{"id":227035,"date":"2025-12-11T08:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/227035\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T08:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:09:11","slug":"conor-mckeon-the-worst-10m-liverpool-never-spent-and-the-rise-of-oliver-glasners-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/227035\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McKeon: The worst \u00a310m Liverpool never spent and the rise of Oliver Glasner\u2019s Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marc Guehi has been a key man for Crystal Palace this season despite almost joining Liverpool in the summer. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/18721ebc-75c8-4f3b-bddd-a17760782c04.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Marc Guehi has been a key man for Crystal Palace this season despite almost joining Liverpool in the summer. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The fetishisation of football transfers has bred a new kind of sports writing. A feature of which is those articles purporting to tell the \u201cinside story\u201d of how a big transfer happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Composed in the vague, hazy lingua franca of transfer-ese, they follow a classic four-step narrative arc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Guehi has been a key man for Crystal Palace this season despite almost joining Liverpool in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[31891,5000,18,19,17,6437,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-227035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-conor-mckeon","9":"tag-crystal-palace","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-shelbourne","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115699919936332720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}