General Premier League Thread 2025/2026

He is right. Palace have been advertising Guehi for sale since early/mid August. They wanted to sell. Strange and dumb they didn’t get set up to do what they wanted to do.

Sounds like a right mess at Palace, manager threatening to quit on deadline day, furious with their window

I wouldn't want to be a betting man with the first manager out the door this season as every few days there seems a new likely candidate

Liverpool hopefully have enough CB cover until January and get Guéhi at the very start of the window for half the fee. Palace have literally months more to work on a replacement. Could work out fine just need to manage players well and hope for no injuries or else we'll be seeing Robbo at CB again!

I don't think he was available in July. I think occam's razor here is that he doesn't become available until they have a replacement lined up, which is fair enough as they play 3 at the back and they are through to European group stage

They left it until yesterday to sign the young CB from Toulouse, Igor Julio on loan, and Pavlovic from....somewhere in Italy I think.

I think they wanted Guéhi to ensure they made it into Europe via the playoff games last week, and that was the right call and they just about scraped it.

But it looks to me as if they just left themselves with too much to do on the final day trying to sign multiple CB's (apparently there was also a late enquiry for Disai of Chelsea) and the manager was forced to say that he can't manage in 4 competitions this season if they've only brought in 1 CB who's a teenager to replace their captain

Unfortunate, but don't forget that Liverpool have long said that they'll happily take him on a free next summer, so it's more of a delay than a complete failure for the player and I believe he'll get his move hopefully on a big cut price of £20m or less on Jan 1st just like when Virgil joined

It'll cost him some glamour ties v Real Madrid and going to the San Siro but there'll be plenty of time for more of those. Moving in January though still gives him a chance to compete for trophies this season that Palace can't compete for, while still playing half the season for them in their first Conference League campaign leaving him eligible for a medal if they go and win that

I think the Guéhi alternative was not letting Gomez go. There were bids yesterday and Milan seemed the most confident

Signing Guéhi I think allows Joe Gomez to leave, not signing him means Joe had to stay.

Yeah Guéhi is a better player, but numbers wise it's the same amount of cover and you offset Guéhi needing to settle in with Gomez being the longest serving player at Liverpool who has captained the club in the past and looked completely comfortable against Arsenal at the weekend.

Also at what stage in the few weeks did liverpool submit a bid for him?

Did they leave it untill the last day?

Both clubs are at fault (if fault is the correct word).

Palace don't have to sell just because Liverpool want him and he is in favour of the move.

Liverpool could have submitted a higher bid 2 weeks ago, but they didn't.

The player would have requested a transfer, but he didn't.

Palace could have lined up a replacement, but he's the club captain and someone they didn't want to sell, not easy to replace and definitely not at the money they were getting for him. So, why should they and they didn't.

I do enjoy all these genuine questions about how Liverpool got this one wrong though. I guess it gives some angle of relief when thinking about the league champions, their 100% record and epic club record deadline day striker. Look at Liverpool, so incompetent, hah.

There was no alternative it was "a market opportunity" as we call it. A player for half his market value.

Oh well it's a player for quarter is value in 4 months at worst.

The epl teams spent nearly £3bn this summer.

Proving its in a different level to every other league when it comes to money.

The bubble gets bigger. Will it ever burst?

Maybe but its worth remembering Palace were stuck in limbo waiting to know what European competition they were in. That did delay their activity.

Yeah fair point.

Overall I think Liverpool (management, recruitment team) will be frustrated and angry but in the context of the whole window it's not that huge of a deal I don't think

Last year CB options were Virgil, Konaté, Quansah and Gomez

This season you replace Quansah with Leoni - in the senior Italy squad - and Quansah plays 45mins, 45mins, 53mins, 20mins at CB on the way to winning the league in 4 appearances so its not like he was used much last season

Endo is the break glass option and Robertson after that. Maybe Bajčetic who I think is staying and was a CB coming through. Rhys Williams still on the books but he'll be leaving. Wellity Lucky too young but he's down the depth chart as is Gravenberch.

If we have injuries that force us down that far I think we're in massive trouble regardless

The priority yesterday was Isak. We needed a forward way way way more than we needed a CB, and then we come again for Marc in January and he can have an FA Cup 3rd round debut like Virg

I think its an absolute fucken disgrace that Palace had the audacity to hold onto their captain Mark Guehi.

How dare they defy Liverpool and not fall into line! 😂

I mean yeah man. Given Newcastle fell into line in the end, it is genuinely surprising!