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Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has already spoken about transfers.(Image: PA)

Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish recently acknowledged that the south Londoners are a 'trading club'.

The club's co-owner also conceded they 'have to be really open to' selling players who are on their way to 'the level above' - which might come as welcome news to Liverpool.

Michael Olise is the example Parish alluded to, who Bayern Munich signed for circa £50million last summer.



Marc Guehi could similarly depart as a free agent next summer, within two years of Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur offering Palace around £70million for him.

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While in discussions with the former, Parish admitted to Sky Sports that "if you want a superstar player, you need to pay superstar money".

He added: "If someone else wants to have him, they need to make it really difficult for us; he's a generational talent."

Guehi also has admirers at Anfield and is a player they have considered as part of their transfer plans this summer.

Before the FA Cup final, Parish appeared on episode 33 of the 'It's Called Soccer' podcast.

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"The first thing is we need to stay in the division, so that's the first North Star, and that's obviously not easy, as we can see from even Manchester United and Tottenham this year," he said.

"They're not really close to relegation, but that's arguably because we have all taken a lot of points this year off the bottom three clubs.

"Anything that dramatically increases the risk of [relegation], it's very difficult to find a way to do it.

"After that, then, of course, we will be a trading club.

"We want to survive and thrive in this division for two reasons - firstly, because financially, you have to cover the cost of running the club.

"Secondly, because of the kind of players we want to attract, we need to show them a pathway.

"We're a destination for those great pros that have still got a massive competitive instinct, still want to do well, still want to give everything when they cross the white line - but they realise they're probably not quite going to get to the level above us.

"Then there are players that are on a journey and on their way to the Bayern Munichs and other clubs.

"We realised over a period of time that we have to be really open to it.

"The thing you have to do with clubs like ours is manage that process as well as you can to not lose too many.

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"I remember Sir Alex [Ferguson] used to try and bring in two players every summer, he thought any more than that was very difficult to integrate into the squad.

That would be the kind of number of your real premium talent that you would be really able to deal with in any one summer, so trying to time things so you can manage that is what we're trying to do."

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