£55m + £5m seems a decent sum to me for a player with 2 years left on his contract.

As for Hrolf's comments, I and I'm sure others who take the same view re this offer from Newcastle, are first and foremost Palace fans.

We support the club.

Players come and go and we want to see our squad improved and that means selling players at the right time. For me, this is the right time to sell Guehi. I would expect us to get Lacroix in from Germany and after paying money due to Chelsea (if any) will probably have at least £25m to use on strengthening another position e.g. LWB, RWB or attacker.

He's not alone!

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

What some fail to understand is that we are under no pressure to sell any of our players. Guehi can be sold next season for a decent fee if he won't sign a new contract. There will be plenty of suitors at a good price.
There is every possibility that we are setting his price high because we would rather keep him for at least another year.

Newcastle can pay what we want or move on.

He is contracted to play for us for 2 more years, if he wants out then he must wait till we get what we value him at.
Yes we loose money as his contract goes down.But to keep an international defender of his quality, gives us more points this season and will have bigger clubs wanting him.

Ivan wants £250,000 a week.That’s why his had no one come for him.

That explains a lot. Rather like De Gaa when he left Man U. It seems AWB wasn't willing to take a cut in as well and Man U may have agreed to make a one-off payment to him to c0ver the shortfall so he can go to West ham.