If Glasner is at Palace more than one more year I will be very surprised. I’m sure relations with his bosses will be frosty too. Guehi will be professional, but he has been shafted out of his move. Hopefully it comes back for him, either January or next summer.
I just don’t see the upside with the action they have chosen. They have lost 35M revenue, soured relations with the manager - instead of cutting him loose IMO, and it’s only a matter of time before he walks anyway.
If Glasner threatened to quit they should have told him to go. He has assumed a lot of power in the dynamic now, and a parting of the ways is inevitable. One year, max, imho.
I think it is too early to make these sorts of statements as there are still lots of variables to play out. They may put Glasner’s behaviour down to just the challenges of the job and go with it. They may earn more from cup runs etc than they would have otherwise that may set off the cost of anything they lose from not selling him this window - or if he leaves in January, the fee may not turn out to be lower after all.
I don’t think the club could realistically have done that. Losing both Glasner and Guehi, without any incoming replacement for their captain would have been hugely detrimental to the club. they would have had to find a new manager, and work even harder to persuade targets to come in January or next summer, when this was supposed to be a season to celebrate European football.
If I were Marc, I would immediately resign as captain and make it clear that he’s still a Palace player only “by necessity.” . He’ll probably be professional enough to handle it, but you can’t pretend none of this happened.
I dont see the point of doing that. I’m sure assurances have been given behind the scenes for something to be done. Let him enjoy his remaining time there as captain. Either way, he leaves within the next 12 months for the next step of his career,
If we are doing well and CB injury free, and/or Leoni is impressing, then I’d leave him till Summer and give Palace nothing.
It doesn’t matter the circumstances yesterday, Liverpool were shafted
Important to remember here is that in among all the UEFA fuckery and changes in ownership, Dougie Freidman their DoF also left his position in the summer and they have not yet replaced him.
This entire will they/wont they is in large part because the person who hired Glasner and would have been able to tell him that good run football clubs are not beholden to the short term whims of the present manager was no longer at the club. Parish as the money guy clearly believes they cannot afford to let him leave for free but without a DoF to manage that conflict, or even one in place to manage the potential replacement of a disgruntled manager, felt he didnt have much of an option if the manager was going to draw a line in the sand over it.
But this is not how a well run, self-sustaining club works.
Why is there this story that CP wouldn’t even entertain the thought of selling him when they released him for a medical? Is it papers trying to sell some post-deadline day drama? CP missed their target and wouldn’t go into the remainder of the season one defender short…
It sucks for us. And Guehi. But actually it sucks for CP too as they have missed out on a decent sum of money. Blame it on Igor!
there seems to be two stories floating as to why Igor’s move collapsed. One was that he failed his medical, the other because he was told he wouldn’t be given the playing time he was looking for. The latter has been suggested as a deliberate move by Glasner to scupper the sale of Guehi
I see glasner and his way of thinking. It’s just that he’s going to move anyway. There’s no chance that the palace job is anything other than a step up for him.
I like crystal palace. It’s a proper club with a great fanbase. But this shit could have been easily avoided.
Sure the forcing through of deals at the last moment is on the club. Absolutely. The two things I’ll say to that is that the deadline is always used as a time pressure on clubs and df on players and when there is a general unwillingness to sell from one party, things often get left to the last moment until there’s no turning back.
Second point is make is that CP don’t have the pulling power of 2025 Liverpool. They aren’t desired like us as o deals are much more difficult to get over the line.
