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Oliver Glasner has long been linked with the Man United manager’s job, but has be blown his chances?
Manchester United’s hunt for a new manager is getting more complicated by the week under Michael Carrick.
The football might not always be pretty, however, he is finding a way to deliver victories with the Red Devils now in fourth place in the Premier League table and closing in on Aston Villa in third. Do they stick to the plan of addressing the position in the summer, or do they give Carrick and his coaching team the chance to progress a squad that is still in transition?
Oliver Glasner nears Crystal Palace exit
One of the high-profile managers being linked with the United hot seat is Oliver Glasner. Out of contract at Crystal Palace in the summer, the Austrian has cut a frustrated figure this season having to contend with seeing his best players leave every window and not being replaced. Any team that lost Michael Olise, Eberechi Eze and Marc Guehi in recent transfer windows is going to struggle with Adam Wharton and Jean-Philippe Mateta expected to follow them too.
A manager is only as good as the players that they have at their disposal and Palace’s FA Cup winning and European capable squad is soon going to look like one that might have to look over their shoulder, rather than up the table. With no Glasner either, the job is only going to be harder. What should worry United’s recruitment team, is how quickly Glasner has visibly given up. There is working your ticket, and then there is what Glasner has done. Complaints about his squad and the board haven’t gone down well. A United manager must be able to deal with adversity and Glasner has shown that, when the going gets tough, the tough gives in.
Has Glasner blown his chances of landing United job?
According to The Observer’s Rory Smith, speaking on BBC Five Live, Glasner might have cost himself a top-six job this summer: “If you're United or Tottenham, which are the two that we know will be up, Liverpool might come up. You know, there will be other jobs towards the top end of the Premier League that might be available. Marco Silva's contracts up at Fulham.
“Wouldn't necessarily say Fulham are a bigger club than Palace. But it's the sort of thing that Glasner might be looking at as a kind of as a backup option. I don't know. But a lot of those will be looking at it and thinking, well, the run is bad. But also the way that you've kind of sort of strafing everybody with your dissatisfaction. That is not what we need at all.
“You know, managers now, the pressure remains the same. The kind of the intensity, the responsibility, the fact that you're first in the firing line remains the same. But most clubs see them as cards in a wheel. They're not the all powerful figures that they used to be. You have to be able to kind of work within a hierarchy. What Glasner is basically doing is advertising to everybody who might have hired him that he can't do that.”
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