Summer transfers continued.

[Daffydd]

We spent £35m on Ox instead of waiting to get him for free and then we didn't even play him for months, Guehi is a no brainer

[sydenham red]

Waiting for players on a free is fraught with danger, I believe the player can only sign a pre-contract with LFC (eg) from 1st Jan or say 6 months before his contract expires. That leaves a few months from the summer window closing to have someone snipe in (RM eg) or the greedy agent to line his pockets and steer "his" client elsewhere. If guehi could sign a legally binding document 2day that meant he could join us 1st June 2026 then that would be fine but he can't. Just get him now even if its a little more than we want to pay. Due to accounting etc FSG prob look at the timing of the payments to palace as more important than the overall cost.

[teesred]

Marc Guehi is likely to stay at Crystal Palace and leave on a free transfer next summer.

Liverpool have held talks about signing Guehi but at the moment there is a gap in valuation.

Palace will not let their captain go on the cheap and Liverpool know they can wait until next summer to sign him on a free transfer.

That is the situation on Tuesday but things can change.

The player is happy to stay at Palace and play in Europe.

If Palace were to agree a fee with Liverpool then he would be happy to talk to them but that has not happened.

Multiple big clubs in the Premier League and across Europe are aware that Guehi may be available as a free agent next summer.

That's the problem we'll squabble over a few million and someone else will sign him on a free next year, if we can pay stupid money for wirtz i'm sure we can come up with a few more million for Guehi who we really need

Can't see this being true. Parish even said I'm Sunday they need to get a few rather than him leave for free. No way can Palace afford to do that now they've been placed into the conference.

[justme]

If we are lowballing Palace then we need to stop it. Just pay a reasonable price and get him.

[teesred]

Bear in mind the news of him staying is from Kaveh Solekol. I'd have to check myself if he said it was fucking raining. Him and that pea headed little blurt who's a Utd fan love to make out they have inside info when 99/100 they're later than Ryanair flight time.

[Insidious]

Leoni seems to be basically done.

If so, it puts us in a better position than what we were.

Van Dijk
Konaté
Leoni
Gomez
Emergency-only use of Endo, or Grav, or Robbo*

Hopefully if Leoni is secured, we can play our best hand in negotiations with Palace - or wait - or look elsewhere.

This side is being reconstructed to attempt to compete for 5+ years and not just for 25/26.

*Not advocating this on the regular, you'd hope using someone like Endo wouldn't happen for more than 3-5 League games in a season. League Cup etc a different issue

[justme]

Bear in mind the news of him staying is from Kaveh Solekol. I'd have to check myself if he said it was fucking raining. Him and that pea headed little blurt who's a Utd fan love to make out they have inside info when 99/100 they're later than Ryanair flight time.

Oh yeah,them scumbags..i wouldn't ask them for the time of day

[Daffydd]

Paul Joyce reckons it's an initial fee of £26m for Leoni.

[Crimson Dynasty]

Leoni seems to be basically done.

If so, it puts us in a better position than what we were.

Van Dijk
Konaté
Leoni
Gomez
Emergency-only use of Endo, or Grav, or Robbo*

Hopefully if Leoni is secured, we can play our best hand in negotiations with Palace - or wait - or look elsewhere.

This side is being reconstructed to attempt to compete for 5+ years and not just for 25/26.

*Not advocating this on the regular, you'd hope using someone like Endo wouldn't happen for more than 3-5 League games in a season. League Cup etc a different issue

Bear in mind that Slot also used Nyoni at CB in a couple of preseason games.
The lad seemed to handle it okay.

Still a bit under-sized fo regular use in that role in my opinion, but a decent option to have for an emergency in a cup game like an early Carabao cup game against a lower tier team.

I really do hope the lad beefs up a bit this season.
He'd be useful in multiple areas including possibly his long-term role of (eventually?) replacing Grav or providing an option to that pivot position.

[Insidious]

Paul Joyce reckons it's an initial fee of £26m for Leoni.

Really hope he is can fulfil his potential. He is a physical brute for his age and has impressed Parma fans - think that's 17 Serie A appearances now - for context I think Huijsen had about 14 when he departed Juventus for Bournemouth.

£26m is no joke for an 18-year old, though there is a tax on potential and on a player that will (in time) fill a Home-grown quota slot. Naturally if he has a boss career it will be a bargain and it would take quite the failure to make a huge loss on him if it doesn't work out, so it feels low-risk in it's own way.

Fingers tightly crossed for the lad. Always easier to get the right-footed, right-sided players sorted out and given that he has featured in a back three before he might even be able to do the very occasional match at right-back, though wouldn't be flying up the wing like Frimpong.

Getting the left-footed, left-sided centre-back in for the future will be one of the next defensive issues to address in time to take pressure off Van Dijk.