Crystal Palace January transfer window guide: Eagles looking at options in two key positions
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No club in England spent more in January 2024 than Crystal Palace, whose outlay was £30.5million. But for that money they were able to sign Adam Wharton from Blackburn Rovers and Daniel Munoz from Genk. Both immediately became key players. A year on, the Eagles will enter the winter window conscious that injuries have again hampered their progress in the first half of the season.
Fortunately for Oliver Glasner’s side, the injury problems his side have had to contend with have been spread across a number of positions, so sporting director Dougie Freedman can avoid panic-buys. The position most in need of strengthening is left wing-back.
This is 25-year-old Tyrick Mitchell’s fifth season as the club’s first-choice player in that position. In that time he has shown himself to be a capable full-back and, in 2022, even earned two England caps. But it does not come out of nowhere that plenty of Palace fans feel he sometimes holds the Eagles back down the left flank, and that he does not have the star-power of Munoz down the right.
The club could look to bring someone in to provide competition in the position. He remains the only left-back at the club and has been for some years. There is no need to strengthen in positions such as goalkeeper nor centre-back, but bolstering the options available to Glasner in attack follows left-back as the second-biggest priority.
