OLIVER Glasner has expressed his frustration at Crystal Palace’s lack of transfer activity – with the Eagles in the middle of another summer besieged by clubs wanting to take their star players.
The FA Cup winners have so far only signed goalkeeper Walter Benitez on a free transfer and Croatia international left-back Borna Sosa for £3million.
Arsenal are reportedly stepping up their interest in the scorer of the only goal against Manchester City at Wembley, Eberechi Eze. The Gunners are willing to pay £60million for the England international.
There is also still speculation that Liverpool are preparing an offer for captain Marc Guehi.
Last summer, the Eagles managed to hold on to Guehi after rejecting multiple bids of up to £70million from Newcastle United.
Michael Olise moved to Bayern Munich a year ago for £60million and Palace do not want to lose their two best attacking players in successive summers.
Palace made a slow start to last season, winning none of their first eight Premier League games.
“Even though all the players are still here, we haven’t made the most of the transfer window so far,” Glasner told Austrian outlet Kronen Zeitung. “I was promised that we would be more active and bring in the new players earlier this year.
“As of now, I have seventeen outfield players. I hope we don’t lose any more. If that happens and we get four new ones on deadline day like last year, another false start is possible.”
The sheen has been well and truly taken off their FA Cup win. Palace have been demoted from the Europa League to the Conference League after Uefa said they breached multi-club ownership rules.
That has affected their transfer activity this summer.
