What John Textor recently said should seriously excite Sheffield Wednesday fans | OneFootball

The former Crystal Palace owner is reportedly considering buying the Owls.

John Textor has laid out what his ownership will look like for any club that he gets involved in amid links with Sheffield Wednesday.

Following the sale of his 43% stake in FA Cup winners Crystal Palace, Textor is reportedly looking to get straight back into English football. According to The Star, Wednesday are one of the clubs that he is considering making a move for.

The American's footballing arm, Eagle Football Group, still owns three professional teams from across the globe. Botafogo from Brazil, Daring Brussels in Belgium, and France's Olympique Lyonnais.

Prior to the reports of Textor's interest in the Owls, talkSPORT presenter and former Palace chairman Simon Jordan revealed that he told the then shareholder in the Eagles to buy the Owls once he'd sold his stake in the south London club.

John Textor's encouraging ownership stance amid Sheffield Wednesday links

Textor may be quite well suited to the Wednesday situation. Firstly, he has just earned £190 million from his deal with new Palace shareholder Woody Johnson. But also, in a recent interview with The Athletic, he said that the prospect of taking over a team and driving them up the divisions is exactly what intrigues him.

"We’re turnaround guys, we like a construction project," said Textor. "There’s nothing more exciting for me than the idea of buying a second division team and getting promoted.

"But we might also look in the Premier League if we think there’s a real opportunity to catapult a team from mid-table to upper-table, we think we’re capable of doing that.

"Our strategy for Palace was to get to the Europa League every year, not just off of a cup win every hundred years."

Textor's multi-club ownership model also allows his teams to move players between them with relative ease. Wednesday could benefit from this in the way that the American's other clubs have, but that Palace didn't. This lack of "collaboration" was Textor said led him to selling his shares in the Premier League side.

"I believe Eagle is probably known to be the most collaborative multi-club in terms of the player movements between the clubs.

"We have something called roster optimisation where we are looking at what each player needs and wants and what each club needs and wants, and then we fill the gaps in our squads.

"Collaboration helped us (Lyon) bounce off of the relegation zone at mid-season right in the Europa League and now in our second season in the Europa League, that comes from collaboration. It has helped us go from second division to champions of South America (with Botafogo) and collaboration is how we just beat PSG."

Wednesday supporters will surely want Textor over Chansiri

One thing that may concern some Wednesdayites is the fact that many Palace fans weren't keen on Textor at all over his four years with the club. That said, at least he never had any trouble paying his staff, as Wednesday's current owner and chairman Dejphon Chansiri has.

It's a bit like the situation at Reading. Their new owner, Rob Couhig, tried to buy their training ground while Dai Yongge was still in charge, which didn't go down well with the Royals' supporters. When push came to shove, though, they happily traded the Chinese owner for their new American leader in May.