Simon Jordan turned down condom request from married Palace man who was 'lonely'

The former Crystal Palace chairman was asked about the most outrageous player request he had received after reports regarding Ilaix Moriba.

It has been claimed the Guinean youngster will be allowed to leave RB Leipzig this summer after allegedly demanding that the club's physios brought him grapes while giving him a massage.

The 19-year-old only moved to Germany last summer, joining from Spanish giants Barcelona for a fee worth around £16million.

While the midfielder's request has seemingly contributed to the end of his career with the Bundesliga outfit, Jordan was quick to recount the tale of an unnamed Palace player who perhaps took the idea of personal expenses a step too far.

Speaking on White and Jordan about Moriba's reported request, Jordan said: "If you're going to do it, then you deserve to be ridiculed, if people are actually going to sit there and do it.

"It's not a contractual obligation.

"I can remember players - I'm not going to give you details of the particular player because it's too damaging - but I remember receiving an expenses report from a player who was away from home on loan with us, hadn't seen his wife for a long time, professing loneliness, but put condoms on his expense sheet.

"I couldn't quite work out what I was doing there!"

Jordan added: "I also had players coming into my office with a copy of The Sun saying that the seven or eights out of 10 that they'd got from a reporter praising who was praising them entitled them to a pay rise.

"Grapes, I probably would insert grapes into a certain place of a player, for that particular request, but it might not be grapes, it might be a water melon!"

Asked if he approved the unnamed player's request for condoms, Jordan said: "No, I didn't. I rubbed it out!"