"Of course, everybody wants Marc to sign a new contract, said Glasner, who had broken off negotiations about extending his own deal after leading Palace to their first major trophy by winning the FA Cup a few weeks earlier. It will be his decision. We never know what will happen in this sometimes crazy transfer market. Yet no one could have imagined quite how dramatically things would turn out."
"Having said after Palace defeated Arne Slot's side on penalties at Wembley that for players of that calibre to leave on a free, it's a problem for us unfortunately, a late U-turn on Guehi's future by the club's chairman, Steve Parish, even managed to take the spotlight away from the conclusion to Alexander Isak's drawn-out move to Anfield for a British record fee on deadline day."
"After beating Aston Villa 3-0 on Sunday evening in another impressive performance that established a club record of 14 matches unbeaten in all competitions as a top-flight club, the Austrian doubled down on his stance that Palace had not fulfilled a promise they made to him in March during a meeting about recruitment plans this summer. But the surprise departure of the sporting director Dougie Freedman to Saudi Arabia a few days after that meeting"
Marc Guehi entered the final year of his contract at Crystal Palace, creating urgent pressure for a resolution. Manager Oliver Glasner publicly urged Guehi to sign a new deal and expressed concern about late sales without adequate replacements, having paused his own contract talks after winning the FA Cup. Chairman Steve Parish executed a late U-turn on Guehi's future that overshadowed a major deadline-day transfer. Glasner regarded the sale as problematic given recruitment promises made in March, while the unexpected departure of sporting director Dougie Freedman and uncertainty over European status disrupted summer transfer planning.
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