With the news that P Diddy (or whatever he’s calling himself now) is eyeing up a bizarre takeover of Crystal Palace, Sport.co.uk got thinking on some potential names for his shopping list…
De La Sol Campbell (Arsenal)
Jay-Z Altidore (Hull City)
Coolio Baptista (Roma)
Sway Given (Manchester City)
Samir Nas-ri (Arsenal)
The Beastie Boyce (Wigan Athletic)
P Didi Hammann (ex-Newcastle United, Liverpool and Manchester City)
Ja Rule Fox (ex-Norwich City, Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur and West Bromwich Albion)
Salt-N-Pepa Reina (Liverpool)
Method Mancienne (Chelsea, Wolverhampton Wanderers)
LL Cool Jay Bothroyd (Cardiff City)
Ryan Shaw Kriss Kross (Stoke City)
Cypress Hilario (Chelsea)
Jazzy Jeff Kenna (ex-Blackburn Rovers, Southampton, Birmingham City and Derby County)
The Pharc-Eidur Gudjohnsen (Tottenham Hotspur)
Kevin Fresh Prince Boateng (Portsmouth)
Old Dirty Ba-Steed Malbranque (Sunderland)
KRS Juan Pablo Angel (ex-Aston Villa)
Michael Proctor Dre (Sunderland)
Ice T-mu Tainio (Sunderland, Birmingham City)
George Bestlove? (ex-Manchester United, Fulham)
Andrey 3000 Arshavin (Arsenal)
Slick Ricardo Fuller (Stoke City)
Gordon McQueen Latifah (ex-Leeds United and Manchester United)
Lil Kim Kallstromm (Lyon)
Kris Common (Derby County)
Jamie Redman (ex-Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur)
Immortal Tech-Nick Barmby (Hull City)
Lil Wayne Rooney (Manchester United)
Public Ene-Mido (Middlesbrough, West Ham United)
Steven Pie-Nas (Everton)
Cam’ron Jerome (Birmingham City)
Fat Jo (Galatasaray)
Timberlandon Donovan (LA Galaxy)
will.i.am Gallas (Arsenal)
Lloyd Gordon Banks (ex-Leicester City and Stoke City)
Wyclef Jean Pierre Papin (ex-Marseille, AC Milan and Bayern Munich)
Ludacris Perry (ex-Wimbledon, Tottenham Hotspur and Charlton Athletic)
Foxy Phil Brown (ex-Hartlepool, Halifax Town and Bolton Wanderers)
Sergio Ra-Mos Def (Real Madrid)
Fabrizio Rave-Nelly (ex-Juventus, Middlesbrough, Lazio and Derby County)
Snoop Drog (Chelsea)
Notorious SWP (Manchester City)
Sir Mix-a-Lothar Matthaus (ex-Bayern Munich and Inter)
Biggy Smalling (Fulham, Manchester United)
Mixmaster Mike Phelan (ex-Burnley, Norwich City, Manchester United and West Bromwich Albion)
Kano (Portsmouth)
Gift of Gaby Agbonlahor (Aston Villa)
Dizzee Ras-Calum Davenport (ex-Coventry City, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United)
Robeenie Man (Santos)
Eric Canto-nas (ex-Leeds United and Manchester United)
And, of course, Run DMC as the holding midfield playa…