{"id":613954,"date":"2022-06-20T15:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T19:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=613954"},"modified":"2022-06-20T15:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T19:19:26","slug":"crystal-palace-west-bromwich-albion-sam-johnstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/20\/crystal-palace-west-bromwich-albion-sam-johnstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace Set to Sign England International Goalkeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/26\/manchester-united-monitoring-derby-county-youngster\/\" target=\"_self\">Crystal Palace<\/a> are set to sign goalkeeper Sam Johnstone on a four-year deal, reports Dominic Fifield of <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/news\/sam-johnstone-crystal-palace-contract\/pri0ivcr9qTx\/?source=twitteruk&amp;redirected=1\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The England international will leave Championship side West Bromwich Albion when his contract expires on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Palace gives the 29-year-old the chance to return to the Premier League, where he featured for the Baggies in the 2020\/21 season and could put him back in the frame for a call-up to Gareth Southgate&#8217;s England sides.<\/p>\n<h2>Sam Johnstone Agrees Crystal Palace Move<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sam Johnstone \u2705<br \/>\n4-year deal \u270d\ufe0f<br \/>\nEngland International on his day \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f<br \/>\n29 years-old with good Premier League experience \u26bd\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t complain especially on a free transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Would prefer a Butland loan. He\u2019s been solid and Guaita sadly won\u2019t last forever <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cpfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#cpfc<\/a> \ud83e\udd85 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UAJd27161D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/UAJd27161D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Luke Weaser-Seychell (@Luke_Seychell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Luke_Seychell\/status\/1538943376590000128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Long-Term Successor&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Johnstone departs West Brom having had a difficult time there in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>He impressed in the Premier League, despite their relegation in 2020\/21, which earned him regular call-ups to the England team &#8211; his last appearance came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englandfootball.com\/mens-senior-team\/fixtures-results\/2021\/Andorra-0-5-england-fifa-2022-world-cup-european-qualifier-match-report-20210910\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">against Andorra<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>It looked likely that he would leave the club last summer upon their return to the Championship, but a move never materialised and he remained in the Midlands as West Brom struggled under new manager Valerien Ismael.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not expected that Johnstone will compete with current Palace number one Vicente Guaita. However, at 35 years old, he may find himself out of the line-up fairly quickly if Johnstone can make an immediate impression.<\/p>\n<h3>Arrival Creates Problems for Butland<\/h3>\n<p>The arrival of Johnstone would see Jack Butland demoted back to third-choice in the goalkeeper hierarchy at Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Fifield adds that the club are expected to listen to offers for the 29-year-old, who is heading into the final year of his contract at Selhurst Park.<\/p>\n<p>The former England keeper played 15 times last season for Patrick Viera&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crystal Palace are set to sign goalkeeper Sam Johnstone on a four-year deal, reports Dominic Fifield of The Athletic. The England international will leave Championship side West Bromwich Albion when his contract expires on July 1. Joining Palace gives the 29-year-old the chance to return to the Premier League, where he featured for the Baggies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":613955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,12,3,7188,28,26],"tags":[2433],"class_list":["post-613954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-crystal-palace","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-transfers","category-west-brom","tag-sam-johnstone"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}