Liverpool given green light to make Marc Guehi bid after losing to Crystal Palace

Marc Guehi will be sold during this transfer window if the right bid arrives, Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has admitted, offering Liverpool encouragement they can sign the centre-back this month. The England centre-back, 25, has reached the final 12 months of his deal, meaning Palace risk losing their skipper for nothing next summer.

The club rejected Newcastle's third approach worth £70m last summer for their captain following Joachim Anderson's £30m departure to Fulham - with Parish disclosing there was another proposal for Guehi during the January transfer period. Both Liverpool and Chelsea remain keen on securing Guehi's services with the Reds short of a senior centre-half after selling Jarell Quansah to Bayer Leverkusen for £35m. They have been reluctant to meet Guehi's £50m price tag but that could now drop.

Speaking in Wembley's mixed zone following a penalty shootout triumph over Liverpool in the Community Shield, Parish was questioned whether Guehi would depart this month for an acceptable bid.

"Yes, yes," responded the Palace chief. "Of course, for players of that calibre to leave on a free, it is a problem for a football club. There is no doubt about it unfortunately.

"Joachim went and we couldn't afford to lose both of them. We then had another bid in January but that was a difficult decision as well. We will just have to see what happens. It needs a new contract or a conclusion of some kind."

Elsewhere, FA Cup final hero Eberechi Eze is on Arsenal's radar. Parish continued: "In the end, people trade players, That is what football clubs do. Of course, if you don't care about tomorrow ever and put it all off, we are a fantastic team. If we had four more players, I don't know what we could achieve.

"Unfortunately it is not always as simple as that. We have got a lot of outgoings this year because we are paying a lot of transfer fees for players that we have already got. If you see the fees, there are just nuts. The money we are paying, crazy.

"We will have to see. We will do whatever we can. We won't stop working. But as far as people being here or not being here, it depends. If it is the right decision for the football club and for them, there will be changes. But we have got to make smart ones."

Manager Oliver Glasner has voiced his discontent with the sluggish pace of transfers this summer, having only secured two new players, including a reserve goalkeeper on a free.

"I admire Oliver so much," Parish continued. "He just wants to win trophies. I don't mind that he wants to do that and I think someone at the football club should do that. I have other things to worry about and the Premier League is crazy, what people spend. The financial jeopardy.

"So I have to look at everything else but don't think for a minute I want to do anything other than support them and do everything I can.

"At some points you have to recycle your squad. We will do everything we can in the next few weeks to give us the best chance we can. It is a really tough one. We will do everything we can in the next few weeks to give ourselves the best chance. I am aware we are in four competitions. But at the end of the day, the money we have is not infinite."

Palace are set to hear the outcome of their appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland today (Monday), following UEFA's decision last month to relegate them from the Europa League to the Conference League this season.

"It will be good to put it behind us but I don't want that to come across as any kind of fatalism," Parish added. "I am determined that we will get the right outcome. If we don't get the right outcome, we will have to look at steps after that.

"But even more after Friday, I do not understand how we cannot be in that competition. It is up to the judges to decide, we trust them. Let's see."