Following Monday’s match against Everton, Oliver Glasner is allegedly scheduled to participate in “his first training session at Crystal Palace.”
Roy Hodgson’s contract was extended by one year because of his outstanding play towards the conclusion of the previous season, which prevented the Eagles from being relegated. But Crystal Palace has had a bad run of play, and they are now only five points above the bottom three in the Premier League standings, in 16th position.
Glasner, who is respected for the excellent work he did as manager of Bundesliga team Eintracht Frankfurt, whom he left at the end of the previous season, is now expected to succeed Hodgson. On Thursday, Fabrizio Romano asserted that Glasner had taken Hodgson’s job after he was “fired. But once Hodgson was admitted to the hospital, the announcement was postponed. Everyone at TEAMtalk is hoping for a quick recovery for him.
On Monday, Crystal Palace will play Everton at Goodison Park in a crucial relegation six-point match, and they will be eager to win the game handily. The Eagles have won just two of their last 21 meetings with the Toffees.
Glasner will take Hodgson’s place following the Everton match.
The Sun claims that Glasner and Palace chairman Steve Parish had a “secret meeting” on Friday. Glasner reportedly “attended Tottenham’s 2-1 home defeat to Wolves yesterday,” according to the article. This could have been a reconnaissance mission as Palace plays Spurs on March 2. As Glasner is available and eager to take on the job at Selhurst Park, Palace now “seem set to replace Hodgson with Glasner — the choice of major shareholder John Textor.”
Nonetheless, Hodgson is “willing to get out of his sick bed and lead Palace at Goodison Park on Monday.”
On Saturday, Romano offered an additional update, stating that Glasner is scheduled to attend his initial training session at Palace on Tuesday. This implies that for the crucial match against Everton, Hodgson or his assistant Paddy McCarthy will be in the dugout.
This week, Toffees manager Sean Dyche—who has expressed his admiration for Hodgson in the past—suggested that the unpredictability surrounding Palace would work to his team’s advantage on Monday night.
“The mindset needs to be appropriate for us. Before Monday’s game at Goodison Park, Dyche told reporters, “If anything is not right on their end, it has nothing to do with us and if it unbalances their situation, that’s helpful.”
On the other hand, you could also remark, “Will the situation galvanise them? Who knows?
