Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner deals Liverpool Marc Guehi transfer blow as Reds blamed
- mrwedwards
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Oliver Glasner has revealed that he expects Marc Guehi to finish the season at Crystal Palace.
The England international, who saw a £35m move to Liverpool collapse on transfer deadline day back in the summer, is out of contract at the end of the season and set to leave Selhurst Park on a free transfer.
The Palace captain had been undergoing a medical with the Reds after agreeing terms, only for Eagles chairman Steve Parish to pull the plug on the deal after the South London club failed to sign a replacement for the centre-back.
Liverpool remain interested in the defender, but they are not the only side keen on securing his services.
It remains to be seen if the Reds will make a renewed bid for Guehi when the transfer window re-opens in January, though Liverpool are currently short on options at centre-back.
Giovanni Leoni has been ruled out for the season after undergoing surgery on an ACL injury, while Joe Gomez limped off with a hamstring issue in the Reds’ win over Brighton & Hove Albion last weekend.
Such absences leave Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate as Arne Slot’s only available senior options.
However, having kept hold of Guehi in the summer, Palace boss Glasner has dismissed the possibility of his captain leaving mid-season.
“I think Marc will stay until the end of the season,” he told reporters on Wednesday when speaking ahead of his side’s Conference League encounter against Finnish side Kuopion Palloseura.
With Liverpool only making their summer move for Guehi following the Community Shield clash with Palace in August, Parish recently suggested that the Reds might have been successful in their pursuit of the defender if they had opened negotiations earlier.
“You can’t spend money you don’t have,” he told the Athletic. “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.”
While Glasner might be confident that Guehi will see out the season with Palace, his Eagles team-mate Adam Wharton recently admitted that they had expected their captain to already move
The midfielder has also been linked with his own move away from Selhurst Park in recent months, with Liverpool one of the sides he continues to be linked with.
But the 21-year-old’s agent, James Featherstone, insists the player’s camp are in no rush for Wharton to leave Palace as he hinted at their plans for the highly-rated midfielder’s future.
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