Crystal Palace supervisor Oliver Glasner has rejected numerous claims round Marc Guehi’s failed transfer to Liverpool, together with that he threatened to resign if he was bought.
Glasner was broadly reported to have instructed Palace chairman Steve Parish that he would depart the membership if Guehi was bought on deadline day.
That got here after a £35 million deal was agreed with Liverpool, just for the London facet to tug out after the preliminary 7pm deadline had handed.
Liverpool at the moment are left to attend till subsequent summer time – or January if their scenario adjustments – to revisit their curiosity within the England centre-back.
However chatting with journalists on Friday, Glasner took the chance to current his facet of the story.
“Crystal Palace fans deserve to really hear how it was. So many things were written,” he instructed reporters at a press convention.
“Primary: I by no means threatened to depart the membership. By no means.
“Two: on the finish of many discussions, the chairman requested me, ‘Oliver, do you think we can manage the season if we sell Marc?’.
“I mentioned, ‘Steve, honestly, we can’t handle it within the brief time period’.
“‘If we buy a fantastic young 19-year-old with about 1,000 minutes in Ligue 1, and sell our captain with thousands of minutes in the Premier League, we can’t handle it brief time period’.
“‘Then [if we sell Marc] we have three centre-backs, and if we get an injury to the back three, it’s very, very dangerous.
“‘[I told him]: ‘If you want this scenario and you are fine with it, then sell Marc. If you don’t need this case, then we preserve him’.
“Then he determined to maintain him. Large credit score to the chairman. I didn’t need to threaten anyone.
“There was no tension between me and the chairman; it was a discussion about football. Big credit to him for deciding against the money and sticking with the sporting project.”
Guehi has resumed coaching with Palace after scoring his first objective for England in the course of the worldwide break, and is more likely to begin in opposition to Sunderland on Saturday.
“Big credit to Marc, who handled it very well,” Glasner continued.
“We talked on deadline day, and we talked the day after deadline day when he was already within the England camp.
“It was honest talks. He will remain our captain as long as he’s here. He’s a great player and personality. The truth is what I told you now. Palace fans deserve to know how it is.”
Liverpool’s curiosity won’t finish, nevertheless, with the participant into the ultimate 12 months of his contract and due to this fact accessible on a free switch in the summertime.
The Telegraph‘s Chris Bascombe experiences that the champions anticipate Guehi to hitch on the finish of the season, although there will probably be no new method in January as issues stand.
Accidents might change this, after all, however at this stage Liverpool are assured of beating different golf equipment to his signature on July 1 having already agreed private phrases and performed a medical on deadline day.
Arne Slot instructed reporters on Friday: “It’s a pity, not only for us but also for the player…let’s see what the future brings for him and for us.”
