“I don’t like the limelight,” Marc Guéhi reluctantly admitted in what many expected to be his final post-match press conference while wearing a sweat-stained Crystal Palace kit on Sunday evening.
Yet, much to the chagrin of Liverpool and the softly spoken centre back, Guéhi will spend at least the next four months in south London after a late breakdown which gained more attention than many of the window’s completed deals.
Liverpool’s risky strategy, a power struggle at the summit of Crystal Palace and a Serbian at AC Milan all played their part in this high-profile non-transfer which deserves a little more of the limelight.
