CRYSTAL PALACE MANAGER Alan Pardew says it would take at least €56 million for him to even consider selling Yannick Bolasie this summer.
The winger has been linked with a close-season switch to Liverpool after a fine campaign for the Eagles this term and, while his boss accepts that “everyone has a price”, he insists he would demand a huge fee.
“If someone wants to give me €56m-€84m [for Bolasie], somewhere in there, that would be good,” Pardew told reporters. ”I’d take it and we’d build the team around that money.
“Everyone has a price, of course. I can think of a situation I had at Newcastle in the last hour of the transfer window – a team that wasn’t great and not far away from the relegation zone and we accepted €42m for Andy Carroll.
“If a manager wants to ring me up, I’ll talk to them and give them a proper price.”
Pardew believes his Palace players are ‘undervalued’ and insists their stock has risen considerably under his tenure.
Bolasie, a Democratic Republic of Congo international, moved to Selhurst Park for £400,000 from Bristol City in 2012 and has impressed this season.
The 25-year-old has scored just four Premier League goals this term, three of which came against Sunderland recently, but rumours suggest Brendan Rodgers was preparing a £10 million bid for Bolasie in the summer.
The Reds boss can rate him as highly as he wants but there is no way the Anfield hierarchy will write a cheque for €56 million for Bolasie’s signature, or should they?
I can understand a referee making a mistake in real time on the pitch but watching the video review??? EPL referees are below standard in their knowledge of and application of the rules. Dean in particular is awful
@Gerard Smith: knowledge and application. You’d be more worried about his eyesight ha
@Gerard Smith: he was brutal as a ref so why should it change
Mike Dean slaughters chickens