Turkish media magnate Acun Ilicali believes Damien Duff’s side can win the league in 2024 and play in European league next season
The next question can only be, which model do you support, Shels or Bohs? Shelbourne now exist at the bottom rung of a multi-club system that includes Hull City, and potentially Roma. In the starkest possible contrast, Bohemians are fan-owned.Understandably nicknamed the “Turkish Simon Cowell”, the 54-year-old wore a black T-shirt in a room full of Shels officials decked out in their best club attire.
Framing himself as Irish domestic football’s answer to City Football Group owner Sheikh Mansour, the proprietor of Acun Medya and English championship club Hull City sat in the Aviva between former Shels chairman Andrew Doyle and “Mr Operations” of both clubs, Tan Kesler. Uefa is currently investigating the legitimacy of multi-club arrangements, namely Chelsea’s purchase of French outfit Strasbourg, while Bohemians’ chief financial officer Daniel Lambert has called upon Fifa to “urgently combat multi-clubs”, stating they have the “potential to destroy the game”, with the small, domestic competitions such as the League of Ireland the first to collapse.
“Is there something we don’t know about?” Ilicali continued. “Maybe inform us and we give up this deal. What is the problem between two teams? There are so many teams around the world, like the City Group.”
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