Crystal Palace Keen To Sell Captain Marc Guéhi Before Transfer Window Closes

The Crystal Palace chairman, Steve Parish, has admitted that they are looking to waste their skipper Marc Guéhi successful this transportation model to debar perchance losing him for thing adjacent summer.

The England defender has entered nan last 12 months of his statement astatine Selhurst Park and is wanted by a number of Premier League teams, including Liverpool and Newcastle. It is understood that Arne Slot’s broadside – who mislaid to Palace connected penalties successful nan Community Shield connected Sunday – is Guéhi’s preferred option, though they person truthful acold been reluctant to salary Palace’s £40m valuation.

Newcastle grounded pinch aggregate bids successful excess of £50m for nan 24-year-old past summer, while Tottenham had an connection worthy up to £70m rejected by Palace successful January. But erstwhile asked if they would beryllium consenting to let Guéhi to time off this period if they person a suitable offer, Parish acknowledged that they could not spend to let him to tally down his contract.

“We’d person to do that, of course,” he said. “For players of that calibre to time off connected a free, it’s a problem for america unfortunately. [Last summer] Joachim [Anderson] went [to Fulham] and we couldn’t spend to suffer both. We past had different bid successful January but that was a different situation. We’ll conscionable person to spot what happens. But, you know, it needs a caller statement aliases a conclusion of immoderate kind.”

Guéhi is understood to beryllium consenting to enactment astatine Selhurst Park and spot retired his statement if necessary. He will beryllium capable to motion a pre-contract statement pinch clubs extracurricular England successful January, while Eberechi Eze has besides attracted liking from Arsenal successful this transportation window. “As acold arsenic group being present aliases not being here, it depends,” added Parish. “If it’s nan correct determination for nan shot nine and for them, cipher tin make anyone go, past there’ll beryllium immoderate changes.”

Oliver Glasner has been captious of Palace’s lack of activity successful nan transportation market truthful acold but Parish insisted that he will do his champion to backmost nan Austrian head aft delivering nan club’s 2nd portion of silverware successful nan abstraction of 3 months.
“I respect Oliver truthful much. He conscionable wants to triumph trophies and shot matches,” he said. “The Premier League is benignant of crazy, nan money that group walk and nan benignant of financial jeopardy that group take. So I person to look astatine everything astir [that].

“We’ll do everything we tin successful nan adjacent fewer weeks to springiness ourselves nan champion chance. But astatine nan extremity of nan day, nan magnitude of money we’ve sewage isn’t infinite.”

Parish besides said he was hopeful that Palace’s entreaty to nan tribunal of arbitration for athletics against their demotion to nan Europa Conference League will beryllium successful. The proceeding was held successful Lausanne connected Friday, pinch a determination expected connected Monday afternoon. “It’ll beryllium bully to put it down us,” he said.

“I’m wished that we get nan correct result – if we don’t, we’ll person to look astatine if there’s immoderate steps aft that. But aft Friday, I don’t understand really we cannot beryllium successful nan competition.”