The Crystal Palace Courier
Market17 Aug 2026
Manchester United come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Crystal Palace did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
Leicester City watching Tyrick Mitchell
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Crystal Palace have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Crystal Palace
Evann Guessand was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Dean Henderson falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Crystal Palace
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
Crystal Palace promote Thomas Marshall from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thomas Marshall has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
Jonathan Phillips steps up from the Crystal Palace academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jonathan Phillips has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The ground is getting bigger
The plans are signed off at a capacity of 34932. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Benji Casey signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Benji Casey commits to Crystal Palace for another 4 years.
In brief
- Squad 7 new faces, and Crystal Palace are still learning each other
- The terraces The stands have heard the Tyrick Mitchell talk too