Crystal Palace linked with Houssem Aouar

Crystal Palace are reportedly fascinated by signing Lyon midfielder Houssem Aouar this summer season, and the Frenchman may very well be an excellent potential addition to Patrick Vieira’s squad.

What’s the phrase?

In accordance with French information outlet L’Equipe, the Eagles try to hijack Nottingham Forest‘s transfer for the 24-year-old, regardless of the Midlands membership already agreeing private phrases with the midfielder.

Nevertheless, the Reds are but to satisfy Lyon’s €15m (£13m) valuation for Aouar and have simply spent £42.5m on Morgan Gibbs-White, which might open the door for Palace to signal the Lyon dynamo.

Vieira would love him

Solely final summer season, Aouar was attracting the curiosity of a number of the prime golf equipment in Europe after his spectacular performances for Lyon, with many of the top six finishers within the Premier League being linked with him.

Regardless of one other spectacular season with the Ligue 1 membership which noticed the midfielder contribute six objectives and 4 assists within the French prime flight, averaging a 6.93 score from WhoScored for his performances, it appears as if Lyon are prepared to let him go this summer season.

The France worldwide’s contract with Les Gones is set to expire on the finish of this season, which works a way in direction of explaining his £13m asking worth. That’s undoubtedly a discount when you think about that the membership reportedly wished £44m for him simply two years in the past.

Ought to Palace signal Aouar?

Pep Guardiola is an enormous fan of Aouar and sang his praises forward of a Champions League tie in 2018, saying: “We discuss rather a lot about Ndombele, however Aouar can also be glorious. He’s at all times very calm with the ball at his toes, with glorious technical high quality. Lyon actually has an excellent group. There are younger folks filled with high quality and I believe the group is in place tactically.”

Whereas his fame has faltered barely since then, the 24-year-old has nonetheless remained a daily at Lyon, starting 29 league matches final time period, and he might positively add some high quality to Palace’s midfield ought to he make the transfer to Selhurst Park.

The midfielder averaged 2.1 pictures per sport final season, the identical quantity as Wilfried Zaha, who registered probably the most in Palace’s squad within the Premier League. He additionally averaged 1.2 key passes per sport, which once more was higher than each Eagles participant apart from the talismanic Zaha.

At simply 24, Aouar nonetheless has loads of time to fulfil his potential, and Vieira would absolutely like to have such a gifted and sought-after midfielder be a part of his squad earlier than the switch window closes.