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Crystal Palace and West Ham boost in £12m chase as president admits he’s ‘open to offers’
Ismaila Sarr truly announced himself as a Crystal Palace player with a brilliant brace during Sunday’s 3-1 Premier League win at arch rivals Brighton and Hove Albion.
After a sluggish start to life at Selhurst Park, the £12.6 million signing given the unenviable task of filling Michael Olise’s boots, Sarr could hardly have picked a better time to come of age in a Crystal Palace shirt.
After Trevoh Chalobah, another summer signing, opened the scoring at The Amex, Sarr arrived at the back post to power home Tyrick Mitchell’s cross. And, as Brighton piled on the pressure in the second-half, the Senegal international added a third on the counter-attack.
Yet, with Crystal Palace still in the market for wingers and wide forwards, Sarr is still likely to face a renewed battle for his starting spot heading into 2025.
Crystal Palace have held talks with Millwall’s Romain Esse. TBR understands that Palace like Lyon duo Rayan Cherki and Ernest Nuamah too.
Jhon Arias is another name which has emerged in the media across recent times, meanwhile. A Colombia international who plies his trade in Brazil with Fluminense, 27-year-old Arias is older than either Esse, Cherki or Nuamah but he may also be far more affordable.
Crystal Palace linked with Jhon Arias as Fluminense open door to sale
reported over the summer, when West Ham United linked with Jhon Arias also, that Fluminense are looking for a fee of around £12 million.
His contract expires in just a year-and-a-half from now. As such, La Flu president Mario Bittencourt admits that any approaches for Arias will be considered in 2025.
“We will be open to offers, as long as they are good ones,” Bittencourt says, via . “[But] we don’t have anything concrete at the moment. Arias is a player who is very focused on the project, on what he wants from his career.
“Everyone knows that he wanted to leave in the [summer] transfer window, and that I imposed a condition. The [offers] did not reach what Fluminense wanted, and we agreed that he would stay until the end of the year.
“In the [winter] transfer window, meeting the conditions we have agreed with him, we will fulfill his wish to play in Europe.”
Bittencourt would be far happier sending Arias across the Atlantic, meanwhile, than letting him join a domestic rival. With a further 15 goals and set assists to show for his efforts in the 2024 campaign, Arias helped fire Fluminense to the Recopa Sudamericana after last year’s Copa Libertadores triumph.
Arias dreams of leaving Brazil with West Ham reportedly in race
“What I can say is that I’m not selling him to [another club in] Brazil,” Bittencourt explains.
“His contract runs until August 26th [2026]. He received an offer to stay for another four years, and the offer is still on the table. He is a player in whom we made a small investment. We don’t see him as a bargaining chip, but rather as an idol of the club.
“But he has this dream. He has this desire. He dreams of living outside of Brazil, raising his daughter outside of Brazil.
“He will possibly leave. If he leaves, I hope he is happy.”
Like Esse, Cherki and Nuamah, Arias is most comfortable on the right-wing. He is, however, a right-footer rather than a winger who tends to drift inside onto his left.
“He’s Mr Perpetual Motion,” South American expert Tim Vickery told last year.
“[Arias is] dynamic. He can work all over the field and he’s very, very versatile. For me, he’s probably been the best player in the Fluminense side.”