Aaron Wan-Bissaka has been told to ignore interest from Manchester United and stay for one more year at Crystal Palace.
After just one brilliant season as a first-team regular at Selhurst Park, the highly-rated 21-year-old is being linked with a big-money move elsewhere.
Wan-Bissaka might be set for switch to Manchester but Nigel Martyn thinks he does not need to be in a hurry to leave because he can establish himself the more.
His words, “[Wan-Bissaka] has been amazing. He’s come into the team and settled in well and is also pushing for England.”
“He could do with staying at Palace for another season at least to get a bit more experience. Then, if there is a bigger club that comes in, he’ll be more ready for that.”
Martyn added, with Wilfried Zaha also being linked with a return to Old Trafford: “I hope they both will stay.
“Palace tend to have a bit of a battle every year to make sure they stay in the division. They have the experience now of that division, so you’ve got to hold on to your better players, but the problem is when they have good seasons, other clubs come sniffing around.”
“Gareth [Southgate] has gone on picking players in form, but knowing him as I do, he’s also loyal to players he feels have done well for him,” said Martyn, who earned 23 caps for the Three Lions in his own career.
“But, if Wan-Bissaka comes out all guns blazing at the start of the season, that loyalty can only last so long.
“If he continues his development the way he is, he will get an England call-up at some point.”
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