Palace potentially denied entry to Europa League?

[Eaglecoops]

UK/Greek laws are irrelevant here what matters are the rules in the UEFA rulebook. If you have two clubs in the competition you only have to place one into a blind trust. At that point you are only considered to have decisive control over the other club and having control over one club is fine. Marinakis placed Forrest into a blind trust and did nothing with Olympiacos, this would have been sufficient for UEFA. Similarly if Textor had placed his shares in Lyon into a blind trust both us and Lyon would have been cleared to play in the Europa League.

The laws are relevant as to what you can and can’t do with shares as it’s still a business that is subject to that country’s laws but I take your point.

 

[Dumademption]

Have you got the info relating to that because that is not how I read it.

There is nothing in the rules saying which of the two clubs an owner has to place in a blind trust. It just says you cannot have influence at two clubs at the same time. Placing either club into a trust would resolve this issue as in UEFAs eyes you no longer have influence at that club leaving you only influential at one club.

You can see this from both what Marinakis did in only placing Forrest into a trust, or what other owners like United or City did in previous years where they placed their other clubs but not the English ones into trusts.

 

[dg1937]

Because he had decisive control at Palace. This is how UEFA view it, as ludicrous as it sounds.

Supposedly he would be able to go into the Palace changing room and influence a game to benefit another of his clubs.

He could only get out of this by recusing himself from both clubs.

Interestingly, if Textor had put his Palace shares into trust and not his Lyon shares then Lyon would have been relegated to the Conference.

My personal feeling is that Textor knew this all along but took a calculated risk that Palace wouldn’t win the Cup hence why he had an, “oh s***” moment when Palace did win.

But his ‘oh s***’ moment came while Lyon were relegated to division 2 AND, even if that were to be overturned by the French FA, as it was, at that stage Lyon were not in a sufficiently high position in Ligue 1 to qualify for the Europe League. The ‘oh s***’ moment should have come a week or so later when Lyon moved up into the EL qualifying positions in Ligue 1. As has been mentioned before, how could Textor KNOW that was going to happen? One might come to the conclusion that results in Ligue 1 had been fixed in advance. Or am I missing something?

 

[iheartcpfc]

Find it very strange how many neutrals have turned against us for standing up for ourselves and not going quietly. Apparently they've all decided we're run terribly and love the "rules are rules" mantra, plus we definitely could have sorted it (though when you ask how they aren't exactly overflowing with solutions).

If it was their clubs and they knew how laughable the idea that Textor had "decisive influence" over us is they'd be absolutely seething but no, they know better than us apparently. Personally they can stick their patronising "wish them the best in the CL" up their aris's

 

[iheartcpfc]

Welcome, fella.
So why did UEFA not allow Palace access to the communications between the relevant parties, which I assume would include your owners request to UEFA about Palace’s inclusion in the Europa League?
Why are Palace held to a 1st March date when Lyon had until 9th July?
Why did Forest not manage to hang onto their Champions League position - was it because your owner had moved aside so couldn’t influence the club?
I have nothing against Forest fans; just your owner and UEFA for what to us seems to be a bizarre case of double standards.

I do, they're a set of absolute wankers