{"id":115124,"date":"2025-09-02T21:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/115124\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:14:08","slug":"marc-guehi-oliver-glasner-the-winner-after-liverpool-transfer-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/115124\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Guehi: Oliver Glasner the winner after Liverpool transfer collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guehi travelled back to London with the Palace squad on Sunday night. <\/p>\n

It was decided that if Liverpool and Palace were able to agree a deal that Guehi would undergo a medical and complete the formalities of his move at the Merseyside club’s London offices before travelling north for his official unveiling.<\/p>\n

Between 1.30pm and 3pm, a club-to-club agreement had been concluded and Guehi was given permission by Palace to undergo his medical.<\/p>\n

At that moment, Guehi believed he was joining the Premier League champions, who were also about to confirm the capture of Alexander Isak for \u00a3125m. He had a medical which was over an hour long.<\/p>\n

But Parish did not sit down with Guehi and his advisers until after 6pm following a fitness class at a gym in Soho.<\/p>\n

Little was Guehi to know that the rug would be pulled from under him, shortly after.<\/p>\n

Among the conditions required for Guehi to join Liverpool were that Palace needed suitable defensive replacements before letting him depart.<\/p>\n

They have completed the signing of Toulouse centre-back Jaydee Canvot<\/a>. But at 19, the Frenchman is vastly inexperienced.<\/p>\n

Palace approached Manchester City for Manuel Akanji but he was reluctant to move to south London.<\/p>\n

Ousmane Diomande of Sporting was the club’s first-choice option, but his \u00a345m price tag was prohibitive. Roma defender Evan Ndicka was another they considered.<\/p>\n

On deadline day, however, it emerged that they were in talks over a loan move for Brighton’s Igor Julio.<\/p>\n

At one point in the day, it looked as if a deal for Julio was in place only for the player to head east to West Ham.<\/p>\n

And with that detour, Guehi’s move to Liverpool effectively collapsed.<\/p>\n

Adam Wharton, who has a groin issue, and Ismaila Sarr, who has injured his hamstring, are both expected to be out for at least a month, which did not help matters.<\/p>\n

There remained hope of reviving the deal as we approached the 7pm deadline; the fact a deal sheet – an application for a time extension – was filed indicative to how close the transfer was to completion.<\/p>\n

But sometimes it is the hope that kills. Parish explaining to Guehi why he could not sanction his move to Liverpool despite agreeing to do so just hours earlier.<\/p>\n

How Guehi feels about it all may come up in the fullness of time, but you can imagine it has been difficult to process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guehi travelled back to London with the Palace squad on Sunday night. It was decided that if Liverpool…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-115124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}