Oliver Glasner has revealed that Crystal Palace saw ‘huge bids’ for a Marc Guehi replacement rejected on Deadline Day.
Guehi captained Palace to a historic FA Cup title last season, but left the club to join Manchester City in January.
It was a hectic Deadline Day at Selhurst Park as the Eagles looked to offload wantaway striker Jean-Philippe Mateta and bring in replacements for both him and Guehi.
While Norwegian striker Jorgen Strand Larsen arrived from Wolves in a club-record deal, Mateta failed a medical at AC Milan, no defender arrived, and paperwork to add Dwight McNeil to Glasner’s squad was not submitted in time.
Glasner has made no attempt to hide his discontent with Palace’s transfer dealings in the past and will leave the club this summer.
He said he would take a disappointing Deadline Day on the chin: "I've learned to accept situations. My wish of course, and everyone at the club, would have been that JP [Mateta] gets what he wants and we get Jorgen [Strand Larsen] and Dwight McNeil into the building and Marc Guehi's replacement into the building.
"This is what everybody was working on until the final seconds. At the end of it the club tried everything with huge offers and huge bids for a Marc Guehi replacement, but clubs said they don't sell on Deadline Day.”
He added that he was grateful to the club for bringing in Strand Larsen without selling Mateta to fund the move.
"Credit to the club that they without getting any money for JP spent a big fee on Strand Larsen.
“On the other side, McNeil was the last one we thought we could finalise but in the last minutes the terms of the deal changed again and the deal failed. I expected him and planned for him in the next day's training."
