Oliver Glasner has confirmed that Eberechi Eze and Marc Gu\u00e9hi will both start in the first leg of Crystal Palace\u2019s Conference League playoff on Thursday and insisted that the England pair remain committed to the club despite continuing doubts about their futures.<\/p>\n
It is understood that Tottenham remain in talks<\/a> over signing Eze and are edging closer to agreeing a fee for the 27-year-old. Liverpool, meanwhile, are leading the race to sign Gu\u00e9hi but have yet to meet Palace\u2019s valuation of \u00a340m for their captain, whose contract at Selhurst Park expires next year.<\/p>\n Both players started Sunday\u2019s goalless draw at Chelsea<\/a> despite speculation that Eze could be absent as negotiations with Spurs continue and they would be eligible to play in the Champions League even if selected to face Norway\u2019s cup winners Fredrikstad on Thursday. Glasner was adamant the pair will feature and praised Eze and Gu\u00e9hi for the way they have conducted themselves this week.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s also the right of a club and the duty of a player to give 100% as long as he\u2019s under contract,\u201d said the Palace manager. \u201cOn the other side, I know this is the theory. I think many of you were surprised that Marc and Ebs started and played almost the whole game [against Chelsea]. Most of you will be surprised that they will start again tomorrow because of all the rumours, but again, they are committed to the team.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have a contract here. They played a crucial part that we could be so successful and they will play a crucial part as long as they are here. When one of the players will leave, which I don\u2019t know at the moment, they want to leave as the players who always give 100% for Crystal Palace.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked whether he was surprised by how Eze and Gu\u00e9hi have handled the speculation surrounding them, the Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson said: \u201cNo, I think the pair of them are great lads and they\u2019re so committed and so professional. I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll keep staying committed throughout and they\u2019re always here to help the team and they\u2019re part of us at the minute, so we\u2019ll keep enjoying it.\u201d<\/p>\n In the first taste of a major European competition in their history, Palace will face Fredrikstad for a place in the Conference League after being demoted from the Europa League<\/a> by Uefa for contravening its rules on multi-club ownership. Glasner was keen not to underestimate Palace\u2019s opponents but believes his FA Cup-winning side can use the disappointment of missing out on the more prestigious competition as motivation for more success.<\/p>\n \u201cI think if you win the FA Cup, you should be in the Europa League, but the reality is we\u2019re excited for the journey we\u2019re going to go on this season,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the reward for the club to take part in the European competition for all their effort last season.\u201d<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Football Daily<\/p>\n Kick off your evenings with the Guardian’s take on the world of football<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Palace are understood to be close to agreeing a deal with Leicester to sign Bilal El Khannouss as a potential replacement for Eze. They have also shown interest in Christos Tzolis but Club Brugge are reluctant to sell the Greek forward this summer.<\/p>\n The former Bournemouth and Newcastle defender Lloyd Kelly \u2013 now at Juventus \u2013 is an option to replace Gu\u00e9hi should he depart, and Glasner is keen to add Hwang Hee-chan on loan but must wait until Wolves can secure a replacement for the South Korean forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oliver Glasner has confirmed that Eberechi Eze and Marc Gu\u00e9hi will both start in the first leg of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-359970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115062284293655320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}