Hodgson points public Crystal Palace switch demand to chairman Parish
Palace have misplaced star participant Wilfried Zaha on a free this summer time, together with stalwarts James McArthur and Luka Milivojevic together with different senior gamers, however have to date introduced in simply Jefferson Lerma. There are additionally important worries Michael Olise may go away.
Standard Sport understands Palace are closing in on a deal worth around £26million to sign 19-year-old Flamengo forward Matheus Franca, who had been linked with Chelsea, however Hodgson has critical considerations over the power of his squad.
Hodgson calling for transfers at Palace: “We’ve lost five senior players from last season and brought one in – Jefferson Lerma; he’s good and we’re happy to have him in – but there is still that hole of five senior players in the squad, two of whom were two of the real stars of the team.
He added: “There’s a bit of labor for the chairman and sporting director to do between now and the tip of August, as a result of the crew we put out as we speak was in our opinion, at this second in time, our greatest crew, however we don’t have the power behind that crew that we had final yr.