Crystal Palace will not promote Eberechi Eze within the January window. Picture by Tom Dulat/Getty Photographs
Crystal Palace have had an terrible begin to their 2024/25 season underneath Oliver Glasner, and now the board have made a definitive choice on their £60m-rated ace, Eberechi Eze, forward of the January switch window.
It was solely this previous weekend that the Eagles had been in a position to win their first Premier League recreation of the marketing campaign, a shock 1-0 victory over Ange Postecoglou’s high-flying Tottenham Hotspur aspect.
Crystal Palace’s closing choice on Eberechi Eze
Till that time, the South Londoners had drawn three and misplaced 5 of their opening eight matches.
The three factors earned in opposition to the Lilywhites solely gives Glasner and his squad non permanent respite, as they’re nonetheless manner down in seventeenth and solely two factors above relegation.
That run of type has seen one pundit declare who ought to change Glasner within the dugout, and while it’s unclear if Steve Parish will wield the axe at any level quickly, it’s clear the membership have to begin shifting in the precise course.
That gained’t be helped if Liverpool make good on their pursuit of 1 Palace participant, and had been Palace amenable to promoting Jean-Philippe Mateta, they may very well be starved of objectives and the sensible centre-forward play that Mateta brings into video games.
The Frenchman has already scored three objectives in 9 Premier League video games this season, per transfermarkt, and his 16 in 35 in 2023/24 exhibits how necessary he’s to the present Palace aspect.
That additionally applies to Eze, who Give Me Sport sources counsel Palace aren’t keen to promote in January.
Having misplaced Michael Olise to Bayern Munich in the summertime, and with Newcastle constantly sniffing round Marc Guehi, shedding Eze on prime of that may absolutely be a step too far for Palace followers.
If the workforce don’t begin bettering, nevertheless, they may have little selection however to money in, in an effort to usher in our bodies to assist maintain them from dropping into the Championship.
