Crystal Palace boss Frank de Boer rules himself out of the race for £30m Liverpool ace Mamadou Sakho
Frustrated chairman Steve Parish curses 'the big-money owners, the win‑at‑all‑costs owners, almost bottomless pockets'
CRYSTAL PALACE boss Frank de Boer has ruled out a bid for Liverpool central defender Mamadou Sakho.
The French international. who helped the south Londoners stave off relegation while on loan last season, is priced at £30million.
And that's too much for the Eagles.
Sakho, 27, finds himself in nomansland at the moment after being frozen out of the first-team squad by Reds' boss Jurgen Klopp following a breach of discipline a year ago.
He had hoped to rejoin Palace, where he enjoyed such a successful spell under then manager Sam Allardyce.
Now he must wait to see if interest from West Bromwich and West Ham is turned into a firm bid.
De Boer, who has suffered successive defeats at the start of his Palace tenure, does admit Sakho would enhance his squad.
He said: “Everybody knows he had a major impact last season and, when he’s available for us, I think that is a quality injection for the club.
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"It is not like this now because he is much too expensive for the club.”
The Dutchman knows it will take time for the team to develop under him.
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“Of course everybody wants to win but I’m looking at the process of how we are developing as individual players and as a team,” added De Boer after the 1-0- loss at Liverpool.
“If I see progress, then I am satisfied. If I play at cards, I want to win and, coming into the games, I want to win, always, with the best result, with the respect to our opponents.
"We had our chance to win, or get a draw, but we leave empty-handed.”
Palace chairman Steve Parish has indicated he's keen to bring in three new players before the transfer window closes.
Parish, who so far has spent £7.9m this summer on the Dutch defender Jairo Riedewald from Ajax, is aghast at the inflated prices being demanded.
He groaned: “What’s returned to football are the big-money owners, the win‑at‑all‑costs owners, almost bottomless pockets.
“I’d love to see how it all fits with financial fair play, by the way, because I just can’t see how half of this fits with that because the revenue of the clubs hasn’t grown this year.
“I’m not accusing people of anything. I just don’t understand the numbers for some of the clubs that they’re spending, that are being quoted and how you can make that fit over a period with financial fair play.”
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