{"id":152096,"date":"2025-06-23T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/152096\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:34:12","slug":"woody-johnson-joins-ryan-reynolds-tom-brady-co-crystal-palaces-europa-league-path-finally-cleared-as-john-textor-sells-45-eagles-stake-to-nfls-new-york-jets-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/152096\/","title":{"rendered":"Woody Johnson joins Ryan Reynolds, Tom Brady &#038; Co! Crystal Palace&#8217;s Europa League path finally cleared as John Textor sells 45% Eagles stake to NFL&#8217;s New York Jets owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\">Crystal Palace\u2019s path to the Europa League has been cleared, with John Textor selling his stake in the club to New York Jets owner Woody Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT HAPPENED?<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/lists\/pep-guardiola-over-thinking-winners-losers-arrogant-tactics-cost-man-city-fa-cup-final-crystal-palace-eberechi-eze-dean-henderson\/blt99132320b7e19054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stunned Manchester City in the 2025 FA Cup final<\/a>, had faced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/lists\/crystal-palace-facing-europa-league-expulsion-fa-cup-winners-emergency-summit-uefa\/blt9b41dcd742e7ce87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">threat of being removed from European competition<\/a> next season. The Premier League outfit were in breach of UEFA\u2019s multi-club ownership rules.<\/p>\n<p>THE BIGGER PICTURE<\/p>\n<p>That is because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/lists\/nottingham-forest-voice-crystal-palace-concerns-to-uefa-fa-cup-winners-risk-booted-out-of-europa-league\/bltb769cb03e53a1b94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Textor held a 45 per cent stake in Palace<\/a> while also overseeing events at Ligue 1 outfit Lyon. The French club are due to take in Europa League action during the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"FBL-FRA-LIGUE1-MONACO-LYON\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"component-image\" style=\"color:transparent;aspect-ratio:2500 \/ 1667\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2213813972.jpg\"\/>AFPDID YOU KNOW?<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Football\/Actualites\/John-textor-a-conclu-la-vente-de-ses-parts-de-crystal-palace\/1572238 \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">L\u2019Equipe<\/a>, Textor has been able to part with his Palace shares in time for them to be registered for European football. He is said to have struck a deal with Johnson, who owns the Jets NFL franchise.<\/p>\n<p>TELL ME MORE<\/p>\n<p>It is claimed that the deal is worth around \u20ac200 million (\u00a3171m\/$230m). Talks between Textor and Johnson took place over several weeks &#8211; with Palace aware of the issues that they faced from the moment that major silverware was lifted at Wembley Stadium on May 17.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Oliver Glasner\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"component-image\" style=\"color:transparent;aspect-ratio:1600 \/ 900\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2.jpg\"\/>GettyWHAT NEXT?<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who is said to have a net worth of $3.3 billion (\u00a34.4bn), becomes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/lists\/wrexham-ted-lasso-inspire-complete-american-takeover-efl-ryan-reynolds-tom-brady-will-ferrell\/blt8468edeec8a36464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">latest North American investor in British football<\/a>. He joins the likes of Ryan Reynolds, Rob McElhenney, Tom Brady, Michael B Jordan, JJ Watt, the Glazer family and 49ers Enterprises on that list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace\u2019s path to the Europa League has been cleared, with John Textor selling his stake in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[8771,25,13461,7,6,242,109,2476,3372],"class_list":{"0":"post-152096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-crystal-palace","9":"tag-eagles","10":"tag-europa-league","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","15":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","16":"tag-premier-league"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114732470615883993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}