Glasner Out

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Looks like that someone was right......but that someone also thought Esse was a good player!

Yes, i did, i hope he can improve, fingers crossed.

 

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I do not understand why he is still here, a million to him, and a chance, without him to get 20m from winning the conference league.

 

[PatrickA]

If the club has organised a new manager, and that new manager is currently available, I could see a benefit in bringing him in now.
Not as a slap in the face for Glasner but as a pragmatic hard headed decision to prepare us for next season.
If he joined now he could make an assessment of the squad now as opposed to the summer. We’d be ahead of the game so to speak on which players fit in and those who may be needed in the summer window.
Sure he could do some work on this without being in place now , but there’s no substitute for observing them first hand at close quarters every day.

 

[Palacesince64]

I think Glasner’s a bit of a one-trick pony in terms of the system he sets up, and also in terms of the pattern you see wherever he goes. It’s almost the same story every time. He comes in, things click for a season or two, the system works, results are good and everyone’s happy. Then eventually there’s a falling-out with the board, things turn sour, and he moves on.

That doesn’t mean he’s a bad manager. If anything, he’s very good at getting a team organised quickly and squeezing the best out of a squad in the short term. But the evidence so far suggests he’s not someone who builds a long-term project. It’s more of a two-season burst and then the cycle repeats somewhere else.

Where I do think he handled things badly was January. He was a complete prick about it and burnt a lot of bridges with the way he went about things. At the end of the day, if you’ve already told the club you’re leaving in October, they’re not going to go out in January and sign players specifically for you. They’re going to be signing players for the next manager.

Even so, you still can’t ignore the fact that he delivered the FA Cup. That’s a massive moment for the club. Plenty of very good Palace managers never managed that.

In terms of style, I still think he’s closer to the Roy Hodgson mould than people like to admit. Comes in - strong system, disciplined structure, but not always brilliant at breaking down teams that sit deep.

Still, whatever anyone thinks about the man or how it ended, the trophy is in the cabinet and he can do no wrong to some, for others (like yourself) he was lucky. For some he was a prick afterwards.

None of these are mutually exclusive, they can all be true. But you know what Napoleon said when he appointed a general - he didn't ask if he was good, he asked if he was lucky.

Agree with all of this. He’s a 2 season coach. Builds a team playing to his system and is able to analyse opponents well enough to compete especially in cup competitions. Second season the wheels come off. It’s a combination of teams working out his system, his unwillingness to change the system when it isn’t working, and players getting stale and bored with training and playing the same way week in week out.

I think he knows that he’s only good for 2 seasons which is why he moves on. It doesn’t make him a bad manager but a limited one. He’s not alone in that respect. There are a few like him. Unai Emery is the prime example. He rarely lasts more than a couple of seasons before his teams go off the boil and players are glad to see the back of him.

Glasner’s tantrums were disappointing but as I’ve said previously I think perhaps his serious head injury as a player has left him with difficulty controlling his emotions at times. I’m prepared to forgive him that because he gave us the best few weeks the club has had. As regards his decision to leave, I think it’s sensible because he isn’t able to take this team any further. He goes with my thanks for what he achieved and hopefully the next guy has a profile better suited to where we are at as a club.