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Steve Parish has confirmed that Oliver Glasner will manager Crystal Palace for the 2025/26 season.
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Crystal Palace co-owner Steve Parish is adamant that Oliver Glasner will still be the manager of the club next season despite reports linking the Austrian with Tottenham Hotspur.
Spurs are expected to part ways with Ange Postecoglou this summer after an underwhelming Premier League season. The north London outfit could still lift the Europa League trophy this week but even that piece of silverware is not expected to be enough to save the Aussie.
Glasner is one of several names touted as a potential replacement for Postecoglou at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, alongside Fulham and AFC Bournemouth managers Marco Silva and Andoni Iraola. The Sun has claimed that since the FA Cup triumph, Glasner is the frontrunner for the role.
Oliver Glasner ‘guaranteed’ to stay at Crystal Palace
However, Parish has squashed those rumours. Crystal Palace are in talks with Glasner over a new deal, with his current one expiring in 2026, and can now offer the coach the chance to work in the Europa League next term.
The Telegraph reporter Mike McGrath wrote on social media platform X: “Oliver Glasner & #CPFC have opened talks over a contract extension, with chairman Steve Parish guaranteeing him staying next season.”
RB Leipzig are also said to be interest in Glasner with Sheffield Wednesday boss Danny Rohl named as a potential successor at Selhurst Park earlier this month. However, Parish said: “He [Glasner] will stay here. For some period of time. I am trying to live in the moment. What happens down the track, summer transfer window, players … it’s for tomorrow. But he’ll be here next year and then we’ll take it from there.
“Everybody knows the length of Oliver’s contract. Beyond that we’ll have to talk. We want to try and extend his contract. But it needs to be right for everybody and today is not a time to think about it.
“We have been talking about it. For Oliver, it’s not about the things that maybe people think it’s about. Oliver wants to be part of something that’s going in a direction, same with all of us. I think that’s what we’ll talk about. Before finals, it’s not a time for all of that. After finals is probably not a time for that. But somewhere down the track we’ll have a conversation and see what we all feel.”
Ange Postecoglou has ‘no idea’ about Tottenham Hotspur future
Glasner arrived at Crystal Palace in February 2024 and finished the previous campaign in head-turning form, losing just three of the club’s final 13 Premier League matches to finish a record-equalling 10th place. The manager helped the club to its first major piece of silverware on Saturday.
Spurs boss Postecoglou has not confirmed whether he will leave his post at the end of the season but has also not spoken with confidence that he will remain at the club. When asked what would happen in mid April, he said: "No - no idea. We have a game tomorrow night, but it's not something I need to think about. I've never thought about those things in terms of what is important.
"What is important is the game that's a massive opportunity for this group of players and this football club to get closer to achieving what everyone wants to achieve. Anything other than that, particularly in terms of me, I don't really have much thought process that thinks about my career or what I'm doing in that way."
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