Crystal Palace now look set to secure a fourth signing of the summer with a medical planned.
Attacking options are needed at Crystal Palace this summer before the end of the transfer window. This need has been heightened by the Eagles failing to score in either Premier League game so far.
But now, Dougie Freedman looks to have secured an addition, with a player who has long been linked with Selhurst Park set to arrive.
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Eddie Nketiah now set for Crystal Palace medical
Eddie Nketiah is a long-term target for Crystal Palace, and now finally he is set to become a player for Oliver Glasner.
This comes according to David Ornstein who tweeted that Arsenal had permitted Nketiah to undergo his Crystal Palace medical ahead of a £30m move to Selhurst Park.
This was then added to by Fabrizio Romano who reported that the fee is actually £25m fixed, with a further £5m potentially arriving in add-ons.
Nketiah is said to have already agreed to the move days ago with Crystal Palace his clear priority this summer and now the striker will join the club, alongside his friend Ebere Eze.
This move is a long time in the making, coming seven months after Crystal Palace had a January bid rejected for the Englishman who earns £100k-a-week at Arsenal.
Upon joining, chances are that Nketiah will become the latest player to wear the No.9 shirt for Crystal Palace.
Oliver Glasner has a selection headache on his hands
With Nketiah arriving for such a chunk of the club’s transfer budget, chances are it is with the expectation of him starting.
This will bode bad news for Jean-Philippe Mateta who had made the striker position his own in the time since Glasner’s arrival.
However, after a slow start to the campaign for the Frenchman, Nketiah’s arrival will only further add to the pressure – with a starting berth set to be battled out between the two.
Now, Glasner needs to think who he wants leading the line from the start, Nketiah, of course, has the higher ceiling, but Mateta has earned the right not to be dropped straight away.
A selection headache could be on Glasner’s hands therefore, but it is one he will be glad to have.
