01-07-2025, 12:24 PM
(01-07-2025, 11:01 AM)Paplane Wrote:(01-07-2025, 10:49 AM)Sausage Roll Wrote:(01-07-2025, 10:48 AM)Paplane Wrote:(01-07-2025, 08:36 AM)BomberBowyer Wrote:(01-07-2025, 07:28 AM)Paplane Wrote: Because there's a whole heap of legal hassle on the way if they ban them now. See it from their point of view, why not just let it play out? The french FA and Lyon will need their dispute settling quickly too. Its July now.
Fair points. It just seems though from what is being reported that if Lyon win their appeal Palace are kicked out EL but if Lyon lose their appeal, Palace will stay in EL. So the latter infers they would get away in that scenario with braking the rules.
They won't have broken the rules though will they as Textor won't have control over two clubs in the competition? Unless you consider the rule to be that no owner shall have a controlling influence over two clubs 'at the point in which they qualified' to play in Europe, not 'who will actually be competing in the tournament'.
That's the question. At the time of UEFA's deadline of March 1st they *had* broken the rules.
Yep. I'm no lawyer, but I reckon a court would determine that the significant issue at hand is who will actually be playing in the tournament, not who was breaking the rules at some arbitrary point in time, months before a ball is kicked.
By delaying I also think that UEFA are trying to give Palace as much chance as possible to enable them to compete, rather then kicking them out now, which I think is the right thing to do. Yes, we're affected to a certain degree, but that's the right thing to do really.
Suspect you are right. I know its a different issue but shame in that case then that others didn’t seem fit to want to give as much leniency to us when we breached the PSR limits. Afterall, that would have been the right thing to do surely seeing as we followed through on selling Johnson as we said we would and maximised the amount we got for him.