{"id":29172,"date":"2025-11-27T17:36:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/crystal-palace-eye-on-newcastle-united-star-for-21m\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:36:20","slug":"crystal-palace-eye-on-newcastle-united-star-for-21m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/crystal-palace-eye-on-newcastle-united-star-for-21m\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace eye on Newcastle United star for \u00a321m"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crystal Palace are reported to be interested in a potential move for Newcastle United midfielder Joe Willock in January.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old made a bright start to the Magpies when he joined the Magpies from Arsenal, but has now fallen down the pecking order in Eddie Howe&#8217;s side, which has cast doubt over his future.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Telegraph, Newcastle are prepared to let Willock go as long as they aim to recoup the \u00a321m they paid him.<\/p>\n<p>The paper explains that Palace are eyeing Willock as a transfer target, while Newcastle could let him go as they look to change up their midfield by targeting Dutch sensation Keith Smit.<\/p>\n<h2>Will Keith Smit join Newcastle United with Joe Willock out?<\/h2>\n<p>Willock proved his quality at St James&#8217;s Park and is thought to be a useful addition at Selhurst Park.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Willock warming up for Newcastle United (Photo by Stu Forster\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Palace have made huge strides under manager Oliver Glasner, who won the FA Cup final last season and won the Community Shield in August this season.<\/p>\n<p>It could be ideal for Willock to leave Newcastle to play under Glasner and get the chance to feature more regularly, but that seems more likely in this Palace side.<\/p>\n<p>It was also recently reported that Newcastle are interested in Smit, which will obviously have a big impact on the club&#8217;s transfer plans this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it won&#8217;t necessarily be easy for NUFC to win the race for him, as other big names such as Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea also like the AZ Alkmaar youngster.<\/p>\n<p>Some fans may not be too keen on letting a useful team player like Willock go, but with Palace needing \u00a321m to sign him, it seems unlikely they will let him go anyway.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crystal Palace are reported to be interested in a potential move for Newcastle United midfielder Joe Willock in January. The 26-year-old made a bright start to the Magpies when he joined the Magpies from Arsenal, but has now fallen down the pecking order in Eddie Howe&#8217;s side, which has cast doubt over his future. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-29172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}