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Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi(Image: Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

Former Everton manager Sean Dyche has suggested Crystal Palace have backtracked on an agreement to allow Marc Guehi to leave amid interest from Liverpool.

The Reds last week opened talks with Palace over a move for Guehi, who has entered the final 12 months of his contract at Selhurst Park.

However, no agreement has yet been reached over a fee for the centre-back, with there understood to be a wide discrepancy between Liverpool's valuation of the player and the asking price from Palace.

Speculation increased over the weekend when there were claims Guehi snubbed Palace boss Oliver Glasner on the pitch following the goalless Premier League draw at Chelsea.

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And Dyche, who has also been boss at Watford and Burnley, believes there could be an issue between Palace and Guehi.

"When you make a lot of signings, you do the agreement for their contract, but we’ll sort out a gentleman's agreement where we say we'll honour the player with an agreement off the record," he said.

"Now you never know whether that's been said there.

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“With Guehi, and I imagine this is what’s happened, probably a year ago, they said ‘look, we get it, you're going to stick with us’.

They might have said, ‘by next summer, we'll know what's going to happen’."

Dyche, speaking exclusively on the Footy Accumulators No Tippy Tappy Football podcast in partnership with BOYLE Sports, added: “And if he's a good professional, which he seems fantastic to me, he doesn’t want to go out there and start saying all that.

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"But at one point, he might have to go, ‘hang on a minute, they told me that if we do this, this, and this, then they’ll let me have my chance’.

“I've done it, and most managers have done it.

You say to the agent, ‘we both know if they do that, we'll get them’.

"Because there has to be some kind of negotiation, especially when I was at Burnley, because they're not a giant in football, so if a player does well, we couldn't just keep them there.”


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