Crystal Palace Chairman Surprised By Lack Of Summer Interest In Eze
Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish says he was surprised to receive no concrete offers for Eberechi Eze during the summer transfer window.
Eze has been one of Palace's best players in recent seasons and played for England at EURO 2024.
The 26-year-old was tipped to leave Selhurst Park this summer, with Manchester City considered one of his biggest admirers.
But Palace received no offers for the former Queens Park Rangers forward despite sanctioning the sales of Michael Olise to Bayern Munich and Joachim Andersen to Fulham for bigger sums.
Another prized asset, Marc Guehi, remained at Palace along with Eze for the 2024/2025 season.
"I was really worried from a club point of view of losing Michael and Ebbs in the same window," Parish told Sky Sports News.
"We didn't have in Ebbs the interest that I thought we would have.
"I was astounded. Genuinely astounded. I mean, the guy's just an outstanding footballer, an outstanding person."
"I don't think the window worked out exactly the same format that we thought it would," Parish added.
"Maybe we thought at the beginning it'd be more likely that Marc Guehi went and we kept Joachim Andersen.
"We accepted that bid [for Andersen] which then made it very difficult really to sell both of our starting centre-backs in one window."
Eze helped Crystal Palace secure their first point of the season by scoring the equaliser in a 1-1 draw with Chelsea on Sunday.
