Marc Guehi has told Crystal Palace he will not sign a new deal at the club.
England centre-back Guehi almost joined Liverpool on transfer deadline-day last month, but Palace pulled the plug at the last minute.
It meant the Eagles missed out on a sizeable fee and, with Guehi now in the final 12 months of his contract, boss Oliver Glasner has revealed the defender has already informed the club this will be his last season at Selhurst Park.
Glasner told reporters: ‘I think Marc has already told us that he doesn’t sign a new contract, so he will leave next year.
‘The club wanted (him to stay). They offered Marc a new contract, but he said, ‘No, I want to make something different’, and that’s normal.
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‘And for us, it’s how we can deal with this situation. (What) is the best way to get this next step done? And that’s all about how we are talking together.’
Guehi has played 167 times for Palace since he joined from Chelsea in 2021 and captained the club to FA Cup success in May.
The 25-year-old could be sold in January or leave on a free at the end of the season.
Guehi can agree a pre-contract with foreign clubs from January 1.
Slot, meanwhile, admits they are well aware of the scrutiny on his side after three successive defeats, but does not believe the players “wake up at night” worrying about it.
After reeling off seven straight wins, they then lost three times in the week before the international break.
Slot admits having almost two weeks without being able to work with his players has had positives and negatives, but as they seek to avoid losing four in a row for the first time since November 2014, he does not believe it is weighing heavily on his squad.
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‘These players might need me – but I don’t think they need me – to tell them what has happened,’ he said ahead of the visit of arch-rivals Manchester United, against whom they are looking to set a club-record 10 matches without defeat.
‘Results don’t lie, if you lose three in a row we have to do better.
‘But I think these players that have experienced so many things don’t wake up at night thinking ‘Oh, we lost three times’.
‘We need to be aware of that and we are aware of that and we need to react to that, but we have to give the same reaction if we win three times in a row and Manchester United is on the fixture list.
‘But maybe if you lose three times you are hoping for that spark or that one or two per cent more, not only from us but from our fans on Sunday.’