Gozo move, Johnson interest and balancing the books

Alex Howell - Football reporter Fri, August 7, 2026 at 3:04 PM UTC

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This summer is a pivotal one for Crystal Palace with a new manager in Pierre Sage, a big departure in Maxence Lacroix and also another year of European football.

The Eagles are in the Europa League this season following their Conference League win last season and with that comes financial obligations.

Palace have to comply with Uefa's squad cost ratio (SCR) when trying to bring in new players during this transfer window.

The SCR obligations are stricter than those of the Premier League and Palace have to deal with the rules put in place by Uefa which caps spending on wages, transfers and agent fees at 70% of club revenue.

In the Premier League for clubs not competing in Europe, they can spend up to 85% of their revenue.

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Uefa fears that smaller clubs will almost always face problems because they will have to up their spending to build a squad to play in Europe but - as per rules - cannot spend the same percentage of revenue as their league rivals.

The Eagles have not yet paid a fee for a player this window but are moving towards a deal for 19-year-old Real Salt Lake winger Zavier Gozo.

Palace have also produced a couple of bits of shrewd business in the market and have signed former Arsenal defender Takehiro Tomiyasu on a free transfer and Oscar Mingueza after his contract at Celta Vigo expired.

There is also the possibility that the Eagles could sell one or two members of their squad to generate funds and there has been interest in Brennan Johnson, who only joined the club in January.

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