According to The Mail, Crystal Palace were all set to accept Newcastle’s £70m bid for Marc Guehi until an injury forced the Eagles into a re-think.
Chief reporter Sami Mokbel reports that we held positive talks earlier in the week, leaving Palace ‘ready to accept’ our fifth bid of £65m plus £5m in add-ons. However, a knee injury to centre-back Chadi Riad saw co-owner Steve Parish up their asking price.
Riad – a £14m signing from Real Betis – is expected to be out for ‘at least’ two months following a suspected MCL knee injury and it’s believed Palace upped their demands to £65m plus £10m in add-ons as a result.
Newcastle will understand Palace’s concerns, especially when the Eagles have just sold fellow centre-back Joachim Andersen to Fulham for £30m. However, another price hike may have tipped us over the edge and forced the club to walk away, with a £75m package for Guehi seeming well beyond his market value.
If the Guehi deal is all but over unless Palace lower their demands, it makes you question why alternatives aren’t in place. They should be, but if Palace’s stance has changed so late in the window due to Riad’s injury and other options are no longer attainable – Edmond Tapsoba is staying at Leverkusen and Mohamed Simakan is off to Saudi – it may be too late to react.
Mitchell has proved incompetent. The PIF will sack him. Good ridance
John Hutton(Quote)
Gfor(Quote)
I think Eddie will apply for england job now. Would you blame him
Steve Clasper(Quote)
Never heard so much S***t in all my life.
Plus he is not worth it and there is far better value out there, we just didn’t know where to find it.
Joseph(Quote)
There is not a better player in CB position in the country and Howe knows that. What this total situation means is that Newcastle do not trust Howe otherwise they would have delivered his one top signing. Watch what happens, Mitchell gone within a week, Howe gone by Christmas, Newcastle just survive in the Orem come may thanks to Potter being bought in. By the was Guehi joins Liverpool in January for £75m because they recognise quality and prepared to pay for it.
John(Quote)
By playing him in cup game I don’t think they had any intension of selling him ! Think parrish thinks his club is Harrods in the prem ! he is getting carried away with himself what goes round comes round and hope it does .
Mick law(Quote)
I have been saying this since the start he will never be a Newcastle player you should of went to Germany and bought 4 defenders then you would know you have a good defence and even if you offered )100 million for him they would put the price up another £10 million so now you can’t buy players unless you can fly to Germany tonight pick the right club and offer them £20 per player you might get lucky
William Laing(Quote)
Mitchell has been in the job for 7 weeks and has known all along the situation regarding Newcastles injuries in the centre of defence. The fannying about trying to sign the overpriced, under sized centre half Guehi and his apparant lack of a plan to identify a back up signing if Guehi didn’t sign, is ridiculous.
Failure to get European football next season will probably see the total dismantling of this current team with the likes of Isak, Bruno and Gordon moving on to play for clubs who have European Football and should nobody arrive before the window closes, Mitchells failure to help improve the team in the 7 weeks that he’s been here will be a major factor in this.
I think the bloke has 24 hours to save his reputation and his job at Newcastle. Dan Ashworth is proving his worth to Manchester United by rapidly delivering the players the Ten Haag wants, Mitchell is currently failing miserably at Newcastle as it seems he cannot even get one first team signing through the door. He wont have a long term future at Newcastle if the team he has failed to strengthen, fook things up this season.
Frank Fothergill(Quote)
Honestly I’m Newcastle through and through but some of our fans are mad. It’s parish who keeps moving the goalposts. Mitchell must have been getting told if they give 70 mil then parish upped it again I guarantee you that we will have 2 coming in tomorrow
Peter Murphy(Quote)
Annyone remember deadlineday 22?
https://x.com/ChrisDHWaugh/status/1563160718111014914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1563160718111014914%7Ctwgr%5E16e1c2f00a6393525cee39f1d24c5ecb33da539f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fathletic%2Flive-blogs%2Ftransfer-news-live-updates%2FkjF47IjtLqFD%2F
Jørn(Quote)
You “guarantee it?”. Hmmm. See you this time tomorrow then! Let’s see.
Panther(Quote)
Villa Liverpool Man Utd spurs city Arsenal ..all prepared planned and did their business ..Newcastle are showing they are amateurs in a key season where the club can retain all the top players and build momentum or most will leave for champions league teams .. big dent in Howe and mitchell reputations
Mike(Quote)
Mitchell is totally inept,be very surprised if we get any signings in now,apart from maybe Trafford,last thing we need is another bloody keeper,total disaster of a transfer window.Eddie Howe must be inwardly fuming
Colin Reid(Quote)
Get the buyer from Chelsea he doesn’t hang around
Bell Richard(Quote)
I didn’t want Guehi. Mr Parish wanted more, which is his right, but his real motivation was to draw more clubs in for a bidding war. No other clubs bought it because they knew (unlike us) that the player wasn’t worth the asking price.
Mr Mitchell’s friend and associate? Don’t make me laugh!
I would’ve sacked Mitchell for his insanity in making Flash Gordon available to his boyhood club – a complete lack of business nous.
Surely the PIF will now do the obvious thing, and include Mr Eales in the package?
If they don’t, that will confirm that they are pig-sick of all the restrictions placed upon them and they’ve lost interest in our club as a long-term investment!
Geoff Boots(Quote)
Totally agree with most comments on this page. I think its poor planning from our Recruitment team, Mitchell and Eales to be honest. Eales has been here the longest out of our senior C-Suite heads, overseeing PSR and that situation before Amanda and Merdad left. We should have had a action plan raring to go to get rid of the players that do not have a future at the club and deal with the PSR issues as a matter of high importance. It just all felt like it was last minute emergency actions to save the club from PL points penalty or fines. Minteh would have been our RW solution this season and we then didn’t have to spend anything on a RW transfer, which looks dead in the water now too by the way. He has already proved a starter for Brighton and will be a potent player before the season is over and in the future. Our loss due to poor planning again. Another point being if we have 70mil to offer for a CB and the deal is now dead, how are we not immediately moving to spend up to 70 on the other priority position in the elite RW we need, who should be loaded and ready to negotiate on in these transfer window days? Someone in control of these things needs a serious update on how important player acquisition is for this club and our injury prone squad. (Feels like the Alan Pardew 5th place finish and Europa League qualification years with no squad depth all over again. We all know what happened the years after losing all our talent then and having to rebuild)
If Guehi was our top priority then what/who were our next options to fall back on? The powers that be should have better more precise plans and fall back plans to action. There is huge spotlight on every transfer windows every time they come around. Either come out and say before the window that no transfer business will happen as PSR has blocked that or say we are going to use the next X amount of days to bring players into the areas we need them, we have first level priorities and if they do not bite at the first bid offer, we then swiftly move to the second and third and stick to that principle as clubs will then learn how hard we are in dealing with. Eddie and the Recruitment team should have OK’d a list of key player targets needed well before the Transfer window had opened. If we exhaust all of those levels and no clubs sells, then that isn’t Eddies fault or the clubs. We just don’t have the negotiators we need at the club and that needs to then be looked at as an area of immediate investment. We have known since last season we needed reinforcements in key areas, for squad depth and especially in the CB area. How many more times are we going to blame injury or PSR? We are not managing the expectation very well!
Our showing before the window that we are desperate for players in certain positions means the likes or Parrish know and exploit that, so can take the high ground on demands for fees. We should have said the max we value your player at is 50+5mil add-ons take it or leave it in 24hours, and if no bite then end that interest immediately and move on to next priority targets until we get them. Seems all the eggs have been put into one basket and its going to cost us now massively. Id like to know why we did not quickly move to Wolfsburg’s Maxence Lecroix, offer more than Palace and then if successful use him as a bargaining chip for Guehi. Parrish may have said leave Maxence alone and we will sell Guehi or come to a different transfer agreement. Palace will have done a lot of work and research in that player who Glasner must be a fan of, so we should have been equally as savvy or shrewd in negotiations there. If Palace didn’t bite then at least we have gained a right sided CB, the area we needed cover for!
Seems they are now trying to save some face in reigniting the Trafford deal too, but that only solves goal keeping backup it doesn’t solve outfield problems which are more important as we move to a Chelsea model in terms of goal keepers on the books.
Dan(Quote)
Our recruitment this window has proved to be an absolute joke. Us, the fans deserve far better having forked out loads of money on new strips to support the club and we have now had our faces rubbed in the mud with this pathetic apology for a transfer window. Howe comes out and says we are doing our very best behind the scenes but really were we? Did he really believe that? I think there is a lot going on that we are not privy to and the concern is now that the hierarchy no longer believe in Howe. Performances on the pitch to date match the dithering decision making off it and it will be interesting to see what happens against Spurs, if it doesn’t go well there may well be a fans backlash and rightly so. As usual we deserve better but are we just being taken for granted again? We should be fill of positivity at this stage of the new season, I’m certainly not.
John Clark(Quote)