Adam Wharton: Man City, Liverpool-linked ace provides update on Crystal Palace future amid transfer rumours

By Oliver Thomas | 17 Sep 2026 09:00, Last updated: 17 Sep 2026 09:01

Adam Wharton has revealed that helium ne'er thought astir leaving Crystal Palace during the summertime transportation model and intends to spot retired the remaining 3 years of his declaration astatine Selhurst Park.

The 22-year-old midfielder has established himself arsenic an integral first-team subordinate astatine Palace and is wide regarded arsenic 1 of the brightest young talents successful the Premier League.

Last month, it was reported that Wharton was the taxable of involvement from Manchester City, who failed with aggregate enquiries for the England planetary aft Palace made it wide that helium was not for sale.

Liverpool are different nine said to person held a long-standing involvement in Wharton, portion the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea person besides been linked with the highly-rated midfielder.

However, Wharton has said that helium remains contented astatine Palace and prefers to “stay precise acold away” from immoderate speech astir a imaginable move, leaving that to his agent.

Wharton ne'er thought astir leaving Palace this summer

Speaking astir his aboriginal up of Palace’s maiden Europa League lucifer against Lech Poznan connected Thursday, Wharton told reporters: “I ne'er truly thought astir transfers this summer”.

“I enactment precise acold distant from it. My cause doesn’t truly archer maine anything, I don’t privation to cognize anything. If I’m not going to determination there’s nary request for maine to person immoderate information.

“I ne'er thought astir a antithetic club, I was ever present grooming looking guardant to a caller season, the gaffer, caller players coming in.

“I person 3 years near astatine Palace, for each I cognize I’m present for 3 years unless a nine comes successful oregon there’s different contract. I instrumentality it week by week, crippled by game. That helps maine get champion retired of myself and ore connected what is next.

“There’s ne'er truly thing (more) to it. I’m blessed to beryllium playing games and trying to improve.”

Wharton emerging arsenic a person astatine Crystal Palace

Wharton has made 101 appearances for Palace crossed each competitions since joining the nine successful February 2024, and helium captained the Eagles for the archetypal clip successful past weekend’s 3-2 Premier League nonaccomplishment to Ipswich Town.

The midfielder is keen to amended his enactment skills arsenic 1 of the much experienced players successful Pierre Sage’s squad, which was bolstered by 10 caller signings implicit the summer.

"I deliberation it's conscionable portion of improving arsenic a player, trying to pb the squad more, beryllium much vocal during training,” Wharton explained. "I deliberation the much you talk and pass connected the pitch, the easier it is arsenic a squad to play unneurotic and beryllium connected the aforesaid page.

“I deliberation particularly with a batch of caller signings, caller faces, you person to pass much due to the fact that they're trying to accommodate to caller players, caller tactics, possibly a antithetic strength if they've travel from a antithetic league.

“So I deliberation trying to pass much and trying to person a small spot much of a enactment relation connected the transportation is thing I privation to enactment on. I consciousness similar I'm improving connected that.

"If I'm captain, if I'm not, I inactive privation to assistance the squad and beryllium idiosyncratic they tin look to, to propulsion america unneurotic erstwhile we mightiness request it. Hopefully I tin bash that adjacent amended passim the season".

While Liverpool decided against signing a caller cardinal midfielder successful the summer, Man City spent large to bring successful Enzo Fernandez, Elliot Anderson and Ayyoub Bouaddi, and it remains to beryllium seen whether the Citizens volition reignite their involvement successful Wharton successful the future.