Diddy x Crystal Palace Eagles. Talk about diversifying your business portfolio. The Sun reports that Diddy is very serious about purchasing the Coca-Cola Championship League’s London Crystal Palace football team…football meaning soccer of course. Apparently the club is heavily in debt and Diddy has hopes of taking the team to the much higher profile Premiere League.
“Diddy was in London meeting football fixers a couple of weeks ago. The finance is in place, he’s just deciding who he thinks he’ll make a bid for.” stated an unnamed source. “He could cover their debt and bankroll a return to the Premier League. He liked the name as well.”
No doubt if this happens, The Crystal Palace Eagles will quickly turn into either the Crystal Palace Cirocs or the Crystal Palace Bad Boys. Either way, he just might be the guy to try and help make soccer..ahem…football…actually cool in the U.S. If Beckham couldn’t do it…Diddy can. Via: RR
He needs about £15m (don;t know dollar conversion) to buy us. Small change for him?
I’m a Palace fan and whilst its unlikely this will happen it still makes excited that he considered it, however briefly. Shit if it does happen, I’ll go apeshit.
I dont kno how big he is over in the UK but here in the US soccer can use all the help it can get. I agree the Beckham experiment did not work. He was suspposed to be the God Send of soccer but instead he just got hurt a lot and his wife had a bigger splash here.
LOL, sure Diddy buying CP. Did he pay back the 100 million he loaned from Ron Burkles Yucaipa??
I’m no soccer fan but I think Diddy getting involved would be terrible for the sport. I think people just need to give up the fact that it will never be big here in the US like it is internationally. Same reason our football will never catch out outside of the US. Let it be Diddy.