Championship - "Disillusioned" Jordan ready to sell up

Eurosport - Wed, 16 Jul 10:38:00 2008

Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan has revealed his intention to sell the Championship club.

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Jordan, who bought Palace out of administration in 2000, says he has grown "disillusioned" with the game.

The final straw for the flamboyant owner was the recent decision of a Football League transfer tribunal to award the club only £700,000 following 16-year-old John Bostock's move to Tottenham.

Jordan said: "Without a shadow of a doubt, this is my last year. I've taken the club as far as I can.

"It's my specific intention to find a buyer this season. I will do nothing to affect manager Neil Warnock and I will be absolutely committed to the club and I will find a responsible buyer.

"I am not demotivated by the team, manager or fans. But I have been disillusioned with football for a long time.

"I kept my sanity by pumping millions of pounds into my academy, feeling the saving grace of my club was finding players who would be chomping at the bit and honoured to play in the first team.

"But that's been taken away from me as well. Bostock was one of the best players my academy has produced in the last 10 years - and he has been sold for a packet of crisps."

Sporting Life / Eurosport

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  1. Well done Simon it's about time spoke out about the farse they call football these days.

    It is a shame that the championship cannot be left alone by the playboys in the premiership, the true home of football is the second teir, perhaps that's why Ronaldo thinks he is a slave

    From goodall115, on Thu 17 Jul 7:48PM
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