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Marc Guehi is closing is on a January move to Manchester City, as per reports
Just a few short months ago, things were looking firmly up at Crystal Palace and Selhurst Park looked like one of the most exciting Premier League projects around. How quickly things have begun to turn in a short space of time.
Last season’s FA Cup winners got their hands on a first major trophy of the club’s history in May and began the new campaign with their first European adventure, though it would ultimately be in the Conference League after a club ruling relating to multi-club ownership saw Palace forced to drop down from the Europa League.
Nevertheless, Palace began the campaign with a spring in their step. One of the form sides of the autumn, the Eagles were fourth in the Premier League table on 7 December following just three defeats and 12 goals conceded in their first 15 league matches. Just two points in seven matches have followed since.
Marc Guehi ‘agrees personal terms’ for Man City move
Sky Sports report that Manchester City have ‘agreed personal terms’ with Marc Guehi, with the move expected to be completed by the end of the weekend.
The two clubs agreed a fee of £20million on Friday with a medical scheduled on Sunday for the England international, who is set to depart Selhurst Park the second time around after seeing a £35m move to Liverpool blocked on summer transfer deadline day. With less than six months left on his deal, a lower fee has been agreed with City this month. A percentage sell-on clause is also said to have been inserted into the deal.
Reporting continues that Palace felt they ‘couldn’t turn down the money’ considering his contract situation, while Pep Guardiola’s side jumped at the chance to sign an ‘elite’ defender for ‘a fraction of the price’ they would normally need to pay on an open market. The Sky Blues currently have Josko Gvardiol and Ruben Dias out injured and were not prepared to wait until the summer for Guehi.
‘I’ve got no understanding’ - Glasner speaks on Guehi sale
Glasner expressed his deep frustration at the sudden sale of Guehi and the situation at hand at Palace following the Eagles’ 2-1 defeat at Sunderland on Saturday.
He told Sky Sports: "We feel like we're being abandoned completely. Selling our captain one day before a game - there is no understanding for this. We are preparing and then yesterday [Friday], I get told that our captain will be sold, but why not next week? At least he can play this game and then next week, other players are coming back. It makes me really upset.
"If your heart gets ripped out twice a year, with [Eberechi] Eze one day before a game in the summer and your captain one day before a game - I've just got no understanding. I've been in football for 30 years and never experienced this, not once. Now it happens twice in six or seven months. That's just where we are now. We're playing for weeks now with just 12 or 13 players in our squad. Some players have played their 35th game now.
"I heard yesterday at 10.30am for the first time that we were selling Marc. I think the negotiations were a few days long so nobody would have called at 10am and by 10.30am, everything was agreed. No team would do this. Other teams, the players play and then the next day, they're leaving and we are selling the day before?"
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