For me the journalists are not really doing their job when interviewing Roy.
It's a simple question, 'is there a release clause which interested clubs can exercise?'
Instead it's a subject they dance around and Roy's comment that it's Olise's decision as to if he leaves implies that there may well be one.

Chelsea have a whole new set of management & will no doubt look to exploit rules to the max to see where lines in the sand are actually drawn (what they get away with & what they get fined for- not that the fine makes much difference for them)

Also Olise', whilst he may well be flattered by all this interest in his services (& the prospect of extra money) must have some thoughts on exactly where he will be in the pecking order if he goes to a club like Chelsea where there is always the prospect of them signing another gazillion pound player in his position.-

He wont get far in the France national set up if he isn't playing regularly.

Also - what happens if Chelsea's season doesn't live up to expectations, they sack the manager by Christmas & then the whole cycle starts again.

I think he’d be wrong to move to a big club like Chelsea with an existing injury. He could become a stranded fish in a big pond, lose momentum and traction and disappear off the radar. Staying with Palace will allow him to recover quickly around people and a system he knows and bounce back into the limelight to a certain place in the 1st team where his value will continue to increase both nationally and internationally.

He may now also be able to negotiate a revised contract, much more pay and allow Palace to insert a reasonable £60m release fee.

The beatings will stop when morale improves.

I read the release clause may be dependent on the buyer being in the the champions league - who knows? His injury may save us - hopefully he'll recover here and leave next summer, or January, which would make more sense. Also City looking for a Mahraz replacement makes them more likely buyers than Chelsea for me - despite the family connection with Chelsea.

I'd be interested to know why. He is so good, it is hard to believe it was on footballing grounds. Maybe because he didn't celebrate when scoring goals?

If I had to gamble money on it, I'd say that is why he is still here. It would fit in with the idea of a young man in firm control of his own career, looking to build up to the top of the game one level at a time, mindful of avoiding the trap of becoming another benchwarmer gone stale at a big club by moving there too soon. Haaland did a similar thing, rejecting big clubs firstly to sign for Salzberg when he left Molde, and then again to sign for Dortmund, always backing himself to do well enough to become a first-choice player at his new club, and to do well enough to make the next big move having established himself as too good a player to be anything other than a first-team player. Man City had all this drama about a buyout clause too, as the player wants to end up at Madrid apparently.

If there is a clause in Olise contract then good for him, clever boy for taking far more control over his own career path than most ever manage. I'm sure agreeing to the clause (as well as offering first-team football) was the reason we got him ahead of others for a relatively low fee, so no use bitching about it now.