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There can often be that one shock transfer which could potentially have changed a club’s fortunes had it come off.

There was the time where a volcanic ash cloud robbed Sam Allardyce of the chance to speak to Robert Lewandowski ahead of a move to Blackburn Rovers. Furthermore, there was also the time in which the same club turned down Zinedine Zidane as they already had Tim Sherwood on the books!

In Crystal Palace’s case, the Eagles have had their fair share of exciting links which never materialised, with those players since going on to become top-class footballers.

Let’s take a look at three quality players who the Eagles could have got their hands on…

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Yep. Palace could have signed Harry Kane.

Neil Warnock claimed that he tried to sign the man with 167 goals for Tottenham ‘a couple of times’ whilst manager of the Eagles, when Kane was out of favour at Tottenham.

Unfortunately, cup games meant Spurs kept their academy graduate around, and look what has happened since.

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This one should probably hurt the most for Palace fans.

Champions League, Super Cup and UEFA Men’s Player of the Year winner Virgil van Dijk almost became a Crystal Palace player.

The man deemed better than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2019 was a target of Warnock’s back in 2014 for Palace, but the club blocked the £6m move over fears that the Dutchman might be too ‘sluggish’.

Warnock’s transfer luck really was out at Selhurst Park, wasn’t it?

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Not as high profile a player as the aforementioned two, but still a quality footballer nonetheless.

Back in 2014, Palace agreed a fee with Tottenham for Gylfi Sigurdsson and a move looked to be on, before the Iceland international opted to move back to Swansea instead.

Everton then splashed out a club-record £45m on the attacking midfielder, who netted 13 Premier League goals last term.

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