Fulham 2-2 Liverpool: Match Review
Liverpool and Manchester City are both in pursuit of Crystal Palace captain Marc Guehi.
Crystal Palace head coach Oliver Glasner has confirmed that a sale of Marc Guehi will happen in the January transfer window - if the centre-back’s price tag is met.
Guehi has six months remaining of his Selhurst Park contract remaining. It has been confirmed that the England international, who captained the Eagles to FA Cup glory for the first time last season, has confirmed he will not sign new terms in South London.
What’s been said
And Glasner says he is not ‘naive’ to know that the Eagles will sanction a sale if their expectations over a fee are met. The Selhurst Park boss said: “Everybody wants that he plays for Crystal Palace, signs a new contract and stays here for ever.
“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.”
Liverpool centre-back options
Liverpool are short of a centre-back option, with Giovanni Leoni - who signed from Parma last summer for £26 million - suffering an ACL injury on his debut.
Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate and Joe Gomez are Arne Slot’s senior centre-halves. However, Konate sees his Anfield contract expire at the end of the season and there is still to be any agreement reached amid links to Real Madrid, PSG and Bayern Munich.
Gomez, meanwhile, has had injury issues over the past few years and has recently returned from a muscle issue.
On Liverpool’s failure to sign Guehi, Liverpool head coach Slot said in September: "It would be ridiculous if I were to deny we were close to signing him. That is so out in the open. These things happen in football.
"We would have liked to have signed him, of course. If we feel we can strengthen the team, we never hesitate to do so. We played Arsenal and [Ibrahima] Konate and Van Dijk played an outstanding game, and Joe Gomez came in 20 minutes before the end and did good as well.
"With us signing Giovanni Leoni, who had his first international call-up, it's not like all of a sudden we don't have options in that position anymore. It's a pity, not only for us but also for the player, I think. But he's in a good place, playing for Palace, where he won the Charity Shield and the FA Cup with a very good manager as well. Let's see what the future brings for him and for us."
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