Deal has been reached’ – Crystal Palace starlet jets out with transfer agreed for Eagles exit

Crystal Palace face an important summer in terms of recruitment with news of an exit from The Athletic.For those in the middle of the Premier League, it only gets harder to keep up with those above them and Crystal Palace are no different.Last summer, seeing Michael Olise leave to join Bayern Munich was one half of pride and half of fear given how pivotal he had been for the Eagles.These fears were eased when Eberechi Eze stepped up to the plate and became the talisman and led his side to a historical FA Cup win, becoming immortal in the process.A similar fate to Olise seems to await Eze this year with Spurs interested and their north London rivals Arsenal also considering the England international. A release clause of £67.5m is more than affordable for both of them and Palace won’t be in a hurry to sell for anything less.

One deal that “has been reached” sees Palace be generous is the one that has seen Ademola Ola-Adebomi leave Selhurst Park after not quite being able to make an impact on the senior team having been at the club since he was an Under-8 player.

The striker was out on loan with Burton Albion at the start of 2024/25 before joining SK Beveren where he obviously did enough to tempt Austrian outfit WSG Tirol into making a bid for the 21-year old. The deal sees Ola-Adebomi jet out for a medical on Wednesday and potentially leave Palace for free, however, there is a sell-on clause as part of the transfer as reported by Matt Woosnam of The Athletic.Roy Hodgson praises Palace for disrupting Premier League big hittersPalace have to get the summer transfer window right in terms of cashing in on assets but also in terms of bringing the right players to the club who Oliver Glasner can get a tune out of.Former boss Roy Hodgson thinks that his old club are on the right tracks though and has named Palace as one of a new generation of teams making it difficult for the establishment: “What really struck me was the Nottingham Forest, Fulham, Brighton, Crystal Palace and Brentford, all what those five teams did,” Hodgson told the Liverpool Echo when reflecting on last season.To get so close, if you like, to that classic top six in the quality of their play and to have such good seasons, all of those clubs. Unfortunately, none of them actually quite made the vault over the top six.

But I think that tightening, it’s not like the league is only going to be challenged for by one team each year, we’ve already accepted that it’s probably gone to five or six now. I think those five teams I just mentioned, they’ve compacted the league even more and made it even more difficult for the top ones.”

The FA Cup final is the perfect example of that gap being closed with the teams that Hodgson named no longer being scared to go toe-to-toe with the establishment. The problem, is replacing the players, like Eze, who cause them so many problems that they come back to buy them.