Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner has refuted suggestions that he threatened to resign over the possible sale of Marc Guehi to Liverpool on transfer deadline day.
“It’s the last time I want to talk about it,” Glasner (via New York Times) said in his press conference before Palace’s Premier League match with Sunderland on Saturday. “Palace fans deserve to hear how it really was. So many things were written and said.
“I never threatened to leave the club. After the end of many discussions the chairman asked me ‘Oliver, do you think we can manage the season when we sell Marc?’ I said ‘Steve, honestly we can’t manage it in the short term.
“If we buy a 19-year-old fantastic player with 1,000 minutes in Ligue 1 and sell our captain, we can’t manage it short term and then we have three centre-backs. With our schedule, if we have an injury in our back three, it’s very very risky. If you want this scenario and are fine with it then sell Marc, if you don’t want it then we have to keep him’ and he decided we would keep him.
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“Big credit to the chairman. I didn’t have to threaten anybody, There were no tensions between the chairman and myself. It was just a discussion about sport. He decided against the money for the sporting perspective of Palace.
“Big credit to Marc who handled it very well. We talked on deadline day and afterwards when he was in the England camp — honest talks like before. Everybody could see how he played for England — he was 100 per cent focused — and it is the same here. He will be our captain for as long as he is here because he’s a great player and has a great personality.”