Crystal Palace are contemplating sacking supervisor Oliver Glasner.
Sky Sports activities Information understands Palace chairman Steve Parish was bemused and angered by the Austrian’s feedback following the 2-1 defeat at Sunderland on Saturday, the place Glasner instantly criticised the membership’s board, saying “we feel like we’re being abandoned completely”.
Glasner confirmed on Friday he can be leaving Selhurst Park as soon as his contract expires in the summertime, however Parish has a call to make about whether or not to let him see out the ultimate 4 months or sack him now.
The upcoming sale of Marc Guehi to Manchester Metropolis seems to be prefer it may very well be the ultimate straw in an ever-deteriorating relationship between supervisor and chairman.
“Selling our captain one day before a game – there is no understanding for this,” Glasner stated on Saturday.
However Palace really feel they’d no selection however to promote Guehi fairly than threat shedding £20m if the defender had walked away on a free on the finish of the season. And the membership are adamant that they abided by Glasner’s needs within the final switch window, after they pulled out of a deal to promote him to Liverpool on Deadline Day.
From Parish’s perspective, each determination he takes is what he believes is the best one for the long-term stability and way forward for Crystal Palace. Whether or not Glasner stays a part of these plans is prone to be determined shortly.
Offended Glasner hits out at hierarchy
After the loss at Sunderland, Glasner felt his gamers have been being “abandoned” with “no support”.
A turbulent week has seen the Eagles crash out of the FA Cup to non-League Macclesfield within the third spherical, Glasner affirm he’s leaving on the finish of the season, and that defender Guehi is nearing a transfer away.
Palace slipped to a 2-1 defeat towards Sunderland on the Stadium of Mild – their tenth successive sport in all competitions with out a win.
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Crystal Palace misplaced at Sunderland on Saturday
Glasner made no substitutions through the sport, stating that he’s making an attempt to guard his gamers and referred to as for extra help.
He advised Sky Sports activities: “The players gave everything they could. We made no substitutions – look at the bench, there are just kids there.
“We really feel like we’re being deserted fully. Promoting our captain sooner or later earlier than a sport – there is no such thing as a understanding for this.
“We are preparing and then yesterday [Friday], I get told that our captain will be sold, but why not next week? At least he can play this game and then next week, other players are coming back. It makes me really upset.
“In case your coronary heart will get ripped out twice a yr, with [Eberechi] Eze sooner or later earlier than a sport in the summertime and your captain sooner or later earlier than a sport – I’ve simply bought no understanding.
“I’ve been in football for 30 years and never experienced this, not once. Now it happens twice in six or seven months. That’s just where we are now.
“We’re enjoying for weeks now with simply 12 or 13 gamers in our squad. Some gamers have performed their thirty fifth sport now.
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Tim Sherwood believes Glasner’s determination to hit out on the Crystal Palace hierarchy is an act of ‘self-preservation’
“For 50 or 60 minutes, we played well here and for 15 or 20 minutes, we were under pressure and conceded the goal. The players tried everything but again, I couldn’t give them any support from the bench and it makes it so tough.
“The gamers left their hearts on the pitch, have been preventing. It isn’t too simple to play right here and for all of the circumstances, the staff has finished exceptionally effectively. However once more, we do not really feel supported.
“I heard yesterday at 10.30am for the first time that we were selling Marc. I think the negotiations were a few days long so nobody would have called at 10am and by 10.30am, everything was agreed.
“Then now we have to cope with it. Someday earlier than a sport, now we have to come back to Sunderland, after we know we’re not on the very best run. We all know the circumstances with no gamers accessible and we’re promoting our captain.
“No team would do this. Other teams, the players play and then the next day, they’re leaving and we are selling the day before?”
When requested if he’ll see the season out, Glasner gave a defiant response: “I don’t know. I always have a huge appreciation for this group of players.
“I fully belief them. Their character is phenomenal and we’ll stick collectively and switch round. I’ll by no means step again as a result of these gamers deserve Oliver Glasner as their supervisor and chief and that is what I’ll do.
“Sometimes it would help if we had a little bit of support.”
Glasner continues outburst in post-match press convention
Glasner continued his outburst in his post-match press convention.
He defined: “For me, it feels like, ‘oh we have enough points so we won’t get relegated and that’s fine’. But these players are not happy and satisfied with this. That makes it tough tonight.
“If Crystal Palace are tremendous ending the season like this, with Oliver Glasner, with one other supervisor, I do not know, I do not care but when they’re tremendous with this then okay, they will do it.
“If they want to play a more successful season… for me, it feels like, ‘when all the players are back, we’ll be okay, we’ll get 42 points, it’s all good’, but that isn’t how we are acting. It’s just my feeling.
“To guard them, I additionally should say it in public as a result of simply saying it behind closed doorways would not make sense.”
Glasner also gave a hint that his comments were a final roll of the dice to try and improve the squad situation, adding: “It is possibly the final attempt that issues get finished that should get finished. Not for Oliver Glasner, it is for Crystal Palace.
“The best four players before we arrived – [Michael] Olise, [Eberechi] Eze and the two centre-backs, [Joachim] Andersen and [Marc] Guehi – they have gone now. It’s tough for every club.
“After which to suppose, ‘okay, we offered final yr and so they bought it finished, had the very best season, gained the FA Cup, it is all good. We will proceed doing it like this’, you’re going to get the invoice.
“Oliver Glasner won’t get the bill, Crystal Palace will get it. If you’re fine with it, continue.”
Sherwood: Glasner needs out now
Tim Sherwood on Soccer Saturday:
“When your manager says he is leaving, how does that feel for the squad? It works both ways. It’s self preservation. Now they are losing games.
“When he takes the Palace job, he is aware of what he’s going into. You develop gamers and also you promote them on. That could be a promoting membership.
“He wants to leave that club as quickly as possible. He wants out of the club and he wants out now.”
