Palace also face a battle to hold onto Marc Guehi amid interest from Liverpool.
The loss of Eze leaves chairman Steve Parish with a burning question – go hard or go steady. The man tasked with overseeing the rebuild will be Matt Hobbs, who has agreed to leave Wolves to move to Selhurst Park as sporting director.
What can Palace expect from Hobbs?
He typically targets “technical players who are good at managing the ball in tight areas” and takes inspiration from the Brentford-Brighton model. In other words, those who have worked with him say he drives a hard bargain with a view to selling on at a profit.
It remains to be seen if he works in the same way at Palace. Wolves fans all have a similar complaint – that Hobbs’ and indeed Vitor Pereira’s hands were tied by a constant stream of high-profile exits: his most successful signing in Matheus Cunha, Matheus Nunes, Pedro Neto, Ruben Neves, Max Kilman, Morgan Gibbs-White, Rayan Ait-Nouri.
Crystal Palace’s record sales
Eberechi Eze, Tottenham – £55m Michael Olise, Bayern Munich – £50m Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Man Utd – £45m Joachim Andersen, Fulham – £30m Yannick Bolasie, Everton – £25mThe task was certainly not an easy one, however, and that bodes well for Palace as they task him with spending the Eze money. There are ambitious targets linked, not least Tyler Dibling, the teenager having been one of the few bright sparks who lit up Southampton’s woeful last season in the top flight. Dibling carries a huge price tag of at least £40m, with Everton knocked back with an offer of £27m last month.
That would follow the mould of the summer arrivals so far, goalkeeper Walter Benitez on a free transfer and defender Borna Sosa for £3m.
Palace’s biggest challenges
Glasner is yet to hold talks over a new deal (Photo: Getty)There is “less wiggle room with Uefa’s Squad Cost Ratio” metric, says football finance expert Kieran Maguire, “as wages have been more than 70 per cent of revenue for the last nine seasons”. That will at least be eased by the Eze sale, as Uefa’s calculations are done on a yearly basis.
There is European football on offer, but Palace would have liked it to be the Europa League not the Conference League, were it not for their protracted battle with Uefa and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
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Palace can at least begin to focus on a new era of recruitment, a wing of the club so long overseen by Dougie Freedman – who left in March – and more recently by Iain Moody (recruitment consultant) and Ben Stevens (assistant sporting director).
Hobbs is certainly no shrinking violet – he received a two-game ban and fine for swearing at officials after the Manchester City game last year – but he is likely to embody a low-risk, cautious but calm approach to transfers. With or without Eze, that may fill Palace with confidence.
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