Crystal Palace officially confirm Marc Guehi will need to be sold this transfer window | OneFootball

Marc Guehi is set to leave Crystal Palace this summer, the South London club have now publicly admitted.

Palace Chairman Steve Parish says that unless the England defender signs a contract extension, the club will be forced to sell.

When you consider that Crystal Palace have been unsuccessfully trying to get Marc Guehi to sign a new deal for more than two years now, that surely equals he will be leaving for sure.

BBC Sport state (see below) that Marc Guehi would be happy to complete the final ten and a half months of his Palace contract and then reap the huge personal financial benefits of leaving as a free agent.

On the other hand, Crystal Palace now publicly admitting that they can’t let things go any further and do without the tens of millions a sale would generate now.

Steve Parish has also repeated what he said (see below) in September 2024, when he admitted that he had expected Marc Guehi to be sold when Newcastle United were trying to buy the defender, only for the sale of Joachim Andersen (and an injury to one of their defensive summer 2024 signings) to make that impossible.

With Marc Guehi having now led Crystal Palace to both FA Cup and Charity Shield triumphs, it looks like a very good time for Guehi to leave on a high.

Newcastle United are currently in the process of signing German international central defender Malick Thiaw, with his medical due to take place today. So whether there will still be interest from Newcastle in Guehi remains to be seen.

Marc Guehi is comfortable on the left or right of the middle of a back four, whilst in Sunday’s win over Liverpool he played on the left of a back three.

Fabian Schar and Dan Burn will both turn 34 during the coming season, so to me, if Marc Guehi is up for coming, then it would make perfect sense for Eddie Howe to sign the England player now, especially if at a far lower price than United were prepared to pay last summer.

Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish says the club will sell captain Marc Guehi this summer to avoid losing him on a free at the end of his contract.

The Eagles rejected offers for defender Guehi from Newcastle United in January – the last of which was worth £65m – in the hope the defender would sign a new deal in south London.

But the England international has now entered the final 12 months of his deal at Selhurst Park, and appears no closer to extending his contract.

Guehi is said to be open to remaining with the club until 2026, at which point he can leave on a free transfer.

But Parish says the club would reluctantly prefer to cash in on Guehi this summer.

“We’d have to do that, of course,” said Parish.

“For players of that calibre to leave on a free, it’s a problem for us unfortunately.

“Joachim [Andersen] went [to Fulham last summer] and we couldn’t afford to lose both.

“We then had another bid [for Guehi] in January but that was a different situation.

“We’ll just have to see what happens. But, you know, it needs a new contract or a conclusion of some kind.”

Crystal Palace chairman Steve Paris explaining the sequence of events and why it eventually ended up ‘impossible’ for the South London club to sell Marc Guehi to Newcastle United in the final days of the summer 2024 transfer window – 4 September 2025

“I don’t think the [summer 2024] transfer window worked out exactly in the same format that we thought it would…

“Maybe we thought at the beginning, it would be more likely that Marc Guehi went and we kept Joachim Andersen.

“We accepted that bid for Joachim Andersen, which then made it very difficult really to sell both of our starting centre-backs in one transfer window.

“That is not to say it wasn’t still an outside possibility that we got to the right number but then Chadi Riad got injured.