Crystal Palace confirmed on Thursday (24) that US billionaire Woody Johnson finished the purchase of 45% of the shares that belonged to John Texor’s Eagle Football Group.
With the movement, Woody Johnson, who owns NFL New York Jets, joins Steve Parish, Josh Harris and David Blitzer as a partner and director of the English club.
I feel honored and privileged to join the group of owners of Crystal Palace. It is an organization with a history of pride, tradition, and deep roots in English football in southern London, which I learned to admire during my term as a US ambassador in the United Kingdom. Eagles fans have demonstrated extraordinary inabalageable loyalty, passion and dedication and I’m excited to get to know them better.
The values were not confirmed, but according to the British press (about R $ 1.4 billion).
John Texor, also owner of Botafogo’s SAF, decided to sell his part of the Palace after ReuNão in UEFA that discussed the participation of the English club in the next Europe League.
as textor owns Lyon, which will also participate in Europe League. The maximum European football entity considered that there was a break from the rules of property for the competition.
