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Crystal Palace consider sacking Glasner, angered by his comments after defeat to Sunderland

Crystal Palace consider sacking Oliver Glasner, having been left angered by his comments after a 2-1 defeat to Sunderland.

According to Sky Sports, chairman Steve Parish is furious and feels let down by Glasner’s public criticism of the board.

Glasner said the club “feels like we’re being abandoned completely”, and this comes a day after confirming he will leave when his contract expires in the summer.

Parish now faces a choice, allowing him to stay for the final four months or sack him immediately.

The potential sale of key defender Marc Guéhi to Man City appears to be further worsening the already strained relationship between the manager and chairman.

UPDATE: “Glasner stays following clear the air talks with Steve Parish this morning. Interesting to see if the truce holds until the end of the season. Understand Palace are trying to recruit players including a striker before the transfer window closes.”

Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner to BBC Match of the Day: “I’ve seen a team that is leaving their heart on the pitch. As you have seen we couldn’t make a sub, we had no one on the bench. I feel we are being abandoned completely. Because I can’t play many players. They did everything they could and this has been going on for weeks and months now. And we have 12, 13 players from the squad available and we feel no support.

“The worst thing is selling our captain one day before playing a Premier League game. We are preparing, it’s the first week we are training since September, and then we are selling our captain one day before a game. So I have no understanding of this. I have always kept my mouth, but I can’t because I have to defend these players, because it was the 35th game today.

“Yes we get under pressure here and we are unlucky. But again, you can’t react, we can’t help them, it makes it really tough tonight.”

Who specifically has abandoned Crystal Palace?: “It’s pretty clear, yeah? It’s pretty clear. Again, I didn’t sell anyone. If you get your heart torn out twice this season, one day before a game, it was with Eze in summer, it was with Guehi now, you know? What should I tell the players all the time? What should I tell them?

“And then I see the performance today for 50, 60 minutes, today it was not easy with all the circumstances going here with 12 players from the squad, and yes then you have 15, 20 minutes when you are under pressure, you concede the goal, I like at the bench, I can’t react, just kids on the bench, and this has not happened yesterday, this is weeks ago. That’s why I’m really frustrated today.”

Have you told the board your frustrations?: “Of course they know it, we’re talking all the time. But again, talk does not win the game.”

Glasner to Sky Sports: “I think the players gave everything they could. We made no substitutions, look at the bench, there are just kids there.

“We feel like we’re being abandoned completely. Selling our captain one day before a game – there is no understanding for this.

“We are preparing and then yesterday, 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.

“If your heart gets ripped out twice a year, with Eze one day before a game in the summer and your captain one day before a game – I’ve just got 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 playing for weeks now with just 12 or 13 players in our squad. Some players have played their 35th game now.

“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 players left their hearts on the pitch, were fighting. It’s not too easy to play here and for all the circumstances, the team has done exceptionally well. But again, we don’t 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 we have to deal with it. One day before a game, we have to come where to Sunderland, we know we’re not on the best run. We know the circumstances with no players available and we’re selling 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?”

Will you see the season out yourself? “I don’t know. I always have a huge appreciation for this group of players.

“I completely trust them. Their character is exceptional and we will stick together and turn around. I will never step back because these players deserve Oliver Glasner as their manager and leader and this is what I will do.

“Sometimes it would help if we had a little bit of support.”

Here’s how fans reacted as Crystal Palace consider sacking Glasner, angered by his comments after defeat to Sunderland…

@Jonathan__Hill: Parish needs to take a long look in the mirror. Glasner has said nothing that people outside the club aren’t thinking. Guehi almost left in the summer, they knew he’d be in demand in January but no sign of preparing for that. £60m for Eze and only replaced by Johnson in Jan.

@darraghcash: I mean.. he’s not wrong. Selling Guehi without a sign of a replacement is criminal

@Ant_Dale86: Maresca, Amorim and now Glasner. Seems the new norm this way of trying to sack yourself

@EvilSashPioneer:
I’d say we’re only “falling apart” due to unrest within the club.
Sell Guehi and Mateta, sort Glasner and the manager situation out, and take it from there.
Loads of good managers out there
Get ANY competent striker
Another CB and CM
And try to win the Conference League.
#CPFC

@PyleAndrew: He’s not wrong tho is he? The Guehi deal alone proves it. How can you as a club reject £65m saying it would take “superstar money” to get him out, just to lose him for £20m because you had no plan to deal with the situation. I don’t blame Glasner tbh #CPFC

@Gilds85: That interview after the game from Glasner was very interesting, nice one @CEO4TAG you’ve completely fucked it. No wonder he’s leaving he sussed you out, no wonder you wanted Roy back twice the yes man didn’t argue did he, you really need to come out and talk to the fans #cpfc

@jamiemcw_:
Oliver Glasner…
Won the FA Cup
Won the Community Shield
Ended Liverpool’s 29 unbeaten home streak
Thrashed Man United 4-0
19-game unbeaten run
Achieved our highest ever Premier League points tally
Qualified for Europa League
Yet people will back Parish #CPFC

@buttersyeah: How on earth has everything gone wrong in short a short space of time. Play off final was the last time I felt this team was unified. What has happened? #cpfc

@sloggy_bottom: Genuinely believe OG wanted to stay; this window was the true barometer of whether the board would finally back him. Guehi getting pulled felt like the final straw – he cared, wanted to take us somewhere, but success came too fast for a board too over-pragmatic to evolve #cpfc

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