Oliver Glasner intervened to prevent Marc Guehi from moving to Liverpool for £35million on deadline day last summer – and he has now delivered a big update on the defender’s future
Oliver Glasner has conceded that Marc Guehi will leave Crystal Palace this month for the right price. Guehi is out of contract at the end of the season, having almost joined Liverpool back in September.
A £35million move to Anfield collapsed on deadline day when Palace chairman Steve Parish pulled the plug on the deal at the eleventh hour after failing to secure a replacement. The Reds remain interested in the England international, but as reported by the ECHO on Tuesday, they are concentrating their efforts on persuading the player to move when his deal expires at the end of the season.
However, that stance could be tested this month, as Glanser has now revealed that with Manchester City interested in signing Guehi due to an ongoing injury crisis, his captain could be sold this month if his ‘threshold’ is met.
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“Everybody wants that he plays for Crystal Palace, signs a new contract and stays here for ever,” he said.
“On the other side, there’s the situation that the contract ends in the summer, and if somebody is coming, there will be a moment when the club says: ‘Now the financial issue is more important than the sport issue.’ We have to do it and try to get the best. That’s why I’m always saying: ‘I don’t know.’ Because this is different.
“There will be a threshold where the club has to say (sell) … If the player says: ‘I want to leave’ and the money is above the threshold, it will happen. I’m not so naive not to know that if a massive offer comes from City and Marc wants to do it, it will happen.”
Guehi is also expected to have tempting offers from abroad, with Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid among the clubs credited with interest. And Palace chief Parish has also already hinted at further sales at Selhurst Park despite the Eagles being on course for a second successive European qualification.
“We’ve got one eye on players who we might have to replace in the summer,” he revealed last month. “We’re not going to throw it all on red and have a massive problem.
“Unless you want to be in a situation where you’re constantly putting in money every year, there’s a cash limit to what you can spend. You can’t spend money you don’t have.
“You have to have some guardrails as a club, or you’ll build up big problems down the track. Everyone saw where prices went in the summer; it’s a difficult landscape.
“There wasn’t the right thing available at the right time when the finances were in place. There’s no point in doing something for the sake of it. How are you going to get someone to come and tell them they are No.1 in Ebs (Eze) position if you still have him?
“The one where we didn’t, with Marc (Guehi), we kept him. You can’t always make happen what you want to. We are where we are in the pecking order; you could ask why other clubs make bids for our players two weeks before the end of the window. I don’t know why they did that.”
