season.
Palace, which won its very first major trophy by beating Manchester City in the FA Cup final in Wembley, risks being excluded from the Europa League due to a violation of the multicalbas property rule.
The minority stakeholders John Textor also has a majority participation in the Ligue 1 Lyon team.
Although Textor has no daily involvement in the management of Palace, which is controlled by President Steve Parish and American investors Josh Harris and David Blitzer, the UEFA rules prevent two teams with the same property by playing in the same competition unless sharing in a club are placed in a blind trust.
Textor did not manage to place its palace or Lyon shares in such a vehicle by the deadline of UEFA on March 1 – more than two months before Palace guarantees the qualification of the Europa League by winning the FA Cup.
However, sources have said that Textor, whose Eagle football group also includes the daring Belgian club Brussels and the Brazilian Botafogo team, is ready to sell their 43% stake in Palace, with Johnson the main candidate to eliminate an agreement.
Johnson, 78, was an ambassador of the United States to the United Kingdom between 2017 and 2021 and he made a failed offer to buy Chelsea after the previous owner, the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, was sanctioned by the British government in 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
Johnson previously said he was a supporter of Chelsea. If Textor discharges her palaces shares, sources have declared that she would solve the multi-gender property problems that threaten the team’s place in the Europa League for next season.
