🗣️ Pierre Sage on the Fanatics not being there: “We are waiting for them, I expect they will come back quickly.
“I know they are here, but now they have to be here to sing, to share all these emotions with us.”
@ultrascpfc do it for the club 🙏🦅
@chrisreidy1
🚨 Dean Benamar, Benji Casey and Kaden Rodney will be in the squad alongside King and Drakes-Thomas, while Mofe Jemide has been omitted despite being invited to train with Glasner’s side.
@BobbyManzi
🗣️ Glasner on team news: “All the players have come back from Poland healthy. There was just one small question mark over Will Hughes.
“He had a knock on his quad, so it’s a little bit questionable, but it looks like he’ll be ok.”
“But everything with the trip went like we scheduled it, so that’s why we’ll train in the afternoon. Tomorrow we will go to Liverpool and prepare well.”
Julian Alvarez has matured into one of the best CF’s on the planet at 25 years of age.
Look at the sheer range of goals he has scored this season alone. He has also taken on more responsibility as a #9, popping up with some mad winners.
What a CF.
https://t.co/7OasyEVQD3
Crystal Palace believe they have a very strong case when they appeal against UEFA’s decision to demote them from the Europa League at the Court of Arbitration for Sport tomorrow. Palace chairman Steve Parish has arrived here in Lausanne today and he is confident of victory. Palace see the hearing in Switzerland as their one and only shot at overturning what they believe is a completely unfair decision.
Parish and Palace spent the early part of the summer working closely with UEFA in order to keep their Europa League place, but their lawyers are expected to take a much more aggressive and less conciliatory approach in the day-long hearing at CAS. They will argue that Palace have been singled out for unfair treatment and that UEFA treats clubs differently - depending on their wealth and influence - when it comes to applying its rules.
Parish and a high-powered team of executives and senior lawyers will present Palace’s case at the hearing. Parish believes UEFA’s decision to demote Palace to the Conference League for allegedly breaking multi-club ownership rules is “one of the greatest injustices in the history of European football”.
Palace are appealing against UEFA, Nottingham Forest and Lyon over UEFA’s decision to remove them from the Europa League. They want their place back at the expense of either Forest or Lyon. Palace were demoted by UEFA because US businessman John Textor owned significant stakes in Palace and Lyon and they both qualified for the Europa League. If Palace lose the appeal, Forest are in line to replace them in the competition.
In the CAS hearing, Palace will argue:
•UEFA has different rules for different clubs. Last season. Manchester City and Girona, who are both part of the City Football Group, played in the Champions League. Manchester United and Nice, who are run by investors and owners INEOS, played in the Europa League. In 2018, Red Bull Salzburg and RB Leipzig were in the same Europa League group and played each other home and away.
•They have never been run as part of a multi-club operation. Eagle Football had shares in Palace but the club is run by Parish. Textor became so frustrated with his lack of influence, he sold his stake to US businessman Woody Johnson last month.
•Textor missed the 1 March deadline to place his Palace shares in a blind trust in order to get round UEFA’s rules because he was actively trying to sell his stake and could not afford to lose control of the process.
•The European Clubs Association, which has close links to UEFA, advised its 700 members that the 1 March deadline was not set in stone and clubs had until 31 May to comply with the rules. Nottingham Forest received this advice but Palace did not because they are not members of the ECA.
•Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis placed his shares in a blind trust when it appeared that Forest and his Greek club Olympiacos may both qualify for the Champions League. Records at Companies House show this was done on 30 April, almost two months after the 1 March deadline.
•They have legal documents which say the real deadline to comply with the rules was 30 April and not 1 March.
•UEFA sent updates about its multi-club ownership rules to [email protected] instead of senior club executives. Emails to Lyon were sent to the right email address.
CAS are expected to announce their judgement on Monday and it remains to be seen whether Palace will consider suing Textor for damages if they lose their place in the Europa League. Playing in the third-tier Conference League instead of the second-tier Europa League could cost Palace as much as £20 million in lost revenue.
If Palace lose the appeal, it would make it more difficult to keep players such as Eberechi Eze, Marc Guehi and Jean-Philippe Mateta.
They would also have to play Fredrikstad or Midtjylland in a two-legged Conference League play off later this month.
CRYSTAL PALACE FA CUP WINNERS ‘25 - THE MAKING OF THE WEMBLEY DISPLAYS.
All displays will always be funded, designed and painted by Palace fans.
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UEFA General Sec Theodoridis celebrating Nottingham Forest’s promotion alongside his friend and father’s business partner Marinakis.
Allegations of corruption and cronyism have plagued UEFA under Theodoridis & Ceferin, the same way criminal allegations have followed Marinakis.