Selling Guéhi Would Have Been ‘very, Very Risky’ For Palace, Insists Glasner

Oliver Glasner has praised Steve Parish for deciding not to waste Marc Guéhi to Liverpool connected transportation deadline time aft he warned nan Crystal Palace chair that failing to switch their skipper would beryllium “very, very risky”.

Palace had agreed a £35m interest pinch Liverpool for Guéhi – who completed nan first portion of his aesculapian successful anticipation of nan move – but Parish dramatically pulled nan plug astatine nan past infinitesimal aft failing to find an capable replacement.

The Guardian understands Glasner threatened to resign if Guéhi was allowed to subordinate Liverpool. The head said connected Friday that had not been nan lawsuit but said he had concerns astir whether nan presence of Jaydee Canvot, a 19-year-old who costs an first £21m from Toulouse aft 14 Ligue 1 starts, would time off them short successful defence.

“At nan extremity of nan galore discussions, nan president asked me, ‘Oliver, do you deliberation we tin negociate nan play erstwhile we waste Marc?’ And I said, ‘Steve, honestly, I deliberation we can’t negociate it successful nan short term,’” said Glasner.

“If we bargain a 19-year-old awesome subordinate pinch astir 1,000 minutes successful Ligue 1 and waste our skipper pinch astir 15,000 minutes successful nan Premier League, I deliberation we can’t negociate it successful nan short term. And past we person 3 centre-backs. With our schedule, and if we person an wounded successful nan backmost three, I deliberation it’s very, very risky.

“If you want this script for Crystal Palace, and you are good pinch it, waste Marc. If you don’t want to person this for Crystal Palace, past we person to support him. And past he decided we support him. So, large in installments to nan chairman. I didn’t person to frighten anybody. There was nary tensions betwixt nan president and myself. It was really conscionable a chat astir sports.”

It is understood that Guéhi, who has little than a twelvemonth connected his contract, was highly unhappy pinch Palace’s U-turn and considered whether to proceed arsenic captain. Glasner confirmed Guéhi had been disappointed astatine first but said he had nary doubts astir nan committedness of a subordinate who impressed connected England duty complete nan past week.

Marc Guéhi put nan disappointment of his grounded transportation down him during nan world break pinch England. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images/Reuters

“Not immoderate more,” he said. “He signed nan statement for Crystal Palace galore years ago. Nobody forced him to motion this contract. And it was clear for him that he sticks to his contract. And that was a in installments to Marc. He ne'er [went on] strike, he ne'er threatened to do this. Because he’s a very honorable person. And that’s why I ne'er worried astir this situation.

“Yes, sometimes my children would for illustration to person something. Then you person to say: ‘Sorry, not this time.’ They’re disappointed, but nan adjacent day, it’s gone. So that’s good. Because we ever person a very honorable and unfastened relationship. He accepted it. It’s bully to person him here.”

Glasner’s statement besides expires adjacent summertime and he is yet to resume talks connected perchance extending his stay, though nan Austrian confirmed those were successful nan pipeline. “There will beryllium a clip erstwhile we talk astir my future,” he said. “But really, nan past 2 weeks, cipher wanted to talk astir it.”