Was Crystal Palace director Oliver Glasner right to ‘attack’ the club’s owners?

In the summer, Parish spoke of the difficulties of denying Guehi a £35m transfer to Premier League champions Liverpool.

Midway through the season, Palace were knocked out of the FA Cup and League Cup, but despite winning just one of their last eight Premier League matches, they are on course to remain in the top flight for a 14th season.

In the conference league, Palace will face Zrinjski Mostar in a two-legged playoff next month.

This means the south London club can only play 18 games between now and the end of the season.

From Parrish’s perspective, the decision to utilize Guehi now makes sense.

Former England striker Alan Shearer agrees with this.

“I feel his frustration, but again you look at Crystal Palace as a business,” he said on Match of the Day. “They are going to lose a really good player for nothing in the summer, so to get £20m now I understand that.”

“I don’t like what he did,” Wrexham and former Wolves defender Conor Coady said on BBC Radio 5 Live.

“Seeing them talking against each other, I don’t think this is the right look for Crystal Palace.

“Palace should sell Guehi. Palace are not Manchester City. I played in Europe with Wolves with a very small team. We never complained, we kept fighting. That’s just life.”

This is not the first time Palace have sold a highly sought-after player, with Michael Olise, Wilfried Zaha, Yannick Bolasie and of course Eze all leaving the club for hefty fees during Parish’s tenure.

“The evolution of club football is that, unfortunately, the best players move to better clubs competing in the Champions League and European football,” said former England captain Steve Houghton.

“You have Adam Wharton and Jean-Philippe Mateta, who could be the next big names to move – but that’s all down to Glasner.”

“In today’s world, maybe that’s just Palace’s identity – they will sign younger players and look to sell others,” former Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha added on BBC Radio 5 Live.

“Glassner has done a fantastic job, I support him, but maybe that’s not the way Palace operates. Was Glasner wrong in expecting that, when in fact that’s the club?”