John Textor’s plan to sell his shares at Crystal Palace and fund a takeover at Everton has been questioned, with doubts about future transfers.
Fogao cover an interview Flamengo president Rodolfo Landim gave to TNT Sports, and he’s questioned the whole plan by Textor.
The American businessman is currently the frontrunner to buy Everton from Farhad Moshiri and has been public with that fact.
He recently held a press conference for another of his clubs, Lyon, in which he stated he was 90% of doing the deal for Everton as his plans to sell his Crystal Palace shares.
The original belief had been that Textor would buy Everton as part of his Eagle Holdings group and make them part of a network which currently includes Lyon and Botafogo as well as Crystal Palace. Everton would replace the Eagles.
How that would work given the strict rules about ownership hasn’t been made clear and Landim has now questioned the legality of everything Textor has proposed.
“Football is becoming a transnational product, and we have observed some things that need regulation, but not just in the country, but in general,” he said.
“The case of Botafogo. Botafogo is part of a transnational group in which there are investments in Botafogo, Lyon, Crystal Palace, a club in Belgium, and there are federations in which there is financial fair play.
“It’s a difficult discussion to have at a country level, but at a global football level it needs to be taken into account, because we are already starting to see this type of thing happening.
“In the future, people there may argue: “Ah, I’m doing badly in this championship, but I’m doing well there, I’m going to transfer players there in the mid-year window so I can win.”
“Is this legal, should it happen? It’s things like this that should be discussed. I don’t have a clear position on this, but I think these are topics that we should debate.”
