Really hope Hughes can get this one over the line. In the best of worlds already today so he gets here becero the Arsenal game, but that’s not realistic.
Konate’s form has been far from impressive and we know his contract is up next summer. Joe is injury prone and Leoni is young/unproven in the EPL. With this in mind, just bring him in, give Palace the extra five millions.I really think we need to shore up our defensive if want to retain the title
I don’t expect any movement on this until after Palace play their 2nd leg match against Fredrikstad on Thurs.
Hopefully (unless he picks up a knock during that game), he is our player by the weekend, not that I would expect him to be involved in the match against Arsenal.
BBC reporting that Crystal Palace have made an approach to sign Manchester City defender Manuel Akanji.
Hopefully if they can bring in defensive cover we might see some movement on a deal for Guehi towards the end of the week after their European qualifier.
That would be a very good move for them. Akanji is maybe not absolute top-tier starting quality (he was a permanent fixture for them during their CL+PL season, but I never understood what Pep saw in him in the first place, so I’m not too surprised that he’s not starting for them anymore), but he’s still a very good center-back, and Palace would have a lot of joy with him I reckon. He’d be a good replacement for Guehi, so this makes sense.