Liverpool might come to rue their actions with Marc Guehi after failing to complete the transfer, but Paul Scholes reckons the Crystal Palace captain certainly won’t.
Guehi won’t be coming to Liverpool, that much is clear.
He did want the move last summer, though. Only for deadline day drama at Palace, he could have been a Red months ago and prevented the current centre-back crisis Arne Slot finds himself in.
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It was a difficult situation for all involved, but Scholes has no qualms with how the Englishman handled himself.
Paul Scholes commends Marc Guehi for conduct after failed Liverpool transfer
Last summer saw a noticeable trend of players taking transfer matters into their own hands.
Liverpool were right at the heart of that with the Alexander Isak saga. His replacement, Yoane Wissa, was another to agitate for a move by not turning up to training.
Guehi handled himself quite differently.
On a recent episode of The Good, The Bad & The Football, Scholes remarked: ““He handled himself unbelievably well, didn’t he? He never moaned about anything.
“Who else did that? You think about Isak, the way he left Newcastle. What Guehi did was unbelievable, really.”
Putting the Liverpool bias to one side, you have to commend him for not throwing the toys out of the pram.
One argument you could come back with is that once the window shut, he had no other option than to stay at Palace. And as club captain, it would have been unthinkable to spend four months on the bench in protest.
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Isak pushed hard to leave Newcastle in the summer, and it hasn’t gone exactly as he would have hoped.
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He didn’t find his feet before suffering that nasty injury against Spurs, and the Man United legend — in jest or otherwise — says it’s his behaviour coming back to bite him.
He remarks: “Where’s Isak? He kicked off and still got his move. Now look, look what’s happened. I’m not saying… do you know what I mean? God’s always watching, isn’t it?”
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The Swede has struggled since coming to Anfield, it’s true. But that is more to do with difficulty gelling with his new teammates, rather than some karmic justice as Scholes would have you believe.
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