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Liverpool saw a transfer for Marc Guehi collapse in the summer transfer window.
Crystal Palace head coach Oliver Glasner has admitted he doesn’t know if Marc Guehi will remain at the club during the January transfer window.
Guehi is out of contract at Selhurst Park at the end of the 2025-26 campaign. The centre-back will not sign a new deal with the FA Cup holders and will pursue a move elsewhere. As things stand, Palace will lose Guehi on a free transfer, so they could be tempted to cash in during this month’s window.
And Glasner says that he does not know the club’s policy as to whether the England international - along with striker Jean-Philippe Mateta - will be sold. Speaking ahead of the Eagles’ clash against Fulham, Glasner said: "You will ask me all these questions again and again and again. I need to find one answer. I will always tell you the same, as long as I don't know anything else.
"Because, believe me, if I knew something. I would tell you. So I don't know what's going on. I don't know what will happen with Marc [Guehi]. I don't know what will happen with new players, and I don't know what will happen with JP [Jean-Philippe Mateta], I don't know anything."
Liverpool are in need of a new centre-back, with Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate the only current fit options. Joe Gomez is currently sidelined with a muscle injury, while Giovanni Leoni won’t play again this season after rupturing his ACL. However, Konate’s contract expires in the summer and he is yet to commit his future to Anfield.
Last month, Palace chairman Steve Parish suggested that Liverpool should have tried to sign Guehi sooner than the final day of the summer transfer window. Parish told The Athletic: “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.”
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