Palace curiously allowed Odsonne Edouard (loan) and Jordan Ayew (permanent) to join Leicester and Jesurun Rak-Sakyi (loan) to join Sheffield United last summer, while also losing Olise to Bayern for £51m.

Crystal Palace have completed the signing of Romain Esse from Millwall in an initial £12million deal.

Millwall confirmed the departure of academy graduate Romain Esse as he left for bitter rivals Crystal Palace for a reported fee of £14.5 million. Crystal Palace will be only too pleased at their acquisition of the skilful 19-year-old;