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He apparently did alright at Southampton last season and was a regular, but we can’t even give him to them for free? Surely we wouldn’t be stupid enough to ask for a fee.

I don’t blame them tbh, it suggests Allison is on his way out soonish.

I think he’s pretty much 5th choice at LB. Other clubs just don’t want him, and why would they with his injury record.

I was about to say I’m lurching between despair and thinking we’ll get a late loan for Chalobah. Despair it is. What an omnishambles.

So we’re trying to get a first team player from another premier league club late on deadline day. Shop… abroad

We might need several first team players next summer.

It means he took a pay cut.

True. All we currently know for sure is that we’ve failed to strengthen the positions we needed to.

Guehi is probably telling Palace he’s happy to stay, while his agent is telling us he wants to come here. Again though, if this is the case we should be able see through it.

I think if you sell a purple like Gordon to create PSR room, you have to look for value in whatever you buy. That’s the only way that model works IMO. Selling a purple and then buying £70m Guehi strikes me as a bit stupid.

The fact they sold their other CB and kept playing Guehi late in the window were good clues this wasn’t happening as well.

If Mitchell went for 10 CB’s and couldn’t get any of them interested, then maybe he’s not the man for us. Whatever explanation we come up for for this window, there has been a failure somewhere down the line.

We bid £70m for Marc Guehi, so if that was his choice then he can’t say he wasn’t backed.

I rate Guehi but the idea that our scouts couldn’t find anyone in the world of similar quality and profile is bizarre. If they couldn’t find suitable alternatives then they need sacking off. This guy isn’t Nesta ffs.

I’m still clinging onto hope that we’ll go for someone else, or attempt any right winger. My brain just can’t comprehend this “Guehi or nothing” idea. It would be flagrant mismanagement and makes no sense.

It’s embarrassing because we should’ve moved on ages ago to another target. Hopefully they still have someone in mind and there’s still time.

If we just decided to go after Guehi with no backup, I wouldn’t fancy explaining that to Yasir at the next board meeting.

Fish? You’re making some of those up.

I didn’t say no chance to that, it was a PSR scam so a very different situation.

Zero chance we gave Kelly 5 years on 150k per week.

If I was him I’d be making sure that release clause is no higher than £60m.

I think the only thing Guehi currently has over Schar is pace tbh.

It’s good but Palace are down 3 defenders if Guehi goes. Andersen has gone and it sounds like it might be knee ligaments for Chadi.

The negotiation seems to consist of us getting turned down, coming back with more, and getting turned down again. Right now Palace have no replacement, have sold their other first team CB, and the defender they bought this summer just got injured. A hell of a lot needs to happen in a couple of days for Guehi to end up at Newcastle.

No but people tell us he really wants the move, so what’s it based on. So far we have little evidence that anyone on the Palace side is interested in this happening.