Crystal Palace are in talks with Galatasaray over a shock mortgage transfer for Wilfried Zaha after rejecting Newcastle’s newest provide for Marc Guéhi.

Zaha, who left Selhurst Park final summer time as a free agent, has emerged as a goal for Palace after the departure of Michael Olise for Bayern Munich. He has been made obtainable for switch after falling down the pecking order at Galatasaray final season.

The 31-year-old scored 9 instances within the Turkish League and towards his former membership Manchester United within the Champions League group stage however made solely 13 league begins as Galatasaray beat Fenerbahce to the title.

Negotiations are understood to be ongoing over a possible season’s mortgage, with Galatasaray believed to have demanded about £9m to promote the Ivory Coast ahead. It stays to be seen whether or not Palace can be prepared to pay such a payment for a participant who made greater than 450 appearances for the membership after coming by means of the academy.

Talks between Palace’s sporting director, Dougie Freedman, and his Newcastle counterpart, Paul Mitchell, over Guéhi are persevering with regardless of Palace rejecting a £50m bid for the England defender. Newcastle are understood to stay cautiously optimistic that Guehi will begin the season as a key part of their squad after the 24-year-old indicated he was eager to make the transfer, though Palace are insistent that the membership captain won’t be bought for lower than their valuation. That’s believed to be about £65m, though there’s a recognition that with just one yr remaining on his contract, a compromise may very well be struck.

Manchester United and Liverpool are amongst different golf equipment who’ve beforehand proven curiosity in Guéhi however they’ve but to comply with that up.