I wasted my money, time – Ex-Crystal Palace owner, Jordan regrets signing ex-Nigerian forward

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Simon Jordan, the former owner of Crystal Palace, has expressed remorse for having previously signed former Nigerian international Ade Akinbiyi.

Jordan, who oversaw Crystal Palace from 2000 to 2010, acknowledged that he wasted time and resources on Akinbiyi, calling him “useless.”

It was during his second season as Eagles coach that he signed Akinbiyi.

The Nigerian forward, who was born in England, never lived up to his £2.2 million price tag, though.

Akinbiyi, who is currently 49 years old, made just 24 games for Crystal Palace and only managed three goals.

“Ade Akinbiyi was a bad buy. He just was useless. I wasted my time and money, and he wasted his own time. The reality is how weak one can be when one says ‘I don’t want to do this’ and is worn down by the processes of the manager, eventually knowing something is wrong but you continually do it and then you are surprised by the outcome,” Jordan said in quotes revealed by TalkSport.

“It was on the player, it was on the manager, and it was on me. I should have said no, but the problem is when you are the owner of a football club you have to back him or sack him.

“I’m in a situation where this is my champion and he says he wants him. This guy looks bleeding useless to me and is going to cost me a fortune. I was looking at the boat he was buying thinking ‘I could buy that boat if I wasn’t buying that club-footed clown that I know isn’t going to be of any use to me.

“And that’s what I ended up doing, and so he proved to be. I got neither the boat nor a decent player.”

During his playing career, Akinbiyi only made one senior appearance for the Super Eagles.

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