{"id":404192,"date":"2026-02-02T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404192\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:37:10","slug":"jean-philippe-mateta-move-from-crystal-palace-to-ac-milan-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404192\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Philippe Mateta move from Crystal Palace to AC Milan in doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crystal Palace<\/a> striker Jean-Philippe Mateta’s move to AC Milan is in serious doubt over issues with his medical, according to multiple BBC Sport sources.<\/p>\n

The France forward, who has been nursing a knee issue, had an initial medical examination on Sunday followed by additional tests on Monday.<\/p>\n

The Italian club are now set to pull out of the \u00a330m deal for the 28-year-old, who wants to leave Selhurst Park.<\/p>\n

Palace had been unwilling to let him go without having a replacement, but agreed a \u00a348m deal for Wolves<\/a> forward Jorgen Strand Larsen<\/a> and granted Mateta permission to have an initial medical in London before flying to Milan.<\/p>\n

Nottingham Forest<\/a> have also been interested in the striker and had a \u00a335m bid rejected by Palace last weekend.<\/p>\n

As it stands, Palace are still expected to complete the deal for Larsen, despite the uncertainty over Mateta.<\/p>\n

After the 1-1 draw at Forest on Sunday, Palace manager Oliver Glasner said: “I expect either Mateta or someone else here as a striker.<\/p>\n

“Everybody is really working very hard, but it is so close to the end of the window, so it makes it more difficult. I always try to be positive, so I hope.<\/p>\n

“Worst case, we sell Mateta and no-one comes in, then it’s not a good window for Palace.”<\/p>\n

Wolves<\/a>, meanwhile, have moved to replace Strand Larsen and are close to reaching a deal for Southampton striker Adam Armstrong for an initial \u00a37m.<\/p>\n

There is growing confidence the move will be done, with the Premiership’s bottom club Wolves<\/a> in danger of relegation to the Championship.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old has 11 goals for Saints in the Championship this season and has 43 in total for the club since joining from Blackburn Rovers in 2021.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Palace are showing late interest in a move for Everton<\/a> winger Dwight McNeil.<\/p>\n

McNeil is out of favour at Hill Dickinson Stadium and Palace are working on a deal to sign the forward.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old has one assist in 14 Premier League appearances this season and Everton<\/a> value him at about \u00a320m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace striker Jean-Philippe Mateta’s move to AC Milan is in serious doubt over issues with his medical,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-404192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}