Just reading what
Crystal Palace fans have to say.
In my view, this fella nails it;
People will praise the transparency, but it's the opposite to me. It's disingenuous.
He needs to state when the bid/approach was made for Palace. Everyone knows he tried in the past - the Athletic reported a new bid last night which has sent him scurrying to recover.
Err I dunno, it did sound pretty closed off from the speech he made:
""It is true that
we made an offer to buy the remaining shares of Crystal Palace, at a valuation that far exceeds levels of prior investment ... It is also true that our offer did not induce a response, and we believe that our Palace partners have the same desire to remain in ownership as we once did… so our Raine Group efforts to sell our interests resumed.
but before we
decided to leave one family, to join another, we did try to do everything possible to stay connected with the club and community of Crystal Palace."
Now it doesn't say there his bid for Palace was rejected, just no response, but his wording afterwards does sound more like it wasn't going anywhere so he's moving on. But this could just be some tactic to get the Palace deal moving.
Either way he's a cowboy.