Wharton admits Palace move 18 months in making

Adam Wharton has recalled how his Crystal Palace move was 18 months in the making.

The young midfielder left Blackburn Rovers for Palace in January.

He told the club's website: Funnily enough, it was after my first Championship start which would have been late August, early September of 2022.

Dougie [Freedman] was actually at that game, my manager told me. There was interest but I was never going to move at that time or anything.

The interest was there for quite a long time, which is also a sort of bonus.

[It's] like an incentive for me that I was a player that they were invested in, in a way. They were spending all that time interested. It wasn't just a little impulse. So that was a factor that I took in to sort of help me make my decision."