Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner believes Marc Gehi will not leave the club in the January transfer window.
Guehi’s contract is due to expire at the end of the season and the England international will now be free to negotiate pre-contract agreements with foreign clubs.
Sky Sports News reports that Manchester City are considering accelerating their summer plans to target Gehi amid an injury crisis in their defense, with Josko Gvardiol and Ruben Dias out injured.
Palace are believed to be considering an offer lower than the £35m they asked for when Gehi was close to joining Liverpool on Deadline Day last summer.
Asked whether he was worried about losing Guehi following Palace’s stalemate with Aston Villa, Glasner told Sky Sports: “I think Marc will stay, but if Marc says, ‘I want to leave’ and he has five months left on his contract and the club pays him a huge amount of money, then all the players who play for a club like Crystal Palace will leave.”
“I’m sure our chairman will ask for a very high fee for him, but then we’ll see. I don’t know if Mark wants to leave or not.”
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Saturday’s social panel debated whether Crystal Palace’s Marc Guehy should stay or move on in the January transfer window.
Asked if he was worried about his captain leaving in January, Glasner added, “I wasn’t as worried as I was in the summer, because the summer would have been the same.”
“If the offer was high enough for the club to accept and Marc wanted to go, he would no longer be a Crystal Palace player.
“I think it was the same last January and the year before that. For every player there is a price at which a club will sell him when he is at Crystal Palace. Maybe it is because we are not at the end of the food chain in football.”
“For me, it was exactly the same situation as in the summer, so it was a bit of a surprise what came out of it.
“Right now, when you watch him play, when you watch him train, when you see his dedication and when we talk together a lot, I think it really keeps the fans calm. But in football, you never know what can happen.”
