{"id":138497,"date":"2025-09-12T20:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138497\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:18:21","slug":"selling-guehi-would-have-been-very-very-risky-for-palace-insists-glasner-crystal-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138497\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Gu\u00e9hi would have been \u2018very, very risky\u2019 for Palace, insists Glasner | Crystal Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oliver Glasner has praised Steve Parish for deciding not to sell Marc Gu\u00e9hi to Liverpool on transfer deadline day after he warned the Crystal Palace<\/a> chair that failing to replace their captain would be \u201cvery, very risky\u201d.<\/p>\n

Palace had agreed a \u00a335m fee with Liverpool for Gu\u00e9hi \u2013 who completed the first part of his medical in anticipation of the move \u2013 but Parish dramatically pulled the plug<\/a> at the last minute after failing to find an adequate replacement.<\/p>\n

The Guardian understands Glasner threatened to resign<\/a> if Gu\u00e9hi was allowed to join Liverpool. The manager said on Friday that had not been the case but said he had concerns about whether the arrival of Jaydee Canvot, a 19-year-old who cost an initial \u00a321m from Toulouse after 14 Ligue 1 starts, would leave them short in defence.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the many discussions, the chairman asked me, \u2018Oliver, do you think we can manage the season when we sell Marc?\u2019 And I said, \u2018Steve, honestly, I think we can\u2019t manage it in the short term,\u2019\u201d said Glasner.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we buy a 19-year-old fantastic player with about 1,000 minutes in Ligue 1 and sell our captain with about 15,000 minutes in the Premier League, I think we can\u2019t manage it in the short term. And then we have three centre-backs. With our schedule, and if we have an injury in the back three, I think it\u2019s very, very risky.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want this scenario for Crystal Palace, and you are fine with it, sell Marc. If you don\u2019t want to have this for Crystal Palace, then we have to keep him. And then he decided we keep him. So, big credit to the chairman. I didn\u2019t have to threaten anybody. There was no tensions between the chairman and myself. It was really just a discussion about sports.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is understood that Gu\u00e9hi, who has less than a year on his contract, was extremely unhappy with Palace\u2019s U-turn and considered whether to continue as captain. Glasner confirmed Gu\u00e9hi had been disappointed at first but said he had no doubts about the commitment of a player who impressed on England duty<\/a> over the past week.<\/p>\n

Marc Gu\u00e9hi put the disappointment of his failed transfer behind him during the international break with England. Photograph: Andrew Boyers\/Action Images\/Reuters<\/p>\n

\u201cNot any more,\u201d he said. \u201cHe signed the contract for Crystal Palace many years ago. Nobody forced him to sign this contract. And it was clear for him that he sticks to his contract. And that was a credit to Marc. He never [went on] strike, he never threatened to do this. Because he\u2019s a very honest person. And that\u2019s why I never worried about this situation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYes, sometimes my children would like to have something. Then you have to say: \u2018Sorry, not this time.\u2019 They\u2019re disappointed, but the next day, it\u2019s gone. So that\u2019s good. Because we always have a very honest and open relationship. He accepted it. It\u2019s good to have him here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glasner\u2019s contract also expires next summer and he is yet to resume talks on potentially extending his stay, though the Austrian confirmed those were in the pipeline. \u201cThere will be a time when we talk about my future,\u201d he said. \u201cBut really, the last two weeks, nobody wanted to talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oliver Glasner has praised Steve Parish for deciding not to sell Marc Gu\u00e9hi to Liverpool on transfer deadline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-138497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}