Palace potentially denied entry to Europa League?

Part Time James said:
Based on nothing I wouldn't be surprised if UEFA DON'T think we have broken any rules and have been convinced by now that we're ok, but are wary that they can't give a watertight rejection to Forest's claim.
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Firstly as Forest are not party to dispute can't see they can go go to court. Even if they found loophole and court agreed to hear the benefit of proof is on them not uefa. Plus this,allows questions about their behaviour purchases of 3 eagle players, relationship of Greek with Textor etc, own financial irregularities etc.
Uefa will say yes or no. If no we appeal and the rules of uefa will looked at both from a legal point of view and practicalities. The fact Lyon were given time to sort out their mess will go in palaces favour. The ruling on irish club kicked out is irrelevant they knew they were in breach on date specified in rules and could have but didn't rectify. Our breach is at worst debatable, and it was impossible to know on due date that we may need to prove we were not in breach.
One Solution I see is that Palace agree to postpone europa league for 1 year. Fa lose 1 place for europa this year but gain one following season to be taken by Palace. If Palace qualify by League position this extra place is rescinded
 
wilelliott88 said:
Id argue what the rules say are terribly unclear and its a grey area. If it was a simple shared ownership we'd be out already.
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It would seem so. The fact that as cup winners we could not have been reasonably expected to meet any deadlines set , must be giving UEFA nightmares. If UEFA accept that Textors involvement didn’t break their rules, and it starts to look unlikely, then no case to answer. Plenty of room for litigation in all of this and as many have said ,that is the most probable reason for delay.
 
wilelliott88 said:
Id argue what the rules say are terribly unclear and its a grey area. If it was a simple shared ownership we'd be out already.
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It becomes an issue only if Lyon are in the same competition (i.e that's where the shared ownership creates a potential conflict).
There was no need to remove us if Lyon were out.
If Lyon are now included in the Europa, as seems likely, their highel league position means they qualify instead of us if there is determined to be shared ownership.
Their higher league position takes pecedence.
 
PatrickA said:
It becomes an issue only if Lyon are in the same competition (i.e that's where the shared ownership creates a potential conflict).
There was no need to remove us if Lyon were out.
If Lyon are now included in the Europa, as seems likely, their highel league position means they qualify instead of us if there is determined to be shared ownership.
Their higher league position takes pecedence.
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The bit about shared ownership is the grey area. JT didnt have full control and there has been very little direct signings between us & them (we gave them O'brien for f all), but otherwise....

Itll be a cracking Netflix documentary...
 
The precedent set by Trivela’s ownership of both Drogheda Utd and Silkeborg IF should not be a like for like issue. This American investment firm owns 90% shares in Drogheda and 80% shares in Silkeborg.

It should also be noted that they run a proper MCO business model with an integration of player development, scouting and commercial operations as their stated objectives.
 
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Part Time James said:
To be fair I saw quite a lot of positivity from Newcastle fans that both us and them had won cups this year. In fact every fanbase apart Brighton seemed pleased for us.
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I know, I’m only joking really because I met some on holiday and they were brilliant, we had some good old footballing chats and blew a lot of smoke up eachothers backsides
 
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