The UEFA brought the decision on Friday to expel Crystal Palace from the European League for violating the ownership rules over several clubs participating in the same competition. The UEFA said Crystal Palace has the right to appeal to the court for sports arbitration in Lausanne.
Instead, Nottingham Forest goes to the European League, which ended the season in the Premier League in the seventh place.
John Textor, the owner of Crystal Palace and Lyona – who was also in big problems and only recently managed to stay in Ligue 1 after the accepted Ejection appeal in Ligue 2 – he tried to “weld” by agreeing on the sale of his 41 percent in Crystal Palace. With that money, he was allegedly trying to solve and financial problems in Lyon, which seems to have succeeded.
However, the sale of shares is not formalized, checks in the Premier League are still underway, and everything is realized too late. The deadline that UEFA was set by was 1. March.
On time, Nottingham Forest solved his ownership difficulties – while in the club believed that I could handle the Champions League – so they occupy the place of Crystal Palace in the European League.
However, it remains unclear why Crystal Palace was only transferred to the conference league, given the additional problem. David Blitzer, owner of about 10 percent of Palace’s shares, is also the majority owner of Brøndby, who finished the season in Denmark in a third place.
That detail, it seems, not taken as an aggravating circumstance.
(Vijesti.ba)
