Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish believes the club’s Conference League success will help land a good manager to replace departing Oliver Glasner, amid links between Frank Lampard and the Selhurst Park job.
The Eagles beat Rayo Vallecano 1-0 on Wednesday evening in Leipzig to lift their first European trophy.
The victory also secured Palace a place in next season’s Europa League.
According to bookmakers, Andoni Iraola, who is set to leave Bournemouth, former Tottenham manager Thomas Frank, and Coventry City head coach Lampard are among the favourites for the role.
Lampard has admirers at Palace and is an alternative target to first choice Iraola, according to the BBC.
Asked about the impact of Conference League glory, Parish told Sky Sports: “I think it makes our life easier in one way and more difficult in another.
“Easier in that I think the managers that we’re looking at probably are more encouraged by us playing in Europe. I think that would mean something to (them to) expose themselves in that competition.
“Obviously, it’s another 60 games, probably, and we need to be prepared, we know what’s involved now.
“We need to try and get ourselves in good shape with the right quality, the right amount of cover, the right manager, and go again and see if we can’t win that one.”
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Asked how much of a boost playing in the Europa League next term will be in terms of recruiting a manager and keeping hold of players, Parish added: “I think it is, I really do.
“I don’t think it’s everything. I think that there are other challenges, there are other clubs out there looking for managers and they’re probably in Europe as well, but it certainly helps.
“I think we’re looking at this morning in a lot better state than we would have been had the alternative happened and we’d lost the game, and then maybe one or two players that might be thinking about staying maybe thought, ‘oh, no, I don’t want to do another year’, so obviously it helps in a lot of ways.”
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