Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has suggested that the club would rather allow Marc Guehi to depart for nothing at the conclusion of the campaign, rather than sell him in January. It was Parish who scuppered a £35million deadline day switch to Liverpool and he has now clarified Palace's position.

Crystal Palace owner Steve Parish believes the club would have taken a "significant risk" by going through with Marc Guehi's proposed transfer to Liverpool. The England international was on the cusp of moving to the Reds on transfer deadline day,

Keith Andrews fields the same Brentford team that started the 3-2 victory over Liverpool last weekend. Keane Lewis-Potter, Fabio Carvalho and Reiss Nelson have to settle for a place among the substitutes after starting the 5-0 Carabao Cup win over Grimsby in midweek.

My only complaint is the U.S. team didn’t talk to us because Chris was struggling with his calf for many weeks,” Glasner said on Friday.

Crystal Palace will aim to build on their impressive midweek win when they welcome Brentford to Selhurst Park in Saturday’s Premier League encounter.Both sides head into the fixture level on points

Oliver Glasner has called on football’s governing bodies to prioritise player welfare when scheduling matches as Crystal Palace face an increasingly congested schedule. After beating Liverpool to qualify for the Carabao Cup quarter-finals, Palace face the unenviable prospect of playing five matches in ten days in the lead-up to Christmas.

Liverpool has fielded a weakened team and gotten duly punished in a 3-0 loss to Crystal Palace in the League Cup, the latest setback to strike the beleaguered English champions.

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