{"id":733603,"date":"2026-08-10T15:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733603\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:26:14","slug":"crystal-palace-and-everton-agree-brennan-johnson-dwight-mcneil-swap-deal-transfer-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733603\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace and Everton agree Brennan Johnson-Dwight McNeil swap deal | Transfer window"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crystal Palace and Everton have agreed a straight swap for Brennan Johnson and Dwight McNeil \u2013 six months after McNeil\u2019s partner accused Palace of messing with his mental health<\/a> after pulling out of a deal.<\/p>\n

McNeil and Johnson, who became Palace\u2019s record signing when he joined in January from Tottenham for \u00a335m<\/a>, only to be surpassed by the arrival of J\u00f8rgen Strand Larsen<\/a> from Wolves for an initial \u00a343m a few weeks later, are understood to have agreed four-year contracts with the option of a further 12 months. They are expected to have medicals on Monday.<\/p>\n

McNeil, who has entered the final year of his Everton<\/a> contract, appeared to be moving to Selhurst Park in February after Palace agreed a \u00a320m fee on transfer deadline day. But the collapse of Jean-Philippe Mateta\u2019s \u00a330m move to Milan, after the France striker failed a medical, prompted Palace to change their offer to an initial loan with an obligation to buy at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

They submitted a deal sheet to the Premier League, but then pulled out. McNeil\u2019s partner, Megan Sharpley, wrote an emotional post <\/a>on Instagram saying there had been \u201cradio silence\u201d from Palace and that the player\u2019s mental health had been affected.<\/p>\n

\u201cTonight, and the last 48 hours, have broken my heart to see how the football world you love so much can be so cruel to you,\u201d she wrote at the time. \u201cWe live in a world where everyone is aware of how big a problem mental health is. So, in football, why do we find it acceptable because these young men are on a lot of money and that\u2019s OK to mess and toy with their mental health and that it\u2019s just part of the job?\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson has been disappointing since moving to Palace, failing to score in 18 Premier League appearances. Given he signed a four-and-a-half-year contract in January that is believed to be worth more than \u00a3100,000 a week, Palace will take a significant hit on the fee they paid, but remove one of their highest earners from the wage bill.<\/p>\n

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Palace are also finalising a deal to sign Anan Khalaili from Union Saint-Gilloise for \u00a321m. The Israel right-back had his medical on Sunday and is expected to sign a five-year contract. The 21-year-old\u2019s move to Internazionale broke down last month after he failed a medical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace and Everton have agreed a straight swap for Brennan Johnson and Dwight McNeil \u2013 six months…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-733603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733603","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=733603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}