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Crystal Palace: Sportsbank frontrunners to buy John Textor’s 46 per cent stake in club

Crystal Palace could be set for changes behind the scenes - (Getty Images)

A new international sports consortium named Sportsbank is among the frontrunners to buy out John Textor’s 46 per cent stake in Crystal Palace.

Textor, who came close this summer to buying Everton, is seeking to offload his stake in Palace as part of a plan to instead purchase a majority stake in a Premier League or Championship club. His Eagle Football Holdings group also own Lyon, Brazilian side Botafogo and RWD Molenbeek of Belgium.

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