{"id":369292,"date":"2025-08-24T08:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369292\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T08:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:09:14","slug":"liverpool-face-marc-guehi-transfer-blow-as-premier-league-rivals-join-race-to-sign-palace-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369292\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool face Marc Guehi transfer blow as Premier League rivals join race to sign Palace star"},"content":{"rendered":"

EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool might not be in pole position for Marc Guehi, with Pep Guardiola’s Man City now interested, if they can shift two defenders before the end of the transfer window<\/p>\n

08:38, 24 Aug 2025Updated 08:38, 24 Aug 2025<\/p>\n

\"MarcMarc Guehi may be on the move before the end of the transfer window(Image: Ryan Pierse\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Man City will consider joining the battle for Marc Guehi <\/a>– if centre backs Manuel Akanji and Nathan Ake are sold this week.<\/p>\n

Crystal Palace<\/a> central defender Guehi <\/a>is already a target for Liverpool, Tottenham<\/a> and Barcelona<\/a> and has only a year remaining on his contract.<\/p>\n

And the Daily Star Sunday can reveal that the England defender, 25<\/a>, is being discussed at The Etihad as a potential \u00a335million target, if Pep Guardiola, who saw his team lose 2-0 at home to Spurs<\/a>, loses Akanji and Ake from his squad.<\/p>\n

Galatasaray want Akanji, 30, while Ake, also 30, is a target for Everton<\/a>, who have already loaned Jack Grealish from City.<\/p>\n

Their departures before the transfer window shuts a week on Monday would ramp up interest in Guehi.<\/p>\n

\"ORLANDO,Pep Guardiola is keen on the Palace star(Image: Richard Sellers\/Allstar, Getty Images)<\/p>\n

And that would put City on a collision course with Liverpool, who\u2019ve led the race for the Palace star.<\/p>\n

Guardiola wants to trim his squad and wouldn\u2019t be short of options if both Akanji and Ake leave, and the pacy Guehi is seen as having long-term value.<\/p>\n

Guardiola left Ilkay Gundogan, also a target for Galatasaray and Akanji out of his squad yesterday. But he said: \u201cI had to leave Rodri and Phil Foden out last week as we have many players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI must rotate. The next games it will be others who are left out. It is not more serious than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Catalan refused to blame keeper James Trafford, whose error allowed Joao Palhinha to make it 2-0 after Brennan Johnson\u2019s opener.<\/p>\n

\"LONDON,A move for Guehi will put Man City and Liverpool on a collision course(Image: Julian Finney, Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Guardiola said: \u201cJames made a good first game last week and I decided to continue with him. When I take decisions early in the season people think this is the line-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was today I decided and it is what it is. We missed the simple things today but the effort and running was extraordinary and I have no doubts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a good pre-season and when we won at Wolves last week everyone said everything was fine. But I said last week we still work to do \u2013 and it\u2019s the same after this defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to improve. Step by step until we make it click and make the good connections. Now we have seven days rest and then Brighton before the international break.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool might not be in pole position for Marc Guehi, with Pep Guardiola’s Man City now interested,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,129227,393,4884,179,763,1036,2697,1037,101,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-369292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-daily-star-sunday","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-liverpool-fc","14":"tag-manchester-city-fc","15":"tag-marc-guehi","16":"tag-pep-guardiola","17":"tag-premier-league","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115082727663111498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369292","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=369292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}