Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner, who is set to leave the club at the end of the season, slammed the club’s hierarchy, saying that his squad had been completely abandoned. He lashed out following Palace’s 2-1 loss to Sunderland, criticizing the club’s decision to sell captain Marc Guehi to Manchester City. “I feel we are being abandoned completely. I can’t blame any player. They did everything they could and this has been going on for weeks and months now. We have 12, 13 players from the squad available and we feel no support. The worst thing is selling our captain one day before playing a Premier League game. We are preparing, it’s the first week we are training since September, and then we are selling our captain one day before a game. So I have no understanding of this,” he said. “I have always kept my mouth, but I can’t because I have to defend these players, because it was the 35th game today. If you get your heart torn out twice this season, one day before a game, it was with Eze in the summer, it was with Guehi now… What should I tell the players all the time? What should I tell them? And then I see the performance today for 50, 60 minutes — it was not easy with all the circumstances going here with 12 players from the squad. I look at the bench, I can’t react, just kids on the bench, and this has not happened yesterday, this is weeks ago. That’s why I’m really frustrated today,” he added. Also Read | Defending champion Crystal Palace lose to 6th-tier Macclesfield 2-1 in massive FA Cup upset City have agreed to pay 20 million pounds for Guehi while Eberechi Eze, who scored the winning goal in the FA Cup final against Manchester City, was sold to Arsenal in August. Asked whether he would leave before the season is over, Glasner said: “No, never, I would never. I will go with this group of players until the end.”
‘Worst thing is selling our captain one day before playing a PL game’: Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner slams club’s hierarchy
