We're going to pivot to some transfer chat now, and we've got two big deals developing that could soon be completed.

Luke Edwards
Daily Telegraph writer on the Football Daily podcast

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Luke Edwards speaking on the Football Daily podcast about Crystal Palace's story, the FA Cup and Community Shield victory:

"The whole Crystal Palace story is lovely," he said.

"I have been guilty in the past of asking the provocative question of 'what was the point of Crystal Palace because they never won anything and they just bob around in mid table and stay up every year but never got into Europe.'

"They've rammed those words back down my throat and I'm absolutely delighted that they have because the FA Cup success last season was everything you want from the FA Cup, everything that makes the FA Cup magical - their first major trophy.

"I just feel for them today, because it's been a tough summer and they haven't had the sort of transfer window that they'd want, which dominates in modern football, but they've got a team that they can be really proud of.

"I will caveat this with one thing - I'm not buying the Community Shield as a major trophy. I blame Jose Mourinho for that. He started all that nonsense, that suddenly it [the Community Shield] was a trophy worth to be alongside the FA Cup and the League Cup. It's not, it's a pre-season trophy for me.

"But what a great day out for them, you can tell the fans really cared about it and what an exciting team they have, what an enjoyable team to watch. They'll play for the badge, run all day and what a great manager they have in Oliver Glasner."

Dan Cook, host of the 'Hopkin Looking To Curl One' Crystal Palace podcast, speaking on BBC 5 Live Breakfast:

“It’s quite incredible to be honest.

“We’ve been [to Wembley] a fair few times in recent years and we’ve had a very, very good time of it, there’s no getting around it and yesterday I actually felt that we had a pretty controlled performance throughout the 90 minutes.

“Coming from behind in the fashion that we did, particularly after the early goal and then managed to keep our cool... and Justin Devenny himself, 21 years old, the penalty that won it was incredibly composed from him.

“We’re still riding the wave emotionally.”

After his penalty shootout heroics on Sunday, Northern Ireland international Justin Devenny has a huge season ahead.

Domestically, he's pushing for more game time in the Crystal Palace starting team after featuring 28 times last season and making five starts.

On the international stage, he'll play a big part in whether Northern Ireland can reach a first World Cup since 1986.

The 21-year-old has won five caps for Michael O'Neill's side since making his debut in nine months ago, and over the next four months he's in line to face European powerhouses Germany along with Slovakia and Luxembourg in World Cup qualifiers.

The Scottish-born midfielder was a regular for the U21 side before making his senior debut and has been a mainstay since NI's 2-2 draw with Luxembourg in November 2024.

"I loved every minute of it last season and, as good as it was, for me, now, it's done," Devenny told the Crystal Palace website.

"It's in the past and now, it's looking forward to the future and seeing what this season brings – and hopefully it'll be more of the same.

"I always try and help everyone around me, whether that's the youngest player on the pitch or the oldest player on the pitch."

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BBC Sport NI

It's been a bit of a breakthrough 12 months for Crystal Palace's match-winner Justin Devenny.

The 21-year-old made his senior international debut for Northern Ireland in November 2024 against Luxembourg just nine days after his first Premier League appearance for the Eagles.

Since then, he's become a mainstay in the Palace match-day squad and a regular for Michael O'Neill at international level - winning five caps.

He was influential in Northern Ireland's opening goal against Denmark in June's friendly, and has earned praise from his international manager.

Playing in a wing-back position against the tricky Gustav Isaksen of Lazio, Devanny was "a big, big positve" according to O'Neill.

"I thought he did really well," O'Neill said.

"He's got his hands full against a winger that obviously causes you a lot of problems.

"Justin's a midfield player but he's left-sided and I thought he dealt with it very, very well."

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As was the case three months ago, Dean Henderson was the Crystal Palace hero at Wembley.

The England goalkeeper made two saves in the penalty shootout, once low to his left to deny Alexis Mac Allister before parrying Harvey Elliott's effort on the other side.

After his first save, Henderson turned to his team-mates and doffed his cap in what could go down as one of the iconic Wembley celebrations.

Crystal Palace fans face a nervous wait today to see whether they will be readmitted to the Uefa Europa League or not.

Palace earned a place in this season's Europa League by winning the FA Cup last season, but were demoted from European football's second tier to the Conference League as punishment for breaching multi-club ownership rules.

American businessman John Textor owns a stake in the club and is the majority owner of Lyon, who also qualified for the Europa League.

Palace lodged an appeal against their demotion with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas), and will found out the outcome today.

The appeal is against Uefa, which issued the punishment, French club Lyon and Premier League rivals Nottingham Forest.

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Oliver Glasner says he would not swap Crystal Palace's Community Shield victory for a spot in next season's Europa League.

Palace were demoted to the Uefa Conference League from the Europa League as punishment for breaching multi-club ownership rules. American businessman John Textor owns a stake in the club and is the majority owner of Lyon, who also qualified for the Europa League.

Palace lodged an appeal against their demotion with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas), and will found out the outcome today.

When asked whether he would swap the Wembley win for a successful appeal, Glasner replied: "No. The players were not scared of noise around us.

"Tomorrow we have no influence, so we celebrate tonight, meet tomorrow for lunch then training. We can't think about it."

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It's fair to say that Oliver Glasner has made a serious impact since becoming Crystal Palace manager 18 months ago.

The Austrian coach replaced Roy Hodgson in February 2024 with Palace sliding down the table, before leading the club to their joint-highest Premier League points tally.

Last season he led Palace to a first major trophy with victory against Manchester City in the FA Cup final, and with it a place in Europe.

Now he's guided Palace to a second trophy in the space of three months. Not bad.

Didi Hamann
Former Liverpool midfielder on 5 Live

I think they are the team to beat, the expectations will be different, because last season Slot did a wonderful job, but the expectations were probably, ‘if we finish in the top four, we’ve done ok,’ so they ended up running away with the league.

Now this year, with the signings they’ve made as well, with winning the league by ten points or more last season, everybody chases them, everybody wants to knock them of their perch and they are the team to catch and expectations will be different, it will be interesting to see how the team handles it.

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Ex-Scotland midfielder on Football Daily

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Don Hutchison on the Football Daily podcast speaking about the performance of Liverpool captain Virgil Van Dijk:

"I think to give Virgil a little 'out' is that he is not quite up to speed on his pre-season and I think it showed today.

"A Virgil Van Dijk that is on it, at top speed, fully fit and had the best pre-season, doesn't give that penalty away. You know he stays on his feet, takes the extra step, takes the extra yard.

"It's when players miss out a few days in pre-season, you miss out on the odd game. Because he's not been solid the games he's played in pre-season, he's made one or two errors as well.

"I don't think we are seeing in the age or the drop off, I just think we're seeing a player who needs to get fully fit as quick as possible."

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It's fair to say that Liverpool captain didn't have his finest game on Sunday.

The centre-back tripped Ismaila Sarr to gift Crystal Palace a penalty which Jean-Philippe Mateta converted, before he stepped out of defence at the wrong moment to give Sarr the time and space to run through on goal and score Palace's second goal.

At 34, the Dutchman's best years could be behind him. Was this just a blip, or was it a sign of things to come?

BBC 5 Live Breakfast

Liverpool supporter Josh Sexton speaking on BBC 5 Live Breakfast:

“Liverpool have done a lot of business in the transfer market this summer already and I think you saw the individual quality of a couple of those signings, particularly in the first half with Jeremie Frimpong getting his goal, Hugo Ekitike getting his goal and Florian Wirtz being involved in that too.

“Having those two flying full-backs, I think that’s going to take a period of adaptation for Liverpool to get used to that.

"And maybe you do need someone like Ryan Gravenberch in there, he was missed yesterday because he’s such a defensive force in that midfield for Liverpool, and Alexis Mac Allister coming on second half, you saw what they were probably missing."

Liverpool are involved in the Premier League's curtain-raiser against Bournemouth on Friday night.

They also have Newcastle, Arsenal and a Merseyside derby among their first five fixtures.

How many points do you think they'll take from these games?

Newcastle United

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Alexander Isak has been training away from his Newcastle team-mates after manager Eddie Howe said it was "clear at the moment that we can't involve him with the group".

The striker was the subject of a £110m bid from Premier League champions Liverpool, which was rejected by Newcastle.

Howe said he was not aware of the club's owners informing Isak he won't be sold after the Sweden international indicated that he wished to explore his options.

But the head coach stressed "there are discussions going on all the time that I'm not party to".

"I think everything is in play," he said of Isak's future following Newcastle's 2-0 defeat in a friendly against Atletico Madrid on Saturday.

"I've said many times he is contracted to us. He is our player. The club make the decision on his future.

"I don't know what that will be. Of course I have a preferred outcome. I want the best and the strongest squad possible, but I also want players that really want to play for this football club."

Chris Kirkland
Former Liverpool goalkeeper speaking to BBC Sport

Liverpool want another striker. We're all greedy. Every team wants as many strikers as they can. There is a lot of noise. He is still at a great age.

Liverpool want [Alexander] Isak, he wants to go, they have bid for him and he's left out of games for the team's he is at - normally, when that is the case, a deal gets done. I'd want a centre-back and a forward because we are all greedy in this world!

We would love to see him at Liverpool but I know it's going to be hard because I know how important he is to Newcastle. If we do get him, he will be an excellent addition to an already brilliant squad.

Sunday's Community Shield defeat by Crystal Palace highlighted the defensive issues Arne Slot may need to address before the end of the window.

The Reds, twice pegged back, were sometimes sloppy in defence and were on the ropes towards the end of the Community Shield, and also looked vulnerable during Monday's 3-2 friendly win against Athletic Bilbao, when they twice conceded twice from set-pieces.

Palace arguably had only two big chances in this game - Jean-Philippe Mateta's 13th-minute penalty and Ismaila Sarr bursting through with 12 minutes to go. They scored both.

"We don't concede chances, but we concede goals," Slot said afterwards.

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