Oliver Glasner criticises Crystal Palace transfer decisions - 'We could have done better'

Crystal Palace are looking to triumph their archetypal Premier League crippled of the play connected Sunday erstwhile Tottenham sojourn Selhurst Park arsenic Oliver Glasner bids to easiness the unit upon his shoulders

"Hurting" Oliver Glasner insists he's paying the terms for a lacklustre summertime transportation model - indicating helium is not solely to blasted for Crystal Palace's struggles.

The crisis-hit Eagles, who are yet to sensation triumph successful the top-flight this season, are retired to yet interruption their Premier League duck this day erstwhile Tottenham sojourn Selhurst Park.

And portion Glasner presently retains the afloat backing of the club's hierarchy, the under-pressure Austrian believes things indispensable besides amended upstairs - arsenic good arsenic connected the field.

When asked if helium was sold abbreviated successful the market, the 50-year-old said: “It’s not a nationalist discussion. I’ve already mentioned it respective times, we could person done amended successful the transportation window. With 4 signings connected deadline day, it’s not however you privation a transportation model would work. No 1 says: ‘Yes, we volition hold until deadline day, past motion 4 players 2 weeks aft the Premier League has started without them having immoderate pre-season.’

“This is intelligibly what we should person done better. Everything other we person discussed, but successful the extremity it was the club’s decision.”

Glasner besides outlined his tendency to reconstruct a consciousness of "realism" pursuing past season's singular 10th-place decorativeness which was kickstarted by his accomplishment successful mid-February.

In his view, this summer's spending statistic amusement what Crystal Palace are up against. He continued: "We each expected a batch this play but sometimes you person to beryllium realistic, we don't privation to beryllium realistic arsenic we person large goals and privation to execute a lot.

"But we were 10th past play and present to improve, work the table, ninth I deliberation was West Ham who invested £140m net, eighth was Manchester United and seventh was Newcastle.

"So to amended we person to overtake 1 of them and erstwhile we look down us, Fulham were 13th oregon thing and invested £50m nett and Brighton were 11th investing £180m net.

"These are our surroundings and we saved £20m net. The extremity of past play was truthful positive, we had 4 players with England successful the Euros final, 2 successful the Copa America last and 1 successful the Olympic final.

"At the infinitesimal our signifier hurts, possibly we mislaid a consciousness of realism and present it's astir uncovering a setup that tin assistance america execute our maximum. It's wide what we achieved up until present is not what we expected."

Glasner besides reaffirmed his reluctance to propulsion Adam Wharton towards groin country contempt his ongoing fittingness struggles. A last telephone regarding a imaginable cognition volition beryllium made aft Palace's adjacent 3 fixtures: Spurs, Villa and Wolves.

He explained: "I'm not a surgeon, I don't cognize however agelong it would take. We expected Matheus Franca to beryllium backmost wrong 2 to 3 months and he's inactive out.

"And I deliberation each of america hold that Adam is 20 and could beryllium my son, that if country is not 100 per cent indispensable that we'd ever accidental 'ah, travel connected let's marque a surgery'.

"We person a responsibility. It would beryllium casual to accidental 'come connected doctor, chopped in' but he's a 20-year-old guy, having groin country is not thing you privation to do. We tried to find retired whether it is truly indispensable - astatine the infinitesimal we would accidental yes due to the fact that the symptom hasn't reduced. But we'll effort for arsenic agelong arsenic we tin to woody with it.

"He could person played astatine Nottingham Forest, decidedly but it was my determination arsenic we played with a 3-5-2 strategy - we wanted Jeff Lerma besides for the set-plays, successful midfield.

"We wanted Will Hughes' property and erstwhile you play 3-5-2 you privation 1 of the 8s attacking the other container and this is much Daichi Kamada than Adam Wharton. But we truly instrumentality our work that we don't accidental yes to country truthful easily."

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