Respected Journalist Drops Marc Guehi Bombshell Amid Man City Interest

A respected journalist has delivered a major update on Marc Guehi's future amid interest from Manchester City.

Back in the summer, Guehi was close to leaving Crystal Palace for Liverpool in a deal worth a reported fee of £35 million.

However, despite completing a medical with the Reds, the deal collapsed due to Palace's failure to find a suitable replacement.

Guehi has since continued to be linked with a move away from Selhurst Park, either for a fee this month or as a free when the 25/26 season ends.

The 25-year-old is in the last few months of his Palace deal and is unlikely to put pen to paper on new terms.

Recently, after injuries to Josko Gvardiol and Ruben Dias, it was reported that City are interested in signing Guehi in January.

Transfer specialist Fabrizio Romano said: "Manchester City want to sign Marc Guehi in January as talks started, initial approach made. He’s on the shortlist, as @SamiMokbel_BBC reported.

"Liverpool, attentive to the situation and in talks since August. FC Bayern remain in active talks to sign Guehi as free agent."

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Now, The Athletic's Manchester City correspondent Sam Lee has delivered a fresh update on Guehi.

He said on the Let Me Talk podcast: "On Monday night I was told by somebody who knows what’s going on at City, but also I think probably Palace as well, he said he thinks Guehi wants to stay until the summer and he prefers Liverpool in any case.

"Somebody else messaged me on Twitter and I know he’s very good on other club stuff, he was like ‘yeah, he wants to stay until the summer and he prefers Liverpool and Arsenal’. I was like ‘well I haven’t heard Arsenal,’ but that kind of tallies what I’d been told the night before."

The Athletic’s Sam Lee on Marc Guehi: https://t.co/uEQK1KVhY7

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Lee added: "But obviously Glasner then did his press conference and he actually specifically said about City, and did he not say they wanted to sign a centre-back from City which is obviously Ake, but they’re obviously not going to sell Ake now anyway. There’s no way."