“From speaking to people on various sides of the situation, The Independent understands the following: there was considerable progress over Friday and Saturday, where it looked like a deal could be struck for £55m plus add-ons. Sources even state that the idea of Eze not playing at Stamford Bridge was talked about. After the actual game, Glasner re-iterated that he was always going to play and that “as long as he’s a Palace player, he plays”.
That points to the caveat, of course, since it could well have been the case that he was almost out of the door by Sunday morning.
Instead, The Independent reported on Saturday evening that the negotiations had run into “difficulties”. There were claims that this was about Palace wanting more of the fee up front, so they could immediately commit to Eze’s putative replacement, Leicester City’s Bilal El Khannouss. Leicester themselves need the money coming in. Palace are meanwhile looking at Club Brugge’s Christos Tzolis.
There is naturally a lot of brinkmanship to this, as well as a chain of purchases and sales that almost resembles the property market.
While there are still obstacles, Spurs are understood to right now have a clear run.
Talks with Spurs, and Spurs alone, are consequently expected to continue. For now, Glasner of course insisted that Eze will play in Palace’s Europa Conference League play-off qualifier against Fredrikstad on Thursday, having been demoted from the Europa League after Monday’s CAS case.”