The Athletic’s Sam Lee suggested in an interview on the Let Me Talk podcast that City are behind Liverpool and Arsenal in chasing the Palace defender.
“I heard on Monday night from someone who knows what’s going on at City and I think it’s probably Palace as well. He wants Gehi to stay until the summer and he likes Liverpool better than City anyway.”
“Someone else messaged me on Twitter and I know he’s very good when it comes to other clubs. He said: ‘Yeah, he wants to stay until the summer, but he likes Liverpool and Arsenal better.’
“I was like, ‘I haven’t heard of Arsenal,’ but that sort of result was consistent with what I was told the night before.”
It remains to be seen whether Arsenal will make a bid or wait until the summer when Gehi’s contract expires.
However, the Gunners were interested in Guehi last year but have since gone their separate ways, signing Cristian Mosquera from Valencia and also bringing in Piero Hincapie from Bayer Leverkusen.
Liverpool had accepted an offer of £35 million plus £5 million in add-ons last summer, but were unable to finalize a deal on transfer deadline day.
Palace are reportedly aware of a similar transfer fee available in January, with City reportedly particularly interested after losing key defenders Josko Gvardiol and Ruben Dias to injury, with John Stones also sidelined.
“Honestly, I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Glasner said of Guehi earlier this week.
“If you just care about sport, everyone at the club will say Marc should stay. The chairman will say the same thing. But it’s not one-dimensional. Nothing in life is one-dimensional.”
“So if you look at the financial situation, it’s very important. Everyone wants him to play at Crystal Palace, sign a new contract and stay here permanently.
“Everyone will say that. On the other hand, there is a situation where the contract ends in the summer and if someone comes in, there will be a moment when the club will say that financial issues are more important than sporting issues at the moment.”
“I’m not naive enough not to know that if a huge offer comes from City and Marc wants it, it will happen.”
