Marc Guehi features heavily in Newcastle United’s thinking ahead of summer window – Report | OneFootball

The final month of the Newcastle United summer 2024 transfer window was dominated by Marc Guehi.

It seemingly becoming clear that Newcastle United were determined to sign the England international to be their long-term first choice right-sided central defender, although another major bonus was/is that Marc Guehi is just as comfortable playing as the left-side central defender.

On Friday 2 August, it was first revealed that Newcastle United were trying to sign the 24 year old.

A bid of £50m reported to have been made by Newcastle and turned down by Crystal Palace. Exactly four weeks later, the Premier League transfer window closed on Friday 30 August 2024, with Marc Guehi still a Crystal Palace player.

This despite a reported five bids by Newcastle United, with the fifth and final one of the window claimed to be for a total of £70m, including potential future add-ons. That £70m figure did always sound unlikely BUT certainly nobody could deny that NUFC hadn’t tried to sign Marc Guehi.

The Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish then explaining after that summer 2024 transfer window closed, 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.

“That doesn’t look quite as bad as it seems but it still left us very light and really made it impossible for us to consider at that point [towards the end of the transfer window].”

The Athletic have now stated that their information is that ‘Marc Guehi continues to feature heavily in the club’s thinking’ ahead of this fast approaching summer 2025 transfer window…

The Athletic report – 29 April 2025:

‘Newcastle United remain convinced that Marc Guehi would be an ideal addition and would strengthen their first XI and they have continued to monitor him closely.

Part of the reason why they would have spent big on him last summer — if not at the £60million-plus ($80.3m) price that was mooted, then potentially at £50m-plus — and risked having to make further sales, is because several senior figures felt he was a long-term solution to their right-sided centre-back position.

That viewpoint has not changed, at least for some influential voices internally, and so Marc Guehi continues to feature heavily in the club’s thinking.

But much will depend on competition — Newcastle are unlikely to want to enter a bidding war — and Crystal Palace’s stance, because any offers will be lower than last summer, given Guehi is going to be down to the final year of his contract.

Other defenders have been watched in the Premier League and across Europe, with exhaustive due diligence performed, and Dean Huijsen is just one considered. With Newcastle’s centre-backs aged 30 or over, Sven Botman (25) aside, their age profile requires lowering and future-proofing.

Marc Guehi is still of keen interest…’

For me, two things are guaranteed.

Firstly, Marc Guehi will leave Crystal Palace this summer.

Secondly, Newcastle United will sign a high quality central defender who can play on the righthand side.

Marc Guehi has continued his stance, refusing to sign a contract extension, so as things stand, he will become a free agent after 30 June 2026, unless something happens.

There is no way that Palace will allow this summer window to end without selling Marc Guehi, one of their biggest assets. Letting him leave eventually for nothing in summer 2026 would be so damaging,

The great thing for Newcastle United fans is that we are so strongly linked with such quality central defenders, 20 year old Dean Huijsen and 24 year old Marc Guehi, both players with their best years ahead of them. Something very much key to the Newcastle United transfer strategy.

Dean Huijsen has a £50m release clause and Marc Guehi with only one year left on his contract, should cost no more than that either. Neither of them cheap but within what we can believe Newcastle United would be willing and able to pay now, especially with the PSR situation now improving.

Having won that all important first trophy last month and now big favourites to get one of the Champions League spots, Newcastle United now a very attractive proposition for almost any player, as NUFC make rapid progress with the overall project under this ownership.

After having to take the PSR medicine of not a single new face as a first eleven contender coming in these last three transfer windows, as well as other first team contenders coming in, we will finally see stiff competition coming in for the superb Fabian Schar. Just a case of which transfer target that is going to be. If I was forced to make a small wager, my money would be on Marc Guehi.