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title: "Sky Sports journalist claims CPFC have an Armstrong alternative"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/sky-sports-journalist-claims-cpfc-have-an-armstrong-alternative/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Nick Pratt"
section: "Crystal Palace"
published: "2021-08-21T06:45:57Z"
modified: "2021-08-21T06:45:57Z"
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# Sky Sports journalist claims CPFC have an Armstrong alternative

**Sky Sports journalist Michael Bridge believes that Crystal Palace have got someone in the pipeline after missing out on Adam Armstrong.**

The 24-year-old striker signed a four-year deal with Southampton earlier this month and scored on his debut, in a 3-1 defeat to Everton last weekend.

[Sky Sports](https://www.skysports.com/transfer/news/11700/12373598/adam-armstrong-crystal-palace-in-advanced-talks-to-sign-blackburn-rovers-striker) have reported that Crystal Palace were also interested in Armstrong but had a bid rejected, with Bridge believing that after the Eagles didn’t return with an improved offer, they must have somebody else in the pipeline.

*“They were in negotiations with Adam Armstrong from Blackburn, how much they wanted him I don’t know because they didn’t go back in when Southampton made an improved bid, so that tells me that they probably got someone in the pipeline,”* Bridge told Transfer Tavern.

One name that has been linked with a move to Selhurst Park is Celtic striker Odsonne Edouard. [The Telegraph](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/08/17/slavisa-jokanovic-warns-arsenal-aaron-ramsdale-wont-come-cheap/) claim that French forward was on the radar of Patrick Vieira but there were a number of other clubs interested in him, including Leicester, West Ham, Brighton and Wolves, but no formal offers have been made so far.

Edouard has [one year left](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/odsonne-edouard/profil/spieler/344152) on his current Celtic contract and with plenty of interest in his signature, Palace are going to have to move swiftly if they want to bring him to Selhurst Park.