Sky Sports reporter Kaveh Solhekol posted a report on the appeal of Crystal Palace.

reporters wrote on Twitter:

Crystal Palace firmly believes that they have very strong arguments when appealing the Tribunal of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) tomorrow against UEFA's decision to relegate it to UEFA. Club President Steve Parish has arrived in Lausanne today and is confident in winning the case. Crystal Palace sees the Swiss hearing as the only chance to overturn the decision they have identified as a totally unfair decision.

Early this summer, Parrish and Crystal Palace worked closely with UEFA to retain UEFA qualification, but their team of lawyers is expected to adopt a more radical and no longer compromise strategy at CAS's one-day hearing. The club will argue that it has been treated differently, and pointed out that UEFA has differentiated treatments when implementing the rules due to the club's financial resources and influence.

Parrish will lead a strong team of executives and senior lawyers to attend the hearing. He believes that UEFA's relegation of Crystal Palace to Europa League on the grounds of violating the multi-club ownership rules is one of the most serious unjust cases in European football history. The appeal includes UEFA, Nottingham Forest and Lyon, and Crystal Palace requires its UEFA seat to be restored at the expense of Forest or Lyon's qualifications. The relegation stems from American businessman John Tuctor who holds a large number of shares in Crystal Palace and Lyon, both clubs qualify for the Europa League. If the appeal fails, Nottingham Forest will replace Crystal Palace to participate.

The main arguments of Crystal Palace at the CAS hearing include: 1. UEFA has double standards for the implementation of rules. Last season, Manchester City, which belongs to the City Football Group, competed in the Champions League with Girona, and Manchester United, which belongs to Inelis, participated in the UEFA Cup at the same time. In 2018, Salzburg and RB Leipzig, which belongs to the Red Bull system, were even assigned to the same UEFA Cup group and completed home and away matches.

2. The club has always operated independently. Although Eagles Football Group once held shares, the actual control was always controlled by Parish. Tuctor sold the shares to American businessman Woody Johnson last month due to his lack of voice.

3. There are procedural flaws. Tector missed the deadline for setting up a blind trust on March 1 because he actively sought equity sale. The European Club Association (ECA), which is closely related to UEFA, conveyed to its 700 members that May 31 is the actual compliance deadline (Nottingham Forest was not informed of this information, not the Crystal Palace, whose members of the ECA were not informed). Forest owner Marinakis set up a blind trust on April 30 (far beyond the original March 1 deadline) when his Greek team Olympiacos could advance to the Champions League.

4. Key documents support: The club's legal documents show that the actual compliance deadline is April 30 instead of March 1.

5. UEFA Administrative Negligence: Emails for important rules updates were sent to info@cpfc.co.uk general mailbox instead of executive mailbox, while Lyon received the email at the correct address.

CAS is expected to announce a ruling next Monday that if it loses its UEFA Cup qualification, Crystal Palace may consider suing Tector for claims because participating in the third-level UEFA Champions League rather than the second-level UEFA Champions League will result in a loss of revenue of about £20 million. Failure of the appeal may also exacerbate the difficulty of retaining core players such as Eze, Gei and Matthatta.