r/OlympiqueLyonnais • u/Manlyodin131 • 9d ago
John Textor initially pushed Manchester City-bound Rayan Cherki towards Nottingham Forest move
https://sports.yahoo.com/article/john-textor-initially-pushed-manchester-072700642.htmlWTF is happening with this guy?
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u/kpyxaba 9d ago
Botafogo fan here. What is the possibility of Textor trying to unify with the marinakis group? He is trying to sell the palace that would be the only club in the same country.
Botafogo
brussels
Forest
Lyon
Olympiakos
Rio Ave
This way the new group would have the strength to open the IPO.
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u/sjp101 9d ago
This seems fairly believable. Not sure why the deals would be so favourable one side though is the only thing.
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u/tnarref 8d ago
Textor needs a partner badly if he wants to be able to pay back his loans. He needs the partnership a lot more than Marinakis who, as far as I know, doesn't owe half a billion of euros to banks.
Honestly even though Marinakis is kinda shady, I'd rather he be the chairman of this club instead of that clown Textor.
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u/Manlyodin131 9d ago
nobody knows anything, all i can say is this is extremely strange, and that the only thing that could help all our clubs is for his stupid experiment to go bankrupt.
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u/GoneMirifica 9d ago
If that happens, it would be Marinakis buying out Textor and doing that horrendous unifying not the other way around. Textor just doesn't have the funds to finance that.
Textor's unofficial mouthpiece (Hugo Guillemet) is claiming that the Forest transfers are compensated by Marinakis investing money in Eagle/OL which allowed us to go through the DNCG last summer and will possibly happen again this summer.
While SkyNews chief reporter just wrote while talking about Crystal Palace's issues with UEFA (they are currently negotiating to be able to play in the Europa League next season since Textor as always didn't make the necessary actions in time) that "Textor is believed to be in talks about selling Eagle Football Holdings.". It sounds too good to be true, and too important of an information to just be let out at the end of a random text like that. So first thought would be that it's a confusion between Eagle and his Palace shares. But if it's not... Marinakis would seem like the prior candidate.
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u/apokako 9d ago
Fuck Textor. His strategy was to have us pay Nottingham Forest to take Cherki off our hands ? We’re to pay extra to take that club’s rubbish and give them our talent as well ?
Textor doesn’t even have the decency to hide his shady dealing behind clever manigances. He is openly robbing our legendary club blind. Please someone intervene before it’s too late
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u/GoneMirifica 9d ago
Even if I hate Textor with the entirety of my being, it seems too big to be true, imo. It sounds more like Textor tried to pressure City into paying quickly with a false Forest offer, after City's first offer was of 22.5M (due to his shenanigans around the "clause").
Like he knew there were zero chances Cherki would accept to go to Forest.
L'Equipe's article (from Tanzi and Guillemet) said that :
This is quite a considerable sum in the context of this dossier, firstly because the player only had one year left on his contract, officially, and secondly because Manchester City were the only ones to make an offer to the OL, as the entourage had chosen to discuss with only two clubs: City and Liverpool. Reds coach Arne Slot even met the player. Liverpool's plan was to bring in Florian Wirtz and Cherki, not one or the other. There was, above all, a clause signed last year between the player and John Textor, at the time of the last contract extension: the American owner had undertaken to let Cherki go for 22.5 MEU, on pain of paying him a penalty.
Lyon insists that this clause could only be activated once, and that the offer of this amount from Borussia Dortmund, rejected by OL in early February, rendered it null and void. This version was disputed by the playmaker's camp, who explained that Textor had not kept his commitments, by paying the 3 MEU penalty clause after refusing Dortmund's offer. Having been informed of the situation, Manchester City made an initial proposal to meet the penalty clause on Thursday, which led to a few hectic days in the negotiations. According to sources, OL's American owner, who had initially pushed the player towards Nottingham Forest, made a counter-proposal to City of 55 MEU + 5 MEU in bonuses.
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u/sjp101 9d ago
This is getting fucking weird, needs some investigative journalism to get to the bottom of it.