Palace certified for the Europa League by beating Manchester Metropolis to win the FA Cup.
Lyon completed sixth within the French prime flight to initially achieve a spot within the Convention League, however had been promoted to the Europa League competitors after Paris St-Germain – already certified for the Champions League – gained the Coupe de France.
Via Eagle Soccer, Textor – who initially invested £90m into Crystal Palace in 2021 – owns round 45% of the membership and 90% of Lyon.
The American was appointed a director and joined co-owner Steve Parish, Josh Harris and David Blitzer on the board.
In January 2022, he invested in Brazilian membership Botafogo and Belgian facet RWD Molenbeek. Eagle Soccer nonetheless has controlling pursuits in either side.
He grew to become the proprietor of Lyon in June 2022.
As a result of Eagle Soccer has solely has a forty five% stake in Palace, the membership will not be a part of the group’s multi-club organisation. Palace haven’t signed a participant from any of these golf equipment, though Jake O’Brien, now at Everton, did transfer to Lyon from their academy.
Textor has tried to buy a controlling stake in Palace prior to now as a result of it’s thought he would like to have total management of the membership.
Nonetheless, he has extra just lately tried to purchase Everton and likewise sought a purchaser for his Palace shares.
In an interview with the BBC final yr, he mentioned he doesn’t run Palace – chairman and co-owner Parish does – though he can share his views.
He additionally conceded the pair disagree on their views over multi-club possession.
Nottingham Forest proprietor Evangelos Marinakis just lately diluted his management on the membership by inserting his shares in a blind belief, when it regarded like each Forest and Olympiakos – one other membership the Greek businessman owned – might each qualify for the Champions League.
However sources near Eagle Soccer consider placing these Palace shares in a ‘blind belief’ will not be an possibility as a result of Textor and Eagle Soccer shouldn’t have decisive affect over the Selhurst Park outfit.
Crystal Palace and Uefa have each been approached for remark.
