Premier League boss four games away from becoming first manager to be sacked

Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner is nether immense unit aft his side's mediocre commencement to the play and helium could go the archetypal Premier League manager to suffer his job

Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner is facing the sack, with his broadside 1 of 4 teams that are yet to triumph a league crippled this season.

Palace person equalled their worst ever commencement to a Premier League run and person scored conscionable 5 goals, making them the league's lowest scorers. As a result, Glasner is nether immense unit to crook things around.

According to the Guardian, his destiny volition apt beryllium determined by Palace's results earlier adjacent month's planetary break, meaning helium has 4 games to prevention his job. Those see a Carabao Cup clash against Aston Villa and league meetings with Tottenham, Wolves and Fulham.

The study states erstwhile Brighton brag Graham Potter and ex-West Ham manager David Moyes are among the imaginable targets for Palace if they determine to sack Glasner. Former Palace defender and ex-England brag Gareth Southgate is besides mentioned, though helium has said helium does not mean to take different managerial relation for astatine slightest a year.

"I won't manager successful the adjacent year, for sure," Southgate insisted earlier this month. "I'm definite of that. I request to springiness myself clip to marque bully decisions. When you travel retired of a truly large relation you request to springiness your assemblage time, you request to springiness your caput time."

Palace are said to person concerns astir Glasner's 'inflexibility implicit his favoured 3-4-2-1 system', with the nine struggling to capable the void near by Michael Olise aft the erstwhile Reading prima made a big-money determination to Bayern Munich implicit the summer.

"Everybody is frustrated, disappointed and it's our responsibility, particularly mine, to get the chin and caput up of each player," Glasner admitted. "I don't deliberation it's a tactical problem, it's a mentality problem, it's a deficiency of assurance and truthful this is what we person to change.

"There is nary fastener that we tin property to hide it but the passionateness and hard-working mentality, each the players successful the dressing country are disappointed but nary 1 blamed each other, present is clip to enactment each other.

"We saw it (against Nottingham Forest) and the past games, we ever person an XG higher than 1 but don't score. We person bully chances but the much we miss the much the assurance goes down. We are the lone ones that tin assistance ourselves."

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