Crystal Palace 'In Takeover Talks' With Dubai-Based Consortium: Nightly Soccer Report

Crystal Palace are in takeover talks with a Dubai-based consortium who are interested in purchasing a Premier League club, according to a report tonight in The Mirror newspaper.

The British tabloid doesn’t list any sources in the story, but says that they believe a senior club official has met with a Moroccan businessman who is the front man for the group.

The club is located in London, south of the Thames River, but their ground would need to be redeveloped to bring it to a level of other Premier League grounds, to generate more revenue for the potential new owners.

Here are tonight’s world soccer news headlines:

Premier League

• Crystal Palace ‘in takeover talks’ with Dubai-based consortium looking to buy a Prem club — The Mirror
• Martin Jol: Fulham manager urges calm after calls to quit — BBC Sport
• Fulham boss Martin Jol faces the sack this week as Meulensteen waits in the wings — The Mirror
• ‘Vertonghen is guilty’ – Jose Mourinho blames Tottenham star for Fernando Torres red card — Evening Standard
• New Liverpool contract for Rodgers on the agenda as Reds fear losing their manager — The Mirror
• Chelsea did not deserve me, claims former interim manager Rafa Benitez — The Telegraph
• David de Gea ‘trained poorly’ and ‘ate too many tacos’, says coach — The Observer
• Aston Villa, Man City and the fascinating polorisation of clean sheet statistics — Sporting Intelligence
• Revealed: What’s inside a footballer’s contract? — BBC Sport
• Swansea star Ashey Williams out for a month — The Daily Star
• Willian had signed a contract with Spurs, ‘had a change of heart’ then went to Chelsea — 101GG
• Sunderland’s Di Canio spat in his own face to start dressing-room row that got him sacked — The Mirror
• BBC criticised for forcing Robbie Fowler to make on-air apology — The Mail
• Growing numbers call for safe-standing, a change for the better — The Guardian
• Wilfried Zaha in Manchester United limbo as Nottingham Forest loan bid is rejected — The Mirror
• Tony Pulis sacking stopped Stoke City players walking out — The Independent

US soccer

• Orlando soccer stadium Q&A: As deal emerges, we have the details — Orlando Sentinel

Australian soccer

• Fox Sports renews La Liga and Serie A television rights down under — FOX

Bundesliga

• Franck Ribéry is the working-class folk hero for Bayern Munich fans — The Guardian

La Liga

• Lionel Messi: Barcelona star injured in club-record seventh win — BBC Sport

International soccer

• England to call on Tottenham’s Townsend in vital World Cup qualifying finale with Walcott out — Mirror

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