£4m Crystal Palace target now unlikely to make January move, director makes “confident” claim

£4m Crystal Palace target now unlikely to make January move, director makes “confident” claim

With just over a month until the January transfer window opens up, speculation over Crystal Palace’s potential moves will only heat up. Despite not even being in December, already the Eagles’ transfer priorities have been made clear.

Crystal Palace are targeting two additions, a wing-back to rival Tyrick Mitchell and also a creative attacker.

However, along with these positions, Crystal Palace have also been linked with several central defenders. This may be with a view to pre-emptively replacing Marc Guehi who the club think will leave in 2025.

 

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Diff	Points
18	Crystal Palace	11	1	4	6	8	15	-7	7

Oliver Glasner would welcome reinforcements to the Eagles, who are currently in 18th place in the Premier League. However, one director has now denied rumors that his player left in January.

Elfsborg director breaks silence on Terry Yegbe

While the Eagles will fear losing Guehi, another club who knows how that feels will be Swedish outfit IF Elfsborg. The current seventh-placed side in the Allsvenskan has seen defender Terry Yegbe linked with a handful of Premier League sides. Ahead of a potential £4.1 million deal, Fotboll Direkt revealed last week that Crystal Palace is one of the interested teams.

Stefan Andreasson, the director of Elfsborg, has now commented on the move and stated that he is still certain Yegbe has time to perform at the Boras Arena.

Speaking to local Swedish publication Boras Tidning, Andreasson said, “I’m sure Terry will have a long and good career outside Sweden.” “But we are confident that he will play for Elfsborg next year as well.

“He hasn’t even played a full season for Elfsborg yet. At the same time, everyone knows that things can happen very quickly in this business.”

Yegbe has only been at Elfsborg for 11 months, and he is one of two Swedish league players now being associated with Crystal Palace. This is as Dougie Freedman also eyes up Bazoumana Toure from Hammarby.

Yegbe would offer Crystal Palace set-pieces threat

While Yegbe would be an interesting signing, considering how raw he is in terms of his style of play, there is one major strength he would offer the Eagles. Standing at 6ft 4in, Yegbe is an absolute giant which coupled with his strength makes him a deadly threat from set-pieces.

In the Allsvenskan through 2024, Yegbe has scored three goals with all three coming through corners – two with his head and one with his right foot. Aside from his attacking threat, Yegbe also wins a whopping 88 per cent of his tackles which places him in the 92nd percentile in the Allsvenskan.

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