"We are interested in Rak-Sakyi and so are like 15 other Championship clubs. We made the best offer. Palace feel very comfortable with him playing for us but I think at the moment he's getting interest from another Premier League club.
"If he doesn't go somewhere in the Premier League permanently, I'm confident that I would like to see him with us and we will try to do everything to bring him in. We've spoken with the agent, we've spoken with the player and we're looking to have another conversation with the player.
"The club is just very comfortable with us, Crystal Palace. Thanks to Dougie (Freedman) and Steve (Parish), they're very supportive of the player's development with us so at this minute, it's about the waiting game a little bit."
"He's one on our target list, but we're just talking," he said of Yokuslu. "West Brom have some ambitions to get for him, financially. So if it fits, yes, why not, he could be one of the names (City sign), but if the financials are not right there is no need for us to go and invest and leverage ourselves."
"It's close, more or less we agreed on the club side," Kesler said. "As for the player terms, it had been agreed a long time ago. I'm very confident that we will have the right-back position, completely closed, boxed off.
"Having said that, I want to mention this because our team captain (Lewie Coyle) is our right back as well. I think they're going to be a great, dynamic duo together in that position because we have to think about the injuries. We have to think about the unexpected things in a season, so I think we will be very safe for years in that position."