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The owner of Crystal Palace, John Textor, embraced his cultural heritage when he put on a cowboy hat to return the owner of a rival on Sunday.
Textor has a 77 percent participation in the French club Lyon and was involved in a heated dispute during the summer with the president of the PSG, Nasser al-Khelaifi.
The confrontation, which was about the address of television rights of Ligue 1, saw Al-Khelaifi call textor born in Missouri a 'cowboy', with the American marking his rival as 'thug' and 'tyrant'.
And Textor decided to make the dispute light before Lyon's 3-2 defeat against PSG on Sunday, with a cowboy hat and stirred animation animals.
“I wore my hat because I felt safe, but I really don't see myself like a cowboy,” Textor said.
'We had intense discussions with Nasser al-Khelaifi regarding television rights, and I didn't even know that I had called me a cowboy. When I heard about that, I thought it would be fun to appear with the hat.
The owner of Lyon, John Textor, wore a cowboy hat for the 3-2 defeat of his team against the PSG on Sunday
His movement occurs after a dispute on the television rights of Ligue 1 in which the president of the PSG, Nasser al-Khelaifi, called it “cowboy”
French football has been beaten with a financial crisis in recent seasons and are on the verge of a third television rights agreement collapse in four years.
On July 14, the owners of the 18 Ligue 1 clubs gathered in a video call to go to the future of the transmission rights of the division.
Sixteen of the 18 owners voted in favor of an agreement with Dazn and Bein Sports.
In a four -year contract, Dazn is paying the governing body of French football (LFP) of £ 334 million per season to transmit eight of nine games every weekend, with Bein paying £ 83 million for each game on Saturday night .
However, textor was one of the two owners to support the risky idea of the league configuration has its direct transmission platform.
In a video filtered by L'Equipe and the complement d'aqueque, textor and al-khelaifi were seen in shock.
Textor accused the president of the PSG al-Khelaifi of being a 'thug' and a 'tyrant'.
Al-Khelaifi backed down: 'John, stop talking, you don't understand anything, you're from … I don't know, you come, I don't know (from) where and you' I'm talking to us.
Textor also has a 45 percent participation in Crystal Palace, which is looking to sell
However, the LFP could be forced to resort to a direct transmission model.
Dazn has retained half of a recent delivery of funds of £ 58 million, claiming that the League has not done enough to combat digital piracy, and that clubs have not been promoting their service enough.
Reports in France suggest that Dazn has only accumulated around 500 million subscribers of a 1.5 million objective.
If they do not reach that figure in December, they will have that options to break the contract at the end of the second season, leaving Ligue 1 without a broadcaster once again.
The League has an enormously uncertain financial future, with transmission income that falls.
In December 2020, Mediapro ended a contract of £ 2.75 billion only four months in the agreement.
TNT Sports then decided not to renew his agreement at the end of last season, although an impulse has been received in recent days after Amazon Prime Video agreed to transmit a selection of games to a audience of the United Kingdom.