Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner is eager to keep hold of Nathaniel Clyne.
Glasner admits he wants the veteran to stay and push fellow fullback Daniel Munoz.
He said: We didn't want to have too many changes in the group because it's a great group of men, a great group of people.
Always, when you take many parts out of a group and bring new parts in, you have to find each other, the players have to get each other known, not just on the pitch, also in the dressing room.
Clyne is a very experienced player. He can play in this system at least four positions, the two wing-backs and the two centre-halves, and with his experience, with his great character, then we said: 'OK, we would like to extend your contract'.
But it's always two-way. He gave us some signals that he also would like to sign a new contract and it's good and I appreciate it.
We want to be variable and Daniel [Muoz]'s strength is up and down, being very offensive. But also Joel Ward did it excellent when he played there we didn't have the results, but we also had great performances at that time. Chris Richards can do it, we have many players.
Everybody has to know what he has to do. When Daniel is attacking, the centre-half has to be responsible for his back. It's just a part of responsibility and taking this responsibility and Clyne does it really well in the last week."
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