Crystal Palace intend to retain Oliver Glasner as manager until the end of the season after holding positive talks with him on Sunday.
Glasner said he felt “abandoned” by the club after Saturday’s 2-1 defeat to Sunderland and refused to guarantee he would be in charge until the summer.
The Austrian had confirmed on Friday that he would be leaving Selhurst Park when his contract expires in June. He also expressed anger at the club’s decision to sanction the sale of captain Marc Guehi to Manchester City.
But Palace’s stance on Glasner remains unchanged. They are planning for him to stay in charge until the end of the season as they target success in the UEFA Conference League and remaining Premier League fixtures, and are still actively pursuing transfer targets both for this month and the summer.
Palace’s sporting director Matt Hobbs held talks with Glasner which were described by sources with knowledge of the situation as conciliatory. Chairman Steve Parish has not been directly involved in the discussions so far.
Palace play Chelsea in the Premier League on Sunday, having seen their winless run extended to 10 matches by the loss at Sunderland, a game in which Glasner did not make a single substitution — claiming he did not have any viable options from the bench.
Afterwards, he gave a series of interviews criticising Palace’s board for the decision to sell Guehi and not giving him more backing in the transfer market.
“Selling our captain one day before a game, (I have) completely no understanding for this,” he told Sky Sports. “We are preparing, and then yesterday at 10.30am, I’m told our captain will be sold. So why not next week? Then we can play at least this game. It makes me really upset today.
“If your heart gets torn out twice a year, with (Eberehci) Eze (who was sold to Arsenal), one day before a game in the summer, and your captain one day before a game. I don’t understand it. I’ve been in football now more than 30 years and I’ve not experienced this not even once. Now it’s happened twice within six or seven months.
“We have been playing for weeks now with 12 or 13 players in our squad,” he added. “Some players have just played their 35th game. We played 50-60 minutes really well, and then 20 minutes we were under pressure and conceded the goal. The players gave everything they could but, again, I couldn’t give them any support from the bench.
“You’ve seen we have made no substitutions. Look at the bench – just kids there in our attack. I’ve said before, we feel we are being abandoned completely.”