Crystal Palace have reportedly set their asking worth for Marc Guehi amid ‘real curiosity’ from Liverpool within the defender.
The Reds are understood to be contemplating an strategy to the south London membership relating to the 25-year-old, with Arne Slot’s squad presently missing in centre-back depth after the sale of Jarell Quansah and the damage to Joe Gomez.
That has left the Premier League champions with solely two senior central defenders, a removed from supreme situation with simply over a fortnight to go till the beginning of their title defence.
How a lot do Palace need for Marc Guehi?
On Wednesday night, BBC Sport‘s Sami Mokbel issued a complete replace on the place issues stand with Guehi and a possible switch to Liverpool.
The England worldwide is into the ultimate 12 months of his contract with Palace and ‘there aren’t any indicators’ that he’ll prolong his deal, regardless of the Eagles’ comprehensible needs to maintain him for the long-term.
The Reds have a ‘real curiosity’ within the 25-year-old this summer season however are reluctant to ‘get drawn into an extended saga’ over the value to be paid for the defender. The south London membership worth him at £40m, however the Merseysiders are hoping to pay a decrease quantity.
Mokbel added that Guehi ‘would seemingly give severe consideration’ to the chance to hitch the reigning Premier League champions.
£40m for Guehi may be very affordable – simply get it achieved, Liverpool
By no means thoughts that the England defender may very well be out there on a free switch subsequent 12 months – Liverpool want him now, and Palace’s asking worth is way from extortionate, even when accounting for his contract state of affairs.
An outlay of £40m appears fairly affordable for a 25-year-old who’s confirmed within the English prime flight and who’d assist in the direction of assembly homegrown quota necessities.
The Reds can not run the danger of starting the Premier League season with solely two senior centre-backs, and the pre-season video games in opposition to AC Milan and Yokohama F. Marinos highlighted that there are defensive deficiencies in want of swift addressing.
We appeared significantly susceptible on the break in each matches of the Asian tour, and as Stuart Pearce not too long ago identified, one in all Guehi’s greatest strengths is his means to defend in opposition to a counterattack.
Whereas Liverpool are proper to not let themselves be extorted into paying what they deem an extreme quantity for a participant, that wouldn’t be the case with spending £40m on the Palace powerhouse, particularly given our alarming lack of central defensive depth.
For all the thrill over a possible swoop for Alexander Isak, there’s a higher want for the Reds to noticeably pursue the Eagles defender. We will solely hope that the Anfield hierarchy recognise that now and act upon it, reasonably than being left with a trigger for large remorse in just a few months’ time if an damage disaster much like 2020/21 have been to come up.
