{"id":193577,"date":"2025-09-02T07:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193577\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T07:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:49:10","slug":"isak-and-his-fellow-deadline-day-rat-offered-grim-vindication-by-guehi-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193577\/","title":{"rendered":"Isak and his fellow deadline day &#8216;rat&#8217; offered grim vindication by Guehi block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guehi went about it in \u2018the right way\u2019 and didn\u2019t get his Liverpool move. Maybe he should have pulled an Alexander Isak? How grim.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Guehi is a 25-year-old Premier League captain who has one year left on his contract to ease a \u2018dream\u2019 transfer next summer on more favourable terms, playing for a club which has won two trophies in six months and set for European football this season, in a World Cup year in which he\u2019s likely to be first choice for Thomas Tuchel\u2019s England. He will be just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Guehi agreed part of his medical ahead of his proposed move to Liverpool after a \u00a335m fee was agreed, but <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-ornstein-guehi-final-decision-one-reason-verdict-deal-sheet-reveal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his departure from Selhurst Park was blocked<\/a><\/strong> despite a deal sheet being in place for his transfer to be signed and sealed after the deadline when Crystal Palace\u2019s move to sign Brighton\u2019s Igor Julio as his centre-back replacement fell through.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/transfer-deadline-day-summer-2025-gossip-news-done-deals-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transfer Deadline Day, summer 2025: Follow it LIVE with F365\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We hope he\u2019s not too disappointed. He shouldn\u2019t be. And we\u2019re delighted he\u2019s set to stay at Crystal Palace, partly because we\u2019re big Oliver Glasner fans and fear he may have packed it in had <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/marc-guehi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guehi<\/a><\/strong> been sold without a suitable replacement lined up, but also because this feels like the\u00a0window in which big clubs have muscled in to pick off talent from so-called lesser Premier League sides. It\u2019s nice to see the little guy win \u2013 or at least not lose \u2013 one.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s also undeniably grim that he\u2019s been denied a move by going about things in \u2018the right way\u2019 while <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-complete-isak-transfer-contract-signed-newcastle-klopp-advice-elliott-aston-villa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool announce another deadline-day signing who quite clearly and publicly hasn\u2019t<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s evidently something in the water at Palace to nourish and develop \u2018good eggs\u2019. Eberechi Eze trained, played and excelled for them right up until his move to Arsenal was all-but sealed and Guehi scored a stunning goal in a 3-0 win for the Eagles less than 24 hours this move to Liverpool collapsed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/eberechi-eze-alexander-isak-opinion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eze does it perfectly compared to Alexander Isak and his strikingly bad behaviour<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We imagine there will at most be a brief reference to his frustration at his failed move to Anfield when he\u2019s first asked about it before Guehi vows to focus on his football and give his best for the club which has given him the platform to be in a position to make that move while paying him handsomely to kick a ball around a pitch for a living. It\u2019s the kind of guy he is.<\/p>\n<p>He has every right to be annoyed with Liverpool \u2013 \u2018why wait until the afternoon of deadline day?\u2019 feels like a very reasonable question to ask \u2013 and thoroughly irritated by a world in which Alexander Isak and his fellow transfer window \u2018rat\u2019 get what they want by downing tools while he\u2019s continued to represent his club to the best of his ability and has been punished for it.<\/p>\n<p>If he too had been a pr*ck, Palace would have signed a centre-back in advance and Guehi would now be a Liverpool player.<\/p>\n<p>We hope the irony wasn\u2019t lost on the Newcastle fans who pinned their \u00a0\u2018ISAK IS A RAT. WISSA IS A GEORDIE. TOON TOON.\u2019 banner outside St James\u2019 Park for all to see after Yoane Wissa refused to play for Brentford to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/newcastle-agree-massive-over-pay-yoane-wissa-here-we-go-announced\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">force his last-gasp move to the North East<\/a><\/strong>. Maybe it was.<\/p>\n<p>But we\u00a0really\u00a0hope their sulking in protest isn\u2019t seen as vindication by others that their course of action, quite clearly wrong on a moral level, is right in that it grants the greatest chance of sealing a \u2018dream\u2019 move.<\/p>\n<p>At least Guehi will still likely get his, and will retain the love and respect of Palace supporters and the wider footballing community if he does, while Isak and Wissa\u2019s reputations have tarnished, at least until they score a few goals for their new clubs and we all forget how they came to play for them in this infamously fickle and increasingly soulless industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guehi went about it in \u2018the right way\u2019 and didn\u2019t get his Liverpool move. 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