Right, the flip side of the happy ending around Isak is the Mark Gehie situation.

Let's talk about how this all unfolded then, shall we?

Because this felt, always felt more in the balance, I think.

Whilst the Isak 1 was never cut and dried, even as we headed into Sunday night,

Gayhi won't always, especially when he plays, and obviously plays and scores.

A brilliant goal, yeah.

But you did just wonder, like, what is the likelihood? What are the chances? Obviously, Deadland Day comes around, then it starts to ramp up. Talk us through your understanding of how that all played out. Yeah, so Oliver Glasner has made no secrets of it, really. He was always steadfast and determined to keep Marquis and if he couldn't keep him

he was insistent that a replacement had to be brought in so Liverpool tabled the offer earlier this

month and the 35 million with a 10% sell-on clause and it wasn't necessarily rejected as such

it was almost just left on the table and you know see what developed and palace obviously

beat villa handsomely on Sunday night and then make a move for Julio ego don't he at

brighton and it looked like he was coming in on loan so gay he gets the green light I think it was

around about probably mid-afternoon that he can go and have his medical so it was all all done for him to have his medical in London. And then, you know, Liverpool sent staff down there to oversee that. And he gets through at least part of it. And then the deal gets pulled, doesn't it? You know, Oliver Glasner backstage, as it were, with Steve Parrish. You know, a few reports will come out that he threatened to resign,

and I don't think they've been, you know, dismissed or rejected.

So very sort of high-level, frank discussions between the palace, chairman, and his manager.

And Steve Parrish admitted at Wembley that you can't just allow players of this value and this

importance to leave for nothing you know essentially glasnos called the bluff and i think

palace would wade her up and thought well if he goes through with this this threat we're going to

lose our captain we're going to lose our manager we've've got a European campaign coming up, the first ever

one of the greatest teams we've ever had, Crystal Palace at the moment, and all for

35 million that they can't spend until January. So I think, weighing it all up, they've accepted

that Mark A, as much as they would have liked to have ended his time on a high note,

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