Palace eventually blocked Guehi from joining Liverpool on deadline day last Monday after initially accepting their £35m offer and granting their captain permission to undergo a medical.
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However, with no adequate replacement signed, Palace manager Oliver Glasner threatened to quit if Guehi was sold.
It's now emerged that Palace would have happily sent Guehi to Liverpool if they had agreed to exchange him for Joe Gomez.
The Sun says Palace saw Gomez as the ideal replacement for their centre-half, but Liverpool refused to do business.