Crystal Palace are in talks with Oliver Glasner over extending the manager’s contract at Selhurst Park.
Glasner’s existing contract runs until the end of the 2025-26 season.
The 50-year-old was appointed Palace manager in February 2024, succeeding Roy Hodgson.
In May, following just three months in charge at Selhurst Park, Bayern Munich failed in an attempt to hire Glasner as Thomas Tuchel’s successor, with Palace having no interest in negotiating with the German side.
Glasner took Palace from 15th to 10th in the Premier League during the 2023-24 season after winning seven of his first 13 top flight games in charge. Palace won six of their final seven matches of the campaign, including victories over Liverpool and Manchester United.
Palace experienced a slower start this season and failed to win any of their first eight league matches. However, they have since moved up to 11th in the Premier League, with Saturday’s win over Ipswich Town their seventh in their last 10 league outings.
Before moving to Selhurst Park, Glasner had been out of work since leaving Eintracht Frankfurt at the end of the 2022-23 season. He won the Europa League and reached a DFB-Pokal final with the German Bundesliga club.
Palace return to action against Fulham in their FA Cup quarter-final on March 29.
Glasner has full backing of Palace fanbase
Glasner has impressed as Palace manager over the past 12 months, guiding them to a 10th placed finish last season — their joint-highest in the Premier League — after accumulating 49 points, and scoring a record high of 57 goals.
After a slow start this term, he has pushed them on to an excellent run of form which has seen Palace win six of their past seven games in all competitions, including 11 unbeaten away games.
He has maintained an optimistic outlook while preferring to focus on the present instead of reflecting unnecessarily on what has gone before or what is yet to come, and speaks passionately and intensely in press conferences.
Palace have seen several players significantly improve under the coaching of the 50-year-old Austrian and his staff; not least striker Jean-Philippe Mateta and midfielder Will Hughes, while he has drawn the most out of his squad as a collective rather than focus the attention on any individuals, even despite Mateta’s outstanding form since Glasner’s arrival last year.
A new deal would be a reward for the strides he has made with this team and the solutions he has found to the problems he has faced. It would be greeted with great fanfare from the supporters, who have backed him despite occasional doubts during winless runs at the start of his tenure and early this season.
“I try to improve,” Glasner said last month. “What I demand from the players, I demand from myself. Sometimes, it’s tough but I have some strengths and some weaknesses. I will never be the perfect one.”
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