Edouard can be 'world beater' - Sutton
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Crystal Palace have got themselves a bargain in £14m signing Odsonne Edouard, believes former Celtic striker Chris Sutton.
The France Under-21 forward left Celtic for Selhurst Park on transfer deadline day after four years in the Scottish Premiership, having finished as the league's top scorer in 2019-20.
He marked his Eagles with a late double off the bench in Saturday's 3-0 victory over a Tottenham side who topped the early-season Premier League table going into the game.
"The season before last he looked an absolute world beater. I thought he would leave Celtic and go, with respect to Palace, to an enormous club," said Sutton on BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club.
"Patrick Vieira knows him from the under-21s, where Edouard has been absolutely sensational, he took a gamble where others didn’t want to take one and I think he’s going to be a big player. It looks a good piece of business."
Sutton tipped Palace for relegation pre-season but says their performance against Spurs has prompted him into a rethink.
"It wasn’t a lucky victory – they absolutely dismantled Spurs. Harry Kane didn’t land a glove on the centre-halves [Joachim] Andersen and [Marc] Guehi," he added.
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