Oliver Glasner says Marc Guehi will depart Crystal Palace in January if Man Metropolis are available in with a sufficiently big supply.
talkSPORT understands Metropolis are contemplating a transfer for the Crystal Palace defender this month.
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Pep Guardiola’s aspect are available in the market for defensive reinforcements after Josko Gvardiol and Ruben Dias sustained accidents within the 1-1 draw with Chelsea on Sunday.
Dias can be out for as much as six weeks whereas Gvardiol’s season may very well be over with a damaged leg.
The pair be a part of fellow centre-back John Stones on the remedy desk on the Etihad, leaving Guardiola in need of choices.
And Guehi, who’s out of contract on the finish of the season, is a number one choice to assist plug the hole.
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It’s understood Palace are open to a mid-season sale figuring out Guehi will stroll without cost in June.
“If a participant feels too good for a membership, it’s higher to promote him, and if a participant shouldn’t be ok for a membership, you additionally must promote him,” Glasner stated. “To get the most effective out of your squad, it have to be a match.”
Requested whether or not Guehi and Metropolis are a possible ‘match’, Glasner stated: “It may very well be. I’m not so naive as to not know that if an enormous supply comes from Metropolis and Marc needs to do it, it’s going to occur.”
However Guehi is believed to be content material to stay at Palace for the remainder of the marketing campaign.
The 25-year-old is known to view the constant recreation time he receives at Palace as giving him a powerful likelihood to begin for England on the 2026 World Cup.
Together with Metropolis, the likes of Bayern, Actual Madrid and Liverpool maintain an curiosity within the Englishman.
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Liverpool got here closest to signing Guehi on deadline day final summer season, however Palace pulled the plug on the deal on the final minute.
Barcelona have been one other crew who mentioned Guehi as a possible switch goal however opted to not proceed because of the defender’s wage calls for.
Glasner added: “Nothing in life is one-dimensional. Let’s say you could have a pleasant automobile however you want cash as a result of it’s chilly and a window [at home] is damaged, and any individual provides you loopy cash to your automobile. You say, ‘No, I don’t wish to promote my automobile. I like my automobile. However I don’t wish to freeze.’ Then you definitely say, ‘If I can get the window and even a brand new roof, you’ll be able to have the automobile. However I wish to preserve it.’
“It’s the identical with Marc. All people needs him to play for Crystal Palace, signal a brand new contract and keep right here for ever.
“On the opposite aspect, the contract ends this summer season and if any individual is coming and you’re freezing, there can be a second when the membership says, ‘Now the monetary situation is extra vital than the sporting situation and now we have to do it.
“There can be a threshold the place if Marc says he needs to depart and the cash is above the brink, it’s going to occur.”
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Although Glasner wouldn’t reveal how a lot Palace can be demanding.
“The cash was not above the brink,” he stated of Guehi’s collapsed transfer to Liverpool.
“Perhaps it was shut. If any individual had supplied £80m for Marc and Marc stated he needed to go, then Marc wouldn’t be a Crystal Palace participant.”
Given he’s out of contract in the summertime, Guehi is eligible to signal a pre-agreement with a membership exterior of England in January, which may give Bayern and Madrid a lift of their pursuit.
The 25-year-old joined Palace in July 2021 from Chelsea after a profitable mortgage stint within the Championship with Swansea Metropolis.
Guehi has gone on to turn out to be a rock on the again for Palace, together with his calmness and poise on the again serving to him to turn out to be a longtime England worldwide.
Since his arrival at Selhurst Park, Guehi has made 186 appearances throughout all competitions for Palace.
He additionally skippered the membership to a shocking FA Cup victory final season as Palace beat Metropolis within the last, thus securing a European berth.
The FA Cup win marked Palace’s first-ever main trophy.
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Palace have already ready for Guehi’s eventual exit having signed Jaydee Canvot final summer season for £23m.
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The 19-year-old joined from Toulouse, the place he established himself as an everyday starter midway by way of the 2024/25 season.
Palace’s seize of Canvot represented considerably of a coup given Aston Villa had a bid for the French expertise rejected.
