Amen
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Made more sense than the community shield talk.
The best opportunity to qualify was keep Guehi around and then buy that weekend while being open to selling Guehi.
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He’s Steve Parish isn’t he? Let’s be honest Glasner says it’s too late to get anyone else in and then an hour later Romano is posting about them signing someone 
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The problem with offering to pay the reported ask is that the seller will simply move the goal post and try their luck. Why wouldn’t they? Why play the game when you know the seller will (likely) have to sell and even if they do not you are not is desperate need any how.
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My take is Glasner is speaking forthrightly as he is starting to imagine his life away from Palace. Selling Guehi against his wishes might give him the justification he needs. Or at the least it will simmer for a while until the right offer comes in for Glasner and he decides to move.
Parish has to take care of Palace. He seems a solid enough bloke and he isn’t stupid. If he thinks they can afford to let Guehi leave on a free they will absolutely do it.
If they cannot afford to say no to £35-40M rather than nothing, then that’s what they will do.
Glazer is a coach. Parish is an owner. The one will overrule the other if he has to. The sensible coach keeps it in house, unless he is looking for a way out…
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Apparently Crystal Palace are open to £30m and Joe Gomez on loan for the season.
Liverpool have flatly rejected letting Gomez leave on loan but may consider a permanent transfer as part of the deal.
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Straight Swap might work.
I think realistically we’d be paying them something as well but tbh Gomez and £10m for Guehi seems reasonable to me. Probably £35m for Guehi, £25m for Gomez from a transfer point of view.
It would also give us the financial bandwidth to go for Rogers so perhaps that’s under consideration.
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Gomez is probably priced at 30 ish as well. Could be a good move for both the players
It’s an interesting idea. We really only need 5 CBs because one of them is Gomez and we need to mitigate against his potential unavailability. The downside is with question marks about RB with neither Bradley nor Frimoong yet fully established, he provides a really useful comfort blanket for that role.
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Yeah that would to me be the only downside on that. I am a fan of Gomez and if he could stay fit I’d be happy for him to be counted as a CB. I wouldn’t even be interested in another.
If this is true I expect it might get done either way even as a loan, after all we were dead set against a loan on Tsimikas and then 2 days later he is going out on loan.
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Some might say it would be 2 CBs and 2 in, but one of the ins is not yet 20 and has very little experience. So we should keep Joe Go and pay the asking price for Guehi. Let’s get this over and done with.
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He isn’t going improve by sitting on the bench though is he?
Whatever we decide there is a set plan so I think let’s trust the club on this, they’ve outlined the route to the first team to Leoni.
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Joyce there, late to the party 
BBC with it now too
Gomez is unlikely to pass a medical anyway.
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Interesting use of the word ‘currently’ in the Joyce article. The reds currently do not want to include Gomez on loan in the deal.
Obviously we are open to a permanent move, and I would go with the valuation Kopstar suggests above, Gomez + £10M, something like that. I think Gomez is a smashing player, but it’s the fitness innit. Hence the valuation.
On the Palace side they get an experienced and excellent player, but obviously they are well aware of his fitness record, hence their desire for a loan, not an outright purchase.
I suspect a deal will be done at £30M plus Gomez loan for a season.
I would be ok with that, but would prefer a sale. I don’t think Palace can afford to make a mistake though, and if Gomez breaks down and they are £25M into the deal, that is a lot for them.
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Yup I reckon that will be the deal done on Monday.
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Makes no sense to let a defender go when youre alrwady a defender short