{"id":520912,"date":"2026-01-16T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520912\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:03:11","slug":"marc-guehi-close-to-joining-man-city-from-crystal-palace-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520912\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Gu\u00e9hi close to joining Man City from Crystal Palace &#8211; sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768586590_500_dawson_rob.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Rob DawsonJan 16, 2026, 09:50 AM ET<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"share-popup-list social-tracking-parent\" data-id=\"47630232\" data-name=\"Marc Gu\u00e9hi close to joining Man City from Crystal Palace - sources\" data-type=\"article\">\n<li><a data-behavior=\"copy_link\" data-social-tool=\"copy\" href=\"#\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link icon-font-before icon-chain-solid-before reactions-copy-link copy-link\" aria-label=\"Copy Link\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768586591_845_check.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80.png\" alt=\"Copy Link\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a data-social-tool=\"email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Marc%20Gu\u00e9hi%20close%20to%20joining%20Man%20City%20from%20Crystal%20Palace%20%2D%20sources&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fsoccer%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F47630232\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link icon-font-before icon-email-solid-before email social-clicks-email\" aria-label=\"Email\">Email<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a data-social-tool=\"print\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/print?id=47630232\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link print icon-font-before icon-print-solid-before page-action\" aria-label=\"Print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Print<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Open Extended Reactions<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"94fd5d7e-35b1-9d52-c9f2-4a37259bea36\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=382\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester City<\/a> are closing in on the signing of <a data-player-guid=\"476ae006-e5b6-49ac-b037-01ebe4436944\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/265907\/marc-guehi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marc Gu\u00e9hi<\/a> from <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e8703d92-a160-9bbf-cb81-1be6f3fd7969\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crystal Palace<\/a>, sources have told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Talks over a move have accelerated over the last 24 hours and the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"217dee4e-6974-a197-49a2-afda6e1788c9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">England<\/a> defender is now expected to sign a long-term contract at the Etihad Stadium in the coming days<\/p>\n<p>A final agreement is yet to be reached, but City sources are confident the deal will go through.<\/p>\n<p>Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/47630197\/oliver-glasner-leave-crystal-palace-end-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed at a news conference<\/a> on Friday that Gu\u00e9hi will not be part of their squad for the <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> game against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"479e0b8f-fbeb-4a27-ce19-2c6ab31ac811\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunderland<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My latest understanding is that a deal with Marc is in the final stages,&#8221; Glasner said.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Marc Gu\u00e9hi is set to move to Manchester City.\u00a0(Photo by Matt McNulty\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t confirm a club, because it&#8217;s still not done but it&#8217;s in the final stages. The result is that Marc doesn&#8217;t play tomorrow for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sources have told ESPN that City are set to pay a base fee of around \u00a320 million ($26.8m) for Guehi, who was set to be a free agent in the summer, plus add-ons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/47630197\/oliver-glasner-leave-crystal-palace-end-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oliver Glasner confirms he will leave Crystal Palace at end of season<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/47628046\/transfer-window-weekly-arsenal-real-madrid-arda-guler-man-city-marc-guehi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transfer window weekly: Could Madrid&#8217;s G\u00fcler join Arsenal? Gu\u00e9hi latest?<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/47480954\/premier-league-january-2026-transfers-all-confirmed-ins-outs-deals-every-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League January transfers: All confirmed ins, outs for every club<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old has also verbally agreed a five-and-a-half year deal which will keep him at the Etihad until 2031.<\/p>\n<p>City sources have said Gu\u00e9hi was already a long-term target and that negotiations were stepped up after losing centre-backs <a data-player-guid=\"f39eb21f-9e32-3de5-9e31-7e3dd3eb5e05\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/299910\/josko-gvardiol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josko Gvardiol<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"bf6601af-f7da-d7b1-9d8d-0e9d04ea520a\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/234878\/ruben-dias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R\u00faben Dias<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"6672587d-4363-ea87-31f9-fa5bd4ec10cc\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/157974\/john-stones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Stones<\/a> to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Gu\u00e9hi saw a move to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> fall through on deadline day last summer and was the subject of intense interest from clubs across Europe who had expected him to become a free agent in the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob DawsonJan 16, 2026, 09:50 AM ET Email Print Open Extended Reactions Manchester City are closing in on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":286094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-520912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115906098231623042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}