CRYSTAL Palace club captain Paddy McCarthy has been offered a new contract – and co-chairman Steve Parish is confident of securing the centre-back for another year.
The 31-year-old's current deal runs out next summer, along with a number of others, but Parish is keen to keep the Irishman at the club.
Parish also believes McCarthy is set get game-time elsewhere after two years of injury hell and then falling down the pecking order in defence.
"Paddy is going to get a new contract, we're quite close to agreeing something with him," the supremo has exclusively told the Advertiser.
"I think it's another year on it. We haven't quite finalised it but that is probably what will happen.
"Paddy is part of what we've done here since the beginning and he'll go out on loan and get some games."
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