While I understand your implied point, they may not officially be part of the same MCO, they are so closely related in that they are in all but name (i.e. commonality of ownership, player trading volumes between other MCO clubs)

Now that Eagle Football 2.0 is operational after the sale to Marinakis, it'll be interesting to see the approach UEFA takes to the relationship between NFFC & Lyon, seeing as they are effectively part of the same MCO & the clubs within that MCO group have been active in the transfer market too.

Blind trusts are an arrangement which is routinely open to abuse & relatively easy to sidestep, especially when the assets within them are known to the settlor) But someone selling their stake & walking away wasn't considered enough? This seems a bizarre & illogical application of the rules.

It's the selective enforcement of the MCO rules by UEFA that's the major issue here; other, more prestigious clubs, such as Manchester United and Manchester City, were allowed to compete in UEFA competition using blind trust arrangements because they complied with an arbitrary deadline

there is evidence to suggest that Textor had limited operational influence at Palace due to Steve Parrish holding the casting vote on the board.

The conflict involving Eagle Football's shares in Palace & Lyon had been dealt with & managed by the sale of the shares to Woody Johnson. There was little evidence they were operationally part of an MCO (i.e. sharing of player data, pooling of managerial/administrative resources, player trading)

Anything on the incoming owners? I vaguely recall you writing a couple of pieces on them a few months ago?