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...John Textor’s Eagle Football Holdings acquired Lyon in December last year at a valuation close to €900mn, by far the highest price ever paid for a French team and part of a wave of US investment into European...
...Gerard Lyons Crockham Hill, Kent, UK...
...Other Chinese investors have previously sold down stakes in clubs ranging from English Premier League club Aston Villa to France’s Lyon....
...In a tale by CJ Lyons, we hear of a “terrified, lonely, bored little boy” with polio hooked up to an iron lung....
...In that context, John Textor’s decision to invite offers for the LDLC arena seems to buck that trend....
...They were a fixture in the wardrobes of young boys and girls (see Shirley Temple and, later, a young John F Kennedy Jr)....
...I once worked at a Sydney newspaper where the editor, John Lyons, was sitting at his computer one day when a message from a reporter flashed across his screen....
...US investor John Textor completed the takeover of French football club Olympique Lyonnais, the latest side to join his network of teams around the world despite several delays....
...Despite ambitions of returning Lyon to the Champions League, the club is rooted to the bottom of Ligue 1 and yet to win a game this season....
...“There’s a lot more low-hanging fruit in European football,” said Dinan, who is also a co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team and has joined the Lyon board. “I love the assets John has.”...
...Ares also provided the bulk of the financing for John Textor’s €800mn purchase of Olympique Lyonnais last year....
...Additional reporting by Josephine Cumbo Letter in response to this article: Pensioners deserve an explanation from Hunt / From John Murray, Guildford, Surrey, UK...
...In New York, Reeves will meet business leaders and political strategists including Joe Biden’s pollster John Anzalone and former Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod....
...Eagle Football Holdings, a London-based company controlled by US businessman John Textor, completed the purchase of Lyon on December 19 in a deal valuing the Ligue 1 club at €800mn....
...Lyons is just one artist exploring ideas of love, intimacy and romance....
...While Sunak is highly unlikely in my view to be able to secure a famous win in the manner of John Major in 1992, he does still have time to deliver lasting policy changes, as Major had by 1997, and even...
...Sir William Lyons created it and almost destroyed the Italian designers because it was so beautiful. The place that means a lot to me is the Western Highlands of Scotland....
...In the secondary banking crisis, London & County Bank collapsed, housebuilder Northern Developments and developer Ronald Lyon Estates crashed and there were even rumours about the viability of NatWest bank...
...A plan is needed to regulate current account imbalances, which draws on John Maynard Keynes’s project for an international clearing union....
...The Lyon-based club said that US investor John Textor had told its shareholders that his company would close the €327mn deal in the coming days after it was delayed three times since its announcement in...
...You can read more on the Lyon deal in our profile of multiclub operator John Textor....
...John Textor, a businessman with a background in technology, led the acquisition by Eagle Football Holdings. Private equity firm Ares Management provided most of the financing....
...Simon Lyons, of investment bank PJT Partners, said: “The animal spirits are returning but the environment remains fragile.”...
...John Brownlow, a skilled screenwriter, adds enough layers and back-story to take us along for the whole ride....
...Crystal Palace co-owner John Textor and Authentic Brands founder Jamie Salter are in talks to acquire French football team Olympique Lyonnais in a deal valuing the club at €800mn, underlining the appetite...
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