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During another chaotic week for Palace, Metro spoke to club legend Clinton Morrison to try and make sense of it all.

Mateta’s timing ‘all wrong’

The timing of Mateta trying to leave is all wrong. It is disappointing, I know JP and he is a good guy who just wants to do well and be successful. But he should have waited until the summer to get his move. I know what the chairman Steve Parish is like, unless it’s the right price, he is not letting him go.

Oliver Glasner isn’t leaving until the end of the season, we hope. Maybe he [Mateta] has got someone in his ear, maybe his agent, telling him “we need to strike why the iron is hot”. But the iron could be even hotter in he summer. He’s 29 now, he’s hitting his peak years and he is thinking he can get the big move that he has wanted. He has his agent speaking to clubs I’m sure. But I’ve seen this play out a million times and the chairman is a clever businessman and he’s not going to let a player go for less than the money he’s worth.

‘This is the way it goes at Palace’

Adam Wharton could be another to leave in the summer, hopefully we can keep him for another year but this has played out many times and Palace have always been alright. We’ve really missed Ismaila Sarr at AFCON and Daniel Munoz when he’s been out injured. Their returns will really help with all the attacks coming down their side on the right. Sarr has been brilliant here, Munoz is the driving force. There will be top clubs looking at him too but he’s found a home here.

Unless a billionaire comes into the club this is just the way it goes, it’s the same with Glasner’s situation. You do well and you move on and unfortunately that’s the way it goes.

Palace’s next manager?

It’s difficult judging who is going to be available. We didn’t know much about Oliver Glasner until he came to the club. He had success at Frankfurt but we didn’t know Palace would have a chance of getting him and he is probably going to go down as one of Palace’s best managers ever.

There’s been talk about Gareth Southgate and he did such a good job with England getting them to major finals. But Palace are in a position a lot of clubs are in where they will wait until the summer when there are going to be lots of changes. There are loads of managers who will be on the move then – the chairman will be doing his work right now sounding out possibilities.

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