Crystal Palace have set an asking price for Adam Wharton, with the England midfielder expected to draw formal interest in the summer transfer window. Clinton Morrison said Palace may end up facing offers in the £60 million to £70 million range, and suggested the club would probably accept £80 million if it came in.
Wharton, 22, has been linked with Manchester United and Liverpool after a swift rise that began with his £18 million move from Blackburn in February 2024. Palace signed him to a deal running through 2029, but Morrison said he could see the midfielder moving on in the summer because top clubs are likely to come calling.
The timing matters because Palace are coming off a season that has changed the scale of the club’s ambitions. They won the 2025 FA Cup final, beat Liverpool in the Community Shield and are due to face Rayo Vallecano in the 2026 Conference League final, with a place in the 2026-27 Europa League on the line if they win it. Wharton has also built an international case of his own, with four senior England caps and growing talk that he could be part of Thomas Tuchel’s World Cup plans.
Morrison, who spoke to GOAL, said he would like Wharton to stay for another 12 months, but believes the midfielder may soon decide he needs Champions League football to push his game and strengthen his claim as an England regular. “I kind of get, if the right offer came in, then Palace might have to say, ‘well, 60, 70 million coming for Adam Wharton, we might have to take it after we paid 18 million to Blackburn for him’,” Morrison said. “What another great bit of business they've done at the football club. That might have to happen.”
He added that Palace chairman would not do business unless the price is right, pointing to previous hard lines on valuations for Marc Guehi and Eberechi Eze. “If the right offer doesn't come in, you’ve seen it over the years with the likes of Guehi and Eze, if the offer's not right, the chairman won't do business,” Morrison said. “He'll know the price he wants for Adam Wharton and if they don't make the right offer, then he could be at Palace.”
The sticking point is not whether Palace need to sell. They do not. It is whether a club chasing one of the Premier League’s most polished young midfielders decides Wharton is worth paying a fee that would instantly rewrite Palace’s transfer record and underline how far he has come in barely two years.
