Patrick Vieira says Crystal Palace want to recruit new gamers before the transfer deadline however was tight-lipped on potential Selhurst Park returns for Conor Gallagher and Aaron Wan-Bissaka.
Vieira’s largest job forward of the window closing on Thursday appeared set to be heading off reported curiosity in star man Wilfried Zaha from Chelsea and Arsenal.
But, after Zaha opened the scoring with a surprising objective in Tuesday’s 1-1 Premier League draw with Brentford, the Eagles boss insisted there have been no approaches for the ahead and that he’s not considering promoting.
Vieira is as a substitute targeted on potential incomings, with former Palace pair Gallagher and Wan-Bissaka amongst these linked with the membership.
“We will need to do some, yes,” replied Vieira, when requested about transfer enterprise. “We need more players, more competition, more options, we need different profile of players and we will try to do it.
“I know that we are doing our best. If we find a player that we want, we will see if we can make it happen.”
Chelsea midfielder Gallagher starred on mortgage in south London final time period, whereas Palace academy graduate Wan-Bissaka is looking for to kick-start his stalled profession after falling out of favour at Manchester United.
“I don’t want to talk about Conor; Conor is a Chelsea player,” mentioned Vieira.
“Until Chelsea say otherwise, there is no point to mention his name because he came here, he spent a year and he did fantastically well and today he is a Chelsea player.”
Asked about Wan-Bissaka, he added: “You can give me 100 names and it will be always be the same answer.”
Palace had been heading in the right direction for victory towards Brentford following Zaha’s positive 59th-minute strike however substitute Yoane Wissa earned the guests some extent with a late header.
Matters might have been compounded for the Eagles as Rico Henry squandered a golden probability for a winner before his fellow Bees defender Ben Mee headed towards the crossbar.
Brentford boss Thomas Frank would “love” director of soccer Phil Giles to pull a rabbit out of the hat before the transfer deadline however revealed his membership are “not chasing anything”.
“I’m sitting there at home and just waiting for that rabbit,” joked the Dane.
“We have a good and strong squad, I’m happy with the squad. I would love a rabbit but if we don’t find that player then I would rather wait.
“We’re not chasing anything.”
The Bees have now scored late equalisers to earn attracts in three of their 5 top-flight matches, with the 4-0 thrashing of Manchester United their sole victory.
“From my health perspective, I think the Man United game is a little bit more healthy (than being reliant on late goals) but it’s very difficult in the Premier League,” mentioned Frank.
“We know we need to work so unbelievably hard to get every point we can.”
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