Newcastle United are reportedly interested in signing the Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi during the summer transfer window.
However, former Premier League scout Mick Brown has revealed that the defender wants to join Liverpool instead. The development will come as a huge blow for Newcastle, who need a quality defender.
They were quite vulnerable at the back last season, and they need to improve in that area of the pitch. The 25-year-old has established himself as a reliable performer in the Premier League, and there is no doubt that Guehi would’ve improved Newcastle immensely.
Blow for Newcastle in Guehi pursuit
“Newcastle are looking to bring in a new defender,” Brown told Football Insider.
“I know most of their focus is on a striker with the Isak situation at the moment, but they’ve been after a centre-back since last summer when they missed out on Guehi.
“They messed about with his valuation last year and that deal fell through.
“From what I hear, that interest in Guehi is still there, but he wants the Liverpool move.”
The player is in the final year of his contract with Palace, and he is expected to move on before the summer transfer window closes. It will be interesting to see if Newcastle or Liverpool manage to negotiate a reasonable deal for Guehi. They will not want to pay over the odds for a player who will be a free agent next summer.
Liverpool could use Marc Guehi
The 25-year-old defender will look to join a big club this summer and fight for trophies regularly. The move to Liverpool could be ideal for him. It is no surprise that he wants to join the Premier League champions.
Liverpool need a quality central defender, especially with the way Joe Gomez has struggled with persistent injury problems. It will be interesting to see if they can sign the 25-year-old in the coming weeks. Crystal Palace will have to be reasonable with their demands for the move to go through.
Liverpool Desperately needs to bring in a couple of CB’s before the season gets underway especially after selling Quansah while Gomez is very Injury Prone and Konate is going into his final year of his contract and Real Madrid want him on another Free Transfer unless Liverpool can get Konate sign a new contract but he wants a salary close to VVD pay.
I would love to see Marc Guehi Brought in as he himself is entering his final year of his contract but Palace are playing hard ball over a few and want around £45m while Liverpool want to pay around £35m but we all know that if he signs with us his true value will be around the £80m mark the 2nd CB I would jump at is a 20 year old from French club Rennes and that is Jeremy Jacquet who is extremely Quick and Extremely Good both in the Air and on the Ground very good going forward with the ball and passing from his own box but only problem is Arsenal made a bid for him which the player turned down suggesting he didn’t want to move to a big club yet But Liverpool is suggested to be happy to Loan him back for the upcoming season and would cost around £25M but other Top European clubs are also interested in him or the other youngsters Big clubs are circling is 17 Year old Italian Giovanni Leoni but we don’t have the best luck with Italian players. who would your 2 CB picks be ?
YNWA