Crystal Palace struck gold on unbelievable star who’s value greater than Olise

Crystal Palace and Oliver Glasner have began poorly within the Premier League this season, shedding twice and drawing as soon as of their opening three fixtures of the marketing campaign.

The Eagles are undoubtedly feeling the results of shedding one among their jewels within the crown this summer season, with Michael Olise becoming a member of Bayern Munich for round £50m.

Olise made 19 appearances for Palace final season, scoring ten objectives and offering six assists in his 1,278 minutes performed.

Such an output is tough to exchange however they may look to Eberechi Eze to attempt to achieve this…

How a lot Crystal Palace spent on Eze

Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish not too long ago described Eze as “excellent” as each an individual and a footballer, labelling the participant “a present” to any soccer membership.

Since becoming a member of from QPR in 2020 for a price of round £16m plus £4m add-ons, the attacking midfielder has made 128 appearances in his time at Selhurst Park, scoring 28 objectives and offering 17 assists in these video games.

Eberechi Eze celebrates for Crystal Palace

Final time period, the 26-year-old made 31 appearances in all competitions through which he scored 11 instances and supplied six assists. His spectacular season earned him an England call-up for Euro 2024, the place he truly made three substitute appearances for the Three Lions.

It was maybe a shock, subsequently, to not see him appeal to a lot curiosity in the summertime with his £68m launch clause expiring.

That mentioned, it will likely be on the desk once more subsequent summer season. Maybe Parish and Co must fend off extra events subsequent 12 months as they purpose to obtain a much bigger price than Olise’s.

Eze vs Olise comparability

Each gamers had been seen as Palace’s star males final season, with lots predicting the duo would depart this summer season. Nonetheless, solely Olise has left, and Eze, regardless of rumours of curiosity, has remained at Palace in the intervening time.

Parish even acknowledged his disbelief within the lack of curiosity, or a minimum of the dearth of motion on curiosity within the former Rs star, saying it left him “astounded“.

Whenever you take a look at his numbers, it is simple to see why he held that viewpoint.

Eze vs Olise comparability
Stats (per 90 minutes)	Eze	Olise
Targets	0.48	0.70
Assists	0.18	0.42
xG	0.40	0.39
Progressive Carries	2.98	4.79
Progressive Passes	4.08	5.49
Pictures Complete	3.60	3.94
Key Passes	2.37	2.54
Shot-Creating Actions	4.82	5.77
Profitable Take-Ons	3.03	2.82
Carries into Pen Space	1.89	1.90
Stats taken from FBref

A carry is taken into account progressive if the ball is moved in direction of the opponent’s aim a minimum of 10 yards from its place to begin or is carried into the penalty space.

Should you examine the metrics between the 2 gamers, Olise does come out stronger in most per 90 statistics. That is contemplating he performed almost half the variety of minutes.

Eze solely ranked larger than Olise for xG (by 0.01 per 90), and profitable take-ons per 90, averaging 3.03 in comparison with Olise’s 2.82. Each gamers have the same play model, within the sense that they prefer to beat their man 1v1, carry the ball and make issues occur within the remaining third.

However with the French winger being youthful, and rating larger in most of those metrics, it isn’t surprising to see him acquire such an enormous transfer this summer season, while curiosity in Eze was rumoured however not acted upon.

That mentioned, it could not be a shock to see him enhance even additional this summer season, with the aforementioned exit clause in his contract prone to be activated in 12 months time.

Eze is on the right track for an additional wonderful Premier League marketing campaign, and it could be laborious for a lot of groups to disregard, particularly as he helps in direction of the homegrown quota, which many golf equipment have to consider when constructing their squads.